The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-04-03
For Good County Roads.


set April aOlh for the county election
to learn the sense of the voters ON ths
subject of bonding The county for 800,
oUO for road purposes. The question
is now, What are The people going to
do at the polls ON that day VIII
they declare Themselves in favor of
rapid road improvement on Will they
give the movement another sci back
a- they di.l some time since
The great advantages OF macadam
roads are doubles, recognized and ace
knowle,ged hy 'al.. aud it is there
fore. u,ele,, 90 go into this part OF the
subject The question Now is whether
30 j., test to get the means in hand to
go ahead 40 once and construct some
twenty-five miles more of macaiam
or 10 continue iu the present slow way
by which il Will take "a generation OF
more to complete all of The main thor
oughiarc- OF the county so doubt "a
good deal may hc said by both sides.
but it seems to %, that The more
speedily The roads are pat into perma-
nent good shape the better.
some of the benefits are apparent
toall. Among them l- this one. that
we of the present generation, OF the
present decade, OF the next few Year,
will reap some of the advantages. will
get some of the comfort and some of
/ the pleasure from these roads and not
future generations alone Good road,
bring about not only commercial pro-
gre-, but social progress "a, well. They
bring neighbor, together and Afford
mo- little protection hy reason of the
greater readiness with which one may
go from one house t0 another in time
|of trouble or danger, the facility with
which children may get 10 their
schools. and the great saving in time
90 both parents and children j, a dis
tinct advantage our people are nat
urally socially inclined. hut with the
present roads, for six months ont of
the year. many famiiie, are kept c1n-
-tauily at home, seeing no one amt
going nowhere.
10 ha, been urged thAt it i, wrong to
saddle debt on the county which
another generation will have to pay.
II is very proper for 20 parent To- look
To the interest of his children and pro-
vide for hi, future. but doe, he not
owe some duty To- himself? How often
have we the example of parent, ,lay-
ing and denying themselves fnr their
chldicn. who as soon as they come
into tlcir majority and before. waste
the fruit, OF their parents hand work
and fugalty Besides. good roads
now Will benefit The children now and
iu the future. The advance m the
value of land in the county. fronting
ON macadam roads, VIII be hy leap,
and bounds a farm. say of 900 acres,
under mortgage of 900, fronting
on such road. viii have it- value so
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