Show ETTER lETTER ROADS ARE HELPFUL Schools Li- Li Libraries Libraries Li Farms and andAll andAll All Industries By y rS RY HE RY D 1 VIS D VIS C C National a a It Is la not an exaggeration to sat sa here Is no project no improte- improte Improve nent e- e Dent In any part oC of our county hat het would not be better bettor for good oads oada t ten everywhere en h re Sometimes it ms ms eE-ms hard to reconcile the pro- pro and Improvements with such thing thine as a good road I it seems ridiculous I Iut ut on analysis It Is a found n f be so BO Oar On- 0 and our libraries be ht better our farms S our 1 even en our railroads QuId Improve t and lastly the nee nee- Ic DC-Ic II IC around U us would be titter fitter both and mora morally II If It good lids oads ran past st them These are arl some of ot the t tie reasons by ew XI ew England alone has spent to make her a highways 5 ye of wh whew why h ew w ork Is prepared to spend I OOOO for tor the samu samo purpose e enether nether hether It Is for good health pre pre- pre religion re or social uplift up od rod od roads oads are essential and funda- funda Did It e ever eter er occur to you OU that the tack of ot grip vou sou are lust jut reco er- er erring er erring ring from that you hate haie ha I Just might have been alerted a a good road Did you ou e ever er r Ink that our tubercular tion ton aon and our Insane would de- de ease de-ease east ease as good roads rods Increase The bridge I between teen good roads d good health mey me be seeps seem see a ango ang og ngo one to the ca casual ual observer tr be bo com convinced of the close the most vital ital Ital relation ane anI has only glance over the Ule slate of the alth boards first In a good roads on ni then In a bad roods roads town to too too o nl Is the tho cleaner In both I c prevalent vre diseases may be the theme theme theme me but h here re the re resemblance Ghen Gli Gh ds en the same density of lon lon the town with the better ads has the smallest percentage th of ot disease and deaths When hen sho show this Is almost ln In the case there must be beme beme beme me connection between good ads ds and health It remains remains to ow that this connection Is 15 a 8 close e It ft Is true that a a town with good ds I Is a progressive progress I town v with a alth board that Is corresponding corresponding- well ell weil informer and alert but It Is Iso iso Iso o tnie that good roads have base ba e dl- dl contrIbuted contribute to the tho e e spirit They have brought re o people veople to the town to They They e re e helped widen Its IndustrIes 1 have hate ha I raised the tha value of ot its I 1 estate Jn j jin in n short money money has rolled lur lu in r t their v kept well surfaces Thrum Thrum Thru m the town has become weal weal- weal weal-er er and wiser Iser and better health Is a natural result This hIs however Is only one of ot the sass s whereby hereby good roads tribute to the health of ot an any Where hero there is ad ad a d road there Is an absence of st and It i is Impossible to deny Importance of ot dust in the of ot almost every sort of ease In a dusty road 0 over er which I ry ono passes dati dally daily a huge eon on ron ron-lous bus lous s colon colony of o germs grma Is bound become planted needing needing only gust of ot wind to spread a score Infections over o a large radIus The Thc summer and ond more ly ly Iy the dry times of autumn and Titer become seasons of o grop ds da and other and more andI I ladles Here and there strange t of nt diphtheria scarlet I Ier er and throat diseases crop up from nowhere but in- in In tI traces their origin toe to e dusty dusts running thru locality Where the road Is U hard hud and well fished with Ith a hard smooth sure sur- sur sure sur-e sur e and sloping from the crowns crown center Into well kept gutters on her side lade It becomes almost as rd for Cor dust to lodge there as the shit surface of enameled n work While oa on a dirt road 11 a rain rm irm only 1555 III s the dust d for the ace of ot a few hours hour the same In washes ashes it completely of a ard rd finished rd-finished hed road No o dust dut will willo will will-a Ill Ille o e behind a passing automobile d into the houses that line the thead ad adway a for a a really good road Is prophylactic lactic thing a ways ays clean d pleasant But a rood road means still more morean morean morean an this It means speedy relief case of ot emergency bo be the emer- emer ncy ney ncy fire tire or sickness or wary wari war v ar y matter how heavy the tho rainfall ere will III be bo no mud between I between the etor and hl his patient When speed Is h the paramount as It so o often Is In anY an ictor's experience there will bething be bethIng thIng to delay him hint The Tho road comes as essential to medical as the be motor ambulance d the modern operating zoom loom Th's is 11 what hat a rood good road does doell once for tor any community does and as long longi the road continues good but In Ine ye e course of time It works ork Its neatest mo most t marked and g g That one onlY tends finds In the spirits and alertness s of ot the D DA A community to be bo wholly heal heal- healy heal ly y must not be ba a queer com com- unity corn unity It must take a sane Bane In- In In rest In Its business and the rela- rela rela-on rela on of Its business to the orld It must mix with other eople Its own It must travel tra for a alie lie or so eo at east tast beyond bp ond Its 0 own n In other words word It rust lust come out of ot Itself and to too toe too o e this It must look to Its roa roads 19 ver the road roads the bb and flow trade and visit Where the roads rOMS are heavy nar- nar narow ow nar-ow 0 ow muddy and Impassable the 1 becomes segregated a aulet aulet ulet backwater bak quaint trot brit useless Ti our national progress and queer quer and dangerous andI I Like 1 tho dust dost of ot the bad road t becomes the breeding place of sanity and perversion a cancer cancer- us I us and vexed spot of o mental Ills ill nd moral contagion that spreads s I rapidly and leaves sanguinary as any of ot tho the flown Down to medicine Run a good road thru then the tho out out- out ying districts and soon noon there them would s e less leas need of social workers The overly the backwardness and the would disappear as ast ast t would lathe In the tho southern mountaIns r I anywhere else ele where here les le have settled Wed down In the lough of despond or at nt least Into t century of coma These are some of the th reasons reason shy by a town with a good road I Is healthful town It Is a safer row lO lOn n a b because It I la Is cleaner Its I being beter aid Is to reach the sick Kick It Is fa cleaner clener and more moro alert mentally because It sees Ices what I Is going on about It Before wo no 0 build more hospitals It woud d bd well sell to halo haI ha I hase e |