The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-12-12
CALLING ATTENTION TO ROADS

CALLING ATTENTION TO ROADS
The grand jury calls attention to
the condition of certain bridges and
roads in the county, and recommends
that they be given attention. The
grand jury has been doing this same
thing for years. It is strange that
the grand jury has not learned by
: this time that it takes money to build
roads and bridges, and that the call
| ing attention to their condition and
recommending that they have atten-
ton can accomplish but little, if any
thing.
What the grand jury should do, and
what the people should demand, is
that the money be provided first, and
then demand that the roads and
bridges be put in proper condition.
It is the same old story that has
been told in this town and county for
the past thirty years to our personal
knowledge. We have been going
along in this town, as we have re-
marked time without end, of hauling
sand from Scots creek to fill up the
holes but to be washed back to the
creek at the next rain. The same
thing as to the county roads. Piling
the sand from the bitches into the
middle of the road to be washed back
into the bitches at the next rain. If
the town had commenced thirty years
ago to do permanent work and let the
hauling of sand alone, and spent the
money that has been spent, on the
building of proper streets every
street in. Newberry could have been
paved with the same money. The
same is true of the public roads.
Laurens and Greenwood, our two
neighbors, are spending money on the
building of roads and they are going
to have some roads. If Newberry is
doing anything at all we have not
even heard the whisper of it. You
should recommend that the people
elect legislative delegation that
will at least be willing to let the
people say whether or not they want
roads, and the only way to speak in
this matter is to put up the money,
and then have a legislative delegation
that can and will frame bill that
will so arrange the expenditure of
the money that when it is spent we
will have the roads. No use to keep
on talking about the condition of
roads and bridges. Put up the
money and let US go to work and build
them. That is the only way we
know how to get the roads. The
supervisor and the county commits
sioners can't build, or even main
tain, roads without money. And
when we provide for the building of
roads provide at the same time for
the maintenance of the roads. 1t has
not been many years ago when the
seven miles of road between New
berry and Prosperity was as fine a
road as you would care to drive over.
Now it is about as bad as any road
you would find in a days travel.
Even our mile of government good
road is thing of the past, only a
memory with the oldest inhabitants.
We have again at great expense
built few miles Of good roads be-
TWEEN Prosperity and Little Noun
tain, but unless there is some pro-
vision made for its maintenance it
will not be good road very long.
Newberry is on the direct and short
line from Columbia to Greenvllle, and
there should be first class road all
the way. Greenville has already
built from Fountain Inn to Green
vile. -Laurens is now building from
the Newberry line to the Greenville
line. Richland has built from Colum-
bia to the Lexington line. 1t is now
up to Newberry to build from the
Lexington line to- the Laurens line,
and with a gap of ten miles in
Lexington built, if Newberry would
do her part, there would be fine
road all the way. We need to wake
up on the subject of roads, and to
wake up right now. Not next week
or next year. Now is the time to