The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-01
DANE COUNTY THE CREPE HANGER.

considerable number of Kenosha people
who went over to Madison on Saturday for the
"Home-C Coming" at the University, are to be
congratulated on getting back home without
being "coronered."
If Madison and Dane county is to stage home
comings and invite thousands of people from
the state to the capital and allow the univer-
sity and the merchants and hotels in Madison
to take their money, the officials of Dane county
should be willing to extend minimum OF
protection to these people.
It can be said that the people who rode the
corduroy roads into Madison and escaped with
their lives are to be congratulated and held
lucky. It probably was protection from Divine
Providence, rather than any consideration on
the part of Dane county that made this result
possible.
Roads about Madison are not improving.
Dane county continues to have the second
largest assessed valuation in the state and it
will probably yet qualify as the county having
the worst roads in the state Of course it is a
we'll known fact that Dane county is waiting
for the state to build these roads just as the
state has built every thing else about Madison.
Bad roads are a menace always, but bad
roads without the proper protection of them,
are the menace supreme. People who went to
Madison from KenOSha never saw sign of a
motor cycle officer on these roads. They did
see automobile drivers running their cars at
a rate of fifty, sixty and even seventy miles
an hour. They saw people who desired to get
: along at decent rate of speed and legal rate
of speed repeatedly driven from the road. 1t is
admitted that lot of people drove faster than
they wanted to, but in a lot of cases they we're
forced to drive faster or take the menace of
being run off the road.
A o;.o4 cIo of
the traffic Along the road lay the body Of a
woman who had been crushed to death and an
ambulance was hurrying away with the bruised
companions of the dead woman. 1t may be that
an official was along the road, but if he was, he
did not show any desire to warn other traffic.
Instead, an undertaker's assistant stood in the
middle of the road and warned the motorists
that they were passing in the presence of
death This incident did more than all the eff
forts of Dane county and the surrounding
counties to slow up the traffic and make the
roads safer.
Dane county owes something to the state
and it should be forced to pay it. 1t should be
forced in some way to build concrete roads
leading into the city from every angle, and it
should be forced to properly police these roads
SO that they may be ordinarily safe for people
who want to drive safely.
People of the state should refusel to attend
these home comngs-Randall field with it's
great football contests, should be left vacant
until the people at Madison show decent idea
of doing something to give the rest Of the peo-
pie road way to Madison and until the officials
of Dane county show more than passing in
terest in the safety of it's visitors.
Conditions on the road leading into the
state capital are scandal on the state and
menace to the life of the people. If Dane county
can not provide the remedy, the entire state
should insist that the state capital and all that
goes with it be taken from Madison and moved
to some place where selfish interest will not be
featured as against the best interests of the
people
1t may be just talking wild" to suggest the
removal of the capital, but some time the peo-
pie will refuse to accept the treatment that
Dane county is giving them
LOTS OF ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT