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The automobile and the consolidation of rural schools, resulting in social centers, are large factors in the good-roads movement.
It would be enjoyable to those who give as well as to those who receive, and would have great educational as well as social value. It would bind together both young and old of the community. Occasions like these would also conduce to the good-roads movement so commendable and important throughout the country.
The loss of ocean highways, however, stimulated road building and led to what might be regarded as the first "good-roads movement" of the new nation, except that to our eyes it would be a misuse of the word to call any of those roads good.
And he found that the animosity between the Jews and the Samaritans had not abated. To be sure, there are very few Samaritans left, and those few are thoroughly despised. The good-roads movement has not yet invaded Palestine, and we can still experience all the discomforts of the earlier times.
Every succeeding year of this travel-training, would result in binding all classes still more firmly together, into one harmonious, homogeneous mass. Now George, tell me what you think of the good-roads question! Is it not one affecting the vital interests of humanity to a marvelous extent?" "Marvelous, Fillmore! Most marvelous! Hereafter, you can count on me as an enthusiastic advocate.
Two of our rural route mail carriers use small machines, except in wet weather, and good-roads societies in our vicinity are the latest fad. We raised one thousand five hundred dollars last spring to bring the Cannon Ball Trail from Chicago to Kansas City through our town, and our hotel-keeper contributed one hundred dollars of it.
"He took a gallop on all three," laughingly answered Abner; "but he rode the doctrinal steed longest and hardest." "Egzactly!" said Rogers, taking a chew of tobacco. "He's daft on good roads; kinder rabid on slavery; but when it comes to the 'five p'ints, he's rank pizinous. I s'pose he rid the good-roads hoss fust. He ginerly does." "Yes, he took a preliminary canter on it.
However, their value to the farmer is very large, and, as they increase in number and in efficiency of service, they will become a powerful factor in rural progress. The good-roads movement is beginning to take on large proportions. It is, however, a complicated question.
He came clattering down the aisle of desks to her one May afternoon, and begged, "Say, Miss Golden, I'm stuck. I got to get out some publicity on the Governor's good-roads article we're going to publish; want to send it out to forty papers in advance, and I can't get only a dozen proofs. And it's got to go off to-night. Can you make me some copies?
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