The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-28
BEDDING DISAPP UNITED
 OVER REPORT OF LEAGUE

Bedding, Feb. 2S-The report of the Protective League committee appoint ed to formulate a plan for a better system of accomplishing road repairs and improvements is a, sad diSappoint- ment- Failing as it does to provide an executive agency for carrying out more thorough methods, 1t suggests the play Of Hamlet with the charac- ter of Hamlet left out, or a legisla- tive measure without the enacting clause. The report was before the Selectnen at their meeting last Sat urday, copies having bee7 nreVtor1-'v sent them by Secretary Plump. MT. Plump did not appear to asK for d. tion, however, and none was taken Consequently the report may be said to be lying the table and there it is likely to remain, as the Selectmen at once recognized it's fatal defect of omission and are not at all favorable to MT. Pumps effort to secure their endorsement of his pet scheme to have the State appropriation expended on the cross roads between the Ridge and West Bedding and Georgetown, letting other projected improvements wait and take their chances later
 The report is largely made up of recommendations covering a large number of details. These include bet ter drainage. early spring cleaning of the gutters, the use of better mater ial for application to tn roads. the purchase of a. third road machine light enough to be operated by two horses, the purchase of three dump carts-one for each section of the town-and eventually the acquisition of a steam roller. The belief is also expressed that after one good treat ment by the road machines the roads can be kept in good condition by the use of the implement known as the King drag or road hone. These cost little and under certain conditions give good results at slight cost if used when the surface is moist The sug- gestion is also made in the report that road machines and other imPle- ments should be housed when not in use, and that concrete, stone or tile be used instead of wood in construct ing drains and bridges.
 Most if not all these suggestions are excellent, but to carry them into ef- feet there must be some one with the time. the abi'i the authority and eraI is the agreement on this point that it is difficult to understand why fourteen intelligent citizens selected to provide a remedy for conditions which miss this pivotal point and attempt to rear a structure devoid of a foun- da.ton.
 In the considerable space which he devotes to advocating the use of State aid money for the Georgetown and West Bedding roads. MT. Plump says that Highway Commissioner Macdon- aid assures him that both these pro
  Roads Act. This is undoubtedly so as the West Bedding road, but not so as regards the Georgetown road, unless MT. Macdonald has re versed his former attitude in the in oE the law. However, if the Georgetown road can be made the subject of State aid improvement, well an6 good, only the improvement should wait until others which have more pressing claims are out of the way. As far as verbal assurances go, MT. Macdonald is already commit ted to the improvement Of the Putnam Park road as the next local job to be ! and if he had been frank l with MT. Plump would have so in ! formed the latter. The road to West | can be improved up to the 1 limit and still traffic from the Ridge l VIII shun it's hills and continue to | give the preference to the conpara- 1 lively level route to Bethel.
 The committees report specifically 1 urges that the next State work done | De on the section between the Center | md the Mark Twain Library corner 1 are certainly in order | here, but are less needed than on the l liH at the east of the Center.