Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-04-29
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Which is Common Sense with !:
out Educational Furbelows. I;
BY L. T. HovERMALE. I;
Distinction Without a Difference.

Distinction Without a Difference.
After all, there is very little
difference between the grounds
taken by Fairplay and myself
anent the good roads proposition.
We both favor the very best
roads that it is possible to secure,
though / believe that my friend
is rather prejudiced in regard to
the bond issue. However, he
very pertinently remarks that
the people want to know what
they are going to get before they
vote the bond issue. We are
agreed on that. But if Fairplay
had been a close reader of this
column he would have remember
ed that | gave figures, based on
the cost elsewhere, approximate
ly at 1000 per mile.
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And had Fairplay been a close
reader of the editorial columns of
the Courier he would have re-
membered that for more than a
year Mr.. Cottle has been trying
to get the farmers interested in
the fact that in at least two sec
tons of Morgan county limestone
exists in abundance. A few
miles up the river from town is
a vast quantity, and also on Yo-
cum creek. According to the
biologists it ought not be there
but it is. So that settles the
question of the material for the
roads. No one who is advocat-
ing the building of good roads by
a bond issue desires a submission
of the question until the matter
is carefully investigated and the
cost ascertained, but there must
be some agitation of the question
to secure even this.
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1t would not be for the great
est general benefit to single out
a lone section or highway and
exhaust our means in improving
it to the exclusion of other Sec
lions of road, but to plan a sys-
tenn of highways leading from
the county seat to the county line
OF every county adjoining us
would come the nearest to bene-
fitting the whole people of any
plan that could be adopted. 1t
would give practically all of the
citizens of the county access to
good roads, and the building of
other roads would follow as a
natural sequence. And to build
that would not bankrupt the
county. On the contrary, it
would bring about such an era of
prosperity that the paying for
them would be an investment in
stead of a burden.
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Fairplay runs off with the idea
that because there was a bungle
and misrepresentation, or rather
a bad appropriation, of funds in
building the court house that the
same thing would result if turn
pixies were to be built. On the
theory that we are never caught
twice by the same trick it seems
to me that there would be an ex.
ira watchfulness in the eXpendi.
ture of the road fund, because
the court house job is fresh ir
the minds of the people. A:
near as can learn from careful
inquiry the cost of building thu
fifty-fve or sixty miles of inter
county turnpikes would be from
$165, 900 to $3.50, 900, and will
State aid the county would no
have all of that to pay, and thu
supervision by the State in tn,
joint building would insure tn,
best possible construction at tn,
least possible cost.
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So if Fairplay is really for tn
securing the best system of road
in the only practical way he vii
have to join those of us who ia
vor building them by means of
bond issue, as that is the onl
possible way that any county o
or other civic unit can accomplish
any considerable amount of high
way construction. With all tina
has been said in the columns o
the Courier concerning the bene
fits of good roads it is useless
dwell on that phase of the mai