Milford chronicle., 1916-08-11
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contributed very much toward thii
great progressive project. There ar,
few subjects today of more vital in.
,, than goods roads.
With the opening of the dupont
. Boulevard between Georgetown and
the Maryland line at Selbyville
August 20, Sussex county will take a
long step forward on the wheels OF
progress. 1t was only with the intro
duction of the automobile a few years
ago that Sussex people began to think
and express themselves seriously on
the good roads proposition, with the
result that the roads of the county in
general are 100 per cent. better today
than ten or twelve years abo, but this
twenty-mile stretch of the DUPONT
Boulevard to be thrown open to the
public on August 20, will form the
first link in a permanent system of
roads that will ultimately cover all
the important highways Of the county
and State.
We feel that the Delmarvia Penins
sula is unquestionably the finest place
to live in the entire United States, but
in order to keep pace with the remain
der of the country and to develop to
the highest degree possible, the re-
sources which nature has so richly en-
dowed us with, it is absolutely neces-
sary for the people 70 adjust them
selves promptly to all new conditions
that mean progress. Good roads and
good rail transportation facilities are
essential for the proper development
of any community, county or State.
The promoters of any great project
even though that project has for its
object the development and promotion
of the public's welfare-are always
more or less criticised, and so it has
been with the DUPONT Boulevard,
which is being built at an enormous
expense by Delawarean, f or the
benefit of the people and without one
cent of cost to the State, and which
will be of inestimable value in the
future development of the State and
Peninsula in general. Though the
technicalities of the law, the few who
are opposed to this great progressive
project have succeeded in temporarily
delaying active operations at one
point, but they cannot stop it perman-
emily, they can only check it mOmen-
tarily, and even while thus apparently
checked, it viii be gathering force, in
the assembling of materials, so that
when active operations are resumed,
the work will go forward with greater
speed than in the past. 1t is absolutely
impossible to permanently block
progress. The efforts of the few in
this instance which are only in accord I
with the laws OF human nature. re-
minds us very forcibly of the story
"Barranca," written a few years ago. 1
portraying Mexican life, and in which |
a rich old Hidalgo of Northern Mexico, |
a descendent OF the proudest of the |
old Spanish grandees, who was bitter |
ly opposed to the commercial invasion 4
of Mexico by the Yankees, who were /
just beginning to develop the great |
natural resources OF Mexico. Journey I
ed to Mexico City to appeal to Mexico's
greatest man, POrferiO Diaz at that
time president, to stop the influx of
the Yankees from the north with their
money and modern methods. to which
old Diax is reported to have said 1T
would be as easy to dam the gates of
H, as to stop the Commercial in
vasiOn of the Americans" that the
country must PROCESS and be de-
that as they did not have the
available capital, they must depend
upon others, that they could not Of
ford to make an attempt to check
PROGRESS.
The Peninsula is very fortunate in
being traversed by one of the most
highly developed and efficiently Oper-
lted transportation systems in the
United States. and the completion of
he DUPONT Boulevard through the
entire State, with the intersecting
county roads will give Delaware trans
lortation facilities equal to any other =
state in the Union, both by rail and for !
yehicular traffic
The writer has on several occasions !
made a sort of superficial comparison e
# this Peninsula with Long Island N.
T., of course this Peninsula is much
arger but there are many similari-
les. Long Island is bounded on each / /
ide by large navigable bodies of water L
he same as we are. It is traversed by ;
highly developed railroad, of which d
here is one main line extending the
ntiTe length of the island with q
numerous branches, the same as on Il
his Peninsula Long Island is the
home for thousands of New
'orkers, and this Peninsula is the
home for hundreds of Balti- e
koreans, Philadelphians and Viii K
and will undoubtedly in f'
rease with the development of better Z
Dads. r
Good roads will stimulate produc- u
ion of all agricultural products and v
educe the cost of delivering those
roducts to the consumer Most un-
some of the farmers do ri
OF get on the wagon of PROGRESS. q
noted character in this community, H
Tho owns a farm with half mile 'front.' n
ge on one of the main highways in b.
he county, when approached by a p
God roads advocate a year ago, said a
highways would mean more ii
lxes, to which the progressive man
aplied would a macadamized road
OF increase the value of your farm n,
thousand dollars, but Mr.. Farmer, q
-ho is regarded as one Of our We'll g
ixed" men said he had no desire to y,
yer SELL and therefore the increased W
lluation would not be Of any adj q
lntage to him.
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