The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-28

payers voted and pay that bounding
upward tax who have not q child in
the world attending school. So, for
the road Improvement tax men will,
IN generous way, and in the true
manly spirit vote the bond tax and so
compel with their aid, good roads as
well as goo5 schools, and the burden
or the bcld will some way be met
and borne as bravely as IL is for all
other kindred burdens of church and
school and family. A word in the
ear from physicians-were Il always
to their advantage to speak it-would
say: your bond issue tax will be
nothing to what you will save in
doctor bills by the restoration from
evils among your women folk. That
word would be magic and as true as
gospel to men aid to women who
know the drudgery of laborious rid
ing on uneven roads I'm the country.
Of course this state OF experience has
no reference to the good road that
lies largely in spaces in the bad road.
The good pieces of road cannot be
! beaten Tor goodness by man or beast,
by carriage. wagon or automobile;
but it is The bad pieces that cannot
be reasoned by the good pieces and
are as set. eystematio toothache that
remain In the jaw despite all the in
tervals of non -toothache; finally, the
| sufferer decides: have Il out and get
rid of it once for all and forever. That
is the way with the roads; get rid of
the thump and bump of roads for
ever whether In back or tooth by null
ling out the. decayed. diseased por-
| tiots of the road once for all times.
Men say: 81 will haveSten years In
which to pay for my land and home;
L will have to pay n tax on II in the
way of interest, but 1 will have IL
sometime as my own, and If don't /
am paying for 1t for my children af-
ter me, and they can finish It; but
in the meantime while am paying for
u am using II and enjoying 1t. which
l never could do with also the pror
nect OF leaving It to my children some
day IL I only rented 1t and did not
expect to live in 1t long. With the
road as 1t is the man is paying or
dinary rent; he pays this every year
and his road next year is no nearer
being a permanent property for the
| enjoyment of himself and children
than 1t was last year when he begins
owning the permanent road which
self and those that are his to follow
him, he i'egins feeling proud OF his
! property which the little extra in cost
lis purchasing for him. and he does
not have to wait ten or forty years
! to come into lively possession. He
| has the good OF them svhile paying for
them. The present roads are not to
be found fault with because they are
the very best that could be given un-
der the price anu conditions in the
hands Of the commission and In many
sections the roads this year are the
! best these sections have ever had
hut as a whole proposition the coun-
| ty roads are like the Arkansas mans
| house:
mister. why don't you cover your
house?"
Twidle de, twidle dunn: ST can't
now because it's raining"
why don't you cover 1t when 1t
aint raining?"
.'Don't need 1t them. and the fiddle
goes on in good cheer by many who
would help IL they could, or could
help IL they would.
An assistance to help them pay for
/ the bond issue is hopefully In wo-
| mems power. Say, in the hen egg
production: One egg or its price each
day for $50 days. not quiet d year
would pay tat 20 cents dozen 5000
at end sof year, at 15 cents dozen
would bay s4,50-that is-one egg 4
.day wonld be thirty dozen and the
! price would far exceed what most
| women's husbands would have to pay
lin bond tax. This is woman's OPP
r9Ftunity.
Respectfully.
REBECCA r. LEE.