Southern good roads . nd Emanuel comities. Bibb already is numbered among the banner good-raads counties of the state, but is not satisfied. Her Coimtj Commissioners have decided to call anelection for the forthcoming fall, in which the peoplewill be asked to vote on the issuance of bonds aggre-gating $525,000. Of this amount $100,000 is to be ex-pended upon roads and $200,000 upon bridges. The County Commissioners of Emanuel called amass-meeting at Swaiusboro recently to discuss the ad-visability of a roadway bond issue. It was the mostrepresentative meeting held in the county within re-cent
Southern good roads . nd Emanuel comities. Bibb already is numbered among the banner good-raads counties of the state, but is not satisfied. Her Coimtj Commissioners have decided to call anelection for the forthcoming fall, in which the peoplewill be asked to vote on the issuance of bonds aggre-gating $525,000. Of this amount $100,000 is to be ex-pended upon roads and $200,000 upon bridges. The County Commissioners of Emanuel called amass-meeting at Swaiusboro recently to discuss the ad-visability of a roadway bond issue. It was the mostrepresentative meeting held in the county within re-cent years. By a vote of three to one it was enthus-iastically decided to call the election. Illinois. A non-partisan good roads commission was appoint-ed by the last legislature to investigate road condi-tions in the state and road-building and this commis-sion has just made public its report. That others mayavoid the mistakes that this state has made it might bewell to give here a few of the findings of this Shell Road on Bank of Canal, Near New Orleans. La. The commission gives facts and figures to show thatmore than $10,000,000 is -wasted annually by graftingtownship road commissioners and it condemns thetownship highway commissioner plan from the groundup. The commission found that more than 4500 town-ship highway commissioners have been paying them-selves salaries for almost every day of the year, noneof them coming anyways near giving value receivedfor the money. A number of commissioneis Averefound guilty of taking commissions on road machineryand other graft was open and notorious. Condemningthe wasteful system of allowing road funds to be han-dled and roads built by township authorities, the com-mission drives home a point that other states woulddo well to heed in the following: From our investigations we find that there areenough taxes levied in the state of Illinois annuallythat, if expended in an economical, uniform and sys-tematic manner, imder the superv
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