The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-10-23


Dairymen Want Better Roads.
,&Of@. HE dairy farmers Of the
Il -, 4 United States are wide
. 8 awake and progressive, es-
4 \ peclally when their inter-
SFCSS csts are concerned. Re
Gently they have been
catching The enthusiasm Of the good
Io"us movement. The National Dairy
Union is one Of the greatest farmers
EXAMINATIONS I'm the country. It's
9Wtr was shown last year when it
poured the passage through Congress
the oleomargarlne bill 1t looks
NOW as If the union will take mp the
nsht Tor National aid I'm road improve.
ment Secretary Chas. Y. Knight re-
Gently expressed himself ms follows
concerning the Brownlow bill:
I'm company with hundreds Of thou
sands OF other people throughout the
Upited States. / am very much inter-
81 ed in this blll I have just returned
,lSom tour Of Italy, France and Eng
land, where l had an opportunity to
observe the character Of the roads in
those countries. Coming home and
looking over our miserable facilities
for getting around in the rural dis
tricts, l made up my mind that 1t will
be necessary for this country to do rs
European countries have done in order
to get good roads, j. e., have Govern
vent aid
R'The National Dairy Union is or
) anized throughout the North in every
Congressional District which has any
amount Of agricultural constituency.
and I am firmly of the opinion that the
progressive farmers who are dairy
men will be in favor of the bill for
National aid. am so much interested
in its success that l am willing to use
my influence to have our dairy farmers
petition for the passage of this bill l
would be willing to give several hum
dred dollars out of my own pocket to
see the roads of this country improved
like those of France"
To many it will doubtless be news to
learn that something very similar to
the proposed cooperation of State and
Nation has been going on for many
years in the building of Mississippi
levees. In a recent report on this sub
ject Colonel Amos Stickney, President
Of the Mississippi River Commission,
4 said:
a "The allotment for levees for the
85scal year ending June 80 1903, was
100000 and the expenditure Of
y1ike amount, under contract, is author
lied for the ensuing year.
1.-THE total amount expended by the
United States upon leyees from the
beginning of that class of work in
1882 to June 80, 1902 is S16,5SO614.17.
The(total contents of leyees along the
Mississippi River is now about no.
100000 cubic yards, about One-half Of
which has been placed by the United
States, the other half being the work
of State and local boards. The amount
of money expended by these organiZa-
Sons is not known.
There are ordinarily no restrictions
placed upon the expenditure Of allot-
n4nts, but all allotments are some
tiw les determined by the amount Of
work that local authorities can do in
connection with or supplementing Gov
eminent work to make it more effec-
tive.
"The funds applied by the State and
by local boards are understood to be
derived from special taxes authorized
by e respective Legislatures"
E1sSe we have just such a cooperation
between the Federal Government on
the one hand, the States and local COM
munities on the other, as is proposed in
the Brownlow bill, although not car
rled out under specific act Of Con-
gress.