The north Mississippi herald., 1920-01-02
GOOD ROADS ENTHU-
SIASTS INVITED TO
DINNER AT MERIDIAN
You Mississippians Will Be AS
Welcome as Flowers in May.

Meridian, Miss, Dec. 9th, 1919.
Hon. ]. T. Thomas, President, the
incoming and outgoing Governors
President Nicholson of the Mississip-
pi Valley Highway Association
State Highway Engineer Kramer
Commissioners McBeath and Rob-
bins, yourself and bunch of near
celebrates are most cordially in
vited to join me at home produc-
ton dinner at the Stonewall Club,
this city, Friday night, January End,
at eighty-thirty o'clock, object TO rub
elbows and devise ways and means
of pulling Mississippi out of the mud
by standardizing road building and
creating sentiment that will cause
our Legislature to issue twenty-five
million bonds and build some real
roads that we can navigate, regard
less Of the weather, three hundred
and sixty-five days out of the year.
A program has been suggested
providing that the fellow who receiv-
ed the most direct benefits do the
liouidating. Authorities claim that
$1,000 tax on each Ford, $1.00 per
horse power on all other cars and
&c per gallon tax on gas will pay the
interest and retire these bonds, and
will be q God-send to Mississippi and
save auto owners big money.
Careful tests have shown that good
roads consume only half the gas that
poor roads do-the average use 5oO
gallons per year-and you save 2bC
gallons at 25c per gallon, or 5000
Then, too, good roads cut repair bills
in half-say you save $4,000. Your
car will last twice as long on good
roads, and you save another $4,000
Now $262.50, less 2 per gallon tax
on 500 gallons Of gas, $1,000, and
tax OH car, $1,000, and you have
good roads and save $242.50 a year
Our state is the dumping ground fol
rotten gas and oil-this &c per gallon
tax will put on an inspector and in
crease the value of the gas 20 pei
cent to you.
Now all Irritation and procrastina-
ton should be eliminated an an act
ual performance put on in January
because other states are issuing
these bonds and the Federal Govern.
ment is rapidly distributing roao
funds. Now listen: when Washing
ton goes fifty-fifty and presents te
us gratis the use of trucks, portable
forges, scrapers, rock crushers, anc
gives us dynamite for blasting, all o1
which is equal to another fifty pei
cent, making one hundred per cent ts
our fifty per cent, which is paid BY
the gasoline burners land they save
one hundred per cent by spending
fifty per cent? it is surely time K
perform. And the saddest part il
that we have to pay our part of thi!
Federal tax, whether we get It o.
not. Myl Myl since we must lqui
date, let us by all means participate
am only inviting an aggregation o.
meritorious agitators no false alarms
at all, as it is vitality important tina
we perform right now or get lost il
transit.
Some contractors are asking ant
getting from 25 per cent. to tift!
per cent more for road building thai
is fair-we have a plan to bulk
roads for % per cent to 90 per cent
less.
Now (R. s. ". P.) right smar
victuals prepared, and will be dc
lighted to liquidate if you win con
sumo. Won't you indicate promptl.
whether we are to be delighted o.
disappointed, also the time of yon
arrival and departure, SO that |
committee can meet you and shov
you Mississppi's best and bigges
city. Do please give this, our mos
important question, some thought
boiling down to the concentrated es
sence Of good stuff and shoot quick
lv for five minutes, making a copy o.
your remarks to be used for publica
ton.
Now quit loving yourself so mucl
and get your mind on Mississippi
and pull her out Of the mud.
CLIFF WILLIAMS.
v. p. Mississippi Highway I'm
nroyement Assn. McBeath sug
9ested / ask you to have this invita-
tion reproduced, but modesty for
hids---so let your conscience be you