The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-08-11
roads where they are needed most.

1t has occurred to Us that some re-
lief might be given in one communi-
ty in this county at least, where the
crops have been destroyed, by au-
thorizing the building of roads where
they are greatly needed, and in this
way supply long felt want, and al
the same time give relief to the
storm sufferers by giving them en-
pioyment for themselves and their
teams and the hands on their places.
Take this community above Jala-
pa and on out to Liberty Hill at the
Laurens line, there is great need of
a road up these, and, in fact, the
highway commission has promised to
build this road from Jalapa out by
Tabernacle school, and now is the
time to give the people who have sui
fered up there from the hail storm
! an opportunity to have employment
for themselves and their hands and
teams by having the road surveyed
and the work begun. We are salts
fed that the engineers would be glad
to contribute the time it would take
to locate and survey the road, and
the farm hands that have been
thrown out of employment by the
destruction of their crops could make
enough upon which to live. Captain
C. W. Buford and Mr.. J. c. Duncan
and the Cromers have ioeen among
the sufferers, and the Carlisles and
Renwicks little further over also
were great sufferers from the hail,
and by beginning work on this road
from Jalapa to Liberty Hill and then
on the road out to the Cromer road
bv Mr.. ]. C. Duncan's would open
up a country that really needs the
roads and at the same time give the
people remunerative employment.
And in addition to this it would give
them an outlet for their timber and
permit them to make something by
having their timber sawed. There IS
a lot of good timber up this side and
the roads are in such candition that
it is too expensive to get it to mar
ket, if it could be done at all. There
is to be established at Jalapa we un-
derstand large planning mill and
this road or roads would give mar
ket for the timber out on the farms
that have been hard hit by the hail.
How about the delegation in the
legislature and the candidates for
the position getting together at the
meeting at Keitt's Grove on Friday,
as they have done in Greenville, and
agreeing upon some such plan and
authorizing the expenditure of mon
ey for the building of these roads
here suggested, and giving the pref
erence to the hail suffers to find en-
ployment in the building of the road.
And the same could be done for the
hail sufferers at Hartford and at
Bush River and in this way encour-
age the hands to remain on the farm,
and it would be no waste of money
and would not be giving any one
anything except for value received.
May be the highway commission
could get some extra federal aid for
a purpose like this, and then the
state highway commission might be-
able to help get some funds for this
purpose.
AS stated, the suggestion has been
made in some sections that have been
struck by the hail to appropriate
funds for the surfacing of roads so
as to give employment to farm labor
that has been thrown out of job by
the destruction of the crops.
No doubt the people up in
"Shacks" would be willing to give
the timber necessary to build the
bridges over the two streams ON one
of these roads if the immediate work
on the building of the roads would
be undertaken. What is done should
be done right now. There is scarce
ly section of the county that needs
a road as bad as the two roads that
we have mentioned are needed. The
road out by Mr.. Duncan's might very
we'll be extended on the highway to
Whitmire and It might also be con-
nected with the same highway at
Betheden.
The road to Pomaria on the end