The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1915-03-09
FAyORs ROND yssUE.
.ditor Anderson Intelligencer:

Editor Anderson Intelligencer:
Dear Sir:4The Controversy"
which perhaps. is a term more suita-
Bile now. In the Intelligcncer's advo-
cacy Of bond Issue for roads than the
gentle timidity of u word calle-dis-
cussion-this controversy Is as much
amusing as moving picture show. 1t
IS like discussion on the war. on re-
ligion or politics; the animation COW
err the hard feelings after all. and
eech Is interested in good naturedly
seeing how many times better than
EimBelf can the next opponent of his
argument show out to the public.
There is no animosity; were each to
travel the very widest from the breast
ccn:cs os HIS own thoughts, the two
brother men would at the opposite side
from the starting place meet and close
a circuit. The union would be hand
shake. The roads, the people will
have ut the present time, a communi-
ty not warmed up by special conglom-
crations of fireside talks about 1t
have caught cold from the breezy sub
5ect. but after the first sneeze, brains
and chests will be clear and good
roads will roll along from man, wo-
man and ch!ld like an old time song
VI u BOUu religion.
Now. were man not able to argue
on profound questions he would be
deficient In acumen, and were not o.
new problem before the public occas-
ionally-for what the use of school
room and college debate? Men shar-
pen their wits in this manner. When
1t is all over again, they shake hands.
Weak and brain-blinded is the per-
m
good fields. good houses, good any
thlng! body confesses he does not
want ood road. except for argu-
ment; and the argument is 80 killing
OF time that modern and educated re-
spectability presses the man to drop
the argument uickly and go to work
with the viii! of the world.
Men Of the present day are so con-
stituted that they love home better
than aAshack, they love a buggy or
carriage for riding better than a mar
ket wagon; it has been said men have
mnrtgaged their property to nossess
IN automobile; boys have done with
out Sunday suits to possess bicycles
and motorclcyes. Men go half a mile
out OF their way across fields to save
y nice pair Of polished shoes from the
mud Of bad. road. In fact, the world
has gone SO far forward that the past
Is nm isolated subject, and IL It is the
portion of past subject that deals
with alley-wide streets in town, or hub
deep holes In the neighboring roads
they disdain notice of it as they would
OF poor relation
These few lines beginning the para
graph are as parenthesis,. that: Two
reasons for not having good roads
would carry in SOME counties, bu. not
In Anderson county-lack OF education
andilack OF refinement! This reproof
In the mention at all,fis personally
taken to herself by the writer and all
who agree with her that Anderson
county needs no sycophaatic boost.
ing. Too we'll known are these facts
that Anderson county Is superior In
wealth and 80 many ways that other
counties are not even. brought forward
before her in comparison lest the
insult sniff her out OF the State.
Al new paragraph must be begun al
oncn, to say that Anderson people are
for Anderson: ALL, Of the people all
oSur the county-everywhere Ander=
son county is going to have good roads