354 FARM DEVELOPMENT 



Good roads literature. Printed matter in books, also 

 the agricultural and daily newspapers, contain much 

 information, while bulletins and reports issued by the 

 general government, by the state experiment stations 

 and by the state highway commissions are being multi- 

 plied and contain much useful thought on the subject. 



Associations such as national and state good road 

 associations, county good road societies, wheelmen's 

 and automobile clubs, both national and state, and the 

 associations of manufacturers of road machines and 

 motor vehicles, all help create an intelligent interest 

 in this subject and help promote the idea of building 

 good roads. As our great country develops its resources 

 it accumulates vast wealth with which it can make 

 permanent improvements. Our highways, being per- 

 manent in their nature, are in part the gift of one 

 generation to the next. In many cases the roads should be 

 built and part of the cost left to be paid by future users; 

 but it is highly important that the people at once begin 

 more liberal yearly expenditures in constructing a gen- 

 eral system of good roads. The general government, 

 the states, the counties, the cities and all the people 

 should co-operate in this work. This promises to be 

 one of the problems in which the whole people must 

 work together in one long, strong effort. The develop- 

 ment of country life demands superior transportation 

 facilities; with this supplied, country life will continue 

 to develop in the United States as nowhere else in 

 the world. More and more our annual increment 

 of wealth should be used in making permanent improve- 

 ments. Good roads, substantial farm homes, barns, rural 

 schoolhouses and country churches, next to the soil itself, 

 are our permanent country investments. These forms of 

 permanent wealth are not receiving their due attention 

 as compared with city homes, public buildings and struc- 

 tures for trade and commerce. 



