The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-06-23
Automobiles and Good Roads.

The recent automobile manoevers will
nave accomplished a good purpose even iii
does nothing more than stir up enthusiasm
on The all-important question of good roads
The live towns all over the country are wide
awake on this matter and are doing all In
their power TO better the roads in the county
This Is not a question for the County Super
visor and County Commissioned alone &c
fight out. 1t is a vital question to every mar
who has the welfare Of the county at heart
AL should see to it that they do everything
in their power to promulgate the good road
enterprise.
The OWE that has good roads leading TO II
is the town that will prosper. Our roads are
in better shape now than they have been In
many years and our Supervisor Is doing all
in bis power to better them. Let us aid him
in every way W. can.
While talk will not build roads, no roads
will be built without II. We must ask for
what we want If we expect 10 get 1t.
Just as railroads help build towns 80 do
good public roads build owns. A man
would rather. travel ten miles on a good road
than five miles on apoor road. What does this
then argue in the case of a man who lives
five miles from Abbeville and ten miles from
Greenwood or ten miles from Abbeville and
twenty miles from Anderson when the good
roads are on the other end of the line?
Charlotte. N. c.. is a"concrete' example OF
what good roads will do for q town. Char
lotte preached and talked and built and KEEP:
building good roads until now she has not 9
peer in the whole land as far as roads are
cNnnarned III Vol, do mot holtoua that noo5
ros DIS is a paying investment go to Charlotte
and try 10 buy a tract Of land along the lines
of her macadam roads and you will soon dis.
cover that good roads have intrinsic value.
We may not accomplish what Charlotte
has-though we could If We wished to-yet we
can Improve our roads to such a degree that
they would not be recognizable except by the
surrounding scenery.
Good roads is the cry everywhere. Give us
good roads! We, like everybody else, need
better roads. A railroad that has q poor
road bed, small rails, miserable schedules
and poor service cannot compete with q road
that is alive TO all these things. What about
town, then. that has gullies and pig paths,
and hog wallows leading up to II? The ques-
ton Is easily answered. 1t stands no more
INV kiah q euON pdli III Oh well, we CID
get good roads II We want them so let's have
the best roads going. We should not be sat-
isfied with lust ss good" We should have
better roads than anobody else. When We
get this we will have a better own than any
other people,
We admire q man who takes hold of q
thing and pushes 1t through TO success. We
all dislike a man who will have nothing TO
do with that which stands for the public
veal. Here we have q matter that every man
In the county can take hold OF and push 10 a
success. Every man in the county can do
something toward this cause. If 1t is moth.
Ing more than, voting on the question he can
do that and we believe when the test comes
eve ~ man in the county will do his best to
further this cause.
The question is going to come up some OF
these days after the Dispensary question is
settled, 30 let us think about 1t and arrive at
some ways and means of accomplishing for
the county that which will count more for
Its upbuilding than probably any other
thing in sight At present.
The hog wallows and calf paths have got to
go-the sooner the better-for US.