USING A DRAG IN THE IMPROVEMENT OF A ROAD IN NORTH CAROLINA 



"Under the provisions of the Federal Aid Road Act, achieved by the distinguished 

 Senator from Alabama, John H. Bankhead, the money contributed from the national treasury, 

 to which the States add a like amount, can only be expended upon roads over which the 

 United States mail is delivered or may be delivered." 



tional cohesiveness. While the Civil War 

 had settled certain fundamental problems, 

 there yet remained at issue many points 

 in which Federal and State contact pro- 

 duced explosions in the nation's combus- 

 tion chamber. States grudgingly gave up 

 what they considered their "rights," yet 

 citizens generally came to recognize that 

 the whole must be greater than any one 

 of its parts if it is to survive and actually 

 flourish in the form of a united nation. 



YOU GENERALLY LIKE YOUR NEIGHBOR — 

 WHEN YOU KNOW HIM 



Acquaintanceship does much to dispel 

 prejudices and dislikes, and so the in- 

 crease in the number of self-propelled 

 vehicles and the building of thousands of 

 miles of roads, facilitating the comings 

 and goings of the people of the several 

 States, have brought about a country- 

 wide understanding among citizens of all 

 sections and awakened true nationalism. 



Having within a State established the 

 proposition that the more thickly popu- 



lated and wealthier counties must aid and 

 cooperate with the poorer and less devel- 

 oped sections, it was only a step farther 

 to contend that the older and richer States 

 must give of their accumulations and 

 strength to the less populous and less 

 prosperous commonwealths. 



While a man in a certain State might 

 pay a considerable income tax, it does not 

 follow that all of his investments and all 

 of his profits accrue within the confines of 

 the particular State in which he lives. 

 Therefore, a part of what he pays should 

 be employed in the development of the 

 whole country and not confined to the 

 federal cooperation which specifically re- 

 lates to his State. We must, in the final 

 analysis, think in national terms. 



A NECESSITY FOR COMMERCIAL DEVELOP- 

 MENT ; VITAL IN WAR 



From Calais, in Maine, to Miami, in 

 Florida, our Atlantic coastline has a 

 length slightly in excess of 2,000 miles. 

 Frpm Puget Sound to San Diego our Pa- 



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