The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-01-04
NEED UNITY
OF PURPOSE
Il Road Building and Malnte-
nance Are to Succeed.
WILL BRING MILLENNIUM.

Says Time is Near When the Entire
Country Will Awake to the Necessity
of Cooperation In Good Roads Work.
Unity of purpose, necessary to the
success Of every great and beneficial
movement affecting the welfare Of a
people, is certainly essential in road
construction. Next to actually having
the good roads, the most important
phase Of the good roads problem is q
well defined public sentiment for unity
Of purpose in road construction. Such
public sentiment In the state would
mean the dawn Of a good roads mil
lennium in North Carolina, and it Is
coming right along.
The potential value Of unity Of pur-
pose in road construction Is best ex-
emplifled, possibly. In the four in
stances referred to. In the Asheville-
Charlotte, the Wilmington Charlotte
and the central highway projects the
people Of many different counties, in
widely separated sections. are work
ing in unity for the construction Of
highways which shall be of vast bene-
fit to them all. In the New York-At-
lanta highway we see the same idea
carried further toward its logical con-
stretching from sea to sea, with num-
berless and far thrown arms, In the
building of which a great people will
typify the true meaning Of unity of
purpose for all time to come.
Suppose the state were first to
commit itself to a great mountain to
the sea turnpike, beginning, say, at
Asheville and terminating at Whining
ton. Suppose that to encourage the
construction of feeders to this great
arterial highway it were to issue its
bonds In adequate amount and de-
posit them with the state treasurer to
be delivered in proportion to bonds
issued by the several counties for
roads within their borders, planned
and surveyed in accordance with the
comprehensive suggestion and advice
of an expert and farseeing highway
commission. Would not such a plan
stir the local pride in each county?
Would there not be a rush on the part
tional benefit of that for which they
would be proportionately taxed? Would
the counties and the people not catch
the fever of doing the right thing. as
well as seeing the thing to do while
neglecting to do it7 1t would be up
to the people, 1t would be intelligent
self help. 1t would mark the end of
pickering and usher in the era of con-
certed action. Each county would have
its vote, each township would have its
Unity Of purpose in road construction
is but another name for cooperation,
that sound economic principle 80 little
understood by the American wage
Garner. while daily performing such
miracles for his brother In England,
where the cooperative stores do an
annual business approximating in vol
ume the total yearly earnings of the
American steel trust
With unity Of purpose or with CO.
operation on the part of all interested
all things are possible What would
be quite absurd for one township alone
to undertake becomes a simple matter
for an entire county. A task too great
for single county becomes easy for
several having unity Of purpose in
road construction or In the construc-
ton Of anything else
With aid from the great state Of
North Carolina. or, in other words. with
all the people Of North Carolina act
ing with unity of purpose. where
then would be the insurmounta Bile diff
fculty Of making the Old North State
a network of good roads? And IL one
state may do this why not the people
of the United States7 With that unity
Of purpose essential to the construc-
ton Of good roads, why may not they
decide to extend helping hand to
themselves via the federal treasury
and build not only a national high
way from sea to sea. but also aid In
the construction of state good roads?
Without unity Of purpose no great
movement can realize it's best POSSIBLE
tiles. With unity of purpose. cooper
alton. all things are possible. With
unity of purpose in road construction
will come the good roads millennium
tire country.
May God in his wisdom hasten that
day.