Show GOOD ROAD ROADS IN CUBA Under Governor Magoon l in Cuba great headway has lias been made in building substantial roads throughout through through- out Cuba The Palma Pahna government neglected all internal in in- internal improvements with the result that when Palma went out of office there was too large a surplus in n th the treasury and Governor l I Magoon goon used ed this to tob b build ild roads holding that they were one of the best defenses of the island as as' as asunder under the old rule the roads were almost impassable and a rebel with a little command command com corn mand could skulk in the forests and prey upon the valley lands with impunity Governor Magoon l s idea was that if good roads extended between all the imPortant important im im- imI I points in the island it would be in the interest inter inter- est st of f pe peace e be because aus a cavalry regiment on a good ro road tl could overhaul any petty command that had been heen making the raids One writing from there says says it was the rule of the Romans Romans' to build good roads throughout a all ll their dominions dominion as a means of protection We think that dsa isa mistake ROme Home built good roads not only that her hei hers s soldiers l liers m might move over them b but ut because through S diem l m in gr great t part her great cities had bad to be supplied with food She had no railroads no automobiles anc and how gr great mt must have been the exertion to keep food in hi the cities can ean only be estimated by thinking what I would happen to New York City if the railroads were t. t to stop for even a week A great many people would I be on short rations a great many people would be f z S' S for want of coal although ugh there are excel excel- r y L 1 I lent wagons now and a n. thousand other improvements that the Romans did not have That was ono of the difficult questions of the early carly ages abcs ages It was for that reason that the great val val- leys eys above and und around Babylon Ballon and Ninevah were brought to the very highest state stute of cultivation through tillage and irrigation The want of such communization communication is shown in ui terrible ter- ter ible effect in China Cluna almost every overy year A drought or ora ori i it great overflow means death to thousands and t tens ns of I thousands of people because when deprived of food in n their province pr it is impossible t if tc obtain it from I other provinces China Chinn is building railroads now and andt it t is to be hoped that the thc trouble will be over within I I the next nest ten years I |