The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-01-27
STATEWIDE VIEW
URGED UPON KY.
Courier-Journal Says We
Need Statemindedness
to Aid Progress.

makes the following important appeal:
II the rumor that sections of Ken
4 lucky which, have fairly good roads
oppose the submission of the question
Of the bond issue is well grounded; II
1t is true that the well developed coun
ties oppose the bill to submit the bond
issuesto the voters, error of Judgment
governs, sentiment in what should be
the more progressive and the more
far seeing part of the State,
What's needed in Kentucky is State
mindedness. :, Il
| Sectionalism in State, like section
alism in the United States, is clog
cling. Moreover it is injurious to the
sections in which It originates as we'll
as injurious to the whole State. This
/ is true even when sectionalism is not
caused by unkind feeling, but owes its
existence to nothing more than dis
inclination to aid the less developed
counties.
If 1t were true that there would be
profit TO the small group of good roads
counties in perpetuation of the sys-
tenn of ineffective patching and in
adequate maintenance OF roads which.
alone is possible as matters are, as
against the development of the whole
State through the medium of the pro-
posed bond issue, any opposition to
submitting the bond issue which might
rise in the good roads counties would
be at least businesslike. But opposing
the development of the whole State
because a small part of II now is pref
ty well provided with hard roads is
not business"
The Governor is a mountaineer; a
resident OF a section immensely rich
in natural resources, but in need of
improvement. But he is right in say
ing that Kentuckians should consider
Kentucky as whole. and realize that
State welfare is of wide bene-
fit.
Surely no Governor, from any part
of the State, could think otherwise.
Certainly no man worthy of the office
of Governor could fail to understand
the necessity for Statemindedness in
Kentucky, for the interest of all parts
of Kentucky.
The Courier Journal does not charge
and would be 10th TO believe, and
hopes not to be shown, that the Cen
trail counties the scene of Kentucky's
oldest and highest civilization, lack in
terest in the submission of the bond
issue because their roads are good.
But the rumor of opposition in the Sec
ton which James Lane Allen has made |
romantic, and which was a part Of the
polite world in the days of Henry !
Clay, is persistent. Welfare upon a
firm foundation sometimes does en-
gender conservatism injurious to the
conservatives.
alr,ya ft ovf,hfttnna IN q
larger cities, and all Kentucky towns
wishing to become cities. walt upon |
the States development for r-aiiza /
ton of their ambition. A prosperous
State, rather than a rich county, or
section, makes prosperous cities.
Bowling Green cannot depend upon |
Warren county, despite the yield OF
the strawberry patch, the fertile acres |
devoted to extensive agriculture, oil |
wells drilled in town as well as in the |
country, and oil business which has |
forced churches into service as bust
ness offices. Bowling Green requires, |
for its growth and for the benefit of
Warren county, access 10 counties
near and far-State development.
Glasgow is a town well to do; a |
town characterized by social aspects
in which any Kentuckian familiar |
with them takes pride il he is State
minded, and not concerned about his
own section or city or county only, |
lacking interest in the rest OF the
State But Glasgow would become a
considerable city If 1t were possible
to drive to Burkesville and Pine Knot |
and Somerset and Columbia over
smooth, hard roads.
The bond issue would be for State /
instructions as well as roads Lexing
ton would be beneficiary not merely |
to the extent that the University Of |
Kentucky and other State institutions
would be improved by expenditure Of |
money, but because Improvement of |
the State would build up the Univer-
sity of Kentucky in point of attend
ance and otherwise, and the work of
the university would increase the well
fare OF the State.
Lexington and Winchester, enjoy
ing access to the mountains which |
makes Louisville envious, have passed |
long ago beyond the dimensions and |
the ideals of county towns. They rely /
upon growth of business outside of
Central Kentucky. Neither Fayette nor |
Clark has better roads than jefferson. |
Neither Lexington nor Winchester-or |
the whole group Of Bluegrass cities
and towns-pays taxes in the measure |
that Louisville does. But should the |
Louisville delegation at Frankfort |
show any lack of interest in any well
considered proposal to improve the
State as whole its members would
hear from their constituents at once
Louisville, despite miserable train |
service to some parts of the State, and |
especially to the part of 1t reached |
more easily by Lexington, is keenly |
alive to the fact that the State must !
be considered as whole IL the various |
sections and cities and towns are to
experience the welfare to which their |
geographic situation entitled them.
The banner counties" should not
rest for day under suspicion as a
group opposed to the States develop |
ment upon the ground that they, all
ready we'll provided would participate
in the investment for State improve
ment. Their interest-not merely the
interest of a few towns or cities in
Central Northumberland the i'm
provement the bond issue would per-
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