The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
IMPROVEMENT OF
 PUBLIC HIGHWAYS 
 Makers of Road Machinery Are
 Asked to Exhibit TOO MANY PASSES USED Railroads In Mississippi Will Be Handled by the Grand Jury for Civ a ing Passes-AgricuIturaI
 School Is Located.
TOO MANY PASSES USED

Jackson, Miss, July 17.-(Special )-Dur- ing the session of the county supervisors convention here day or two since-a convention, which. by the way. was at tended by too small a number of the supervisors, taking into consideration the great importance of the work these of- feials are called on to do a resolution was offered by H. s. Weston, member from Hancock county, and adopted as follows:
 Whereas, The department of agricul- ture and commerce, through it's commis- sioner, last year during the Mississippi State fair, induced number of manufac- turers to bring their road building ma chinery here and demonstrate it for the benefit of the supervisors as well as all persons interested in the improvement of our public highways; and
 .sWhereas, We believe that such demon strations are not only benefit to the su- pervisors that attend and see the ma chinery at work, but to the general pub lie as well in creating sentiment for road improvement; therefore, be it
 sResolved, That we hereby indorse this demonstration and respectfully invite manufacturers having road machinery for sale to bring their. machinery to the fair this fall for exhibit and demonstration, and also urge upon every member of the various boards of supervisors throughout the state to attend the fall meeting of this association and see this demonstra- tion."
 The organization of supervisors ad- journed here to meet again on October 8 and %, during the state fair, and it $ confidently expected, and sincerely hoped. by those at the head of the movement to have full attendance with every county represented by at least one supervisor. The state of Mississippi is taking a great deal of interest in road building and i'm provement, and the manufacturer wno has a machine in road building and im- provement, and the manufacturer who has a machine that does the work well and cheaply, is the one who is going to get the business. Mississippi has no road building material, such as stone and gravel, save in rare instances. and must make roads of soil, and which at the very best are bad enough.
 Too Many Passes.
 Some idea of the extent to which the free pass business is inflicted on the rail- roads of the country is to be had from the report of passes issued filed by the Iiberty-White Railroad company With the railroad commission for the year end ing on July 1. The total number report ed to the commission is about 300, but 1t is explained in a letter accompanying the report that there were others of an in- terstate nature that would not be re- ported unless necessary, or words to that effect
 At a term of the circuit court of Hinds county one year ago all of the railroads of the state were indicted for failure tc make report to the commission of the sbasses issued, and they were fined $lN each and paid it, though some of them took the matter to court before they would settle the fine.
 It was charged at the time that there was a good deal of politics mixed uI in the finding of those indictments. 4 state campaign was on, and it was sus- pected that some of the candidates were riding on passes. These reports reached the grand jury, the true bills were found against the railroads, and now they are growing particular about their passes
 Culture of Bees.
 A citizen of Jackson, who is greatly interested in bees and bee culture though he has not bee to his name says he has been gathering some sta tistics as to bee culture in Mississippi and was surprised to find that there are over 500 persons in this state who