Newark post., 1910-08-31
NEWARK POST, NEWARK, DEL, AUGUST 81, 1910

children and grown people would at.
tend church more regularly than they
do now with our bad roads ard distant
and uncomfortable churches; for
church going is not only beneficial
from the religious atmosphere which
pervades them, but there is also an at
tractlve social feature connected with
them which is benefit and a blessing
to the people.
The schools and churches of a
community are its greatest moral and
educational forces. Next to them
perahps, stands rural mail delivery,
which brings the people Of the rural
districts in daily touch with the cities
and business world. 1t places in their
hands the daily papers, magazines, and
all o. the current literature of the
country, so that they may be as we'll
informed as to what is transpiring in
the political, literary and commercial
world as their brother in the city. The
beneficial effects of this service upon
the happiness and home comforts of
Our rural population is immeasurab,e,
and nothing contributes to it's eff
cheney and regularity more than inn
proved roads
The Importance OF improving Our
roads is SO great that it demands the
most serious consideration of every
| one. 1t should command our immed-
tate and persistent efforts Both old
and young have an interest in it. They
should all be educated to a realization
| OF its Importance and bearing on their
| welfare; the old ones so they may be.
gin the work of Improvement, and the
young ones 50 they will be prepared
and willing to take tip the work begun
! and carry it forward to a high degree
of perfection
! III our rural population can be
! brought to realization of this, the
! prevailing tendency to flock from the
farm to the city will cease. They will
, immediately begin to- agitate the ques-
| ton OF improved roads and to build
| them. As the roads are improved the
rural districts will become more at
tractiye. the farmers will continue to
! tarm and to do SO more inteligeutiv.
the congested population OF the cities
| Will begin to flow from their alleys to
the healthy atmosphere of the farm
and become producers instead of idle
consumers, and our country will
march forward to greater industrial
| attalnments and higher and nobler
civilization.
The educational and social advan-
tages, therefore, which will flow from
improved roads are manifold. 1t is of
prime Importance to the whole Amer-
can people that these advantages be
realized to the fullest extent 1t is
important to those who nhabit our
cities because the brain and morals OF
the city are constantly replenished
from the farm home. where we find
our most ideal home life 1t is the in
fusion of good healthy blood from the
country into that OF the city which
maintains the poise between the raw
ages of the baser forces at work to
undermine our civilization, and those
which tend to uplift and elevate it. All
these advantages are important to
those who inhabit our rural districts
because of their direct influence upon
their welfare. And any measure which
benefits every American citizen, adds
to the moral, economic and ntellec-
tual advancement OF Our countr- and
places the daily news of the world and
OF our own country in the hands o
our rural population, will prove a
blessing to the entire country and ado
strength and character to our nation ;