The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-13
JENKS TALKS ON BOND ISSUE AT
 JOINT MEETING
Permanent Highway Will Care for 80 Per Cent of Traffic, Is Stated-Fed-
 eral Aid Available

'Bi1r Bilheimer, civic worker of St Lcuis who was to have addressed a joint meeting of the Chamber of Com merce. tho Real Estate Exchange and Life Insurance Underwriters at lunch eaon at the Southern Club yesterday, was unable to reach Birmingham on ac- count of sickness. A telegram from him received about noon stated that he was ill in Montgomery and would be unable to come to Birmingham at this time. He will probably be here some time next week.
 In the absence of Mir. Bilheimer, Gen eral Manager C. E. Jenks of the Cham Der of Commerce was called upon for tai olSn good roads and the Jefferson county good roads bond issue, which is to be voted upon next Monday
 Mir. Jenks stated that two bond issues would be submitted to the voters next Nc nday, one by the state for S25.ooo-O0 and one by Jefferson county for S.0O0.0oo, and that the Chamber of Commerce was backing both of them.
 He explained that under the constitu- tioral amendment providing for the state bonds, thirty miles of highway must be built in each of the sixty-seven counties Of the state. making a total of 20l0 miles, and that Jefferson county could not hope to get more than thirty miles of road cut of this fund. It is essential then he urged. that the county make pro vision for building additional highways il the citizens want to 'get out of the mud. IL said there are about 2s0 miles of highways in the county that must bear the bulk of the traffic. and that cheri roads would not answer the purpose. One of the reasons the Chamber ot Commerce stood for the S5000,000 county 1 bond proposition, Mir. Jenks said. was i that with this fund 332 miles of good roads could be built and with this and ! the thirty miles the state and federal aid will build. the county will be able to construct permanent highways to take | care of 80 per cent of the traffic. l He called attention to the federal aio | fund, of which about s6.o0o,000 is now available, and this will be all, he stated unless additional appropriations are mad | by Congress.
 | Referring to assertions that the 5000, Oe0 would bond the county up to tht ''hilt" he said this was not exactly crT | rect, that the county was growing rap idly and values increasing, and that any 1 emergency that might arise could b' easily taken care of The bonds would 1 not all be issued at one time, but onn as materials are available, and that th'
 entire amount might not be issued unde tEree or four years He further state' that the county would retire So19o0o
 bonds this year
 R. A. Brown, president of the Cham Der of Commerce, said that some or th
 citizens had not responded to request
 to help in the upbnilding of the city il
 the magnanmous manner that he had ex
 pected.
 q ask you to put up your hammer
 and get out your horns he continued
 Ask yourself the question, What hay
 done What have l contributed t ; the success of the communityYs You got to be builders You've got to mak
 sacrifices if you make a success Arthur C. Crowder responded to Toast master Claude Estes request for a tar
 by putting a boost for insurance.