New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1907-07-06
guidance OF father and mother

guidance OF father and mother.
, The progressive farmer, the NJ
tO-date farmer, the farmer Of wis
dom, realizes that it is far NOR
economical to pay few cents far
by lnterurbau, than wear ont hi
harness, buggieS and horse flies
while he faces the bIlStering SUI
IN summer or the iucipmcncy O
winter and he would prefer tha
his loved ones at home enjoy tn
cool and comforts of the Interur
ban III summer, aud the comforl
that come with he heated ears dur
my the winter blasts, han to fore,
them to drive over the muddy
highways Of the average commu
nifty.
The farmer who ObStructs the
progress of iuterurban roads, and
If afterwards through the energy
aud progresslveueSs of tire neigh.
bors the road comes to him with.
ont effort of his own, will be made
to feel foolish for The obstruction
he put III the way of progress.
| For instance, If some loved Que in
his family becomes seriously i'll or
meets with al accident aud If the
| physician be summoned by tcIe-
phone and arrives more quickly
than by carriage and saves that
life, the farmer has had his dlvi.
dend, both in the condemnation of
his action, the sting TO bis conscl-
ence and the dividend by the say
ing of life.
The farmer who finds himself
short Of material in the shiugling
of his baru, or the completion of "a
fence, by the use Of the telephone,
may purchase the required material
aud without the necessity of laying
off his hands while he drives miles
to a town, the car passing by
pauses long enough for the motor
man to throw to the side of the
road the needed coil of wire or
bundle of shingles.
The farmers wife finds the need
of spools of thread and perhaps
is from four to ten miles from a
trading point. If they are pro-
gressive they have telephone the
merchant is requested to send the
thread aud the motorman throws
1t of into the yard.
After the weeks hard blowing
the horses may remain in the barn
while father and mother, son aud
daughter may take the car to
distant town and visit the brother
of the aged mother; may attend
church, and then return home not
all dusty aud tired, but rested and
refreshed after days outing,
while the team is better ready for
the furIow on the morrow.
SO we might continue to enum-
crate the manifold benefits that
come to those who help themselves
by encouraging the coming of the
promoter and the building of elec-
tric roads.
Indeed it is the conviction Of
those who are at present engaged
in the successful launching of the
electric road between New Iberia
and Jeanerette, that there are
greater development possibilities
for the South in that field at this
time than exists 10 any other di-
rectlon. We believe that new
ern of development will accompany
the establishment of the lines that
will overshadow all others, for
they will bring the needed stimu-
lus of utilizing the water powers
of the South, which will not only
force to an abrupt termination the
throttling of com
munity as practiced by steam rail
roads monopoly, but when this is
done there will be added such
economic factors to this section as
will greatly strengthen its race to-
wards the industrial supremacy of
the nation.
This will inaugurate, whenever
water powers are available, an era
of electricity, and bring every
portion of the South on a basis of
in production such as it
has not heretofore enjoyed. The
development that has taken place
10 the States Of the North possesses
great educational value to the