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culture in this country, not only because it will advance our material prosperity, 

 but also because it will broaden, strengthen and purify the basis of American 

 political and economic life. 



At the convention of the American Bankers' Association, held in New Or- 

 leans last month, a committee of seven on agricultural improvement and farm 

 financing was appointed. This committee will consider thoroughly the subject of 

 farm financing in relation to conditions in this country, and in its report to the 

 next convention will make same definite recommendations, which might well em- 

 brace a plah which could be used as the basis of state or national legislation. 



The demand for cheap money for the purposes of agriculture is nation wide, 

 and the effort to supply it should interest all who appreciate the fundamental 

 importance of national prosperity and progress. 



BOOST OHIO 



By Fixing the Roads and Lifting the People Out of the Mud. 



BY JESSE TAYLOR, 

 Secretary The Ohio Good Roads Federation and Editor of Better Roads. 



Better roads are being discussed everywhere in the office, bank, school, 

 church, woman's clubs, boards of trade, grange meetings, bankers' conventions, 

 railway meetings, on the streets and along the roads. 



Good roads are civilizers. 



Good roads are educators. 



Good roads pay for themselves. 



Good roads are as essential as harbors. 



Good roads are promoters of good health. 



Good roads convert swamps into homesteads. 



Good roads are mile-stones of civilization. 



Good roads bind people together in industry, intelligence and patriotism. 



Good roads will bring the country to the town with its produce and will 

 send the town to the country for pure air and good health. 



Good roads will convert barren lands into fertile fields. 



Good roads will enhance the value of everything they touch. 



Good roads will bring good returns to everything that travel them. 



Good roads will facilitate and cheapen transportation. 



Good roads will bring untold wealth to the producers. 



Good roads will save millions to the consumers. 



Good roads will be the solution of the rural problem. 



Good roads will make country life more attractive than city life. 



Good roads will make the consumer's dollar go further and will put into 

 the farmer's pocket a greater portion of that dollar. 



Good roads are indispensable to our growth and progress. 



Good roads will make possible the three great links of civilization the 

 model home and the model country school. 



Good roads mean a higher life for the people of the states upon whom 

 rest the responsibility of our government and our Christian civilization. 



Ev.ery dollar expended in encouraging road building, every dollar employed 

 to carry expert advice on road construction into every section of our state is 

 a distinct contribution to the welfare, comfort and happiness of the people of the 

 state. 



Hell on earth is on a back road with a neighbor landowner who will not 



