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Show mr mm mr mr m m CURE FOR INDUSTRIAL EVILS When Time and Labor Unnecessarily Consumed In Transporting Products Prod-ucts There Is Big Waste. If the public could be convinced that It Is economy to begin with fundamentals the problem of progress In every line of social endeaver would be solved. At present tho sole remedy for many Industrial evils lies In the betterment bet-terment of roads. I Manifestly, when time Is unnecessarily unneces-sarily consumed and labor wasted In transportation of products to market there Is a fundamental waste. One Instance will serve as an Illustration. A man loaded his wagon early one morning with a bale of cotton and a few bags of the loose product He lived twenty-two miles from town. The roads In that section are better than the average, but It took him until un-til nightfall to reach thi selling point. He and his half grown son, who accompanied ac-companied him, spent the night In town, paying the expense of lodging, meals and keep for the team. The second day was spent In negotiations for the sale of the cotton and the pur chasing of a few necessaries. They arrived on the third day late In the afternoon, having lost practically three days. That farm was mortgaRed. Everything Every-thing made from year to year was paid out In Interest and for a poor living liv-ing for the family. There was not a dollar for Improved labor-saving ma- 1 1 . . V.,'?i"4it ... ""c , . '' : ' ':, ' ' V ... - : - t 1 . .' :- . V - . " - . f ' . ' - , ..' . ff .. LA.- . . 4, . M-'t. ,......,......;,. 7T A Sood Road In Ohio. cblnery, for additional fencing, or, in fact anything that would enhance the value of the place. If this farmer bad raised small marketable mar-ketable crops which he didn't be could not afford the time or give up the use of bis team to take them to the nearest point. A few sweet potatoes, pota-toes, cotton and corn were the sole products raised. If his place had been mortgaged for the building of a pike or trolley line connecting htm with a market tbere would be hope of paying out. As conditions are, be gets poorer and more hopeless every year. |
