Southern good roads . mission. It covers approximately 220 miles. The county has a bond issue of $3C0,O0U with which to build the commission has adopted the policy of building roads only where the jieople will give right-of-way andtop soil surfacing and hopes to be able to construct the whole mileage with $oOO,000. Onlythe top-soil and sand clay roads are being built. 12 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS August, 1915 The Road Doctor By J. D. CLARKSONPresident 365-Day Road Club, Cartilage, Mo. A> A RESULT of our article on the subject of goodroads, published in Southern Good Roads, wohave receiv
Southern good roads . mission. It covers approximately 220 miles. The county has a bond issue of $3C0,O0U with which to build the commission has adopted the policy of building roads only where the jieople will give right-of-way andtop soil surfacing and hopes to be able to construct the whole mileage with $oOO,000. Onlythe top-soil and sand clay roads are being built. 12 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS August, 1915 The Road Doctor By J. D. CLARKSONPresident 365-Day Road Club, Cartilage, Mo. A> A RESULT of our article on the subject of goodroads, published in Southern Good Roads, wohave received numerous letters asking for details ontiie various branches of road building from five statesbut none of our correspondents g;) sufficiently into de-tail to enable us to handle the subject physical part of road building; that is the ac-tual moving of the dirt, rock and gravel, the construc-tion of water ways and the supplying of the right kindof machinery to do this expeditinisly and efficiently. Sand clay section of Stantonsburg road, Wayne county, N. C. depend so largely on local conditions that one must beacquainted with these conditions to some extent, be-fore one could give any intelligent advice. One might send word to a physician that he was sickand ask treatment, but the goad doctor would want toknow something about symptoms and conditions, bothphysical and mental before determining whether to ad-minister a purgative, a tunic or just bread pills and agood talk. Otu experience teaches that more bad roads are thedirect restilt of the bad mental conditions of the com-munity than the bad physical or financial conditions. It is because of this tliat the 365-Day Road Club putsat the very top of its list of cardinal principles the dog-ma, Put the people in your problem, and by this wedo not mean men working with picks, shovels, teamsand scrapers, but men working with brains and pos- sessed of courage sufficient to not l)e appalled l)y a fewdifficulties.
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