The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-11-27


ways passing through it. The peasan
| try were forced to give their gratui
tous labor six days in the year.
this was not sufficient hired labo
was employed, and the expense wa
met by the parochial rate"
In "A very considerable portion o.
Kentucky bad roads reflect the plar
of road making which was a fai
ure In England more than 200 year.
ago. Those sections are in some res.
poets very like rural England in
the Seventeenth century. They will
not be brouht up to date without
/ good roads and they will not Sc
cure good roads unless the State.
aid plan is put in State wide opera
ton. At present the farmers of the
rural countries-counties without
centers of population other than
those supported by the surrounding
agricultural community-are ex-
pected to build the roads, with the
labor of their hands and that of
their teams, or by the payment of
taxes, they are expected to build
and maintain roads for general ser
vice. Because they do not the values
of their farms are kept much be-
low what the figures would be if
improved highways traversed the ru-
raj countries.
The State-aid plan is designed to
equalize the burdens of taxation for
roads and give the less wealthy
countries an opportunity to increase
their wealth by making themselves
accessible to travel and by reducing
the cost and eliminating the hard
ships of freight hauling and pas
senger transportation within their
borders.
III his address at the good roads
meeting Wednesday afternoon Presi-
dent McBryde, of the Kentucky good
Roads Association, called attention
to the fact that to a State-aid plan
adopted 100 years ago and discontin-
ued seventy five years ago, Kentucky
owes her best inter-county roads.
Some of those roads notably the
and Nashville turnpike, re-
right methods of road making when
they were laid down and long per-
iOd OF neglect deu to the Inability
of the poorer countries to keep them
i'm condition. The "Old State Pike"
between Louisville and Maysville
has been kept up because it traverses
the Weather countries. Owing to
unfortunate conditions in
Jefferson county, the worst part of
the Louisville Maysville road Is, us
ually, the section lying within the
of Jefferson the richest
county in the state, but even in JEFF
ferson the Louisville Maysville road
has not been allowed to 60 to pieces.
Mr. Dunlap speaking of the Ma
tional Highway Association, of
which he is assistant derector gener-
al, ended his address with the fol-
lowing appeal for attention to the i'm
portance of the campaign which the
meeting inaugurated:
81 want to leave this one thought
with you and it should impress you
more than any statement that could
be made-that is: II enough coun-
ties do not take advantage of State
aid during the year 1915 to show
that State aid is wanted it will be
the easiest matter in the world for
a few enemies of good roads TO repeal
as before stated, your present legis-
lation, which will if you please, re-
tard the good road movement in Ken
lucky at least twenty years"
There are difference of opinion as
to whether the Kentucky law is as
good as il might be made, in all
Of its provisions, but it will not be
by disuse, and there is
DtlMtGH duNOColtS VI SOOu IouNS nv
no differenc of opinion as to the
STAGE aid plan being essential to
the development of a State wide
5yetem OF roads. There can be no
difference of opinion upon the point
that the poorer countries are the
countries having the greater opor-
tunity by taking advantage of the
Sate-aid plan. Jefferson county's
interest lies in promoting the States
The problem in this
country will be but little affected
by the addition of trifling amount,
in compliance to the sum represent
ing the county levy-to the annual
road fund. by application for State
aid. Yet jefferson should be the
leader in the effort to awaken the
whole State.-Courier Journal.