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OFFENDING FAT AND LEAN Taft Denies Report He Lost Ninety i Instead of Eighty Pounds While He Was President. The man who claims credit for re ducing William Howard Taft's weight, during the four years of his incumbency of the White House, is out with a statement which may call for an emphatic contradiction from the former president, asserts the Christian Science Monitor. Says the trainer referred to: "Mr. Taft lost ninety pounds in the four years he was president and during which he placed himself under my con trol/' Many people will remember how Mr. Taft disposed of a similar assertion soon after he left office. iSaid he, in effect: "Among the mis representations to which I have been subjected is that I. lost ninety pounds during the last four years. This is [untrue. I lost only eighty pounds." This brings back a story of Alex lander H. Stephens, who had been Tice president of the Southern Con federacy, and who, after the Civil .war, was repeatedly elected to con gress from Georgia. He was an ex ceedingly thin man, und, one day, there fell under his observation a newspaper item saying that he neighed ninety pounds. In reply to finis he wrote a letter to the editor of the offending journal demanding an immediate retraction. "I will not be slandered in this manner," he Protested. "My weight is 94 pounds." fThe former vice president was him self an editor, with a habit of 'writ ing very long articles for his paper in Georgia, and the contemporary [which had made the unwelcome statement regarding his weight re Ifused to retract it for the reason, it said, that "Mr. Shephens must have had one of his editorials in his ?pocket when he last tried the scales. This would account for th? differ ence of four pounds between the two [figures." "Will you tell your sister the young millionaire she met at the beach is here. "She knows it. She sa}*s a pa rent waiter is no loser, and she saw you waiting on a table today." . L THE RESEMBLANCE. "That prima donna is like our .took." j "In what way?" "She is always falling down in the aria." I'7 HIS SURMISE. PST" i "What do you read, my lord ?" ! "Words, words, words," replied ?Hamlet. "Ah, you are perusing the Con cessional Eecord?" - ? j _ NOT EXACTLY. ! "You treat these boys as if they fwere kittens." . "Xo, I don't, for then they would ?get a licking every day." I THE REASON. j _ : "That fellow will never look in a mirror when he is drunk." "I suppose he thinks it is no thn6 fr .ober reflection." P ONE CONTINGENCY. \- _ ! "American as you are, don't yon think you would be awed by the presence of a king?" j "Not if I held an ace." ? JA BLOT. j "I understand Germania still jelaims to have a place in the sun." "Sure thing. She's now one of ?the spots." THOUGHTFUL MARY. 1 "Where did you get those smart ?kckingsr I "Oh, I had them laid by for R pliny dayl" . _ . %t BUILDING OF GOOD HIGHWAYS Federal Aid Road Act Exerts Impor tant Influence on Legislation in Many States. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Federal-aid road projects, unques tionably, are ready for construction in every state this year. Under the fed eral-aid road act of 101G every state in the Union is now in a position to co-operate with the federal govern ment in the building of highways. Results ot far-reaching importance and of even greater potential value than the appropriation of federal funds have already been accomplished by the federal act. Among the impres sive results is the establishment out right of state highway departments In Delaware, South Carolina, Texas, In diana and Nevada and the strength ening of other state highway depart ments so as to remove all question as to the 1G states which were not quali fied to obtain federal co-operation at the time of the passage of the federal act. In the past winter more construc tive state highway legislation has been placed upon statute books than has ever been enacted in any similar period since the American republic was founded. The conditions laid down by the federal act as necessary to participate in its benefits operated powerfully to bring about the estab lishment and strengthening of state highway departments, the placing of a vast amount of road construction under skilled supervision, the sys tematizing and correlation of road Getting Road Level? Preparatory to Improving Highways. work so as to provide the improve ments most needed to meet traffic re quirements, the creation of large funds for construction and maintenance and the establishment in many states of definite provisions insuring mainte nance of highways from the dute of their completion. The working season of 1917 marked the opening of actual construction work under the terms of the post-road provision of the federal act, as neces sary legislative and administrative work made it impracticable to get construction projects under way ear lier. On January 31, 191S, the secre tary of agriculture had approved 253 individual projects, aggregating 2.S49 .4*8 miles and caLJing for an expendi ture from federal funds of $7,324, 721.72. and from state and local funds of $9,917,143.70, making a total of $17, 241,S0n.42. These projects represent ed applications from 44 states. CULVERT OF BEST MATERIAL Worse Than Folly to Use Boards to Take Care of Roads That Have Cost Much Money. If the culvert*; are not built of good material they will hnve to be rebuilt in a few years, whatever the quality of the roads they are made to serve. Defective culverts vitiate one of the elementary principles of highway eco nomics, and the interests of the tax payers require that the annual cost of every part of the roads built for their use be reduced to the lowest pos sible figure consistent with efficiency. Manifestly, it would be worse than folly to build culverts of boards to take care of roads that have cost hun dreds or thousands of dollars the mile, and it would be none the less foolish, or worse, to waste money in work of this sort with the use of bad material. Speed Up Good Roads. "Speeding up construction of good roads is an integral part of govern ment war work. Efficient transporta tion is necessary to reduce the mar gin between producer and consumer." -United States Food Administration. Federal Aid for Roads. The theory that federal-aid road construction will not be sanctioned durini; the war has been exploded by the fart that the government has fixed the price of cement for this work. 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