The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1919-09-26

overseas recently nearly Five hundred
white men who left old Favette less
than two years ago. The major part OF
this number when they left were I'M
trained and few had travelled farther
than Memphis or Nashville. Their ideas
Of greatness we're local and circum-
scribeo, They have come back to US
with expanded ideas and are matured
men. They went away as children,
they have come back to Us full grown
men, they saw more and learned more
in those two years than the oldest cit
lzen of Fayette County. who has al
ways remained at home. They have
lmbibed from association and travel
many ideas and wonder, upon thel re-
turn why we are negectiog the posi-
Utilities which other countries have long
ago availed themselves Of. They learn.
ed in child hood to love Fayette Coun.
ty, and this sentiment was their COM
fort IN the trenches and upon the bat
tie fields of Ftance. sand they looked
longineIg for the day when they would
return to their country again. On last
Thursday. Sept. llth. We gave them
royal welcome home. The boys fell
il was a genuine heartfelt welcome.
Our poople left nothing undone to
make teen feel VIC were glad to have
them back once more. Nearly all of
tnrm had the good. fortune TO return,
bat they have come back with visions
of the old country that cannot be erased
from their memory, Their memUry.
They are also flied winh the spirit
TO do something and be somebody. In
a conversation with one of the boys he
said to me doctor | wonder If the
people of old Fsyette know that they
are away down at the bottom of the
ladder of progress" He told me OF
of the magnificent highways he aaw
over there. b told me that in Be GUM
he travelled over highways built by
Caesar more than 1000 years ago. and
still in perfect condition. All the high
ways In France were bnilt by Napoleon
between 1910 and ISIS with magnificent
shade trers on either side and they were
in perfect condition. He told me that
the great shells would sometimes tesr
IN great holes, but they would be i'm
mediately repaired. He was sure that
these spl-ndid roads had much to 90
with the Allies winning the war. Truck
loads of men and supplies were sent at
moments notice when most needed. IL
was The motor trucK-rain that rushed
our marines more than eighty miles and
stopped lns German hordes that were
almost at the gates of Paris. These
bJs have come BACK filled with what
they saw and learned while away and
taey are not wiling that Fayette Coun-
lhty should longer be called the ,Corual
Appendsge OF West Tennessee. IheY
were numiln,ed beyond degree after
after tee tour os trucks from Memphis
|, passed through Moscow, Wiiliston,
Somerville and Oakland at what some
!, of the speakers SAID a"ou, our roaos
and road officials, and their report IN
which they ADVISED the traveller and
tourist to beware of Fayette County
and always 20 around. but never through
the County. They feel the full import
of ,hls dreadful curse, tney know wha'
il Is to be avoided and Stunned as II
: we we're all lepers. Isolation is only {
few steps from ignorsnce and barbar
ism and they are unwilling to sit idly
i by and have and have this thingigo OF
: "ad libitum."
They tell US that counties south of N
in t ,e great state og Mississippi hav'
already begun the construction cf con
!. crets roads. We have by every road
side ihe finest grade Of sand which .
the buik in the construction of concrete
8 This wuuld, IL built, insure perma
. nency. The Pyssmids of Egypt wer
constructed cut of concrete more sihai
: 1000 years ago and the older they ge
: the barber they become.
o Professor Sesy struck the right choir
: when he wrote his letter and he calle
!, your attention to the necessity of ston
, and concrete supports for ell futur
n bridge work. He also told you that thi
. was no longer tuggy road to b
/ built. but material and construction 70
> eli future r..@d- must oe used ths
mil would stand the big auto and the hesv
!. truck which are 90 disastrous to ord
N mary roads.
is The Government 10 now showing II
e interest IN universal eosd building an
ID highways. They propose to expen
{. two dollars tor every one dollar give
IL by ano County and the same must b
1t expended rnder the direction and So
TO pervision Of . Government enginee
{. and road-builder.
e. The counties Of riptan and Haywoo
Il have avsslsd themselves Of this prop
osition. The high price Of land in tsy
IT cite viii compel the planter to sub
n divide and cell his Oig landed estate IN
- a;v.~~lfv .na make daily salez m nen