Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-15
GOVERNOR FAVORS
BETTER HIGHWAYS
TRAVEL, FIRST ESSENTIAL OF
EDUCATION, so HE DECLARES
IN ADDRESS TO FUR
Their MOVEMENT.
pROGRESSMA0E IN BIGSTRIOES
state.Ald System, Strengthened BY
Last Legislature, 10 Entitled to Much
crsdlt-kentueky Counties Are
Grateful.

Frankfort, KY Especially - Gov
ernor A. o. Stanley is a most enthu-
siastic supporter OF the good roads
movement and is giving q great
deal Of his time to that question. The
following extract is taken from one of
his recent addresses on Good Roads"
Isolation is the essential atmos.
phere OF the savage. The crude bar
'barian living in his iwigwam or mar
row hut. supplying his own wants, see
ing and knowing no country and no
people beyond his corner In the forest
and his tribe, can neither give nor re-
ceive from the world without. Torn
from his narrow environment. travel
alone will civilize the savage before
he learns to read and write.
Society is 30 organized that we
must give and receive. We exchange
Ideas and aspirations as literally as
commodities. The moral and intellec-
tual development OF the race depend
upon the facility Of that interchange
rs literally as the industrial progress
Of a nation upon its transportation ia
cilities. There is no better guage Of
tho culture Of the community. no surer
index TO the industrial and commercial
prosperity than in the sagacity with
which II determines the products
which It can produce most cheaply and
exchange to the greatest advantage
In the markets of the world.
THE wholesome atmosphere, the Sc
clusion and the peace OF the country
home in summer does not compensate
for the hardships and the complete
isolation OF country life in winter;
when families we're literally marooned
by their own firesides, shut off by i'm
with their kind. The general use OF
the automobile AMI the perfection of
the macAdamized road has revolution.
lied country life and gives new vigor
and new prosperity to the city. For,
after all, the prosperity Of the city
springs like q plant from the soil, and
In Kentucky at least II Is impossible
that the city should not instantly re-
feet the happiness and prosperity of
the country.
ut has been demonstrated that the
loneliness OF family life confined to q
single domicile has been the cause OF
mental and physical decay, and that
communication with ones kind Is IS
| essential to health as sunsl ne and
pure air. And so II appears that the
! good road IL indissolubly woven into
| the very woof and warp OF our indus
trial, our physical and our mental and
spiritual lives. Upon these public
highways, as upon a foundation, are
built the churches, the schools, the
courts, the mills and the markets
Good roads. better roads and more o.
them. should be . plank In every polit
ical platform, q doctrine OF ever,
church, included In the pharmacopoeiS
of every physician and written into thu
curriculum OF every college and uni
versity and the bylaws OF every cor
pcration."
Road building in kentucky is max
ing good progress under the state.aiC
plan which was inaugurated in 1914
this being the second season and |
number OF roads contracted for late II
the year 1915 are being completed thi
year. For the year 1916, contract
have been approved for seven hundred
and ninety miles OF road at cost o
about two million, three hundred thou
sand dollars, including bridges ant
culverts. All types OF roads, from
earth to the most expensive surfacing
are being built, and the people can Sc,
for themselves.
In this connection II might be ststet
that some of the counties seem I,
think they are experimenting, wherea
II is doubtful II single type Of ou
surfacing, except 1t be of the patente,
(type, Is an experiment today bscaus
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