Roads

Excerpt: One of the advantages of Heaven, according to Milton, is a "broad and ample road." The farmer who has to haul half-loads of produce because of the mud between his fields and the market, or the automobilist who has to pull out of a hole by means of a rope passed around a roadside tree, is excusable if he is tempted to envy the disembodied spirit traveling luxuriously along Milton's star-paved highway. He may even wish himself there audibly and in no uncertain tones. But the reason for this feeling is rapidly passing away. We have entered a new era, in which the bad road is giving way to the good, and the good road is being pushed forward into places where no roads have ever been before. Everywhere in the United States good roads have come to be regarded as indispensable to the welfare of the community. State and Federal Governments are cooperating in a great nation-wide endeavor to change the country thoroughfare from " a rough, a weary road " to a smooth, well-graded, well-kept highway.