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Show HI i ROUGH ROADS HURT SCHOOLS Hk Communities Having Advantage of Im- Hj proved Highways Can Afford to H Build Better Buildings. Hi That good roads materially affect H; tho county school system has boon ro- Hf peatcdly demonstrated. In Btates H i whero tho roads nro kept up well tho H attendance at school Is SO per cent as H . against G4 por cent In states whoro tho B ", roads aro neglected and ara in bud H condition. Improved roads mako it H possiblo to consolidato or coutrallzo K i tho schools and to ostabllah graded H schools in tho rural districts. Such H bcIiooIb centrally located will nccom- H modato all of tho children within a ra- Hl dtus of from four to ilvo miles. In H, many communities having the advan- w tagn of good roads, commodious build- H ings have been provided, more com-H; com-H; ' potent teachers huvo boon employed H and modern facilities for teaching H; havo been suppllca at a minimum cost H Thero aro about two thousand consoll- H datod rural Bchools in tho Unitod Hi States, and it 1b significant to noto H that tho states that havo niado tho H' greatest progress In tho building and H' maintenanco of good roads havo tho H! largest schools. No community can H afford not to havo good roads and H whoro a few enterprising cltlzons will H tako the lead tho results can bo real- |