The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-09
Goods Roads Department


pay for them.
Abundant thanks are due to those
who begin q e-'T movement for the
people. and thS popular support till
the sun gOes down, to the lengthening
OF the suns dial--that the battle may
be won and the work done. Bonds
must be issued, say those whose brain
have counted the thoughts, the cost,
the worry, the prOdigtous labor, the
steps OF down-cast faith, and too,
s=is:::..rcss. icy between present and fu-
ture. To build roads that will remain,
calls for new processes as the build
ing of frame supplants log cabins,
aho brick and stone structures replace
frame; and future generations so
benent by the staunch improvement,
That could the present open its eyes
In the f'.ure 1t would behold that fu-
ture arise and cali the past blessed.
Had the past of the present genera
ton built good roads with the hun
dreds Of thousands OF dollars frittered
away On honest intentions, but un-
: skilled labor, the present generation
or the country would be hauling to
market twelve bales OF cotton with
two mules, as they do up in Charlotte.
~. C.. on Macadam roads, instead Of
the two bales to two mules these win
ter days.
A road is no better than the worst
place in 1t, and farmers load their
mules for those places and not for
the good places. which, were the road
all the way good, would accommodate
farmers and teamsters to twice and
thrice the amount OF weight the roads
allow the teams to pull now Gs,
But bonds cost money, say the con-
servatip3 who want to see two dollars
to one before the one Is trusted even
to providence; SO do clothes. If q man
has an $1S. 90 suit on his back, that
Is what he wants, he does not want a
S9. 90 suit or he would purchase such.
and he does not want the $18. 90 suit
for $500. because he knows there
would be something wrong with It.
Such q suit would be dear to such a
man at any price; so he is careful to
buy what he wants and pays. for it.
A $4,000 piece of road say, to a man
of representative principles in his
township is not what he wants when
the road of ofdurability which the whole
community and county wants, and
knows to be q highway OF the S18,-
600 type. He would very emphatical-
iy say to the retailers of such pro-
position, take it away before you
build it,. want road that STAYS
put; l don't want to be hauling and
dragging and plugging poor uncon-
cerned one-horse affair that is down
at the hoof every time rain comes.
AS he would say to the tailor, want
my suit on my back as / place It, /
don't want to have 1t = pulled and
heightened and widened and worked
over every time a rain falls on It. So
the bonded roads are even more eco
nomical than any illustration that
would be legally possible to produce.
Say q moderately comfortable FARM
| er whose taxes amount to $50 10 $35
each year under the bonded issue.
would pay $3.50 to 1910 additional
Tor the new roads, maybe 20 to 30
cents O. month in difference. and the
road work Is to be begun at once all
over the county, and progress In Sec
lions under every mans eyes, would,
the special man in Illustration sav
at the end OF even one year, .fIere
take your road away and give me INV
money!" He would say, ''I would NOT
for any amount 60 back to the roads
we had. find O years pleasure In
one months travel, to say nothing of
the gain in the hauling use, of the
road.
The way to prepare for prosperity
Is to work up toward It. IL times were
nard, for instance, for many under
the supposedly "war" grind. much OF
the declain Is repetition from the cry
OF one man to the cry OF anoher and
an the reality 1t will be seen that under
tne most prosperous years past the
same men and women who are very
ambitious and impatient for the
Wnite WI ags OF success to come. al
ways found the plentiful years iust
as hard 70 get along with, aud hard
times ABOUT something always staring
Ihem In the face: and, throughout
ths general congregation of the whole
people were progress to ask them.
sWlen are You ready for ME to be,
SlnF They would answer, "Not now
II It costs me anything, times are
too hard {" And this would "a, nm: far.
ever ami forever. Yet, peopIa are eit.
uated generally alike and are 40 tia
little fellow who complained for iack
OF money: q -'
, "You are, wealthy, son if Won on,y
knew Il" said the father. 80
Dut Jamie. the little nairhbor ,,,,,o
nae. received $500 90 for n broken log |
trom the ra5lroad was to be epy.ed.
say son, now what would Won tsi.a
Tor one Of your eyes?p auerie6 she
tssner-A .a thousand doliars?'.
-, no. papa. % =
Or the other eyeP'
No, no, papa. :,
fcu have two hands, wouldnt 1o,,
spaos an one OF these Tor q thousanden
~. no. papa. ! couldn't I, !,