Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-04-01
GERMANY BEHIND
HUNCARY'S REVOLT
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC
VALUE OF GOOD ROADS


TDO suppose there single this country where
Accmmunty has gone much for road Improvement Go
the cemetery of nations and you will lind tombstone
which the epaph Ruined by Dynastc Ambition, and
other bearing the words Wrecked By Nilarm but you do
not find single tombstone saying This Nation Died From Inn
proving its Roads Too Much Take town of fifteen hum
dred inhabitants 1t impossible for that town to prosper except
the tributary country prospers. than possible tor
the branch of any to thrive if the tree l-nourhed Bul
ought make it part of their soIcude to become
boosters for every genuine aid the prosperity of their agcu
which is tributary their And SO, it, as have said
the great thing that appreciated by farmers good roads,
then the intelligent farmer who does this thing ought
hay the support of the business OF the distributing center
Tim just the social side. The eagerne of the
ambitious boys and girls get away from the farm depends
largely upon the difference of social level between country and
city If their neghbohood inhabited by people who
monty regarded hayseeds and codhoppers you cannot
keep your bright young people there The why the city
people eer country people because of certain unkeness of
type This unlkeness of type largely because of the isolated
of the people of the country Improve your roads and you
abolish that olatedne Why should you have little
try church the crossroads miles of town served by
sophomore theological seminary when you could just
we'll have these country people and hear np
ing by well equipped man? The minister just
we'll preach SIX hundred hundred If the roads
good what there prevent the farmer from going
eight miles church instead of two miles? He could just
we'll and merchant and farmer could sit the pew
Can you doubt that if there equal church, libra
social gatherings there would be wide difference
between country people and city people, and the hayeed jeer
would disappear?
Then just the social side The eagemess of the
(not all countries) is isolation. | said farmer down
Maine What do you people do these long months of winter
when you showed in?' He said I'VE sit by the FIRE and
think. Sometimes just sit.
Why have known people the country people of just
much intelligence any before who because of the lack of
contact with other people, the lack of stimulus that from
another mans face and the acquiring of his ideas go sleep
mentally The wheels of their minds and slow
y especially during the time when they go You
almost hear the squeakng of the wheels turning their rusty
earrings in that mans head.
Take the immigrant he down the gang plank Every
thing about him slow. He his head slowly He
his slowly. His tongue slowly Ask him his
and it is four to FIVE seconds before he tell
This the result of rural isolation the Old World Take
that four later he has been working the city
he turns his head quickly thinks quickly speaks quickly That
aertne product of There need be backwood
people in this country people with rusty brains. We
give all the farmers the country that aeness which mans
bhgh and which the farmer who lives nearer to town and
has the advantage of better roads has acquired And my con-
cuson that all you people should constitute yourselves from
missionaries because you realize that good roads will
be appreciated by the majority of the electors until you
help to make them appreciated