The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-05-16
IMPROVED ROADS I'M
PROVE THE PEOPLE

ed. no clubs or oranges for the farmer
and his wife, and no playfellows for
his children.
There is another phase Of 1t which
manifests itself In the cities. The lat
ter show the effect of being poorly
fed by what should be a prosperous
country trade. Outside themselves
they sell only the bare commodities,
the staples upon which small profit Is
made and upon which sales must be
large to make a living wage for the
merchant and his family. Shoes
clothing, food, furniture, and -imple'
ments, when inspected in the stocks
of merchants, show only the inferior
quality Of goods which must be bought
and sold on the lowest margin Of
profit. There is nothing of the pros
porous appearance of the North, ev-
en- in the best stores of the smaller
cities, and it also is due to the lack
of roads over which the farmers may
transport themselves and their goods
to the centers of trade and their
children to the sources of knowledge.
All this would be valueless to a
dweller in Ohio were 1t not that a
close study of the question reveals the
working of an implacable law which
does not change under the most
searching inquiry.
That the happiness, prosperity, en-
, lightenment, health, longevity, and
personal appearance of any commune
ity varies in direct proportion to the
quality of the means Of transporta.
ton which that community affords.
In any country where wealth is
taken from the soil means of trans.
portation' means roads"
There is another picture. Eastern
States boast of better roads than
Ohio, and there you find the city man
has driven the farmer from his fields
and taken over the country unto him
self He has made the country his
hobby, because it is available, and has
founded ideal plants of high efficiency
for producing wealth from the soil
and which is more. he is making 3
better success of farming than the
farmers who preceded him.
The reason is the city mans appre
citation of the saving which resuitl
upon expenditures. He spends hal
! n million to save few cents. and h,
builds a highway to lower the cost o
marketing his goods.
If further proof could be needed
after the viewing of Carolinas' condi
B lions, no ore would ask for more al
ter inspecting the communities whicl
| have grown ~ in eastern New York
New Jersey. Hrd New England.
, Worse roa'7, impossible at times
and unspeal,nl lie conditions of life ii
| Carolina, MAGNIFICENT highways ant
the utmost in country life in Ney
York, mediocre roads and mediocr
life in Ohio
What could be simpler? 1t is il
evitable and vherever studied the al
swer to the -oblem is the same.
Distance, e. he meaning of present
day usage. '~ not miles.
II is the GO I of Transporting an,
thing a given distance. If the farme
builds a highway over which he ca
carry twice rs much to market in on
load, he has cut in two the cost c
changing his labor into money.
he shortens the time of the trip
has saved, and II he increases the III
NJ his vehicles he has tangibly adde
to his own resources and the resource
of the community. His children ma
learn and his wife may visit the cit
n find those things which will broa
en- the outlook and the mind OF ii
entire family, giving breadth to the
tastes and intoxicating into them q
appreciation of the better things
life.
/, Improve the roads and improve Il
I people and everything pertaining
, their lives. Better the present ge
Grafton andlits life and add immea
= urably to the happiness of futu
generations Improve the roads al
I better the present and the future
u the entire country.
, With but the most casual study al
s. mind can grasp the reasoning of Il
fine old southern statesmen who a
n seeking to bond the future Of the
,r States to get highways for the prt
IS ent generation, Looking beyor
n however, at the poverty, ignoranC