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Rh Many different kinds of material are used in making a road. The road bed, first, is a most important consideration, and must be level, hard, and smooth. Then the road itself is built of logs, paving stones, wood blocks treated with tar, or macadam. Every child, at one time or another, has had the fun of watching and following a steam roller. Like a huge, black dragon spitting out tongues of fire, the steam roller drives over a half-made roadway, and leaves it white and hard. Uncle Sam, through the town or state Government, is driving the steam roller, and as he shovels coal into it and guides it, he is thinking of the great things that a new road is going to do for his people.

The farmers will drive into the town over it, carrying apples, and grain, and eggs, and meat. The rural free delivery postman will take letters and, perhaps, some games, and a pair of new rubber boots, and a new book from the city store to the country home. The girl or boy on the farm who was very lonely can ride over a fine state road to a distant farm where there may be another lonely girl or boy, and they can play together. The crippled boy, who could not go to school before, rides in an omnibus that the city sends for him over this good road to the schoolhouse.

The road that your town or state builds helps,