Evening journal., 1911-03-15
PRAISES The
DUPONT PLAN
Good Roads Are Sadly Needed
in Delaware Declares a
Reader Of The Journal
WOULD TEND TO REDUCE
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING

Editor of THE EVENING JOURNAL.
IL hardly seems possible In an age
OF progress and advancement that any
well balanced person could be found
who would be small or mean enough
to conjure up grounds for an objection
to so munificent a gift TO the State as
that offered by Mr.. duPont.We can con-
ceive of no better way a man OF wealth
benefcently inclined could spend his
money to benefit the public at large.
Good roads are the one thing most
sadly needed not only in our own State
but throughout the country. Excepting
the comparatively few miles OF stone
road, Delaware roads are In deplor-
able condition and are a disgrace TO
the State. One has only to take a drive
at this time Of the year to appreciate
what bad roads really mean.
In this one particular, our whole
country is miserably delinquent. Had
we a Congress composed of men who
have the welfare Of their constituents
at heart as well as the advancement of
the country, measures would have
been taken long ere this by the Federal
Government to better the condition OF
cur roads and this would go a long
ways toward the solution of cheaper
living
How Farmer Would be Helped.
The whole country is dependent
upon the farmer for a sustenance. He
is the foundation of all enterprise. The
strength of the nation is sustained by
the tillers Of the soilThe country roads
are the arteries through which farm
products reach the consumer. II is not
hard to see, then, how the cost of these
products must necessarily affect the
cost of living. Representatives I'm Con-
gress are invariably from the towns
and cities and either are ignorant or
care nothing as to the conditions
which the farmer must endure. Only
the interests of corporations, monopo-
lies and trusts are studied by our Con-
gressmen. The farmer must be salts
fed by a batch of worthless seeds that
are handed out by his representative
whose motive in doing even this tri-
fling favor is selfish.
Millions of public money are squan-
dered annually amounting to sufficient
in few years to build permanent
roads throughout the country thereby
tightening the farmers burden as
nothing else could do and prove the
possibly make.
Efforts at good road building have
thus far been confined to states and
counties, only a comparatively few of
which are able TO raise the necessary
funds. Our own State with her three
counties has made feeble efforts TO-
wards betterment of the roads. The
money has had to be borrowed and the
-Iv 4 81 1,
taxes. Il would take a hundred years
at the rate we have been able to build
roads before all the roads could be
improved
Praise for Mr.. dupont
In the face then Of all these facts
when a man opens up his heart and Of.
fers to build a road from one end OF
the State to the other as Mr.. dupont
has done. every citizen who has a droI
Of patriotic blood in him ought to rise
up and call this man blessed. We fee
that there are enough genuine patriots
in our State 10 extend glad hand ol
acceptance to this most generous Offer
and this gift OF unestimable value will
become a reality.
No greater monument could a mar
build to perpetuate his name. We
trust that this novel. we'll directed ac
on the part of Mr.. DUPONT will infiu
ence other men Of wealth to similal
acts of mercy aud that the crying neeC
Of good roads throughout the countr,
may appeal to the Federal Government
till it shall take up the good work an,
direct the funds, previously squander
ed on needless schemes. to the up
/ building OF every road throughout tn
land. We trust that no citizen of Del
aware will be so mean and narrow AM
selfish as to say aught against s.
worthy an offer as that rendered b.
Mr.. DUPONT
Yours truly, H. H. s.
] March II