Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-18
REALLY GOOD SCHOOLS,
DEPEND UPON HIGHWAYS
Mrs. Is. Is. Munford Points to the
Value OF Good Roads to Women,
Homes and Schools.

Tha, really good schools In the
rural sections depend upon easy ac-
| cess. and pointing out the value Of
good roads to the women to the
homes. and TO community life Mrs.
Is. Ii. Munford addressed the Virginia
Good Roads Association at ban
puct in Roanoke last January. upon
the subject The woman's Point Of
View as to he Highways" In part.
Mrs. Munford said:
when Mr.. Coleman did me the
honor to ask me to say "A few words
at the banquet this evening, I asked
him what he wanted me to talk
about. He replied. What we want
Is the womans point of view. Point
OF view about what ] said. MAN or
roads, Now. we women cannot help
hut he impressed by the very rapid
growth in interest on the part Of
mems organizations in the woman's
point of view. We have long been
accustomed to your interest in our
point Of view with reference to the
| individual man, but now our Views
are sought on man in general. ands
the various problems OF, State and
| nation upon whose wise solution his
welfare and happiness seem to de-
pend. II / were called upon to give
In nutshell what seems most char
|
view, ] should say that her point OF
view. whether of a man or road. is
n very human point Of view. Some
OF our Virginia men have been
| troubled lest this new means Just
| granted us Of registering our point
OF view deprive us of this human
thing. If there be such present,
want TO reassure them and to tell
them not to worry-we couldn't lose
| nd
IL If we could,
Women Close to Sources of Life
| w omen are closer To the sources
OF life than men, our contact with
young children and our position as
makers OF the home all tend TO make
the human aspect of every subject the
one that most quickly stirs our
Imagination and arrests most wildly
our interest. And this brings me to
the topic which General Vaughan
wrote me Il few days since was TO be
my subject this evening, Good Roads
and the Home Some one has said
We must see everything i'm terms OF
human beings: we cannot be content
TO see any work as an end in itself
We must needs see il in terms Of the
men, women and children for whose
| sake the work exists and who alone
give it meaning and content of
feeling. The approach from the home
VIII give such AN outlook upon the
project OF good roads. Since woman
Is the heart Of the home, IL might
be well to inquire what il is that is
IcausinS increasing rcstlcssncss among
our women in the country, so that
they not only acquiescc in a plan but
in increasing numbers persuade their
men folk TO go TO the city. Is not
this dissatisfaction largely due to the
isola ton and drudgcry OF their lives.
and because the schools. the health
conditions and the opportunities for
Wholesome recreation in the country
are often not such as to meet what
they think necessary for their chill
drcns welfare?
Il need not dwell upon the truth
that really good schools will never
be possible until sufficiently large
numbers of children living over a
mcasurably wide area are able to at
tend them without undue loss of time.
fatigue and exposure to weather. and
that proper health conditions depend
upon the ability of the county health
officer, the country doctor and the
public health nurse to move about
, freely and with dispatch. l heard re-
Gently OF Il county health officer in
one of the prosperous and beautiful
sections OF the State who had tenn
porarily stopped his health work and
was giving all his time TO the work
for good roads. feeling that in so
doing he could best contribute to
lettering health conditions. Social
life and community recreation depend
also upon the opportunity TO come and
go with measurable comfort and con-
!, venience. And thus we are forced to
admit that thoroughly satisfying
home life is not possible in many
sections of rural Virginia.
Good R0nds Important to City Women.
Good roads are important also to
the home OF the city woman. What
would il not mean ii we might have
such roads as would enable farmers
to bring from considerable dis
lance their produce in auto trucks to
our doors. thus assuring them bet
ter prices and we as consumers lower
figures in cost? Such IL plan would
also reduce Certainly In our cities
) of medium size) the risk OF a milk
or food famine In the event OF any
temporary breakdown in our trans
portation system.
: "A wise man wrote. The measure
of civilization is its ability to create
and foster human and spiritual con-
facts. The single home can never
produce such a civilization. II such
a type of society is to come to pass,