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Show ROUGH ROADS HURT SCHOOLS Communities Having Advantage of Improved Im-proved Highways Can Afford to Build Better Buildings. That good roads materially affect the county school system has been repeatedly re-peatedly demonstrated. In states where the roads are kept up well the attendance at school is ?0 per cent as against 64 per cent in states where the roads are neglected and are in bed condition. Improved roads make it possible to consolidate or centralize the schools and to establish graded schools in the rural districts. Such schools centrally located will accommodate accom-modate all of the children within a radius ra-dius of from four to five miles. In many communities having the advantage advan-tage of good roads, commodious buildings build-ings have been provided, more competent com-petent teachers have been employed and modern facilities for teaching have been supplied at a minimum cost. There are about two thousand consolidated consoli-dated rural schools in the United States, and it is significant to note that the states that have made the greatest progress in the building and maintenance of good roads have the largest schools. No community can afford not to have good roads and where a few enterprising citizens will take the lead the results can be realized. |