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PUBLISHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF JOURNEYMEN HORSESHOERS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. SUBSCRIPTIONS, PER ANNUM, FIFTY CENTS. Entered as Second-class Matter Feb. 21, 1911, at the Post Office at Cincinnati, O., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Vol. 20 Act of October 3, 1917, authorized on July 5, 1918. CINCINNATI, OHIO, SEPTEMBER, 1919 No. 9 FRIENDSHIP. OU can buy, if you've got money, all you need to drink and eat, YOU You can pay for bread and honey, and can keep your palate sweet. You can buy with gold and silver things you've got to have to wear, For the hand that's warm and gripping and the heart that's tender, too, U. S. Helps to Build Many New Highways. Appropriations of $400,000,000 Asked to Continue Work-States Co-operate. B ECAUSE the people of the United States have grown accustomed to progressive legislation and big events in the last eight years or so, it is likely that few paid any attentian to the news item that Senator Sheppard of Texas, had introduced a bill providing for the appropriation of $400,000,000 to carry out the federal good roads act. For many decades the roads of America have caused derision, discomfort and the waste of many millions of dollars. The latter item included graft, poor construction and the loss to the farmers and others who used the highways for the transportation of merchandise to market. Foreign visitors could not understand American apathy, seeing the immensity of the business involved, and having a distinct recollection of the wonderful highways of Europe. But the American is learning-and quickly. The work started by the Wilson administration in 1916 has been such a speaking, paying success that there is little doubt that Senator Sheppard's bill will pass Congress, and that $400,000,000 will be expended in further improvements from 1921 to 1924. The distance across the United States is approximately 3,500 miles. In three years, with the Federal Government putting up practically dollar for dollar with the states, 15,069 miles of perfect roadway have been constructed, or projects have been approved and will be carried out prior to 1921 in every commonwealth in this nation. This means there were built enough roadway to span the nation between oceans four times, with something left over for a detour into Canada. LARGE MILEAGE BUILT. These 15,000 miles of roads-constructed up to August 31, 1919-would nearly encompass the boundary lines of the United States, running down the Atlantic coast from where New Brunswick adjoins Maine, around the Florida peninsula, along the Gulf of Mexico to the Rio Grande river, along the Mexican border to the Pacific, up the coast of California, Oregon and Washington to the Canadian border, and then eastward to the tip of Maine and down to the Atlantic once more. Considering the magnitude of the crop production of the United States of the present day, it is regarded as indeed fortunate that there are so many miles of good roads for the hauling to market. In fact, there is little doubt that the increased mileage of usable highways has proved a vital factor in increasing crop production and enhancing the nation's wealth, as statistics testify. It The suc The various commonwealths simply flound ered when good roads were considered. Some were progressive, the majority indifferent. was evident that federal aid and supervision were necessary to convince the people. first chapter in the successful story of good roads construction was written in 1912 when Congress voted an appropriation of $500,000 for experimental purposes. This was expended in worth while demonstrations, and so cessful were they that in 1916 little effort was required to get a bill through Congress for an appropriation of $75,000,000, to be expended in five years, together with $1,000,000 a year for roads in national parks and forest reserves. ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS. This sum was augmented this year, however, by a supplemental appropriation of $200,000,000 for the States and $3,000,000 annually for the parks and forests, carrying the work to 1921. This was a grand total of $275,000,000 for the general work, and $19,000,000 for the |