Evening star., 1923-03-04

county. for example. TwelNe years
ago. when they first started their
road program, that county was as
se.'sed at the same as Fairfax county.
$500. 600 Now 1t is assessed at $3b,-
0oO. 0G0. while Fairfax county has oniy
reached the sum of about $l5.ooO'ooo'
with the same proximity to the capl-
tai of the United States.
Now what has done this? Why, the
roads, which they could not have hau
, in lifetime without issuing bonds
for that purpose. Now all or TINS
extra wealth has come in consequence
of these roads. We all know they
did not bring any land with them
land never would have come with their
money but for the roads. | Will come
closer to home. Ten years ago, Provi-
dence district. in Fairfax county, had
! nerve enough to issue $4,000 worth
Of bonds to build a road from Fair
fax Court House to Chain bridge.
There We're at that time very few
houses along this road. Now there
are four tiourishing villages or COM
muni:y enters. and the wealth that
has come 10 the district in conSe-
quenct Of this road has IN that time
Increased the valuation OF the district
81 100000.
; They have four of the most -four
, ishinG high schools on this road in
| the county. with about a thousand
! scholars in the four schools
Roads and Schools Linked.
! So you can well see that roads and
| schools go hand in hand. We speak
/ about illiteracy-we will have II just
Sc long as we fail to provide a way
let's provide a way by building this
| great road system: then we will have
! d citizenship that we will all be proud
| Of I know something about what
] handicap the want of an education IS.
/ for I only had a chance to go -
H., hon. iv,r - "A
[ paid ) cents each day as I entered
! school. Some winters | did not have
, a chance to go at all. and some only
four and five days; SO you know my
| heart goes out to the boy CT girl who
| cannot get to school
Predicts Wonders.
! want to say in closing that my
| county is dropping her lethargy and
| putting on a new garment. and seems
! to have renewed her lease on life. The
! bond issues we have recently carried
are going to do wonders for the
| county.
| ! will now say few words in refer
ence to the valley of Virginia. Within
d few years the apples from that
great section that are now shipped
across the ocean and rehandled sew
eral times will be hauled to Alexan-
dria in trucks and loaded there for
/ shipment. and see what it will mean
both TO the producer and consumer.
Robert E. Lee Highway.
Now l will speak of the Robert +.
Lee Memorial highway. Are the peo-
pie of Lees home state going to be
| satisfied to let other states build
their memorial to the greatest hero
and Christian gentleman the south
ever produced before we complete IL
through Virginia? Now you all realize
| that it will take money to do this
wonderful piece of work, and the only
way | can see that we can get Ii Is
to issue bonds and get the use of the
road as quickly as possible.
SO all of you that favor this course
| write your representative and ask
him or her to support the issue. Re-
member that IL we issue these bonds
that II will put this money in circula-
tion that is now locked up. and that
while it is circulating there vii be
! left n the state the roads and At
! least 15 per cent of the money. The
| merchant. the farmer and every one
! else will have a chance TO get some Of
! it. Some will say. "Oh, it will make
labor so high on the farm" II you
| cannot get enough labor to raise as
much as you would like to. what you
! do raise will bring a better price.
| Just think what 1t will take to feed
the teams and the men that will be
! scattered all over the state.
Biggest State Undertaking.
thorough study Of this the biggest