The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-03-16

The public in general in Harrison
county has caught the Good Road
Malady" and as soon as 1t becomes an
epidemic. then we may hope for better
roads and streets, which mean prog
ress, development. expansion, in
creased values, economy In travel
cheaper products the year round and
better social intercourse for both ur-
ban and rural districts and better op-
| portunity for country lad to acquire
his high school education, in short
better roads and streets man all that
better and higher civilization means,
For surely one can not thoughtfully
say city, town or community is very
far progressed above the savage when
he is content to have his wife or child
or even his servant, to drudge through
the slime and muck and mire OF our
filthy streets and county roads twhen
even passable.) But few cities are
built in a day and mountainous dis
tricts and even the foothills are slow
to progress and develop. With the
thought of better streets in our cities
and towns and permanent roads in
the districts uppermost in the minds
OF many people today, 1t seems to the
writer that at this particular and most
important time much stress should be
laid upon proper gradings and re-lo-
eating our rural roads for permanent
highways. What the writer is about
to call to the attention OF the readers
OF the Clarksburg Telegram Thy faI
the best and leading publication in cen.
trail West Virginia, If not in the whole
state), is not to crIticlse or censure
any public officer, now in Office or any
one now out of office, who has in any
way been connected with road con-
structlon in Harrison county; but tc
crlticise few OF the many mistakes
that have been made in order that like
mistakes will not be made again, and
IL the reading public approves of the
corrections desired and the proper
public opinion dIsproving such vita
mistakes, Is brought home to ouI
county court and the new road engi'
neer, we will not permit any future
permanent roads in this county to BIZ
so badly constructed as heretofore. We
find reported to our state road officials
and printed in their reports to tht
governor and recorded on page 1913 Of
the first annual report for the state
road bureau by A. D. Williams, chic
road engineer. published June 80
1914; among other things reported b.
our former road engineer, In regards
TO the building of section OF thu
West Milford road just beyond StealeI
Heights, these words and figures fol
lowing: after grading we put in {
curb Of concrete five by twenty-five
inches to true grade and curve. which
made nice piece OF work" THAT 1!
the rub, true grade and curve" W.
Question the true grade" but admit
that the engineer did succeed wonder
fully In his skill and ability to estab
Ilish q perfect geometrical COMPOUND
curce. to the detriment and danger o.
all the coming generations who ma,
pass his way. which was not neces
sary. Most engineers have beer
taught that "a straight line Is thu
shortest distance between two points,
Would II not have been to the honor
and good reputation OF an engineer
II in all his road construction he would
have done his whole duty and to thu
very best OF his skill and ability Il
have so constructed and engineered
the building of the public highways II
Harrison county that he could have