The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-04
Forum Of The People
Wants The Highway Facts

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Let's get it straight: Referring further
to DR.. f. NJ. Harris letter on the editorial
mage in The Herald of March 81, in
which he defends the highway commission,
and to the editors comment at the bottom,
unfortunately for the above opinion, most
citizens want the public money expended in
such a manner as to return adequate re-
suits"
Adequate results? What do you mean by
that? 1t is not very clear to me. From the
information 1 get out of the papers I am in
clined to believe that John A. Rogers and
the commission have acted honestly and
wisely in the Eutaw-Gsinesville-B oligee con.
troyersy, but if you do not make it very
clear in in the papers / may be wrong.
When l pay perfectly good money for a
newspaper l expect to get information OF
value out of it, but am not sure that get
your version of this Adequate Results
In my opinion the law intends that these
roads are to connect county seats with va
rious other considerations. My opinion as
gained from reading the papers Is that the
road project in question is a kind of three
way route connecting the county seats of
Eutaw, Livingston and Carrollton, and was
planned and adopted by both state and fed
eral engineers before John A. Rogers had
anything to do with it, and unless you get
your adequate results" so | can understand
it will not be able to see how Eutaw, Liv-
ingston and Carrollton can be connected more
fea sibly or economically.
| have been fighting for good roads for
nearly hundred years and am interested.
Now let's be fair and get the matter straight
that is what read your paper for, to find
out about these things.
J. GAISSER.
Isbell, Ala, April .. 1924
The information of which our correspond
l. To- %
time in The Age Herald as it became avail
able On March 81 was published a state
ment from the federal good roads bureau of
Washington showing that the government has
definitely rejected the Gainesville detour as
impracticabe. This decision to reject the
Gainesville detour was based on the indie
pendent reports of two federal engineers, one
made by Federal Engineer Davis in Jan
uary, 1921, and the other made in February,
1924 by Engineer Wells, now resident in
Montgomery for the federal bureau. The
second report is, if anything more, adverse
than the first one. Thus our correspondent
will perceive that the detour was not
planned and adopted by both state and fed
eral engineers before John A. Rogers had
anything to do with it." Aside from a quasi
political report by Engineer McCalla, the
state highway engineering department appears
not to have approved the detour. 1t seems
that Mr.. Rogers was active in this matter
during the legislative session Of 1918. The
economy Of the Epes- Boligee route is estab-
lished by the federal report that it is more
direct. more feasible, and will cost $161, zoo
less to build. As to the Carrollton connec
ton Engineer Davis said: There seems to
be no logical reason for designating an inter
county-seat road between Livingston and
Carrollton via Gainesville 1t is also shown
by the federal engineers that the Epes -Boligee
will than win u