The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-03-14
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needed on your farm and offer TO pay
vTb OF II II you would furnish the other
s25, would you do t2
II YOU turned the offer down would
you expect to be allowed to run at
large. or would you expect 10 be sent
TO the Feeble Minded institute or the
insane asylum?
p IN you were summoned TO serve on a
ury to try n neighbor who had turned
down the offer what would be your
verdict2
DO you think all farmers and mer-
chants and professional men would
accept such proposition? No, you are
mistaken. The bug houses would be
hlled TO overilowing In week and
lot OF them sitting on the roof
; Some fellows would refuse the offer
because they didn't have the s25 just
now i'm cash and they don't believe In
going into debt under any cigcum-
stances whatever No -o-o, Stree
you couldn't hire me TO borrow any
money! ! wouldn't borrow $25 II you
would make me II present of S75 be-
cause have said don't believe In
going into debt mo chance for
fellow like that in this world or the
ncxt)
Then we iind the fellow who would
turn the offer down because he doesn't
believe anybody would make such
liberal offer and he knows there is
scheme In II somewhere and ho Is TOO
smart to bite at anybodys bait
Another misguided man refuses IL
because Il would add $500 valuation
10 his property. costing him one dollar
more per year in taxes Doesn't want
Or A.
matter how much easier and more
pleasant life will be for him He is
satisfied TO tug around IN the same old
rut. like Chinaman
Another turns Il down because
neighbor who has lot OF money and
an huiomobilc is advising everybody TO
accept the offer "and I'm just "A poor
man and against everything that other
fellow is for. no matter what Il is"
That's one OF the reasons he is poor.
The wrong spirit aotuates him IN all
things
Then We come 10 the man who has
no land. but who must earn whatever
he gets by the sweat OF his brow. lie
IL In demand TO do the work OF i'm
provcment proposed by the philan.
ihropist. You guess he would consider
Il proposition that his employers and
neighborA should grab No. He finds
some OF the most unique and idiotic |
excuses ever devised lie In "agin-the
government" and doesn't know why. !
Also. we have with us the fellow
who Is always afraid the Boblins win
get him He is afraid somebody will |
graft Therefore he win keep his 20 |
cents and let the 75c Gift 20 10 the man |
who says, NO. there Will be no graft; |
we viii require public accounting for
every dollar handled"
But II IL comforting TO find also a |
large number OF farmers and other
people who take the broad rational |
view that we must keep step with the
worlds progress That we can not
progress without good roads. That
they are worth more than they cost.
That products OF the farm are made
more valuable as the means OF gettingI
them to market are improved That
our short lives are lengthehed and
mnde more liyable by being lifted out
OF the mud. That bad roads are the
most expensive lmpediments we have
In Lawrence county.
The United States government and
the State OF Kentucky are offering TO
pay 10 per cent OF the cost OF good
roads In Lawrence county. The county
is asked TO pay only 2b per cent. Other
States and counties are grabbing for
the money so fast that IL Lawrence
doesn't hustle she will not get any OF
Il. even II she wants II.
There is no use to go after IL on a
small scale because every community
insists that II only one road Is TO be
built in the county II must 20 their
way. and fearing II will not they all
vote against an appropriation. The way
to do II is to vote bond issue big
enough 10 build all main roads, 80 that
everybody can selhshly vote for 1t.
A bond issue OF 100000 will give us
two million dollars with which to build
roads In Lawrence county. and the
beautiful part of II is that three
fourths OF this is outside money given
TO us by those two great philanthro-
plsts, the State and Nation.
A bond issue OF this kind could be |
by vote of the people so
that as many bonds could be used each
year as It was found practicable to
use. The object in voting on the total G
amount that will be needed within
three or four years is to make one
clcCtlOH uilSWtT piopo- |
sition.
Our neighbor county of Wayne, w.
Va, last year voted million dollar
bond issue for themselves Surely we !
can do one-third or one-half as well c
as they can.
Our greatest need is good roads. We
must have them or lose the most pro-
part of our citizenship. For
years we have been losing good far
mers who have moved to where the
good roads exist already. ~
This thing OF building roads is sim 8
ply a big business proposition. There n
Is not large business in existence Y
that does not borrow money. There q
Is not n business man anywhere who
has made notable success without bor-
rowing money. Roads will pay for
themselves. This has been demon y
,trated hundreds Of times. =
The State and National engineers U
ook after the construction of these a