The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-03-02
GOOD ROADS THE GREATEST FAC
TOR IN THE PROSPERITY OF
ANCIENT ROME
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ANCIENT ROME

=, the grace OF goo, roads IS our saliva
t.on,-and not simply from The tyranny
+ timetable, but from other things ;,-
well. even from words which do not
sound we'll in refined ears.
Bad roads mean bad tempers, ba!
tempers mean bad tongues, bad ton
a-e> mean bad words; not the language
our hearts applaud,
"A little girl ran eNcitedly to her
mother exclaiming % mother, mother,
the ice man is the incest man. \ big
lump Of ice fell on his toe and he sat
down and took his foot in his hand and
talked with God.
"But when you are humping over bad
roads, getting stuck in the mud, or coy
cred with dust, not every ear that hears
you is the unsuspcctiny ear of a chilli.
Not even your wife thinks you are the
incest man when you talk like the lee
man if things go wrong.
come decenter, cleaner, SUMMER in heart
if they come over good roads, every foot
of which is welcome to their coming
Wherever we 90, good roads aiding us,
speeding us, we will go decenter, clean
lier, SUMMER in heart.
"That we will live together is the joy
of life. Who would want to live in a
world without friends. Without neigh
bors what would our Parish be worth as
a home! Without the great world Of
strangers out of which came the old
friends, out of which come the new
friends, it would be as if we had no room
in which to grow.
"a community which makes pleas
ant impression on the passing stranger
adds to the JOY of life for him, and in
that has the value of Christian SER
vice.
- know of q place in California call
ed Oceanside, where there is a break in
the good roads between Los Angeles and
san Diego, rough, unkept streets. filling
the minds of the multitude who pass
with unpleasantness.
Maybe Oceansitle will have to an
swer in the Judgment for many talks
such as the ice-man' s.
''Speaking OF California,-not her
glorious climate were worth the visit, ex-
cepting for her pleasant roads making
that climate available, good concrete
roads running everywhere, which enable
the modern man to enjoy the climate.
''Los Angeles has grown from tour
lists, SO have the hundreds of thriving
towns round about. The one crop which
never fails is the tourist crop. From
every state in the nation they come, they
go, but a great multitude stay, because
good roads allow of living out of doors
Oh wheels thru all the months Of the
year. Ask California as to the value of
good roads, and she would answer,
They are worth more than my gold
mines, more than my orange groves
They make everything else l have to be
OF full value.
Friends who thinks best for another,
thinks best for himself. When we to-
gether think of each other, striving to
make our communities as good as the
best, contributing to the public needs,
giving of ourselves and our substances,
it is like scattering seed with a lavish
hand upon the burrows; it comes Lack
in an abundant harvest. We have what
we could never have by q graspipg,
holding hand.
president Wilson says that we must
all speak and act and serve together. ,
Wouldn' t that be a splendid Inter-com-
munity slogan' For it is the together
that counts. 1t is the together that
1t is the together that makes
us wise, it is the together that gives US
our value that makes our gold of service.
Speaking together, acting together, serv-
ing together, We would be able to do
more for each other, more for ourselves,
more for our communities than we could
possibly do alone.
"Then let us cooperate for our CON-
fort, for our progress, for our prosper
ity. So that no stranger on coming to
us can say:
81 m now arrived, thanks to the gods,
Over roadways rough and muddy,
A certain sign that making roads
Is not this peoples study
Altho | n not with Scripture ;rammcd,
Z IN sure the Bible says,
That needless sinners will be damned,
Unless they mend their ways
"Lct us together make our part of he
loved America worth living in. worth
fighting for, worth dying for. By tie
grace of goo'j roads, come close to say
ing, by the grace of God.