Golden Roads
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Irvine, Leigh H.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Golden Roads: The Good Road Is the Golden Road Every editor, legislator, public speaker, or other person who advocates the building of modern highways to supplant the haphazard, unimproved roads which disgrace the larger part of every state in the Union should be able to give logical reasons for the faith that is in him. Intelligent readers and auditors, sitting as Jurors who are to pass on tax levies and bond issues, demand facts. Why increase taxes? Why vote bonds? How long will the road last? What is the best type of construction for our section? What form of bond is the best? These and scores of like questions can not be evaded without danger to the good roads cause. Talking "in the air" and writing glittering generalities will not make converts who will work for that form of community development which finds expression in the construction of modern roads. If improved roads have helped farmers and towns, and if bad roads have retarded development, destroyed schools, and made times bad, where are the proofs? Who says this and that? and where and why did he say it? There should be a definite place for information of this character. It is at present scattered and inaccessible to the general reader. It is impossible for a writer or speaker to convince a doubtful farmer, a hostile clientele, or an audience "from Missouri" unless he can show them just what a modern road can do for the individual and the community. Yet it is shamefully true that many willing workers are unable to lay their hands upon the very facts so eagerly desired. The facts are hidden in many scattered volumes and reports. It is common knowledge that whenever bond issues or like propositions affecting highways are submitted to the public there is a demand for information on almost every phase of the good roads problem. Where is this information to be found without ransacking great libraries? Nowhere. This is the regrettable reply to the call for knowledge. There should be a popular book on good roads and why we need them. It should treat of construction, cost, maintenance, and similar features; and it should emphasize the economic, social, and educational benefits of modem highways. Concrete and convincing examples showing the value of good roads should abound in such a work. It should be a book for the average voter rather than a treatise for engineers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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