The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-03-27
COUNTY. MISSISSIPPI.
Tidings From The East.


the Glad Tidings' was flashed
that our Government was going to
give the State of Mississippi FOUR
MILLION DOLLARS for the sole
purpose of helping us ia build good
roads in the state; and with the
81, 100000, which they had already
set aside for Mississippi, brings the
the total aid now appropriated by
the Government for the state to over
FIVE MILLION DOLLARS; but
unless Tishomingo county citizens
get busy and elect progressive
bunch Of county officers, that will
go to work and do something, we
stand chance of not getting sim
gle dollar OF this vast sum of money
to help us build the roads, which
should have been built a HUN
DRED YEARS AGO. We have al
ready lost something over thous-
and dollars last year and before,
that we were entitled to, but our
board just let it slip by and didn't
get it but now we can't afford to
miss our part ofthis large appro-
priation, and we have got to get
busy or we will also lose it in the
same way.
Here we are, NINETEEN HUNDRED
YEARS AFTER THE BIRTH or CHRIST,
struggling through 10 to 36 inches of
mud, surrounded by the finest gravel
beds in the world, with only 10 or
IL miles of decent roads in the
county. Honestly are you not
ashamed of such conditions i
am;and worst of all it costs us $500
day to have a man ride over them
at regular intervals each year, just
to see if they are Still mud, and of
course they get the same result (and |
the $3 00) every time, but we get
nothing whatever in return. IA 81
Now these mud inspections could
be made just as easily if the official /
would just stay on the public square
at the county seat, and the other
towns, and just watch the teams
coming in from the different roads,
with enough mud clinging to each
pair Of mules and wagon to make
easily from 10 to Is good brick
this mudcould be examined by the
official thoroughly, and, if neces-
sary, analysed. Some say the roads
are muddier than they were 90 years
ago, owing to the increased travel,
possibly this analysis would tell.
But. think of it, if all the money
and time spent in the last so years
inspecting these mud roads had
been spent in building permanent
roads, your children would not have
to be dragging through mud to
school today, neither would your
team have to strain every muscle
in them to drag 500 feet of lumber
to market but yet, after paying
all these years for inspecting these
mud roads and creaking bridges, we
haven't got anywhere yet, and all
this money and time has been alb
solutely wasted and we yet stand
right where we did fifty years ago,
handicapped BY the mud roads,
What are we going to stand for
these conditions to continue during
this day of enlightenment? Let us
say with one accord MOI 1t posi-
bly, was satisfactory during the semi
civilized era, but not NOW. We |
want better roads, better schools and |
better Improvements of every kind |
and are entitled to them. What |
won the war? Was it the old time
moss back methods? NO. 1t was
the very latest inventions and meth
DDS, modern TO THE MINUTE, |
that did the trick, How long would |
Columbus feet of old time ves-
sells have lasted in this great con-
fiict +? and WHY? Ask the soldier
boys back from France and Eng
land about the good roads there. !
They have seen the advantages Of
good roads, and will not be con-
tented longer with mud roads; the
good roads helped them win the
war, and they will help us win,
right here in life's battle for exist
ence. Good road construction adds
to the permanent wealth of any
county and every individual in it
every county that has built perma-