Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-02-25
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MIR. HHdg1Ms Replies to Mir. EWbAnk.
and Further Defends Position
Against SaAdrClay Roads
Editor, Democrat: >
I would be glad to comply with your
request to give you an article on adj
VeFtfsfng this week, but .Cannot, quit
the roads Just nov since Mr.. EWbaRk
has proceeded to hay me out 30 proper
.1y, and said Just what I:WantedSome=
one to say. He liz q gentleman of In
formation and LIBERAL Mind, and dis
cusses the road matter, interestingly.
He says, We might Just as well have
tried to build the Tower OF Babel to It's
original specifications with the money
we had as TO Hndertakest0 build couz
or hfacadafn roads throughout the
..t~ownsbip.F Az6dsshe might have. Rdded
that &c would not have smsde matters
very much worse i theyy had spent
what money, has gone D sand In
building q. Tower Of Babel bec6use
-Abydenus, whoever that gentleman
tells -4us that the wind blew the
tower. away, and the people, tell us
that the rains wash the sand; away, SO
what Ia the difference? I do not'kncW
how the original specifications for the
Tower of Babel read, as Information
along that line seems TO be somewhat
lacking in detail, but it strikes me that
they are about as clear and easy to
understand as a hrst-class sand-clay
MISREPRESENTATION. and the idea OF
! building permanent roads OF simple
led clay and creek sand seems to me
lmore ridiculous than building a tower
six hundred and six feet high with
hard burnt brick and lime mortar. and
IL believe the tower could be built with
LESS money.
MI. Ewbank sidesteps a little with
reference to the grading of the roads
from here to Saluda. Neither this
lroad nor the road from Saluda to Try
on has been sanded that lam aware
of. ~ / have said nothing whatever
lagainst the grading OF roads, / approve
OF every mile that has been done. That
is the indispensable preliminary tc
building any type Of road. Ny posi-
tionsis that / do not believe there ever
has, or ever will be built In this sec
Etion, q satisfactory sand-clay road thai
viii stand the traffic Of a main thor
oughfare all the year round, and l be
.llieYe Mr.. Ewbank really has misglE'
ings about it himself when he thinks :
long time seriously, and then thinks
more, when perfectly honest with him
self. Instead of my reversing myselI
a stunt / can do with as much grace
ma ANYBODY when you show me, Qor
being employed" but since Mr.. EW
bank who will be reversing upon re
Election and investigation"in less thai
two years. I have filed his art1cI
away, and he 10 going TO have tn
pleasure Of reading some of 1t aga1l
i'm The future. I think IL is going TO D
mighty interesting reading. do No
think the writer or the article to Wn1eI
I am referring is just exactly consist
lent in all he says. / have endeavore
to refrain at all times from harsh cfai
tfcisms. and when-I reach the pom
where + cannot possibly express my
sell without of9ense, I will leave tha
part OF my argument out. He Q y
!. am generally broad-minded. and the
/ saws i~nferentially, as | interpret It,
have made a mere Exhibition Of lgnoi
: ance" or exhibited q spirit or crit
!. cfsm without any purpose OF arrlVIn
? at "A retirement OF conditions, @neT
J he admits that conditions are badlssEt
4 condemn the sand-clay road as
: waste OF money and effort" Now
. mr.. Ewbank means thissfor q thrust
me. / do not care I'm the least, but
would hate to think he refers to hin
SELF Mr.. Ewbank says he has take
) much pains investigating claims {
sand-clav advocates, and SO have
and I have taken sometime invest1ga'
!. ing sand-clay roads as well, VINO
argues to me with much more forc
. than the theories OF advocates.
4 have not only observed them pc
Iwnually " SINGS their 0egfnnln9