The president of the Southern Railway Company, Fairfax Harrison, is also president of the American Highway Association, which is engaged in educational work to secure a dollar's worth of road improvement for each dollar of road taxes. This work brings the association into close touch with highway conditions in all parts of the country, and from the knowledge gained of this way, Mr. Harrison recently made the following comment on the general trend of public opinion regarding road improvements:
"The public interest in road improvements during the last two years has been steadily growing, but it has been largely exhibited in a willingness to vote road bonds and to assume road taxes. The public funds so made available have apparently not yet given the American public any sustained concern. The reason is not far to seek. It lies in the assumption that highway construction and maintenance are little more than good faith and common sense. Many persons without engineering experience have been persuaded to act in the methods of work which lead to unnecessary waste. Highway engineers throughout the country have been confronted with the necessity of directing the energies of enthusiastic advocates of better road, along lines at once financially and economically wise. Such educational work has been and still is no small task for men so busily engaged in the discharge of their usual duties as are the professional road builders."
Hunger of Potatoes Contract.
In Maine, a funnel contracted last fall to buy a Ford car and to pay for it.  March 1 with 100 barrels of potatoes at that time. At that time, the potatoes were $1.15 a barrel, but the post of the original contract was $1.25. The original contract was $1.25. 