Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-02-19
EXPLAINS THE
SORENESS
iContinued from Fiut Pages

and they can make it efficient, just
as1much so as has been done in Mont
gomery county, Tenn. There are
laws on our statute book that will
enable this to be done. All that is
needed is for a few public spirited
men to take the lead, and in five
years, by working on the co-opera-
tive plan, Christian county will have
no cause to blush for her roads, nor
hang her head in shame when she
looks over the line into Tennessee.
q Citizens in Montgomery county,
Tennessee, have recently voluntarily
subscribed four thousand dollars to
assist the county in building four
and one-half miles Of pike to extend
from Ringgold on the GAINESVILLE and
Hopkinsville pike to the Kentucky
juncture of this SAME PEMBROKE
TOBACCO ROAD, about which our
citizens are suing. Note the differ
ence in spirit here. Cannot the citi-
zens of Christian county and Chris
tan county itself get together in this
same patriotic spirit and build as
good arc d as the one across the
line? ! think they can. Don't you?
We thrill with national pride when
we read in the papers how Col. Geo
thals has united the Atlantic and Pa
cific oceans, cutting through the
back bones of mountain system to
accomplish it, when perhaps our pa
per, containing the oquent and in
spring recital of his wonderful en-
gineering feat, has reached us three
hours late, because the mail carrier
got stuck in the mud about mile
above our house. am proud enough
of the colonel and the canal, mind
you; but take it from your rustic
friend "a good road from the Ten
nessee line to Hopkinsville, or any
point to Hopkinsville, would be more
to the purpose so far as you or | are
concerned, than two canals at Dari-
en-.
We buy high priced mules from
Missouri every year and make worth
less plugs out of them on our miser-
able roads. This is only one of the
countless causes Of the much talked
of high cost of living.
The time is passing when the peo-
pc of rural districts are contented to
drag a weary way through Dogs and
mudholes to the county town, the
school, the village, the railroad sta
ton and the church. They are going
to have some roads for their yearly
thirty thousand dollars, or they are
Y going to know the reason why. We
have a fine county, my masters. but
believe me, our roads would not ex-
cite favorable comment, nor promote
footracing among the Hottentots or
EsquimeauX.
Some people seem to think that
the split-log drag settles the road
question. 1t does not. think well
of the drag and use one, but it does
not make a road that will serve as
well as a pike. Christian county
wants good turnpikes, and is going
to have them. The split-log drag is
designed to help out until the better
roads can be made, and save the
county the expense of grading these
dirt roads, for remember the farm
ers are dragging the roads free OF
cost to the county, and the split-log
drag is a road grader par excellence.
Now the split-log drag is going t. co
Christian county an injury If it is 60
ing to have a tendency to check pike
building. The drag can do yeoman
service on the dirt roads and this will
- enable the road supervisor to use the
entire $4,000 every year in cooper
alton with the farmers along the
route to build ten or twelve miles OF
high grade roads which will be a
credit and source of pride to our
county.
JAMES A.. MCKENZIE,
Feb 16 1914 EdQoten. Ky.