Mountain advocate., 1919-12-12

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am not road engineer, and could
only do what | have promptly done,
call the attention OF the proper au-
thcoritics to any complaint that
came to me against the Department.
It 10 stated in the article in ques-
non. that the failure to get Federal
aid lies at the door of the officials
at Frankfort What Onicials? do
not care what the writer of the ar
ticlo in question may think or say
on that subject. He is evidently set
in his way of fault-nnding, and
elects 10 follow that course in the
hope Of receiving favorable hear
ing of himself by some who are,
like him, unwilling to give to those
whom they dislike the fairness to
which truth may entitle them.
The writer Of said article express
es the hope that better results may
be had from the State administra-
tion soon to be inaugurated. Bet
ter results are possible. of course,
and all who think we'll should re-
joice In getting better results than
the people have had in any laudable
undertaking affecting the people.
And while / shall be glad to see
kentucky and Eentuckians securing
better results in all thcir honorable
aspirations and enterprises, | shall
not fail to rejoice if the Fiscal af-
fairs OF Knox County in reference TO
public road Improvement, and the
expenditure OF the peoples money,
shall receive commendable attention.
When l was in Barbourville, about
the first of September, the County
Judge OF Knox County informed me
that the Federal Government had
adopted some sort of programme
requiring the cuts and fills on the
public highway in Knox County, to
be made wider, and it was the
opinion of the said County Judge
that If that programme should be
insisted upon by the Federal Gov
eminent, 1t would involve an expen-
diture beyond the finaicial ability
of Knox County to meet. told the
County Judge that l was going to
Frankfort that night, and asked him
to write to me at Frankfort, setting
1T I'm T
at once take it up with Mr.. Boggs,
in the hope that he would be able to
get the Federal Government to
waive the matter, insofar as Knox
County was concerned.
received the letter from the
County Judge, and promptly, on
September 9th, last, read said let
ter and delivered 1t to Mr.. Boggs,
with an urgent request that he do
all within his power TO relieve the
situation in favor of Knox County.
Mr., Boggs promised me that he
would do all he could, and, on Sep
TENDER 9th ! so wrote the County
Judge.
On the next day, September 10th,
l wrote another letter to the County
Judge on the same subject. Mr.
Boggs also wrote the County Judge
on the subject, and informed me
that his (Mr. BOggsD Office had OBJ
tanned a concession from the Bureau
Of Public Roads in regard to the
width Of the cuts ana Ills OF the
propo4cd Federal aid project in
Knox County.
The ilgst word ever heard or re-
CeivcG Oh this whole matter after
the correspondence aforesaid was
the letter received from Mr.. Rob
sion dated, rs l have stated, Nov
2mbcr q. 1919. and purporting to
have been written from Washington,
D. c., and II waa to that letter that
J responded, az ! have said, on ;ho
cath OF last month
! close b. saying that Ike matter
Of the subject o. the article in ques-
ton, rs in every other matter com
ing to me officially, / have acted
promptly and tried TO do the very
>best / could.
J have given tho details here that
those who may want to, may have
the ether side of the matter to
which tho article in question re-
ferred
Sincerely yours,
James d Black.
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