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METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE UNIVERSITY OF ILINOIS LIBRARY VOLUME XXIV M. ELDER J. B. MCCRARY Moderator of the Mt. Olive Bapti ciation of Southern Illinois; Trust National Baptist Training School at Nashville, Tenn. Moderator of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association of Southern Illinois; Trustee of the National Baptist Training School, located at Nashville, Tenn. Administrator's Notice Estate of Laura Grogan Deceased The under signed, having been appointed Administrator of the estate of Laura Grogan late of the County of Massac and the State Illinois, deceased hereby give notice that he will appear before the County Court of Massac County at the Court House in Metropolis at the October Term on the first Monday in October next, at which time all persons having claims against said estate are notified and requested to attend for the purpose of having the adjusted. All persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment to the undersigned. Dated this 5th day of August, A. D. 1921. Negro Couple Sentenced to Die. Forrest, Miss., Oct. 6.—Indicted by the grand jury, arraign d tried and sentenced to death within six hours, was the experience yesterday of Leon Viverett, a negro, and his paramour, Pattie Purdue, charged with the murder of Alton Page, a white man, and at empting to conceal their crime by burying his body. The date of execution was fixed by Judge J. R. East for November 4th. GOLORED WOMAN IS EXPERT AVIATRIX Young Chicago Manicurist Finds Life Too Tame----Goes to France. New York.—Ten months ago Bessie Coleman, 24-year-old Colored girl, left Chicago, where she had been employed as a manicurist for Europe. Today she returned to this country on the steamship Manchuria as a full-fledged aviatrix, said to be the first of her race. The young woman, who attended an aviation school in France, plans to engage in exhibition flight in this country 18 1821 METROPO NO. 32 . METRO t. Olive Baptist Asso- linois; Trustee of the ning School. located Wave Of Political Unrest In West Among Negroes Col. Marshall Says There Can Be No Winking at Present Condi- ions--Voters Want to Know "What Is the Matter With Pres. Harding. Chicago, Ill. Through u the entire west, there is great d-sappointment in the Republican Administration. Every where I went the Colored people wanted to know what is the matter with President Harding? Thus spoke Col. John R. Marsall, connected with the Illinois prison board, and a former colonel of the famous Illinois Eighth Regiment. Col. Marshall had just returned from a tour through the West that took him to the Pacific coast, and all of the principles cities along the coast. To the Associated Negro Press representative he stated that the same condition exists everywhere. "What do you think ought to be done, Colonel?" asked the interviewer. Every Republican United States Senator should be informed of conditions, and urged to take the matter up with President Harding. Then, there should be a national meeting of citizens, and a permanent committee of five from each state should be termed, to make a national political committee, and this committee should work for the establishment of political justice. There can be no winking at present conditions. If the Republican National Administration does not bestir itself and change its policy towards Colored Americans, they will lose three fourteens of the votes in the election of 1922. I can see nothing different. Colonel Marshall On Patronage. "In the matter of language METROPOLIS, MOTTO: "HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." BODY OF WOMAN IS FOUND IN WEEDS. A group of Colored Boys and girls, playing in the vacant lot, on 22nd Street, facing Brooklyn Av., last Wednesday afternoon discovered the body of a woman. The children alarmed at the gruesome obj ct immediately notified the police. Body Removed to Undertaker. The body of the woman, who at this time has not been identified, was removed to the, Undertaking establishment of H. R. Moore, 18 and Michigan to await the arrival of the coroner. Body A Horrible Sight. According to the report of the undertaker the body must have been in the vacant lot at least 30 days. There were no means of identification of the woman, nor was there anything to give a clue to the age of the woman. The body contained no clothing or shoes and the only thing that point to the racial identity of the woman is a small patch of hair dangling from the skull, designating her a colored woman. Body Badly Decomposed. The unidentified body, badly decomposed, contained no flesh to speak of. Here and there tan spots of flesh were to be found, but this fell away when the body was removed from the scene of the discovery. Victim of Brutal Murder. Upon examination at the undertaking establishment the skull of the woman was found to have been there are no places that could be offered that will satisfy the Colored people if there is not a change of southern policy. Northern citizens, where votes count, are with the south in this matter. Thus far there have been no positions, just jobs offered.' Incidently, Col. Marshall is among those who was offered a "job" in the Agricultural Department, at a salary of $2,500 a year, to which the Colonel replied a very emphatic but courteous military "No." MIDDLE WEST WHEAT SALES BRING HOPES OF PROSPERITY Kansas City.—According to the records of the Board of Trades the movement of wheat at this point this season eclipses all previous records. A statement issued by the Chamber of Commerce states that business conditions in Kansas City territory reflect the benefit of this tremendous grain movement. Practically all of the vast sum of money obtained from this crop will first find its way to the farm rays the statement, and place him in a position to pay his obligations to the banks and country merchants. When he has done this he immediately becomes a buyer. The country merchant likewise becomes a buyer. The banker with the farmer's paper taken up and sufficient fund on hand, is ready to extend credit to all who may deserve it. While the movement of wheat is the opening wedge for this avenue of business, it is not all, as prospects are very bright for an exceedingly good corn crop which will add more millions of buying power. FRIDAY ILLINOIS crushed." According to witnesses who viewed the body there is no doubt that the woman was murdered and carried to the vacant lot. Still another theory of the horrible deed is that she was lured to the secluded spot by some fiendish jackal and murdered, and that she was then stripped of all means of identification and clothing and left to rot. Fatal Spot is Scene of Many Crimes Facial Spot is Scene of Many Crimes The neighborhood of this horrible crime, has in recent years been the scene of many brutal deeds. Several years ago near this spot Wesley Robinson killed his wife and daughter and burned the bodies in his s'ove. He was captured and hung for his crime. It is of more recent date that, a Negro highwayman accosted a walking couple and forced the woman to tie up her escort. He then forced her to submit to his fiendish will, escaping after the deed and has never been captured. The residents of this district should see that this wooded section is cleared at once, making it less easier for for Murderers to commit or conceal their crimes. From Woodland Avenue along 22nd street to Brooklyn Avenue the woods extend and the sooner they are cut away the safer it is going to be for the residents who must pass this section of the city on their way to and from town. The Western Baptist College should also join in the campaign to get these woods out of the way. Get rid of the woods and you get rid of crime! BUDGET SAVINGS TO BE CASH AND NOT "ON PAPER" Washington —The Budget Bureau has issued a new order under which savings made by the virious department as the result of transfer of unused surplus supplies, will be something more than 'bookkeeping savings.' Under this new order when one department needs supplies and it ascertaind through the co-ordinating machinery set up through the Budget Bureau that it can obtain them from some other department, it does so. Some bureau chiefs interpreted this to mean they could take the money they thus saved and use it in other ways. Director of the Budget Dawes has ruled otherwise. He has created what is known as a reserve fund. Into this fund will be paid in actual cash whatever savings any department makes by obtaining for nothing, supplies from some other department. In other words the money it would have spent purchasing these supplies in the open market will be saved in point of fact as well as on paper, as it will deposit that money in the reserve fund. KANSAS CITY IMPROVEMENT Kansas City, Mo.—As an indication of revival of business in this district, mail order houses have added 400 employees in the last month and wholesale grocers and furniture concerns have increased their payrolls. The number of idle in Kansas City, Missouri, has decreased 25 per cent since January, while Kansas City, Kansas, shows a decrease of 50 percent. [Picture of a man in a suit with a white shirt and a bow tie]. Pastor of St. John Baptist Church, Mounds, and Treasurer of Mt. Olive Baptist Association of Southern Illinois 3000 LESS IDLE HERE Syracuse N. Y. -The number of unemployed in this vicinity has been reduced by at least 3000 during the past two weeks by the increased activity of the industrial plants in this locality. LYING IS UNPARDONABLE IN UNCLE SAM'S NAVY Angapolis, Md.—According to Rear Admiral Wilson, superintendent of the Naval Academy, lying on the part of a midshipman is an unpardonable offense. In announcing the dismissal of a midshipman for violating the rules of the academy, he said, in part: "High standards of character are vital in a military organization. Men in other walks of life my trifle with the truth in everyday affairs and suffer little as a consequence. We cannot be so tolerant. The fundamental of an officer's value to the service is his trustworthiness. Lacking that, he lacks all." NEGRO IS HELD FOR YOUNG GIRL'S MURDER. Sam Henderson, Negro, 1328 Brooklyn avenue, is held by police in connection with the murder of Roberta Brown, N gro girl, whose mutilated body was found a week ago in a vacant lot near Twentieth street and Brooklyn avenue. Acquaintances of the girl informed police that Henderson was the last person seen with her before her murdered body was found. Several arrests were made in this case but only Hende son has been held so far. RICHEST IN U. S. PAYS $25 FINE FOR SON. Boy Was Held by Police on Speeding Charge. Mrs Rosa, Rector, said to be the wealthiest Negro woman in the United States, appeared in the South municipal court Wednesday morning to pay $25, a fine assessed against her 17 year-old son, Joe, for speeding. Mrs. Rector drove from her home at 1215 Euclid avenue, in the handsomest of her three handsome cars. She drew from the bosom of her imported gown a huge roll of bills and tossed the $25 to the court clerk. Mrs Rector's income, it is said, amounts to $2,000 a day. She owns a large on lease in Cushing, Okla. Wednesday Post. CARFENTRY WORK SOLICITED. If you want a new house built or an old one repaired, and but little money to spend, just a card to H. L. Lytle, P. O. Box, 91 Brookport, 11l. I will guarantee satisfaction, both in first class carpentry and repair work. All kinds of carpentry, and the best of all, my prices will suit any poorman's pocket book. "At Live and Let Live" Prices is my Motto. I am a man of your Race and want your patronage. If you have building done I am the man you are looking for, who will do your work at the lowest price, and my work will bear inspection along side the so-called first class carpenters, and that is what you want. If you want your work done by the day or contract I am at your service. Constitute for pieces. As king as I live I want my people to live with me. Give me a trifle. Brookport, Ill. OFFICIAL BALLOT CITY HALL Special City Election City of Brookport, Illinois Tuesday, October 11th, 1921 ELLIS CROACH, City Clerk. GRAND OPENING of the "Kozy Cafe" By Mrs. Bert Granger, and Miss Viola Davis Tuesday Oct. 11th 1921 at the new addition of the May- berry's store on Vienna St. Results All. That Count. Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or by valor?— Virgil. Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, . . . ILL. MRS. M. J. McCRARY, MANAGER. GEO. L B. McCRARY, EDITOR MRS. EDGAR MCCRARY, ASS'T. EDITOR FRIDAY OCT. 7. 1921. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Antercered as second-class mail mat- at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity week TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year.....$2.00 Six Months.....1.00 Three Months.....50 Single Copy.....05 In Advance. DVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. Announcements We are authorized to announce the name of Ed Cockrel, of Grant Precinct as a candidate for County Commissioner of Massac County, subject to the action of the voters at the Republican Primary election Wednesday September 14, 1921. In this issue appears an advertisement of the "Old Reliable" St. Louis Globe Democrat, to which we request your attention. The Globe-Democrat bases its claim for your subscription on its absolute fairness in printing the news in an unbiased uncolored way. There have been great and important additions to its news gathering facilities, both at home and abroad. There have also been added a number of new daily features. There is always a good continued story, news of the world in photographs, daily comic cartoons and many other regular features for men, women and children. For particulars we urge you to read the advertisement, and then send in your orders at once to the Globe Printing Co. Publishers St. Louis, Mo. Walker's Indigestian Cure. Rev. J. B. McCrary is agent for Or. Walker's Sure cure for Indi- gestion and Dyspepsia. 50c and $1.00 bottles. $1.10 by mail. We can cheerfully recommend it. "Cancer Truths" Free to Sufferers A remarkable book about cancer and its treatment without cutting has been published by Dr. O. A. Johnson, Suite 565, 1323 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo. The book, "Cancer Truths," tells of this eminent specialist's experiences in treating thousands of cases of cancer without the knife in the last twenty years. This book should be read by every cancer sufferer. A copy will be sent free, post-paid, to anyone who writes Dr. Johnson. The prayers of the righteous availeth much.—Bible. All Weather Good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.—John Ruskin. Quite True. "I have to face the fact," mused the fashionable photographer, as he looked over some recent pictures, "that there are some very ugly features in this business." Daily Health Mint Understand that if you are mentally unified with sickness, old age and death, no amount of desire or affirmation can make you well, young, or long lived. To be healthy, you must be mentally in unity with health; to contain young, you must be mentally close with youth, and to live long, you must be mentally unified with life. Wallace D. Wattles in the Nas Read The Gazette. To insure publication all correspondence should reach this office not later than Tuesday morning. The editor. Any church needing a good pastor and a splendid preacher, a man of high ideals and broad vision, we can recommend Rev Jno. Buen, of Mt. Vernon, Ill., who successfully pastored Shiloh Baptist church of that city for 5 consecutive years. His address is 1011 Herbert, St. For prompt Service, Shoe Repairing at a moderate price try Castleman's Shoe Shop 515 W. 8th St., and save money Coal—nut, egg and lump $6.75 per ton, delivered to any part of the city -W. F. Wedeking. Mrs. Julia Long, of Brookport, was down on business Saturday. Rev. A J Hester, of Joppa, attended the Synod of C. P. Church held at Prineeton, Ky., last week. He reports a splendid meeting He goes to Chicago and Evanston, Saturday to visit his children and attend the Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge which holds its annual session in Evanston. John T. Upshaw and Arthur Harmon will attend Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge at Evanston next week. Moderator McCrary, and grandson Joseph Edgar will stop over in Centralia, Sunday for a few hours enroute to Chicago and Evanston. Those who are indebted for The Gazette please be prepared to settle. Mrs. Dobson was a Paducah, visitor Saturday. The editor of The Gazette would like to know the address of Rev. A. J. Day, formerly of Clarksville, Tenn., and Rev. F. Bomar, formerly of Cairo. Anyone able to furnish such information please drop us a postal card. J. B. McCrary, was a Paducah caller Monday. Mr. Thos. Urquhart, and family moved to Chicago, Saturday, where he has purchased a home on Evans Ave. The rain upset the program arranged for last Sunday at the First Baptist Church. Rev., H. L. Lytle, of Brookport is in the city this week doing some roofing for J. B McCrary, and Mrs. Princess Bell. Mr. Wm White of Brookport, received word Saturday of the death of his son-in-law of Hickman, Ky. He has the sympathy of The Gazette. Mrs. Laura Long, was under the care of a physician Wednesday. Mrs. Millie Long, is quite feeble at this writing. Mrs. Parthenia Dixon, of Paducah, Ky., was in the city Monday on business. Bright Long, of Brookport, was in the city Saturday. Mrs. Julia McCane, was in the city of Brookport, this week. Miss Viola Davis, of Kansas City, Mo., arrived in the city Tuesday to spend the winter with METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL Cartarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications; as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure cartarrhaj deafness, and that is by a constitutional remedy. Catarrhal Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tubes When this tube inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result. Unless the inflammation can be reduced and this tube to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Many cases of deafness are caused by catarrh, which is an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Medicine acts thru the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Catarrah Peafness that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine, Circulars free. All Druggists, 75c. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. By Associated Negro Press. For prompt service shoe repairing at a moderate price try Castleman's Shoe shop 515 W. 8th St. and save money. her aunt Mrs Bert Granger. She will be manager of the Kozy Cafe, which will open its doors to the public Tuesday night, and under her supervision you can secure first class meals. Mrs. Verla Whittaker and little daughter have returned to their home in Detroit, Mich. after visiting her mother and other relatives for several weeks. Mrs. Ruth Mayberry, has returned to the city after visiting a few days in Clifton, Tenn., her home. Mrs. Ruth Donlow, of Brookport, is at the bed-side of her mother Mrs. Laura Long. Larry Rogers, was at home this week. A mother and her children DO YOUR CHILDREN like Castor Oil? then why make them take it? Why cling to the old idea that a medicine must be unpleasant in order to be good? Dr. Miles' Laxative Tablets TASTE LIKE CANDY ACT LIKE MAGIC The best authorities say that their main ingredient "accelerates the peristalsis in the same way as castor oil." Good for children and adults. Get a box at your drug store. Only One. Little Jack's mother showed him a letter from a "new aunt," who had attained to this relationship by marrying Jack's favorite uncle. "Mamma," said Jack innocently, as he laboriously spelled out the signature, "Belle Paine," "does sunny pronounce her front name in two syllables!"—Lipgincott's. Her Instructions Conductor—"Ticket, please." Passenger—"Certainly, sir. Here is the key of my trunk, which is in the baggage car. In the pocket of my second-best dress is my mileage book."—Harper's Basar. BALM FOR RAINY VACATIONS "Weather Insurance" Designed to Give Monetary Solace to Travelers That Are Unfortunate. Got all your vacation togs? Got your fishing tackle, your round trip ticket, your mosquito lotion and your rain insurance? Yes, there's balm in Gilead at last for the bitterest of human tragedies. For there's no denying that a rainy vacation is a worse catastrophe than a collision of planets, even if the latter involved the wiping out of all one's wife's relations. The balm consists of a bet made with you by an insurance company that it won't rain during your vacation. In other words, you take out a rain policy for that period. And then, if it happens to pour cats and dogs all the time you have the consolation of collecting a tidy sum of rain insurance when you return to town. You may be so constituted that the money would fail to console you for the lost vacation days, but there are other fellows who would pray for rain in order to "heat the company." The idea comes from England, where all sorts of freak insurances are practiced. Records of the United States weather bureau are to figure out rates based on the probabilities of precipitation in any given part of the United States and Canada. One insurance company points with pride to the fact that last year it paid $11.,213.25 to the Waltham fair on account of loss due to a rainy day, the fair corporation bagging taken out a rain policy. And the Kansas free fair at Topeka was protected by a $25,000 rain policy with a British company. REAL TREAT FOR IMMIGRANTS Ice, Cream Something New to Arrivals at Ellis Island, but They Finally Liked It. Immigrant struggles with American food on Ellis Island reached a climax when Commissioner Wallis introduced plates of ice cream to the 1,700 diners. The idea behind the ice cream was to give the immigrants a real treat on their reaching the land of promise. What happened was a marvel to witness. The first persons served were a Balkan native and a native of East India. The East Indian took a lick and liked it. He looked around and saw that the Balkan opposite him had a bigger piece. Greedily he grabbed for it. Then the light began. Both got well smoaked in the face with the food. The other diners touched the ice cream, and finding it cold, thought they knew the trick. The stunt was to smear the cold substance on your neighbor's face. This happened several times. Then someone tasted the ice cream and with a whoop announced it was manna too precious to be wasted on countenances. The head steward said the same thing in the eight languages he speaks. The face-smearing ceased abruptly. But the final experiment was yet to be made. The real genius of the meal took up his knife and a piece of bread and spread the new butter tenderly over it. He started the fashion with a bang, and all the rest enjoyed their ice cream that way.—New York World. Average Life of Auto. As highway transportation develops and passenger cars and trucks become practically the sole means of road travel, the proportion of first purchasers of cars and trucks in the total of car sales will decrease, and the demand for new cars each year will become more and more nearly equal to the number of cars which drop out of service. For this reason it is becoming increasingly important for the trade to know how many cars will be required for replacement of those withdrawn from service. Analysis of registration, production, export and import figures over a period of years leads to the conclusion that the average life of the 2,000,000 cars retired from service in the last seven years was about 5.3 years.—Scientific American. New Tombstone. Austin J. Harnan of Custer, Okla., has invented what he calls a "new and improved tombstone," says the Columbus Dispatch. It is designed to represent a life-size human figure standing erect. For instance, it might be a soldier. The material is galvanized iron, made hollow, so that the lower part of it may be filled with cement to make a heavier base. The body is hollow in order that if desired, it may hold an urn containing the ashes of the deceased. As for the head, it is meant to be screwed on and may be made a likeness of the person for whom the tombstone is erected. Greek Temple Discovered. It is announced that the archeological service in Thessaly has informed the minister of education of the discovery of an Olympian temple at Ferres near, Vestelion, of the fourth century before the present era. The temple, it is stated, resembles that at Olympia; it is in a good state of preservation and has 10 bronze plaques with laws and decrees. Some Men Can't Be Satisfied. "If a man is rich and has good health and a beautiful wife and two or three lovely children," she said, "what more can he want? "Well," he replied, "there's many a beautiful wife who talks more than absolutely necessary."—Chicago Merald and Examiner. What Frost does to a Concrete Road Keeping the Road open Highways for Trucks [National Crop Improvement Services] In building a concrete road, there should be no compromise. We have learned to our sorrow that those communities which have constructed a one-track, thin slab of concrete have been sadly disappointed and it is difficult to get enthusiasm in that neighborhood for more concrete roads. When we build let us build the best we know how. Let us insure that our gravel roads will be so graded and drained that the water may never stand upon the surface. A cement road can best be laid over a good gravel road which has had its bed pounded down for years. There is no form of road so economical, and it is practically good for all time, if the foundation is good and the concrete mixture is right. Steel has an affinity for concrete, the two practically expanding and contracting equally. The greatest combination for permanence is concrete and steel. This is proven to every one's satisfaction in building a concrete tower or bridge. They are invariably re-enforced with steel. Por the same reason a concrete highway must be re-enforced. If a Kee Ro [National Crop Improvement Services] Even in the most populous sections of Illinois, a half day's rain will maroon every family outside of the village limits. This is just as true a few miles from Chicago as it is a few miles out of Cairo; and throughout the center of the state; farmers are often compelled to wait for days before they can pull their cars out of the mud. In the wintertime the best roads are kept clean with snow plows, but where those roads have become deeply rutted and where there is only a day or two between snowstorms, the road crews, being overworked, cannot possibly get those roads clear. In consequence the farmers get out their bobs and when they come to a drift in the road merely take down the fence and drive across the field. This is death on the farmers' automobiles because, as a rule, the bobsles are much narrower in tread and the Highways [National Crop Improvement Service] Miles upon miles of good gravel road in Illinois have been utterly ruined by the heavy trucking service which is using them daily and the sad part of it is that the better a road originally, the more the trucks have cut it up. The time has come and we may as well admit it, when we must build a system of good roads which will stand heavy traffic so that auto trucks may handle much of the short-haul freight of the country, relieving the railroad of this class of business and enabling them to take care of the long hauls. Good roads for trucking will prevent another freight congestion which has paralyzed business ever since the war. Many experts say that this freight congestion had a very important part in bringing about the high cost of living. It is generally agreed that concrete roads will adequately take care of the traffic as we have known it for the Thought and Kindness Post Thought and Kindness Post. It is not written blessed in he that breadth the poor, but he that consid- erth the poor. A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.—John Ruskin. road cracks and splits for lack of re-enforcing, it becomes very costly to keep it in repair. It is a clumsy expedient at best to pour these cracks full of soft asphalt. These cracks will constantly widen unless re-enforced and the roads soon break up into chuck holes. "Probably the most satisfactory method in point of efficiency yet devised for reducing the number of objectionable cracks in concrete pavements, is that of employing steel re-enforcement," says the Office of public roads in Bulletin No. 240, United States Department of Agriculture. A steel fabric will strengthen a cement road the same as a wire netting will re-enforce wire glass against breakage by fire or other causes. It is said that the additional expense of steel re-enforcement should not be more than 5 per cent. We cannot afford to go to the great expense of building a concrete road and omitting this very important detail. Let us do it right in the first place because it will be difficult to sell bonds to maintain or reconstruct that road if it goes to pieces. eping the oad open cars therefore have to make a new track. Where there is, a reinforced concrete pavement, it is comparatively easy to run the plows and these roads are in daily operation where the back roads are piled full of drifts. The frost is perhaps the greatest enemy to a concrete road, therefore it is necessary to reinforce this road with steel. Both sides of the road will rise with a freeze in the fall and lower with the thaw in the spring, making a great hinge in the center. This accounts for the jagged longitudinal cracks which appear after one season in any road not properly reinforced. The additional cost of steel reinforcement is said to be only about 5 per cent of the expense of the road. Other states are learning from experience that no road is properly made unless reinforced. We should profit by the experience of other states. Let us do it right while we are doing it. for Trucks past few years, but what about the immense increase in heavy hauling? What about the millions of new cars which are being purchased by farmers and dwellers in the small towns? We must build for the future. We must anticipate our needs which will probably crowd our roads and submit them to sevele stress. We must adequately strengthen our roads to take care of this enormous traffic. We must see that the foundation is deep and solid; then the roads must be graded and drained to carry off the water. 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