Southern good roads . iod to provide permanent municipal im-provements and the same can be said of good roadsconstruction. The county which is building roads byspecial taxes is making a nnstake by doing it in apieee-meal fashion when a bond issue by the entirecounty will provide a lump sum for systematic roadbuilding. The plan of voting road bonds by town-ships is nearly equally as bad, for roads should be con-structed by coimties in accordance with systematicplans, taking care of all and making it de-cidedly more economical for them than for each town-ship to maintain its own expen
Southern good roads . iod to provide permanent municipal im-provements and the same can be said of good roadsconstruction. The county which is building roads byspecial taxes is making a nnstake by doing it in apieee-meal fashion when a bond issue by the entirecounty will provide a lump sum for systematic roadbuilding. The plan of voting road bonds by town-ships is nearly equally as bad, for roads should be con-structed by coimties in accordance with systematicplans, taking care of all and making it de-cidedly more economical for them than for each town-ship to maintain its own expensive road building ser-vice and equipment. This is on the side, but the op-portunity is too fine for us to let it slip by withoutmaking known the truth to counties which are going tobuild good roads by some hook or crook. There is way and the right way. Don t piddle.—Wil-mington (N. C.) Star. Birmingham, Ala., is planning to spend .$320,000 onstreet work. May, 1911 SOUTHERN ) ROADS lU ®iaOTi^H»j. Y^wrw^
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