Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1907-04-11

Laurel Grove April IL. 1907.

Mr.. Editor:-I have read with
much interest several articles in the
EHserprise on road Construction"
and repairing aud hail with glad.
ness this great interest manifested
In the public welfare. Think, how.
ever. IL Is an injustice to the road
supervisors 70 censure them for any
part OF the bad conditions of our
roads. The supervisors take pride
In sheir work and endeavor 70 do
their work in commendable manner.
believe candidly there is not in
our county today road supervisor
who has not special desire to do
MS work well. But look at the con-
dltlons that confront him. He has
only few dollars allotted to do the
work with. He is told when the
allotment is made that he must do
the road work with the appropria-
ton made him and there will be no
more given him. Then, be begins
oY patching this place and another
and trying to keep down complaints.
He can & make q good Job, because
their are hundreds Of places to patch.
Then comes q dashing rain and away
goes the work and the burden falls
on the wheels of vehicles and the
Door travellers and teams. And
the condition Of the hole is worse
than before. Last year, because of the
unprecedented rains all of the patch.
work was destroyed and the money
wasted,
Now. as a remedy for all this, |
recommend that the Commissioners
supply the supervisors with more
money and encourage them to re-
pair a piece OF road in the right man.
ner il it takes the whole OF the an.
preparation And the Commissioners
onght TO consider it their duty 20
keep close watch on the work be-
ing done and offer suggestions to
the supervisors. and thus place
themselves in a position to vouch
for the justice OF the expenditure of
the Roads Funds.
AS to the Legislative Acts appro-
priating thousands of dollars to pay
some expert engineer to ride over
the roads. see the work done and
spend the county's money extrava-
gantly, disregardless of the poor
taxpayers interest. and then this
non-partizln scheme as they would
have it. | have no sympathy for it.
Increase the road supervisor 5 fund
to the same extent. and enable him
TO finish piece OF work is lie would
like to do it and il will be as well
done as il bossed by some expert
engineer, the latter may work out a
mathematical problem little better
than some of our road supervisors.
Appropriate a reasonable sum of
money and / venture to say we will
get satisfactory results.
Who supposes that any two good
citizens of St. Mary's worthy to be
our representatives in the Legisla-
ture, with the great aDpreciative
hearts that characterize our good
people would be so ungrateful and
regardless of the rights OF their con-
stituents as to lose sight OF the fit
ness and qualifications of their home
people and import men aud give
them advantage over our present
faithful servants. No, give our
supervisors fair show aud we will
find at home ability requisite for the
construction of good roads. The
need Of the hour is sufficient funds
which might be supplied in part by
selling for junk the road machines
scattered about the county.
I'm in favor Of home industry, and
giving credit to whom credit is due
rendering unto Caesar the things
that are Caesars, and unto God, the
things that are Gods"
Thanking Mr.. Crane and Farmer
for the interests they have manifest
ed in the people. from which we hope
to see good results. Respectfully.
p. T. GRAVES.