Arizona republican., 1916-01-07
cood Roads and Immigration

,, before inc Good Roads Convention at Flagstaff recently. Dr. PercNa' LOWELL 'e1 in, Lowell observatory in welcoming '"e confined his very interesting and sc'ol''l' II, TWO points one of which concerns us 'iui '' while the other affects national lite Ihe TOT r.s been so widely discussed at all soou ~
 ti,gs that everybody understands It. but the other IS d one.
 country. said pr Lowell. is great not Tn pro
 .,, , its area and the number of it's inhabitants I+ cor7ipf, as they are knit together into "ho'e
 ,,atto,al good roads system would serve to make t,, Tinted States more united in the deepest anu strongest way by mutual comprehension oi e"'" states needs and capabilities It would he'p 'o ,,al,o the nation one not only against forelgh as resson in q material way but against that Tar more 3o,. hacause more insidious division of groups of foreigners within
 >-aver before. we believe. the subject of good roads been allied with that of immigration as It mas boen done by pr Lowell and perhaps the alliance If tI,, s,Ibiec+e would not have suggested itself to hin, hat for the events of past year which have thrown certain groups foreigners by birth eNtfac- tion or sympathy, unpeasanty into perspectl'e' we have been as neglectful, gather from the re- marks of Dr. Lowell. in bringing about cohesion of the elements which have been thrown into thls country IS We have been in the matter of brhglng together the different parts of the country into an
 
 we find that various clements instead of working ,ooetber are sharply divided and anta@onistic Amer ,cans must be made of a who to our shores to live or to become part of our national life Those who cannot be assimated itno harmonious whole must be rejected
 In this matter we have been too easy going as we have been n all matters. We have assumed that things would adjust themselves we have assumed that roads would be built they needed from
 tn nOth just as trails are laid cut in country to meet urgent needs and without thought of beyond immediate requirements. relied too much on OUT abstract principles of government imagining that somehow they would miraculously work while we slept.
 There is greater need than before to enforce this cohesion greater need that select those clements of a cohesive quality and that we re5ect those that possess that quality. Says Dr. Lowell The instant world is land will be flooded with the dregs or Europe. Every class in country will be swamped under this delrge, working man, if possible the worst of all. Labor leaders are beginning to appreciate this Down will go wages, up will and present advantage the world will vanish Jo return
 instrument for meeting evil is pointed out by pr Lowell who says:
 Americans must be one. From the Atlantic to tc Pacific and from Maine O the borders Mexico be a single solid homogeneous whole And of the ways accomplish this to build good roads. Ii railways be the arteries of commerce. roads the capillaries of commerce of the minC. Both bind communities together For intercourse leads to understanding under standing to mutual confidence and regard. But the feeling besotten by roads is the intimate and deeper of the two. By rail travel fleetingly and so far that we have neither time taste to ciata b,,,a+ of you of Arizona. knows the railway passenger? What different land it seems to one with a motor car