The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-06-15
UNITY or PURPOSE NECES-
SARY TO GREAT MOVEMENTS
Continued from LIST Page.)

FEVER OF doing the. right thing,
as well as seeing the right thing
to do while neglecting to do lit
1t would be up to the peo-
pie. 1t would be intelligent self
helf. It would mark the end of
pickering and usher in the r
of concentrated action. Each
county would have its vote, each
township would have it's say, each
citizen would have his voice.
The result would be the result of
the majority-Vox Popuh-mak-
ing a sober, instead of its too of
ten drunken choice"
With unity of purpose in road
construction much may be done
quickly for the sacred cause of
North Carolina Is good roads. To
illustrate: If Buncombe, Hender-
son, Haywood and Pennsylvania
counties, which are the heart of
the most magnificent mountain
scenery on the American CONT
nent, if these four counties should
pool their issues and act as a unit
in building good roads leading to
every famed scenic point in that
truly named Switzerland of
America, who would be bold
enough to foreteIl the ultimate
benefit those people would derive
from their investment?
Accessibility by means of per-
feet roads has made Switzerland
a country where poverty is alb
snlutely unknown. incidentally
! the people have become the per-
lament guardians Of untold mil
: Fons of American dollars. So
w~rld r~itv of purpose in~road
! obstruction on the part of these
western counties result in an I'M
easing stream of yellow metal
ION the pockets of American and
European tourists, for Switzerland
! hos nothing on western North
Carolina when it comes to noun
tam sceery. This golden stream
~onld soon return to the people
&C these counties their bread cast
rnen the waters, and they would
Ed the aforesaid bread thickly
rIsstered on both sides, with a
high grade Elgin creamery pro-
duet, too.
Unity of purpose in road con
struction is but another name for
cooperation, that sound econom-
ic principle so little understood
!, by the American wage-earner,
twhile daily performing such mir
acles for his brother in England,
where the cooperative stores do
F.! an annual business approximate
ing in volume the total yearly
earnings of the American Steel
Trust.
With unity of purpose, or with
cooperation, on the part of all
interested, all things are posi-
BILE. What would beNquite alb
surd for one township alone to
undertake, becomes a simple mat
ter for an entire county. A task
too great for a single county be-
! comes easy for several having a
unity of purpose-in road con-
s%truction, or anything else.
With aid from the great State
of North Carolina, or in other
words with all the people of
North Carolina acting with a
unity of purpose, where then,
would be the insurmountable diff
ficulty of making the Old North
State a net work of good roads
And if one State may do this,
why not the people of the United
States, with that unity of pur-
pose essential to the construction
of good roads, why may not they
decide to extend "a helping hand
to themselves, via the Federal
treasury, and build, not. only a
national highway from sea to sea
but also aid in the construction
of State good roads?
Without unity of purpose nc
great movement can realize It's
best possibilities. With unity OF
purpose, cooperation, all things
are possible. With unity yof pur-
pose in road construction will
come the good roads millennium
not only in this state but in the
entire country.
May God in His wisdom hasten
that day!
Firemen Agree With Southern.
Observation-Disclosures uau U
Washington, June 10.-The dis
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