The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-08
Tenebonne Paper Pub
fishes Splendid Good
Roads Sermon, Also
Applicable Here.
Every Community Has a Duty
to Perform in the Building
of Highways That Will
Stay Good.
From Houma Times.

world and, more than that, she owe
to herself-to her own people. 1t i
sacred duty.
1t is just this; to build roads
good roads-roads that will be goot
for man, beast or motor car twelve
months in the year, up, down
through and across every part Q.
the parish. Down all Of the bayous
across from one to the other ant
across the parish, to connect with
the adjoining parishes SO as to give
the best possible transportation ia
cilities to those travellers desiring to
pass through Terrebonne on the way
from New Orleans westward, or vice
versa.
Many times has the trite saying
been uttered: "Terrebonne needs
good roads" 1t has been said sc
many times that it has become mean
ingless to the majority of the peo
pie. Of course, the parish needs
good roads-everybody knows that
and everyone has awaited the action
and the effort of the other man to
build them. And today Terrebonne
has no good road complete in itself
in any direction.
The Houma Schriever highway is
an excellent highway aside from the
fact that one cannot travel over it.
A three mile gap in the hard surfac-
ing, directly in the middle of it, pre-
vents its use in any but the best of
weather, and in such weather any
road is a good road. The Houma-
Lower Terrebonne road is a fine
road, for about five miles. Then
comes the jumping off place and the
necessity Of using boats and the
bayou to go further in bad weather.
The Houma-Bayou Black highway
is fine for three miles, then a slip
perry, impossible mud-bank after the
rains.
And that is the highway situation
in Terrebonne parish at the present
time, despite all of the efforts made,
all Of the good intentions expressed
as to the necessity for building good
roads here.
And at the resent time Terre
bonnie is counting the cost of her
bad roads. This cost is counted, not
in crops, alone, but in HUMAN
LIVES-men, and women and chill
dren sacrificed upon the altar of
careless1ess, of representation and
Of short-sightednes in refusing
struct the easier built and the cheap
est system of highways that it is
within the power of any people in
the country to build.
1t has taken the epidemic of in
f1uenza to show the people of Terre-
bonnie just how lax they have been
in the matter of taking care of their
own. It has been a costly lesson and
the tax has not yet all been paid.
Terrebonne is large parish Its
population is widely scattered When
the disease came here, it spread like
wild-ire to the most remote corners
Of the parish. The physicians did
noble work, likewise the Red Cross.
Private citizens forgot their own in
terests and hurried to help the strick-
en-. Yet, though they visited and
carried aid to hundreds-yes, thou
sands, other hundreds and perhaps
thousands lay suffering, alone, with
out medicine food or care. Why?
Because neither physicians, Red
Cross workers nor private citizens
were able to travel over the high
ways of Terrebonne to reach them.
THAT'S THE REASON.
During the past week number of
citizens of Houma made a trip by
boat, carrying medicines and food
to the stricken sufferers on lower
Bayou Little Cayllou. The scenes
depicted by them upon their return
were heartrending. Whole families
sick, suffering, dying. Five, seven
or ten persons in single room all
victims OF influenza, and not a few
having pneumonia as well. No one
to care for them, no medicines. no
food. Few had any knowledge of
the first principles of sanitation or