Evening journal., 1916-04-18
TUESDAY, APRIL 1s, 1916.
our COUNTY. IT'S BAD ROADS AND THE REMEDY


ID ITrER complaint is heard in all sections Of New
DCastlo county relative to the condition of most of
the public roads.
Failure to patrol and maintain thoroughfares that
have been improved great expense the taxpayers
is tho subject of especially severe criticism
There a growing demand that three factors shall
he the dominant in good roads policy They
are:
First That tho plans for road improvement shall
be strictly i'm accord with tho best engineering
thought OF tho world both regards the materials
TO be used and the methods to be employed in apply
ing them
Second That intelligent patrol and maintenance
shall follow construction in every instance.
Third That the construction patrol and mainten-
ance Of roads shall be regarded, officially and unoii-
cally as high civic matter and not a sordd parti
and that business and not political or par
tisan considerations shall prevail in all road improve
ment enterprises.
What has been done in this county relative TO road
Improvement and main is water that has passed
over the dam. II is useless to indulge i'm elimination
and rccrminaton The chief use to which the mis-
takes the past should be put Is to protect the flu
ture against being marred by repetition OF the
waste Of money and human patience that has grown
put of such mistakes
Il seems to us that the sensible thing for public ON
cials and public-spried private citizens in coun-
y do al this time mutually and heartily,
that they wish to do something for the good of the
county and its people with respect to good roads;
that parsanship iobbcy. Incompetence sehshness
and wasoful parsimony must be eliminated factors
IN the situation; that the best road plans must be
adopted that the best materials must he used; that
tho best road-buildlng labor must be employed and
that. when it comes to patrol and maintenance. real
and practical patrolmen and not impractical and in
competent political heneerson must be hired to do
the work.
There arc high standards Of road engineering road
building, road materials road labor and road patrol
and maintenance. All those standards must be called
into play # are 20 have in Castle county
a good roads system that will tho transporta-
ton needs OF the public the approval Of the
people who foot the road improvement bills.
Conditions such today that the official and the
unofficial should be wide open TO intelligent sug-
gestion and the official and the unofficial mind ready
10 absorb and pass judgment upon such suggestion
The with tho closed and the closed mind is
little humanity this twentieth century the
tangible and intangible progress Of which is due to
and women who willing 10 hear things to
consider things and 10 enlist the doing Of things
which appeal to their good feeling and sound iudg-
nen;
We need that open-earedness and that open
mindedness in dealing with the countys bad roads
and good roads problem. The need is immediate and
imperative II hhouu DC met IN patriotic spirit dealt
with in patriotic and the final solution should
rest upon a patriotic base that cannot be shaken
by any OF the forces that inclined to give to
the taxpayers bad roads in return for the hundreds
OF thousands OF dollars that contributed for good
ones
In short the time has arrived for a dspensation
In the matter Of road construction and road maiuton-
ance, and that dispensation should be So broad so
unselhsh and practical that every patriotic official
and citizen Of this county may accept and support
Il as his very own