The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-01-10
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MRS. hartley WRITES OF
GOOD ROADS NEED

GOOD ROADS NEEI
can not, of course, afford to provide
parks and flowers to please the eye
of the traveller. but we can at Least
make passable roads, remove the piles
of old tin cans and other rubbish
dumped there by thoughtless people
NOV the annual crop of weeds, and al
low the rains and sunshine to carpet
the borders of our roads with white
! clover and other grasses.
| Hundreds of dollars are spent an
nually to advertise this county in the
east, and if half the money SO spent
was put into a campaign for good
roads no advertising would be need
ed. Many good families leave us each
year almost solely because of bad
roads, and half the new people who
come here are soon Disguised with the
mud. All will agree that good roads
are very desirable. They are valu-
able asset to the farmer and to those
who live in the city, and especially
to the owners of automobiles. A good,
well-built road passing a country
home or farm adds to it's value as we'll
as to it's attractiveness. The farmer
must realize that if our hills were
cut to a normal grade and our roads
well graded and gravelled, the work of
hauling off the crops would be almost
cut in half, thus saving time and
money and making the individual and
the community more prosperous
In country like this, with every
acre in cultivation and producing valu
able crops each year, there is no ex-
cuse for bad roads. If the thousands
of dollars paid annually in road taxes
were expended scientifically and eco
nomically by the construction of
mile or half mile of good road in each
district each year, the question would
soon be solved. If such a policy had
been adopted Is or 20 years ago, we
might now have well-built roads ex
tending into the country in every di-
rection from Moscow and other towns.
And with the advent of good roads
there will come to all of us desire
to make the roadsides beautiful. Old
fences will be replaced with new ones,
the weeds moved and trees planted
by landowners, whose pride and love
of beauty will be aroused.
In cities large and small the public |
is demanding more parks and play
grounds for the enjoyment of the peo-
ple-clean, cool, shady places with |
beautiful trees, flowers and fountains |
where the people may go for rest and
recreation. City homes are resplend
emit with green lawns, ornamental trees
and flowers and shrubs, but we hear
but little about identifying the country |
homes. Nature made the country
beautiful, but man has constantly
sought to detract from and destroy
the natural beauty and give nothing
in return. What must look more dis
heartening to the traveller than mile
after mile of dust or muddy road, with
not tree or thing of beauty to relieve
the monotony? What is more homely
Or uninviting than country school
house with it's small stingy yard with
out tree or a flower to gladden. the
leart of the child? And what can seem
more desolate and hopeless than an
Imprinted farm house standing in the
fields, with not a particle of green
avn, a tree or flower?
Can you wonder that the boy or girl
'eared in such home has a longing I
or the city, with it's beautiful homes,
paved streets and parks, trees and
lowers, and many other attractions? {
Nothing can have more depressing {
fleet upon child than barren and s
onely surroundings. A childhood /
obbed of beauty and joy, devoid of s
pleasure and filled with daily toll |
means dwarfed and barren mind and Iii
oul. An excellent writer has said: c
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l which are trees, flowers and lawns t
nd you develop the best element of d
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uman heart a love for the beautiful p
nd developed and directed along the r.
ght lines in the child it becomes the e
reatest saving power of humanity b
he child in which is developed this "
we of the beautiful will be more OBJ Il
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ath. 1t will love the trees, the birds a
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r it's pleasure and enjoyment. Deny OF
ese things to the child and you de-
,lop a narrow, selfish nature and rob dl
of the greatest blessings ard plea h
res of life. h,
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ands back of all art inspiration and re
preston; that leads men and women m
devote their lives to the production al
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