Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1921-03-02
CAN'T UNDERSTAND NO FUNDS.
j, A. Cook Wants to Know What
Became OF tho Bond Money.
Madison, Feb. 81, 1921.

Madison, Feb. 27, 1921.
Editor Keowee Courier:
The communication Of Supervisor
Shockley. which was published in
your paper about three weeks since,
was a great surprise to the people OF
this vicinity. 1t seems very strange
that only one month after a four
hundred-thousan dollar bond sale
that our road supervisor has not got
money enough to- repair a few little
mud holes in the public roads.
There m st be something dead
up the branch"
The Taxpayers Of Oconee county.
who are being taxed until 1t practi-
cally amounts to confiscation, would
like to know what's the matter. The
rent Of a small farm will not pay the
i.xrs after expenses are pnWl We
lan an idea rha, the nout aal WAS
for the DurppSa oi building ald re-
pairing roads ana hr.dG~s sJ we
arc not mistaken Mr.. %uotnr oju
special mention IN INC o.. .a-t vas
passed for the bond issue OF about
twenty certain roads that were to be
repaired with part of this money.
They have not been repaired, and
now 1t seems that our Supervisor
has to wait for the new Legislature
to make new appropriations before
he can repair few mud holes in the
roads, and l suppose that means
more taxes. Oh, my-what shall we
do to get through the mud holes and
be saved. We have been for num-
Der Of years trying to get a good
road supervisor, who had good
move on him, and good common
sense enough to do something, and
now 1t seems that he mas nothing to
do with. But suppose that while
he Is waiting for money to do the
work he can be watching and prob
ably stop some Of the leakage that
is bankrupting our county govern
ment and all the Taxpayers Of the
county. It Is not the building and
repairing Of roads and bridges that
is bankrupting the county govern
ment and the taxpayers OF the coun-
ty. 1t is the paying for work that is
never done that Is doing the dam
age. We think there are a good
many officers connected with this
road business who seem to us to be
absolutely unnecessary. and the
county government paying them at
least three times as much as their
work Is worth.
Once upon a time we happened to
be appointed to the great big office
Of township commissioner In this
county, and during the term Of
that Office we learned by practical
experience and observation that
there we're good many men who
worked for the county who seemed
to have but one idea. and that was
that there was nothing wrong or
unjust at all in beating the county
oul vi all tndl InHS
could get. Some Of them would
bring In their bills against the coun-
ty, legally approved and sworn to
before notary public. when they
knew these bills were not true. II
Mr.. Shockley can stop those con-
temptible little swindles he will save
more money for the county than he
can save building roads in several
years. We know that there are
enough honest men in our county to
do the work II Mr.. Shockley can
only find them. The trouble Is that
the man who Is no account always
wants Job first, for no Is always
out Of work.
Well, now, Mr.. Editor, the county
government that we have been talk
ing about is the taxpayers govern.