The Yale expositor., 1905-09-01

HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL.
tsa Mn1AEsEAsship OF ones fellows
Deprived OF r1As pleasure, as many are
who tYa ~ stSS rurat districts, they be
come dissatisfied with country life and
move to the towns ana cries. Is it to
be wondered that so many boys and
girls lszsz9 thelr country homes and go
tn tSS Sse ~ soon as they become old
sIslsS2 Saskssak away from home ties?
Our bsH0roads prevent the women
and our young people from driving out
and hingTIng together as they should
In ortter TO develop the social side OF
their natures that is so essential in
forSIaa the not useful and well
rUlAsAa& .sAaeA If ne women who live in
the country were TO wait for their hus-
bands TO take them calling, their calls
would be few and far between. The
long winter evenings should be the
most pleasant time of the year upon
the farm; it should be the time for so
clal and mental Improvement. Liter
airy and social gatherings should be
had, adding both pleasure and i'm
provement that would do much to
make on1 young people content with
country life. Our bad roads prevent to
a large degree this being done. If the
people in the rural districts were to
have an opportunity Of mingling to-
getls0r freGHantly, contentment and
prosperity would come TO many
farm home that is now ruined by dis
eCn& as~A 1s@oFty. org young people
w4so hse IN the country must have bet
ter social relations in order to prevent
tkkls Sk<sEen&S dow Of our best boys
and girls from the farm TO the city.
1t 4aS peen wisely said that the
ssASsf%Atts% md good roads are the
two most essential features of civil
ssS1sE,- xp8 stsOuld instill in the minds
Of our young people that each Of us
has = dSsS 70 perform; that we owe
duty to ourselves and TO each other in
that we should always endeavor to de-
vcfaO GhIa Asafvidual and mold .charac-
tvg tAas WIN F9nke the best citizens and
holp to develop the district where we
reside and not live for self alone. I'm
lass oar geNng people have an opportu-
nifty or mingiing together in q social
way they will become selfish and mar
row sed Will not develop into that
broad ruauksd citizen that is desired for
a fn<5 600 efcedy development OF the
United States.
We sleQsalA as far as possible get
away from that petty selfishness that
often prevents us from making the
most ozk 81 our lives and is so often
nOttceeAns o. highway improvement.
All Of the roads cannot he made good
at once. Why not help build a good
piece OF road in one section Of your
county ask not refuse to work If that
improvement does not happen to be
rlatat s&arF ~ your farm? We must
necessarily begin somewhere with per-
maneat r~eA improvement if we ever
expect TO haye any. One reason for the
prevalence OF bad roads throughout the
[ United States is lack Of agreement and
united action among the advocates of
highway Improvement.
Everybody prefers good roads to bad.
Every body knows that Iae roads can
be improved only by the expenditure
of money ana labor, but there the
agreement ends. There is n great va
riety of ideas ana schemes for secur-
ing the desired object Some people
would rather travel through mud than
TO have the road improved by any
other plan than their own pet scheme.
HaAssse a~Hventions of this kind will
not In themselves build good roads.
We must unite in support of few gen.
eral principles and go TO work upon
some general plan. With a united eff
fort we shall be able to accomplish
much good I'm highway improvement.
but In order to unite some of us will
have 20 give up some of 'our pet prof
tcts as 60 now the work should be done.
Better roads Will enable us TO have
better schools. If we were to have
better roads, we could have larger
school AAsA.iets, better schoolhouses
and have. our schools better graded and
run for less expense per capita than we
now do. One or more school districts
might be consolidated and have two
rynore teachers In the same building.
Better schools will cause our state to
fil up. with O better class OF people
ndvat much more raptd rate than It
wutwenaut them