Greensboro Record
A North Carolina man recently said that the good roads in this state are ruining the smaller towns and went on to back up his point by citing the action of people who live in the country and drive to the larger cities for everything they purchase.
That is ruining the merchants in the smaller towns and decreasing property values, this man thought, and his lament was loud and long.
Take another side of the picture. One of the foremost authorities on cities and city development in the country speaking here recently declared that the larger cities are slowly disintegrating, and the smaller communities growing because of the automobile and transportation facilities afforded by good roads.
His argument was that more people are enjoying the open air of the country and are leaving the hot stuffy cities than ever before. They ride a long ways to their work and return the same way in the evening, just for the advantage of living in the country.
These views are so diametrically opposite that there is a great deal of interest created by the points of view just brought out. One may be a general condition in the country and the other a specific situation in North Carolina, or one may be right and the other totally wrong. At least each is a matter of great interest to people who live both in the city and the country and one that will be receiving increased attention as time goes by.
From the editorial page of The Goldsboro News, Sunday morning, July 12, 1925
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