The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1911-12-01
LOUISA. LAWRENCE COUNTY. knsruoKY DECEMBER 1oll

i trust may be considered by all
and especially our new lawmakrs,
VINO shall shortly meet at Frank
fort
FIRST, let's have a nonpartisan
road system
\ sECoND,lets have State aid with
Ia State Road department. which
shall have sole supervision over the
location, establishment and con-
structlon OF all roads and wafer
ways that shall be built in whole or
+ In part by State aid.
| THIRD, all bridges OF certain di-
meniosns aud valuation to be plann-
ed and let under the supervision of
the State Road department.
FOURTH, let's change our State
Constitution SO we may be able to
use the able-bodled eonvicts in
support OF our public ways.
FIFTH, in that portions OF our
state that abounds with good road
material let the state open quar-
ries, install crushers and other
necessary machinery, and manufac-
ture road metal and distribute same
TO contiguous counties Andi that
portion of our state that is bar
rem of good road metal; install
brick plants and manufacture that
inexhaustlble supply OF shale and
other rich deposits OF raw materiaH
into paving blocks and furnish these
to the various counties,
SIXTH, man all these plants with
convict labor, using not only those
ffrgS,5a our state. penal Institution, but
also those III our county jailsl
These commodities at the free use
Of the various counties would prove
a great stimulus towards county
bond issues special levies and pri-
yate contributions for road building
trust orr Legislative friends will
study the plans herein suggested
and If found feasible to enact such
laws that will put it into practice.
This we know is radical step. but
nothing less viii meet the demands
Other States have practically the
same system which is proving al
great success, Then. why not Ken
lucky? My friends. If you have a
better plan present it TO the pub
lie, The avenues OF the press are
always open for anything worthy Of
public attention. If you have
good thing push it along You viii
find thousands ready to assist. If
you have nothing to offer, aid those
who are in the fight for better
and more modern plan, The
grades are steep, the mud-sloughs
numerous. the water ruts dangerous,
but toiler, despair not. the great
"Appian Way" over which St Paul
entered the "imperialn city as de-
scribed in the Book of Acts, and
over which the Royalty today are
speeding in their autoes, built over
two thousand years age. If 1t
was possible in that age to con
struct public ways that have been
the pride and boast of nation for
more than two thousand years. what
should be expected of a people liv-
ing in the most prosperous age
known in the history of civilized |
life, and In the area oft he great !
est mechanical advancement record
ed in the history OF the world Now
my friends listen when It is pos
sible to have public ways even bet
ter than the famous "Appian Way"
for a cost to our counties but a
little greater than that Of an ordi-
nary dirt pike; why not all arise
and in voice that would shake |
the very foundations of that million
dollar capitol at Frankfort and de-
mand change in our road system
to more modern plan
Yours only for better roads,
JOHN McDYER.
Ashland Ky, Nov. 10, 1911.