Some people claim that not enough of the waste from homes is recycled. They say that the only way to increase recycling is for government to make it a legal requirement. To what extent do you think laws are needed to make people recycle more of their waste?

In the year 1900 object-lesson roads were built under the direction of the Office of Public Road Inquiries near Port Huron, Saginaw, and Traverse City, Michigan; Springfield, Illinois; and Topeka, Kansas. Since that time the object-lesson roads so built have been extended and duplicated by the local authorities without

further

aid from the government. The people are so well pleased with the results of these experiments that they are making preparations for additional extensions, aggregating many miles. During the year 1901 sample object-lesson roads were built on a larger scale in coöperation with the Illinois Central, Lake Shore, and Southern railroad companies, and the National Association for Good Roads in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia. In all of these cases the cooperation has been very hearty on the part of the state, the county, and the municipality in which the work has been done, and the results have been very satisfactory and beneficial. All the important roads in the United States can be and doubtless will be macadamized or

otherwise

improved in the not distant future.

This

expectation should govern their present location and treatment everywhere. Unless changes are made in the location of the roads in many parts of

this

country it

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country, it

would be worse than folly to macadamize them. “Any costly resurfacing of the existing roads will fasten them where they are for generations,” says General Stone. The chief difficulty in

this

country

is not with the surface, but with the steep grades, many of which are too long to be reduced by cutting and filling on the present lines, and if

this

could be done it would cost more in many cases than relocating them. In

this

problem, as in many, the most important phase is the one most difficult to study and most difficult to solve. It is as complex as human life itself. It is the question of good roads as they affect the social and moral life of our rural communities. It is easy to talk

of

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about

bad roads costing a half billion dollars a year—the answer should be that of Hood’s—”O God!

that

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That

bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap.” You cannot count in terms of the stock exchange the cost to

this

land of poor roads; for poor roads mean the decay of

country

living, the abandonment of farms and farm-life, poor schools, poor churches, and homes stricken with a social poverty that drives the young men and girls into the cities. You cannot estimate the cost to

this

country

, in blood, brain, and muscle, of the hideous system of public roads we have possessed in the decade passed. Look at any of our cities

to

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of

the men who guide the swift rush of commercial, social, and religious affairs and you will find men whose birthplaces are not preparing another

such

generation of men for the work of the future.