The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-04-07
THE BUILDING Of A GREAT HIGHWAY:
OKLAHOMA PART HAS BEEN SURVEYED

ed the road il day" movement
Back of this local road improse-
ment work stands the Oklahoma
state highway department, establish.
ed by provision IN the state con.
stitution, and headed By Sidney
Suggs, state highway commissioner,
and formerly newspaper editor AT
Ardmore. Commissioner Suggs anC
his engineer have surveyed and 10.
Gated the route OF the interstate
postal highway. the Oklahoma div.
sion OF the Meridian road projected
from Winnipeg to Galveston. DuruS
the present year the permanent dir
foundation of this interstate postal
highway is to be built under the
road in a day" plan. On this foun-
daton The state will build as funds
are provided by the state legisla
ture. All the bridges and culverts
VIII be of stone or reinforced con
crete. Lateral highways from int.
rior communities will be built u
this north and south road. Later.
highway running east and west from
Arkansas to the Texas Panhandle is
to he built
Commissioner Sugss sees in the
good roads movement an immeasure.
able social upllt. He doubts that
the right kind of boy or girl caa
be reared on 25-foot lot When
he talks about the value of good
roads, he talks this way,
Il am not unaware of the monetary
advantages that come from the build
!ng of good reads, s/ch as the say
iug OF time In tEa transportation D.
tarn products to mdrlle,. tGe eu,
hancrd value Of farm property. AMI
all that But far above all these
things is the hope tnat good roads
bring TO the RISING generation that
now dcspairs OF owning a home. =
man is never real man or real
citizen unless he owns his home. and
a family without as own. home is
most unfortunate. A poor man 20.
day can not buy 100 acres, 80 acre,
or even 10 acres of land But he
can buy or 10 acres If the clerk.
the Young professional man. the Ia.
Dorer and the young business man
We're able to get out OF town aud
buy little tract OF land on which
ne could build a home and save tha
money wasted III rents 70 city land.
lords and avoid the useless eNtr...
aganc"s of the city, he would entar
upon new and happier life Good
roads Will make it possible tor him
to do this. even though he lye ten
or dozen miles from tne city. The
Iaboring man in the shops may wca.
ont halt dozen steel machines.
but when his eyes grow dim he is
dumped out just as the machine il,
dumped ont. With a little country
nome of two or three acres. he may
begin living an Independent life II
a labor strike should come. he could
go home and wait until it is settled.
Little communities, with schools and
churches, would be termed and in
stead Of children embarrassed ana
handicapped from the day they we,p
born, there would be children look.
ing upon hopeful future. am
preaching tnat good roads VoGlG
empty city boarding houses of Young
men and women who now are With.
out social opportunities. living ,or.
dId, ISOLATED. cheerless life. Let, orr
them ont in these little GOOD roads
communities where they NAV have
social standing and social recosn!.
ton; let the young men get wives
and the young women get husbands.
and do something for human,ty-,he,
VIII live better and de better"