The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-13

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sll 500 out of tho = n! ~ -
a. sao.oeo pr. yeok ~ ~
SGT 500 In ave yeaxs. ~ 49,
have under the prooont 81
levy about $500 per annnn - 49,
for the repair Of such roedg ~ me
district as cannot possibly b covered
now with more modern material.
do not see really whore our present
taxes are going to be maternity m
creased by q bond issue. ] presume
that Jerome d. Maley. our county
commissioner, and those OF our citi-
Gems who actively interested them
selves In this new road movement
will. in due time, issue . statement
along these lines; shall not therefore
enter more extensively into this phase
of the question.
The broad issue. however. presents
itself with ever increasing force-are
we in need of better roads and VIII
they prove an asset to town and coun-
try progress? There is but one an
swer to this question and that lies In
the positive.
We have with us, as there are every
where. backward people who will say
we cannot afford to pay the increased
taxes consequent upon modern road
Improvement, that furthermore. We
have no right to tax the coming gener-
alton to meet our present day needs
, To this l have to say that every
, business man who desires to meet
. new requirements pays out money to
meet them, borrows If he has to. AS
, a people, good roads are one of our
business requirements. A county can
, not tax the people to accumulate funds
for improvements. We must either
borrow and stretch our payments over
, periods of years or levy immediate
:, heavy assessments to make such i'm
!, provements. If we do not meet pres
. ent requirements in a courageous way
= we retard development and progress
r. and compel the incoming generation
s to make these improvements and
- shoulder the burden plus the back
q ward way in which we leave the coun
:. try when we are called to cross 'tht
% great divide"
n Good roads, more. and better thar
re railroads, bring the travelling strange
ir close to the hearts of the country ant
IN into more intimate and immediat,
touch with the people The modern
~ power car is the means of scattering
as money along the entire line of travel
e. 1t has established business in town
lg and villages, country boarding house
i'd and hotels that could not have bee
e. thought of ten years ago. 1t has bee
a the means of employment of thous
m ands of men. The people who us
Sc this modern means of conveyance ar
ID as rule people of means and libers
he spenders. Shall we provide the mean
i'm to induce more of them to come her
III, or shall we tell them, by inference,
ms stay away and go to other places
er- That is the real issue before us jus
cir now, and more so with us than man
se other sections of the country
re There are just three conditions "
DIV must face, here they are: Standin
lat still; going backward, or advance.
I'D AS long as human pulse bea
~ healthily no man or woman will star
IA" still. They will leave a place whel
'o' stagnation prevails.
Drs
Going backward marks decadenc,
ON. there is no escape from this. Y,
tha cannot tie vigorous human beings
NO any such condition, not anywhere
,yo these United States, at any rate: We
on and not in the state of Florida.
NOT There is pleasure and satisfacti,
cir. in doing and seeing things grow und
your vision. Improvement in one ,
,ks rection inevitably brings impro,
ments in other directions, and TIL
ars marks progress.
Standing still is childish folly.
arc Going backward is a crime
ICE None shall patiently endure
thv Any i'll that he can cure.
IRE Onward is the march of time"
rec CHAS. F. BURGMAN