The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-08-08
MAKES A PLEA
ABOUT PAYING
CONTRACTORS

fore Contractor Gets Money. Tells
of Trials of Mall Carriers. Touches
Matter That the Public Approves
Of
Elliott, Miss, Aug. 4, 1919.
A road man in Beat Two made in
my presence the statement that he
could work every foot of his road in
four days; he draws out of the Coun-
ty treasury for this work, which he
is supposed to do every quarter, a
quarterly sum of S1S5.OO for these
four days work.
/ heard mail carrier say that he
worked six days in the week, four
weeks in the month, and twelve
months in the year, only excepting
$fteen days leave of absence and
ne holidays. This carrier answered
kquestion as to how he liked the
X saying he liked it better than
he had ever had. He never
&ed of the heat, cold, water
arain. hail or snow or sleet.
hing he was ever heard to
was the condition of his
lid this mainly after he
t the condition of the road
bad, didn't seem to effect
mount Of the peoples money
= the County Contractor regularly
Z rev out of the County's treasury.
And after considering that he made,
as contractor, $1S5.00 in four days,
and the further fact that his COM
plants regarding the condition of his
10 tC
and after noticing that any time the
road and the contractors crop both
needed work at the same time, the
crop got the work first, and after the
further fact that the Carpenter High
way almost invariably received the
contractors attention, at so much per
day. before the Courty's roads-after
considering these and other things.
/ didn't much blame that mail carrier
for getting sore.
The mail carriers salary was $500
per day. Of course, the mail could
miss, and the corresponding amount
be deducted for that day. But even
should that be to his interests. these
men who are looking for their mail
have some rights TO be respected. An
hundred or two disappointed men,
more NJ less; their rights don't
amount to much, of course. They are
USED to it. Of course! It's a mistake.
They're old-timey THEY'RE sun-burn-
ed, callous handed. They're honest.
And if they have to be euchred for a
public man 20 get what he's after,
why they're harmless. They won't
leave their work to Investigate and
locate where the blame justly belongs.
Just euchre them. Of course, we who
have Wall Street for our ideal, have
to succeed somehow We'd little bit
rather be straight. but if success de-
mands that be crooked, why a barrell
of snakes-we public men are all
right. We are especially all right II
we hold this position regarding our
faithfulness in performing the ser
vice that we faithfully promised to
perform, And more especially are we
all right if we see to it that we surely
get the money, whether the promise is
fulfilled or not. And yet more espec- |
ially are we all right if, when our at
tention is called to our delinquency,
we smile and turn away and euchre
the public some more. Yes, it's mis- |
take. We're all right. We ARE all
right. Didn't one of US go and fill up
the holes? And didn't he go and drag
the machine over the road-after re-
ceiving pay in full for ALL his roads! !
Why he could have gone on with his
farm! He had done got his pay. But
he didn't. He went-nO he didn't, he |
SENT and sharped that road up near
" to a finish. Yes, it was sharped up |
good and proper the next morning
even enough that as soon as the mail
carrier pulled his car out of the mud
filled ruts-in the ditch he went. he
didn't cuss, not at all. Maybe ne
didn't QUARREL don't say that ne
didn't. But he have done little |
wrong someway, for / heard him al
terward. as he confessed that he had
been mistreating God. And how
thankful he was to that God, IN spite
of this mistreatment-quarrellng at
the powers that be (Which are ordaln-
ed Of God) ouarreliDg that he recK-
oned they would never be SATISFIED
till they got that road sharp as a
house-top-yet God let him get up
that hill. I know there must heve Deen
q wrong somewhere. / heard HIM
planning himself for being mixed up
in the thing. Of course, the sharpness
of the road, and the presence OF the
loose stones, and them washouts that
the. boys left untitled, they were not
TO be charged to the contractor him.
self He wasn't there. And further,
more he aimed to drag that road
down and level the top OF the roag,
there he would have done 1t. he SAID
bed. and / believe if ne has oeen
he would as soon as it rained. Why OF
course. we're all right! Don't you
know that another of us, when his
business had increased in volume ana