Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 4, 1917, Page 6

U NATIONAL SYSTEM OF ROADS Expert at National Capital Illustrates How 8cheme Is to Be Brought to Successful End. The establishment of a national sys- tem of highways is greatly facilitated by the federal ald road law, which ‘eompels all the states that would share fn its benefits—and that means all of the states—to equip themselves with state highway departments. With thése state highway departments devoting their attention to the building of state systems of main, through-line high ways, every condition is favorable for e next and crowning act—the estab- Tshment of a national system of high- aye. il " By way of fillustrating how a na- “fional system of highways is about to be evolved by easy and logical stages, an expert at the national capital made the following statement: “Gradually the state has made itself & compelling factor in the handling of Yocal road problems and, as a loglcal sequence, the federal government, first through educational activity and later by the financial 'ald provided by the federal aid law, has made itself a powerful factor in the. working out of the state highway problems. - The next Bogical step follows the same course ‘which has been pursued by the state governments, namely, the broadening of federal participation to provide for the establishment of a system of na- Honal highways. “This policy can be put into effect twithout disturbance of existing organ- 4zatlons, without providing new means lof finance and with but little change In existing laws. The process would Togically take a course somewhat as follows : “1. The state highway departments and the federal office of public roads would make an initial seléction from existing state highway systems of those highways which are of interstate fmportance. = “2. A system thus selected would.be approved by congress, with the re- quirement that federal funds be ap- plied only to such system on and after a specified date. “3. The federal gaid should be . ex- tended to maintenance as well as con- struction, as the national system of /highways should have for all time a close relationship with the federal gov- ernment. ¥ “Some of the states already have made plans for utllizing the ald grant- ed by the federal aid road act on roads which could not properly be ircluded in a national system. But this need Official Italian photograph showing Itailan soldiers in a trench on Monte San Gabriele repulsing an Austrian attack. ~ FEW DRY WALLS BUILT Now and built to last a thousand years. A e beautiful art—and one that is passing Hard-Wrought. Stone Fences Called | 2Way! It is the dry wall that stands . Forth the Highest Qualities of of itself that the old stone mason loves the Mason's Art. best of all.—American Magazine. In dry walls I think the old stone mason takes the greatest pride of all; for it Is in the dry wall—I mean by that a wall laid without mortar—that the sheer art of the mason comes most into play. Anyone can throw a wall together if he has mortar to make It stick, but a dry wall must stand out for what it is, bullt solid from the bot- tom wup, each stone resting securely upon the one below it, and braced and nested in by the sheer skill of the ma- son. Thewart of the dry wall is the an- clent heritage of New England and speaks not only of the sincerity and the conscientiousvess of the old Puri- tan spirit but etrikes the higher note of beauty. Many of the older walls 1 know are worth going far to see, for they exhibit a rare sense of form and proportion, and are sometimes set in the landscape with a skill that only the Master Artist himself could exceed. Has a Marvelous Memory. There i1s a hotel clerk in Cleveland, 0., who possesses a wonderful memory., In an article about him in the Amer- fean Magazine a writer says: “In preparing for a convention a few weeks ago Horgan made out from ad- vance lists 462 cards, each bearing the name and room number of one of the expected guests. Shortly afterward it was decided that the machinery of ‘the hotel organization would be spared needless wear and tear if the room res- ervation cards were distributed on the train to 127 men who were coming from Chicago. “The 462 cards had been jumbled un without the slightest regard for geogra- phy. « Horgan ran hurriedly through them, tossing into a pile at one side the names which he remembered as be- longing to men fn the western delega- tlon. He glanced through the pile Those old, hard-wrought “stone fences | again, cast out six and left the 127 of the Burnham hills and Crewsbury. | cards for the Chffage party without ine best of them, were honestly bullt, | a single mistake” 'CA[]METBAKING POWDE SAVES THREE WAY L R ql LTI TN = = = = = - —A moderate péced Baking Powder of greatest merit. Honestly made. Honestly sold. Economical in every way, Every particle is full of actual leavening value. A full ‘money’s worth. —You save time wheri you use it. Calumet is all baking powder. It begins to raise bak- ings the instant they are put into the oven, You don’t have to kegfi lu- Concrete Road in Mississippi. not cause extreme conflict, as the fed- eral funds for the first three or four years' operation of the present act could continue to be applied as now planned. The appropriations for the first two years are nlron’dy available and considerable time necessary must elapse before the national system could be laid out und made ready for the application of federal funds. “In all probability the new scheme . would come into effect as an extension of the present fedeml nid road act.” WHY FAMILY MOVED TO TOWN Compelled to Make Change. Because of Poor Schoois and Bad Roads— Remedy for Poverty. “Why don’t they go on to a farm?” fs the question with which many men dismisssfrom their minds the story of some poverty-stricken family. JThe ehances are five to one that that same family was induced to move to -town Because of poor schools and poor roads B the country. The remedy for much of the poverty now in our towns is good roads and good schools In the eountry. Why should not country schools be given the same attention given city and town schools? Why should not the children be permitted to 80 to them over good roads with dry ‘feet, instead of wading through mud and water? Good roads will make the eountry a better place in which to live, “pee, ” to see if bakings are right. You know they are. met is sure—never fails. That’s economy. . Ahd trué economy—in cost—in use—in time. J One trial will prove it and show you in' results why millions of shrewd, thrifty housewives prefer Calumet |- - to all other brands. —~The umet guarantees perfect results. Not only Saves flour—sugar—eggs, etc.—but saves Baking Powder. You use only a teaspoonful —you use two teaspoonfuls or more of most other brands. Calumet contains only such ients as have been approved officially by the U. S. Food Authorities: . » Cull Growing Flock. Cull the growing flock of chicks as much as possible, market all that are o any way inferior but in good health, and kill and bury all which seem weak er sickly. It will not pay to keep any But the strongest and best chicks. 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