The daily times., 1921-05-13
IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE
STATE TO SELL ITS
GOOD ROAD BONDS
COUNTIES MUST FINANCE
MIR. John E. Cameron of Kin
ston Tells Meeting In Court
House Last Night. Says $780,
OOO, 900 For Roads Will Be
Divided Into Districts, and
Counties Must Cooperate.

AT the conclusion OF the ROAD
meeting in the court house last night
after Mr.. John Cameron of Lenoir
Highway Commissioner of Eastern
North Carolina had explained the
handling of the $5O,OOO,OOO five per
cent bonds which the, state has auth
/ orized under the Connor, Bowie,
Daughton Road act, and an address
by Mr.. Connor one of the authors of
the bill, and considerable discussion
by other gentle men present, resolu-
tion introduced by Mr.. w. A. Lucas
was adopted to make a drive for
100000 under the auspices of the
Chamber of Commerce in order to
purchase this amount of bonds that
Wilson county may keep apace with
/ the other counties of Eastern North
Carolina in road building. Mr.. John
son King president of the Tobacco
Board of Trade also pledged the ser
vices of his organization in an eff
fort to sell the bonds to the people
of Wilson county, and Mr. Lucas
pledged the support of the Kiwanis
club to make it successful 1t was
brought out in the meeting that
there are 5000 automobiles in this
county and that the purchase Of a
hundred dollar bond by every owner
of car in the county would net
100000. and that this would not
only give the holder a nontaxable five
percent bond, which beats a six per
cent investment but that good roads
would save him that amount in gaso-
| line and repairs on his car during
one year. Therefore every car owner
should subscribe to at least one Of
| the bonds par value $4,000
Mr.. Louis Tomlinson president of
the Chamber of Commerce presided
and introduced Mr.. Ben Eagles who
| in turn introduced Mr.. Cameron.
Mr.. Cameron made an interesting
talk He stated that the money to be
| expended under the act provided that
it should be spent in districts, and
since Wilson county is in his district
i he felt that it should be doing more
, than it was doing in the way of road
building. That the proportion of the
! $5O,OOO,OOO allotted to this district
is $1,157, 100000 to be divided be-
tween eleven counties. He said that
a number of counties in the district
were availing themselves of the op-
portunity and that unless Wilson
county made an effort to get her
share that she would be left in the
1urch. He said that Wilson county
and the city of Wilson could not af-
ford to let the opportunity slip since
we have the largest tobacco market
in the world and that good roads
meant everything to the commerce of
town, and. Wilson need not expect
to continue to be prosperous and
to maintain her high position as a
| towns provided an easy way to con-
vey produce to market. He also
said that the day of the heavy truck
is coming and that we needed sub
stantial roads over which these
trucks carrying as much as ten tons
could travel in all sorts of weather,
for the bulk Of the produce is handl-
ed in the winter time when the roads
as a rule are bad.
Mr.. Cameron said that Lenoir
county had been very eager as well as
some of the other counties in his dis
trict to get this money, Lenoir had
voted two millions of dollars worth
of bonds, and while he was from
Lenoir county he wanted his district
to show up well in road building, and
he did not want his friends in Will
son to let any section get ahead of
them. He expected much of Wilson
county. Her reputation for progress
and wealth was known at home and
even in Europe, and he wanted to
see that reputation maintained. The
western part of the state is after the
bonds, and are voting heavier taxes,