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Creating Sentiment Favoring Good Roads
“Less Than Ten Percent of Roads ‘Built’ For Business Throughout the Year”
HOW TO BUILD BETTER ROAD
SYSTEM THROUGHOUT U. S.
First, how do we go about putting
into the life of a community, any great:
permanent belief or activity?
First, we put the subject in the
school curriculum of the state free
schools, whatever we wish to become
part of iho nation.
Hence, the subject of good transpor
tation must be made a part of the
school curriculum of city and country
schools just as industrial training,
physiology, agriculture, etc., are at
present.
Thing or a book on agriculture that
does not teach the basic element of
all agricultural progress and develop
ment—the improvement of transporta
tion facilities, especially the wagon
roads.
Most boys and girls leave school be
fore they reach the high school, hence
training in the value of good roads is
essential in the. lower grades, and even
in the home before school age.
It is the most natural subject in the
world to teach babies under six years.
Transportation is the first lesson
ever demonstrated to the cradle.
Transportation from place to place,
in the house, from person to person in
the home, and finally on into the
yard, street or road, and then to the
places of interest or amusement where
parents are wont to take their chil
dren, before school age.
And who does not remember the
eagerness he felt In his earliest years,
to lake that first great step in citi
zenry progress, which is the funda
mental element in a free country—“go
ing to school the first day."
No question of transportation will
ever again have the same value and
significance to the child, as the how
and with whom it was to make Its
first journey into the new land of a
new world of thinking and environ
ment, the public or private school.
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How easy to begin the subject of
the value of good transportation to
school, just as the time when the fore
most object of the child’s existence
was to go from home to school.
Did Michel Angelo learn mathemat
ics at three, and Mozart and Beetho
ven master the technic of music at
the same tender age—and yet thus
normal American child be unable to
master the fundamental values of good
roads to market, to school, to church,
to the neighbors’ and to the cities for
amusement?
If then it is so easy to tqach the
value of good roads to the children
before school age, what shall we say
of a school system and of a home
standard, and of a state's wisdom, that
will permit their children, their best
asset, to overlook the common daily
practice of going to and from school,
as the basic element in child and na
tion progress!
Is it any wonder that a child who
wades through mud for sixteen or
seventeen years without any knowl
edge of how easy even he could drain
and crown and ‘‘drag’’ that road untit
it would be passable twelve months in
the year—“dry shod." X repeat is it
any wonder that he thinks four or five
years later when given the sovereign
right to vote road improvement taxes,
that good roads are an unnecessary
tax, because he got along all right and
his father before him, and why should
anyone want to change the old con
ditions.
A few roads will be built by inter
ested individuals, corporations and
communities some day In our states
and nation.
But never will the nation do the
greatest good to the greatest number
of Us people until it teaches the value
of good roads In the schools and trains
the voter to want good schools, good
markets, good automobiles, good
churches, good amusement centers,
good parked roadsides, good cemete
ries, good libraries and good citizenry,
all of which and more will only conic
when we have good roads and good
transportation facilities.
To train th© voter to vote for the
things that are pure, the things that
are uplifting, the things that are ot
universal brotherhood—ls of more im
portance than the question of voting
itself, which after all is the act of
a limited number of those eligible tc
exercise its privilege.
Train the voter, mothers! Train the
daughters as well as the sons that
money spent for road improvement is
not a tax but an investment for the
insurance of long and noble lives and
a safe journey to the cemetery and
eternity at the same time.
Put Ravenel’s Road Primer in every
school In the nation, yea in every home
of the land, and our boys wilt set ths
pace for road soldiers throughout the
world.
Put the DeGarmo Questionaire and
Road Log in the vest pocket of every
child in the public schools, every man
on the farm or woman who goes to
market, and in the hands of every au
tomobilist, tourist, traveler on foot or
otherwise, every boy scout of Amer
ica, and in every school room begin
ning with the lowest and ending with
the university, and let each one use
it every time he or she goes anywhe r e,
and what will happen?
Before a decade, the actual appalling
conditions of the roads of our nation
will be talked about “out of the moiiths
of babes” even, and everywhere a
campaign of publicity, education, dem
onstration, ending in legislation, will
result.
Put the good roads arbor day bul
letin of the United States department
of education, Washington, D. C., in the
hands of all parents and teachers, and
follow its teachings and programs and
before a score of years there will be
long lines of fruit and nut bearing
trees, state trees, evergreen trees, etc.,
from one ocean to th 0 other and from
the lakes to theh gulf of Mexico, along
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the roadside of every road our our be
loved country.
Tho barren waste of our American
roadsides is a disgrace to our stand
ards of civilization, and places Amer
ica at the very bottom of the progres
sive nations of the earth.
Georgia Washington, whose contri
butions to his country’s stability and
existence has recently been the sub
ject of many orations and magazine
articles. How is it that his very great
est contribution to the new nation was
ills skill, at sixteen, as a surveyor and
civil engineer.
His intimate knowledge of the to
pography and especially of the rivers
and valleys and their use for trans
portation facilities, did more to win
victory for his army than any other
feature of his great mental power.
Clearly, In the case of the defeat of
Braddock, It was as an engineer that
he put to rout the trained forces of
veteran soldiers of England. Again In
his famous victories won by retreats,
who can doubt that these were the
result of a great highway engineering
feat, based upon expert knowledge of
how to use that skilled weapon to de
feat an enemy, whose corps of army
engineers - ere confined to the camp
of their English army.
George Washington began studying
civil engineering at fourteen. At six
teen, he surveyed all of the territory
of Lord Fairfax. At eighteen he had
mapped all of the claimed Virginia ter
ritory and at twenty was writing a
book on surveying. The national roads
he built, still stand. What about out
bright twentieth century school boys
who could not give a good.definition
of a road if their lives were at stake
as a forfeit.
How tc build roads?
Build the subject of road values into
the public school system, publish it in
the press, in the magazines for boys
and girls, in the state and national
teachers* asosciations, in the asosci
ations of schools directors, in state
and county fairs, everywhere that hu
man eye can look, there should he in
scribed the fundamental values ot good
roads, the axioms of human progress.
Good roads will bring:
BETTER SCHOOLS AND GREATER
ATTENDANCE. _
BETTER HEALTH AND QUICKER
MEDICAL ATTENTION.
BETTER FARMS AND MORE
CULTIVATED LANDS.
BETTER CROPS AND CHEAPEX.
TRANSPORTATION.
BETTER PROSPERITY AND MORE
PRODUCTS.
BETTER SOCIAL CONDITIONS
AND LESS ISOLATION AND IN
y * rrp y
BETTER CHURCH ATTENDANCE
AND BETTER CITIZENS.
BETTER NEIGHBORHOOD IN
TERESTS AND BETTER SCHOOLS
AS SOCIAL CENTERS.
BETTER AESTHETIC CON
SCIOUSNESS AND MORE CIVIC
1 BETTER CITIES AND A BETTER
UNDERSTANDING OF MIL RELA
TION OF THE CITY TO COUNTRY.
AND ITS DEPENDENCE UPON T He
FARM COMMUNITY FOR LIFE U
fcELF. _____
DANCE OF LILLIPUTIANS
AT WASHINGTON
(Philadelphia Ledger.)
The trend in Washington is toward
government regulation by commis
sions. The anti trust measures con
template a federal industrial commia
soin which shall have jurisdicton
over practically the entire business ot
the nation. Colossal powers require
colossal capacity. The commission
idea implies the employment of the
best brains and the best ability in the
nat on. Is it any wonder that busi
ness interests are dubious when they
see the radical elements vetoing tne
appointment of really capable men to
anv of the important boards already
provided for? If ability disqualifies
a citizen for membership in-the fed
eral reserve board, it will disqual
him for service on a Tederal industrial
commission. The specter of ineffic
iency in the nerve center of control
looms large in recent events at \\ ash
ington and Lilliputians are losing
themselves in Guarpantuan arenas.
HIS WERE SNAP SHOTS.
The manoeuvres In which the Red and
Blue armies had engaged In were the
subject of conversation on the porch of
a summer hotel: ,
"Yes T was at the manoeuvres. re
marked a talkative stranger, "I was with
the Blue army."
"Tell us about It,” said one of ihe
listeners. . ... „ , u
"Well, the first day I took one of the
Red's officers.”
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"And the next day I took eight men.
"Well! Well!"
"Yes. and the day before we quit I
took a lot of transport wagons: and fol
lowed that up by taking a b ! g gun.”
"Say, my friend,” sold one of die
group who had been listening In aston-
Residence ot A. A. Thomas
G. LLOYD PREACHER, ARCHITECT.
Ishment to these tales of military prow
ess, "what are you, anyway?”
“Oh,” replied the stranger, "I am a
photographer.”—Exchange.
Be Careful Where You Dive
In the August Woman’s Home Com
panion C. H. Claudy writes an article
entitled “Oanooeing and Diving,” in
which he gives a number of practical,
valuable lessons in water wisdom. He
makes a special point of advising
against diving anywhere until the
water has been carefully sounded und
its depth accurately determined. To
dive without this information is al
ways dangerous. Concealed tree
stumps have done as much personal
injury to reckless divers as anything.
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Williamston, South Carolina.
Spencer Mountain, North
Carolina.
CAPACITY:
Williamstcn 1,000 Tons Crushed Stone
Per Day.
CAPACITY:
Spencer Mountain 4,000 Tons Crushed
Stone Per Day.
Largest Crushed Stone Plant in the
South.
MAIN OFFICE CHARLOTTE, N. C.
The New 10-Story Office Building of the
Augusta Chronicle
G. Lloyd Preacher, Architect
The Chronicle Building, a ten-story
steel office building, and one of the
two skyscrapers being erected in Au
gusta, Is of strictly modern archi
tecture with pilaster treatment of the
exterior, with a facing of buff brick
laid in Flemish bond with limestone
and polychrome terracotta trim.
The entrances are adorned with
marble architraves. The base of the
building is of granite and the top is
crowned with ornate overhanging cor
nice of polychrome terracotta. The
Iloors and partitions are fireproof,
there are two high speed elevators
and all of the modern conveniences.
The King Lumber Company, build
ers of the University Hospitals, are
the general contractors. Their of
fices are in Charlottesville, Va. Mr.
Chas. Johnson is the general superin
tendent of construction. The con
tract calls for the building to be com
pleted by October Ist.
The cement tests in the Chronicle
Building are by the Pittsburgh Testing
Laboratory of Pittsburgh, Pa., while
the steel inspection is by Robert W.
Hunt & Company, of Chicago. The
steel for reinforcement was furnish
ed bv the Corrugated Bar Company,
of Atlanta, Ga., while the cement was
secured from the Clinchfield Portland
Cement Company, of Kingsport, Tenn.
The structural steel was obtained
from John Erchbray, Jr., & Co., of
Pittsburgh, and the steel erection was
by Newman-Blacksten & . Co., of
Washington, D. C.
The limestone for Indiana and was
furnished by the Ingalls Stone Co.,
of Bedford, Ind. The marble archi
traves came from the Blue Ridge
Marble Co., of Nelson, Ga., while the
granite was purchased from the Stone
Mountain Granite Co., of Stone Moun
tain, Ga.
The metal windows were manufac
tured by the Mesker Bros. Iron Co.,
“AUGUSTA IN ’914-”
of St. Louis, Mo.; the steel stack
was made by Lombard Iron Works &
Supply Co-, of Augusta; kalamein, ele
vator doors by the Reliance Fireproof
Door Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y., and the
steel stairs, flag pole, elevator Ironts,
etc., by Staller & Cook Co., of The
Bronx, New York.
The Federal Terra Cotta Company,
of New York City, furnished the ter
racotta and the fire brick by the
Hydraulic Press Brick Co., of Wash
ington, D. C.
Tiles for the floors were furnished
by the Oconee Brick and Tile Co.,
Mllledgeville. Ga., and the tile for th#
partitions was furnished by the Kil
lian Fire Clay Co., Killian, S. C.
The ceremeic tile in all corridors and
to.lets and terraza on the stairs was
furnished by the Godfrey Mosaic Tile
Co., of Atlanta, Ga.
The interior marble for the first
story and all of the wainscoating
throughout was furnished by tne Ken
nesaw Marble Co., of Atlanta, Ga.
The exterior window frames and
sash were furnished by the Perkins
Lumber Co., of Augusta, and the mill
work by the F. A. Requarth Co., of
Dayton, O-
The Otis Elevator Co., of New York
and Atlanta, furnished the elevators.
The electrical work is being done
by the Wilson-Maltman Electric Co.,
of Baltimore, Md., and Augusta,
The plumbing is by W. B, Gulma
rim Co., of Columbia, S. C., while the
heating is by the same firm.
The mail chute is by the Cuttler
Mail Chute Cm
OUTWARD BOUND.
"I hear the sea captain is in hard
luck. He married a girl and she ran
away from him.”
“Yes; he took her for a mate, but
she was a skipper.”— Tit-Bits.