The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-27
Road Improvement in Inter
est of Everybody, Partic-
ularly Landlord
COST LAST YEAR
WAS S250,000,000
Activity Of Automobiles Cause Mis-
taken Notion that Road Improve
ment Is Rich Mans Fad - Relation
Between Good Roads and Illiteracy.

We have been reading lot about |
good roads lately, SAYS Harrison S |
Magazine for January. We learn that |
about S2jO.GOo,OOO was spent on good |
roads in the country last year, and
that expenditures during the next five
will average from S$00,0o0OOO to $780,
100000 per year That 5 a whole lot
OF money. but every dollar Of ii is well
spent il il results iii actual improve
meut of our highways.
Good road, mean good schools, khowl-
edge. prosperity. Poor roads mean poor
lschools, ignorance, poverty. For in
| stance, we are told that two horses
| haul one bale of cotton few miles in
ono day ON q bad road. They hadl 70
bales double the distance or more on 4
good road.
some time ago. in Tennessee, the
farmers were notified by telephone Of
a sudden rise of four dollars per bale
in the price of cotton. To the farmer
living upon a bad road who could haul
only one bale. the rise in price only
meant a profit of four dollars per load,
but TO the farmer living upon the good
road. it meant q profit Of SIS per load,
and he was able to haul the twelve
bales the same distance in less time
and with less abuse to his team and
wagon. What is true Of cotton is true
of all other farm products.
As regards the relation between good
roads and ilitcracv the advocates of
better highways have. mar>haUed n lone
line of statistics The .sfarcrs" show
that where there are good roads the
I majority of children go to school,
. while in the districts where the roads
i, arc bad thew do not. Consequently. Of
the thirty million children in the Unit
lea STATES who should attend school
. only ciobtcep million are attamntiro
ito do "a. This is factor in cdn.a-
= ti.p that +r,s. of us who live IN citie,
know little about
. Some of the tar+s we have pso1
above were supplicd ms Inv Charles Hen
~. Davis Who Tve. in Mo f,r,or.
unuSc of seven cbimnavs" M SontI
Yarmouth Mass Davis il - vvraltbs
- man. and ona of his hobbies is tba IA
tfn,Ia1 Uiobg.o,. os.ali,+irn of ,rr,i.l
he is urasidrpt
= Dayis would have the federal ,,,verp
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" lana purChaSe Womb soon be pa,a.
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