. Community civics . should be hard and withoutany holes or ruts in it. And the sides of the roadshould be well kept up, — fences in good repair,hedges trimmed, weeds cut, and ditches cleaned out. It will help to study all the roads that you see tofind out exactly what points do go to make up agood road and how much these would each counton a Good Roads Score Card. Since so manyfarmers have automobiles, good roads are of evengreater interest. But no one who lives in the coun-try can help caring very much that the roads shouldbe kept up. 2l6 COMMUNITY CIVICS If country boys and girls get an ide
. Community civics . should be hard and withoutany holes or ruts in it. And the sides of the roadshould be well kept up, — fences in good repair,hedges trimmed, weeds cut, and ditches cleaned out. It will help to study all the roads that you see tofind out exactly what points do go to make up agood road and how much these would each counton a Good Roads Score Card. Since so manyfarmers have automobiles, good roads are of evengreater interest. But no one who lives in the coun-try can help caring very much that the roads shouldbe kept up. 2l6 COMMUNITY CIVICS If country boys and girls get an ideal in theirminds of the best kind of road, they can do muchto help make all the roads in the neighborhoodcome up to that standard some day. And, always,in the standard, the highest ideal should be forpermanency in roads and in culverts and in bridges,— a highway that will give the people the bestservice for many years to come. 5. It Takes Pulling Together to Make GoodRoads. — The roads belong to the \\hole com-. It takes pulling together to make gooJ roads. munity and are for the use of every one. Laws aboutdragging the roads and working them help. Stateaid and national aid encourage people to make ad-vance. But nothing counts for so much in the mak-ing of good roads as the united belief of a com- WORK FOR GOOD ROADS 217 munity in their value and the united eflfort of thecommunity to secure them. It takes teamwork to get good roads. In onecounty the boys organized themselves into teamsfor dragging the roads. Teams of from six to tenboys dragged from three to five miles of road in astretch, each boy being responsible for a half the end of each half mile was a sign giving theboys name and age. One of the boys on the teamacted as captain. These teams met in the schoolhouses and studiedabout good roads. The State Highway Commis-sioner came down, bringing pictures with him anddiagrams showing what they should work early in the spring, through the summer andunt
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