The Monroe journal., 1922-10-20
COMPROMISE on E. V. 0LUTIoN

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When they celebrated the opening
of the Roanoke River bridge al VIII
liamston the other day there was a
good deal of Grating. The states
oratorical knighthoOd was there and
in full flower. The only burning bush
orator whose name We failed 10 note
among those present was the Honor
able Tam o. Shanter Bowie Of Ashe.
No doubt that this is due 10 the ne
eessity which Tam labors under of
having to stay close 10 home 10 keep
his hand firmly upon the states lost
provinces TO the west. He Is holding
those PROVINCES now with great diff
fculty. waiting for the state TO sci
its railroad property and invest the
money in a rail line through the lost
provinces. And until the state does
this there is not another soul left TO
lold the provinces. II Tam were to
relax his hold for one moment there
are grave fears that the provinces
would walk riga. over the Tennessee
line AMI b. lost forever without hope
q reeo9ety. 81 Tam may be excused
for not having put in his appearance
and a few high gear remarks on the
occasion when the lest provinces of
the east were brough; back by the
opening Of the bridge. If anything
in the world would have tempted
him to relax his tai ko'd on the lost
provinces Of the west for moment
il would have been the delight to be
derived from beholding the salvation
Of the lost prov nces Of the east.
The principal concern at the eele-
tration of the opening of the bridge,
We gather from the subsequent liter
ature on the subject, was to give
praise and credit to some one for the
building of the bridge, and even for
all the road building IN the state. All
the speakers bestowed great praise
upon somebody else for the accom-
plishment, leaving il perfectly appar-
ent that the speaker himself deserved
the praise and could therefore well
afford to pass a little blarney around
10 the others. Everybody was gen.
erous except Judge Frank Winston,
who Ike Oliver Twist, took the op-
portamly of notifying the world that
he wanted "lcetle" bit more in the
shape of some asphalt road. Il was
a part Of the fortunate and happy
circumstances of the day that nobody
called for a hand primary as to who
was entitled to the credit. for in that
event the harmony Of the occasion
might have been marred by every
ones voting for himself. You see
il is all right to throw little credit
around in words, but if it had come
down to voting. that might have
been more serious matter.
Since there has been so much con-
fusion as to where the credit should
20. The Journal wishes to put in a
cand date for the &onor. Our csndi
date is old man Z. " 0Lution. This
gentleman is an Ir.shman, but since
he is not akin to Judge Bill Rob 'nson
and Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick, the illus
trious Irishmen of Goldsboro and
Charlotte, no blame ought to attach
to him on that account
This old gentleman has been work
ing at the road business in North
Carolina long time. He started way
back yonder when the cows marked
out the first trails and the early set
tiers followed them to the water
courses. Then he pottered along with
the streams of mud that were called
roads. He kept up constant agita-
ton TO make the road overseers and
their hands throw more brush into
the ruts. By and by when more
folks were living on the land and
there were better vehicles he said i
was time to have better roads and
in some localities he began crushing
rocks and putting them down in what
is known as macadam. And people
called this the permanent road. Then
Henry Page wrote a piece in the
papers and said that permanent.
road was a lie, and that you had
to keep on making roads and keeping
them up too.
And about this time somebody woke
I'D to the fact that yol could dig
sand and clay out Of the same hole
and mix them in such proportions that
a good road could be made of them.
But old man E. V. 0'Lutioa did not
stop there. About this tine there
came to be so many automobiles that
it was found out that macadam road
was nothing but a tire cruc.fxion, and
mat road had to go. All the time
there were getting to be more people
On the land and people with more