Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-03-12
Feature Of The Good Roads
Meeting Tuesday
Afternoon.
OTHER INTERESTING TALKS
ChaS. E. Barker alSOA Speaker
On the Program for The
Meeting.

About forty prominent farmers
from over the county attended the
good roads meeting at the H. B. M.
A. Tuesday afternoon. President S.
L. Cowherd, of the Good Roads AS
ISOLATION, presided. Some routine
business was transacted, after which
interesting addresses were delivered
by Messrs. Jas. A. Mckenzie, Chas.
E. Barker and Godfrey Morgan, on
different plans of road building.
The principal address was by Mr..
Mckenzie, which is here given in
full. 1t was listened to with close
attention and was most enthusiastic
ally received.
Mr.. McKenzie's address,:
The Secretary of the Hopkinsville
Business Mems Association notified
me few days ago that the Good
Roads Association wished to hear
from me on the subject of "The Road
Grader; its Uses and Abuses"
Permit me to say that the Hop
kinsville Business Mems Association
deserves great credit and praise for
the active interest it is showing in
the road movement and in the organ
ization and encouragement of the
Good Roads Association.
Good roads have their beginning
with the streets of the town and
from thence pushed out into the
country. 1t is necessary for some one
tostake the initiative and logically this
initiative takes its source from the
town. The farmer S. duty and occu-
patton are so diversified and the re-
turns from his labors often so few
and far between that it becomes diff
ficult for him to concentrate upon any
one thing For this reason tits so i'm
portant, nay indispensable, that pub
lie spirited business men of our
towns and cities should encourage
and lend him helping hand. And it
is equally important that the peo-
pie of the country should respond in
the same spirit.
spent year in the far north
western state of Washington and was
more impressed with the feeling of
cooperation and friendship existing
between the towns and rural dis.
tricts than with anything else out
there. When the government let the
contract for the building of the bat
tleship Nebraska to competitive bid
ders, Seattle's shipbuilder, Robert
Moran, secured the contract, be-
cause the citizens of the towns and
the country people got together and
made up the money to secure Nor
an against loss in taking over the
contract under the bids of eastern
shipbuilders. This they did to boost
their state and chief city. This is the
spirit that predominates in the wild
and Woolly West" where a few
years ago it was generally supposed
that everybody carried, a Colts as
long as your arm and was ready to
shoot you at the drop of hat.
Nothing could be of any more inn
portance from an economic stand
point than cordial relations between
county and town. The interests are
mutual and coordinate. 1t is inn
possible for the town to prosper UNI
less the surrounding territory does,
and on the other hand the county
wants a prosperous, progressive
market place, with good roads lead
ing to it from every quarter of the
county, affording a suitable and ac-
cessible mart for its produce.
About mile from where live,
there is swampy place that was
called when was boy "Leavell's
Bottom" In the center of this