Southern good roads . operation of the goodroatls enthusiasts of North Caroluia and of the south. i6 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS September, 1911 Unity of Purpose in Road Construction By HON. M. L. SHIPMAN, Commissioner of Labor and Printing of North Carolina Unity of piirpose. necessary to the sueeess of everygreat and beneficial movement affecting the welfareof a people, is certainly essential in road to actually having the good roads the most im-portant phase oi the good rjads prolilem is a well-de-fined public for unity of purpose in theirconstruction. Such a public sen
Southern good roads . operation of the goodroatls enthusiasts of North Caroluia and of the south. i6 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS September, 1911 Unity of Purpose in Road Construction By HON. M. L. SHIPMAN, Commissioner of Labor and Printing of North Carolina Unity of piirpose. necessary to the sueeess of everygreat and beneficial movement affecting the welfareof a people, is certainly essential in road to actually having the good roads the most im-portant phase oi the good rjads prolilem is a well-de-fined public for unity of purpose in theirconstruction. Such a public sentiment in this Statewould mean the dawn of a good roads millenium inNorth Carolina, and it is coming right along. Many there are who already see in the Wilmington-Charlotte, the Charlotte-Asheville highways, and theproposed Centra Highway stretching clear across theState from Beaufort and I\Iorehead City to the Ten-nessee line a cheering sign of this unity of purposeand ^^llo point to the New York-Atlanta highway as a. HON. L. SHIPMAN. Raleigh, N. C. still more encou) aging indication of the rapid growthand spread of au idea which means a very great dealfor the public roads of this State and countrj-. The potential value of unity of purpose in road con-strnction is best exemplified, possibly, in the four in-stances referred to. In the Asheville-Charlotte, theWilmington-Charlotte and the Central Highway proj-ects, the people of many different counties, in widelyseparated sections, are worlcing in unity for the con-struction of highways which shall be of vast benefitto them all. In the New York-Atlanta highway wesee the same idea carried further towards its logicalconclusion, which is a National Highway, stretchingfrom sea to sea, with numlierless and far-thrown arms,in the building of which a great people will typify thetrue meaning of luiity of purpose for all time to come. The consummation of tliese four great highways pro-jected will mark an epoch in the history of the Statea
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