The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-04-09

hinu, anu III you Hdu DceH toiu tndt
your quotas we're double the amount
you actually paid you would have
gone "over the top" just the same.
You would have been willing IL this
war had lasted to have given every
cent you had and to have given your
own lives and the lives of your boys
in order to win the war, and il is
right and proper because we we're
fighting for a principle, we we're de-
Tending our homes and our Country.
Since all that money was furnished
for destructive purposes, why cannot
you now, since we have won the war,
celebrate by giving sufficient money
to build good roads so that we can
enjoy the prosperity and the happi-
ness which is ours. 1t will increase
the value Of your farms, enable you to
make the farm life more attractive.
| say to you that it is impossible to
keep the boys and girls at home on
the farm when the farm conditions
are not attractive. You must remem-
Der that your sons who have been in
the army have had the opportunity of
seeing the advantages of good roads
not only in this country but in France
and that when they return, they will
expect to see some progress made, or
at least they will expect some as
surance that we are progressive;
otherwise, they will leave their own
home county and go to some other
county or state where they can re-
ceive the advantages of good roads.
| venture to say that some of you re-
call at this moment the fact that some
of your neighbors who have made
money have been glad to sell their
farms for twenty or thirty dollars an
acre and move to some other county
or some other state and pay 500 an
acre for land that is not any better
than the land they sold, simply be-
cause they were buying a farm locat-
ed on good road where they could
be reached on short notice by the
doctor and where they could give
their children the advantages of a
good education and could market their
crops cheaply.
The Proposed Federal Highway.
at has been proposed that a Fed
eral Aid road be designated from
Owensboro to Louisville to pass
through the counties of Daviess, Han
cock, Breckenridge, Meade, Hardin
and Jefferson. The State Highway
department has the authority and
would be glad to designate such a
road providing the counties mention
ed give good assurances that they will
pay for their part of its cost. We feel
that we have taken the proper stand
in the matter. 1t would not benefit
any county beyond simply being of
local importance to build a road
through its entire length if the ad-
joining county did not meet them.
In other words, there would be no
outlet; road might be constructed
of brick through the county of Dav-
less and if it ran against rock bluff
at the border between Hancock and
| Daviess, or between Henderson and
Daviess, the road would be purely of
local Importance and would not mat
erially benefit the State nor the Ma
ton. So we have decided not to des-
ignate the road until every county
guarantees that they are ready to pay
their part of the cost In some of
the counties the State and the FEEDER
al Government will pay as much as
rs per cent of the cost, it depending
althogether on the assessed valuation
of the county.
If less than million, IS per cent,
Between and 6 million, 70 per cent,
Between and 8 million IS per cent,
Between and IL million, 60 per cent,
Between IL and 16, million IS per cent
If over 16 million, so per cent.
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Breckenridge Would Pay IS per cent.
"In Daviess and Jefferson the Gov
eminent would pay so per cent and
the County so per cent; in Hancock
and Meade the Government would
pay so per cent and the State 25 per
cent and the County rs per cent; in
Breckenridge the Government would
pay so per cent and the State Is per
cent and the County 35 per cent. In
no event does county have to pay
more the so per cent of the cost. l
cannot understand why the people OF
county would debate the question
of building roads when they do not
have to pay more than from 25 per
cent to so per cent of the cost. AS
matter of fact, you could afford