The vidette., 1917-04-12
BRICkBATs AND BOUQUETS.
EDITED BY W. S. BROWN.

ness by building the Muscle Shoals
Highway. Senator Bankhead il
IAN address made in Memphis aztec
that he was doing the countr,
more good by being at Memphfi
! and helping build Good Road.
than the Senators were doing a
| Washington. Now, he is in favor
of taking over these proposed
| Highways and getting the Gov
Iernment TO not only pay half the
Ecost of building same but to go q
step further aud have them main
tanned by the Government. lie
said the men that opposed Good
kRoads were not loyal to the pre-
4 fparedness movement, and with
out Good Roads this war would
be handicapped IN transportation
Now we have been declared Ma
tional Highway under the name
of the George Washington High
way and have applied to the Gov
lernment to be one of the first
Roads to be maintained by the
Government. TO turn down this
Muscle Shoals Highway will be
blocking the Government in its
preparedness movement to say
nothing of the benefits this COM
munity would get by having the
largest Highway to run through
it that has ever been proposed in
the United States. This road runs
from Savannah, Ga, to Seattle,
Washington, or 3,942 miles. tax
ing in more Arsenals and Govern
ment Forts than any other High
way that has been proposed or that
may be proposed, making the one
Road to be first in all ,he govern
ment aids, as it will get the votes
of all the Senators and Represent
atives of the West, all of the Mid
die West, the North and the Sonth
and all these Senators and Repre-
sentatives are now in favor of the
Government maintaining i s
Highway.
Senator Bankhea1 and P. A.
Wells, Of Omaha. Neb.. with Gov.
Brough, of Arkansas, all made the
same prediction; that was that
the Road building had started at
last and was so big that no State
or County could afford not to build
its main lines that are now pro-
posed. | wish you ell could hear
the men who tell us so many good
things that these lines bring to our
doors and YOU would soon know
that its time we were doing the one
most important thing that is, build
ing our main trunk lines of High
ways. The men who are now
against these are not going to stay
against them. AS soon as they
learn of the seriousness, and the
great need the Government has
for these Highways they will be
patriotic enough to line up and be
for the Government ard its Roads.
lisa Government proposition not
local affair, and when the Gov
ernnent has need for a thing as
important as the Roads they will
have them and maintain them.
That's all these Senators and Leg
islators claim that the Government
is lacking in. That's why they
made the eighty five million dol
lars appropriation for road build
ing. !.
We are a nation at war We are
| in need of Highways. We need
the young blood for the army but
we need transportation worse than
all the rest to maintain our army
and furnish it supplies. You can
blow up Railroad and stop it.
Yon will find it harder to destroy
our Highways, the most used of
all in time of war. Lets be at least
loyal to the Government and build
it's main highways and be for pre-
parednes and for our country.
One more thing is needed
Don't! Don't!! Don'tll plant
your fields with cotton. Plant the
). things that maintain life. Plant
corn, potatoes, sorghum, peanuts,
nothing but eatables, You are
going to face food famine. Right
now the wheat crop estimate is far
less than ever before known.
Don't DoR'tl! Don't II! fail
to raise the things that sustain life
| You will remember these words
and get right. Now we will be
called upon to feed the world
but let us first feed ourselves.
/ Never before has the appeal fol
| food been as strong as now. Life
sustaining will be loyalty and pa
| triotism. Plant eats, take care Of
| the meats and we will serve the
cause that we will face. Don
overlook the danger zone. Righ
here
THE teeter board of life goes NJ
The teeter board of life goes down
| The fairest face must learn tt
frown.
i Dregs may be in the sweetes
cup"
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