Bisbee daily review., 1917-05-24
HIGHWAY COMMISSION
 BILL IS DENOUNCED
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! ing short of personal selfshness, with mistaken, morbid notion (not an ideal that they are being shorn of some of the powers now vested in them, and seemingly a fear that dis covery might be made that good roads i can be built under the direction of commission composed of men who | are capable of getting a dollars worth of road for each dollar expend- ed, including necessary engineering worth every cent it costs.
 Knockers Should Go l If any one of the counties in this state is so unfortunate as to have in stock a county engineer. who is small enough to hold that his "job" is of more importance to himself. or any | body else, than the efforts of busi- ness men to get good roads as rapidly as possible. and get the best results from the money expended, he should be immediately removed to make room for another man who has capa- ] city and inclination to assist every move in the direction of good roads throughout the state as well as in his particular county.
 If the road commission law has i'm Derfections, it also has sufficient vir- tues to encourage all good citizens to want to try it out as a possible i'm provement over the results attained in most of the counties that have ex- pended road bond money to date.
 Association Favors Plan
 Our taxpayers association was the 1 first to advocate the law abolishing the offices of county surveyor and superintendent of county roads. and creating the office of county engineer. and work diligently for passage of the act during the extra session of the legislature in 1913. We also worked for the passage of the county high way commission law, believing it to provide another step in the direction of building more good roads, and eliminating at least some of the mis- l takes in cost and results of the past.
 Objects of Referendum The referendum is an instrument placed in the hands of the people of Arizona to use at any time the leg i islature happens to pass a bill that would be detrimental to the welfare of the people of the state, or any appreciable number thereof. but is not designed for the purpose of de | laying the operation of law to some later date to protect the special in terests of a few appointive office | holders at the expense of the welfare of all the rest of the people of the state.
 | Any county engineer that is big enough to be of particular benefit to the interests of the county by which he is employed, is too big to lend aid | to the effort of the other county en- sineers who are trying to invoke the referendum to delay the highway commission law from becoming effec- tive at the expiration of ninety days after it was signed by the governor. Wiil hcHncuJ OCiSSlS 1 The Cochise County Taxpayers As sociation expects to take the initia- tive in promoting a county road bond issue for not less than one million dollars. and we hope to have the ben | eft of a county highway commission i in connection with the ability, judg ment and advice of our county engin- eer, to begin operations as soon as the highway commission law goes into effect Both our board of super visOrs and county engineer are in fav- or of using the benefits of the law as soon as it becomes effective on dunn and we believe that all good citizens of the state who are in favor of good roads as soon as we can get them, should be willing to see the law tried out now. If it proves to have any serious defects. we will know what they are before another lesisla- ture convenes, when the defects can be cured by amendments.
 Appeal to Public
 We hope the newspapers in all the counties in the state will copy this article from the first paper coming 70 their desks. containing this appeal, 70 that their people may be caused 70 THINK before signing the referen- ~ium petition.
 This is an especial appeal to all persons qualified to sign the referen- dunn petition, to inform themselves as to the provisions of the law and ntelligently determine. each for him self. whether the delay sought by some Of the county engineers, has any merit
 J. N. GAINES. Secretary. Cochise County Taxpayers Associa-
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