Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-04-14
MILLIONS LOST s
BY BAD METZ
Money Thrown Away
Building Roads by a
Little at a Time.

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600 annually, and more than he
it is wasted-utterly watsed,
the road work is not done fo
nency.
The American farmer spO'
average % cents ton
mile he hauls. In France M
roads are good the cost is
Germany the government
trees along the highways
the peasants with fruit. H
A philanthropist in New
recently given millions to
manent roads for his sta
causes these. The Roman
owed its greatness largely to 80 a..
roads. They spared neither money
nor labor to make them perfect. The
"Appian Way" famo,s road of
Rome was built 321 B C. Rome was
"Mistress of the World" and the
Romans were endowed with civic vir
tues. Y
Good roads means better schools.
These two questions are of vital i'm
portance to the people and mutually
related. 1t means consolidate
school system--a model school sy
TEN, such as Page county, Iowa,
Prof. Macdonald, Iowa State c
missioner, has recently publish
series of articles on good roads.
can have good schools by me-
her fine roads. vs.
New York state has recently
$50, 100000 for roads, perma
roads.
A few years ago the Maiden Spr
district reduced its school levy
results are still visible Terms were
shortened, teachers salaries reduced,
and buildings poorly equipped. Clear
Fork and Jeffersonvile districts have
never reduced tn ir school levy.
Tazewell has school building as
good as any of its kind in the South. I
Clear Fork has modern school build
ing at Pocahontas. However
Maiden Spring district has sS
up its school levy again, ha.
schools and good buildings are
erected and planned.
Now, the point is just this.
people cannot afford to go rigl
square against their own interests on
any public question. Why wait for
legislation? Otter" partisan politics.
p evail in legislative halls and the
will of the people defeated.
The Especial Road Law"has never
given us anything Especial"
The esteemed opponents say that
the interest goes into a "Sinking
Fund" Better into sinking fund
with permanent Improvement than
into ""Sinking Mud Hole" TIL, (
say no more roads can be built
30 yeras. No progre ssive people
cease to build roads and go to sltS
like Grip Van Winkle." 1t sta
reason and common sense that ~ 4
know more about road buildiA
surveying than farmers. Macao ~
Scotch surveyor, introduced "a I
roads into England. Hence the ne
macadamized roads
The worthy opponents of the b
issue object to foreign labor. III
laborers will probably be from OF J
counties of the state, not forein, ~
A large per cent of the teachers V8
foreign, that is from other count ~
of the state. All the mines, lum Ne
plants, steel corporations, etc., :. "
foreign abor-foreign in the strict \
sense, foreigners from Eurpe an,
Asia. The greater per cent of their
wages is spent in America. Amer
lean citizens are in every quarter of
the Globe for business and CONNER
cial reasons. We should learn to give
as well as take. Again some coun-
ties use convict labor for road build
ing. In all governments, corporations,
public and private financial interests
there is some graft. But graft can
not be eliminated until time is no
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