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SSDAY, l>ECKMBER 7. 1920.
UNION-RECORDER
STATE WILL TAKE CHARGE
OF THE HIGHWAY SYSTEM
DR. PARKS TO TAKE PART IN
EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE
Washington, Dec. 7.—A Citizens
Regional Conference on Education
for the states of North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida
w'll be held on Monday, December
13 at the Jefferson Hotel, Columbia,
Atlanta, Doc. T.—The following
■tatement in regard to maintenance
roads which ore a part of the
atat< highway system was given out
today by the state highway depart-
Buuii:
"All road projects forming a part S. C.
*f the slate highway system -ire to The purpose of the conference,
be taken ov. - for maintenance Dy i which is one of a series of twelve
|he state highway department. 1 regional conferences on education,
Whether such a project was bu'lt by called by the commissioner of educa-
a combination of county, state and ! tion is to discuss the most important
federal fund, or by a county alone, I and pressing needs of education in
by the state alone, will make no the states of the conference group
4ifFerence. If ib is a part of the ! from the standpoint of the citizens
atate highway system the state high
way department will maintain it.
“Twenty-six projects have been
Completed, and eighty miles of these
have been taken over for mainten
ance already. The balance will be
taken over shortly. The counties
who own, support and use the schools
rather than from that of professional
educators.
Governors and chief school offi
cers of the group of conference
states, members of legislatures, ma
yors of cities, members of city coun-
lic instruction, of North Carolina; )
George Royal, Goldsboro, N. C.;
President Wright, East Carolina
Teachers Training School, Green
ville, N. C.; President Foust, State
Normal and Industrial College, of
Greensboro, N. C.; Davis Jeffries,
superintendent of schools, Union,
S. C.; David B. Johnson, principal
Winthrop Normal and Industrial Col
lege, Rockhill, S. C.; President Riggs,
Clemson Agricultural College; W. H.
Hand, superintendent of city schools,
Columbia, S. C.; J. E. Swearingen,
State superintendent of education, |
of South Caiolina; M. L. Brittain,
state superintendent of schools of
Georgia; President Parks, Georgia
'ornml and Industrial College; Pres
ident Pound, State Normal School,
hens, Ga.
where systematic and scientific main- ! cils, women's clubs, civic and patri-
tenance has been already commenced ' otic organizations, labor unions and
are Spaulding, Henry, Clayton, Wal- j ministers, lawyers, editors and other
ton, Hall, Macon, Coweta, Meri-1 publicists, business men, city and
DO WE NEED A TOWN?
Or Could Wo
Get Along
Ono 7
Without
Wether. Troup, Douglas, Bibb, Jack-
*on, Wilkes.
"It is "he plan of the state high
way department to make its main
tenance of the state highway system
roads a model for the benefit of the
counties in the maintenance of their
roi: As is well known, one of the
pi; etor.% in the creation of good
road, s the factor of maintenance.
No mat ter how expensive construc
tion may be, its life is greatly short
ened uy the lack of constant, sys-
tv.; tic and scientific maintenance.
“On sand clay roads there will be a
patrolman for three to eight miles
«f : <Joj*ending upon the partic
ular requirements of traffic, rainfall,
topography, tic. The patrolman will
be a,’ eliable man who lives about the
Center of his section of road. He
W'll he equipped with a wagon, a
drag, a dump scraper, a set of double
larness and complete outfit of tools.
He will furnish his own mules. His
duties will consist of the following:
“To drug the road after every
rain, to clean out culverts ond drains;
to cut brush and weeds on the right
*f way; to keep ditches opened; to
fi ’ v and washes; to replace sand
told clay when necessary; to renew
the v Is tewush on telephone poles, and
#ther objects along the road; to re
pair signs, etc.
“Concrete roads will be patroled
by a gang consisting of a foreman
and four or five men. They will
*over longer sections of road than
the sand clay patrolmen, as they can
travel and work faster. Each con
crete repair outfit or maintenance
crew will be equipped with a minia
ture concrete mixing and pouring
©u a small automobile truck and
a complete set of tools. They will
kee the sa-nd clay shoulders of the
road at proper grade with holes and
Wa^ 1 s filled, keep the expansion
jo ; in good repair, fill holes with
new concrete when necessary and in
general keep the right of way clear
and clean. Maintenance crews on
b.t inous macadam roads will be
<{0 ped with a complete outfit for
*iiy ,g ami pouring bituminous mac
adam.
tate highway system roads will
b sy to recogn ze by their general
Maintenance and upkeep. Tele-
pho e pol es, tree trunks and sign
posts along the roads will be white-
V. id and i -newed at frequent in
tervals to keep them white. This
Wi. make a toad easy to follow day
#r night. Embankments and bridge
Cpproaches will be protected by
( 1 rails vvnich will be whitewash
ed. Cul vert and bridge headwalls
»]si will be whitewashed.
livery railroad crossing, road in
ti iction, steep grade and bridge
Will be designated by signs placed
SOO feet distant on both approaches.
I signs will lie on the right of the
r. where they will meet the driv
er eye. They will be painted in
re letters on a white background,
* icy are intended for warnings.
Ivery road intersection will be
equipped with direction signs to aid
th traveler in keeping the right
to i. These signs will have arrows
X ting in both directions of the
s 3 highwuy and naming the prin-
<in d terminal points in both direo-
t ;S. In addition to these inter-
4 ion signs, the telephone poles
dong every state highway will be
4 ciled with a diamond-shaped sign
*n.h black letters on a white back
ground. There will be a stencil sign
0r> every fifth pole.
‘Systematic and scientific mainten
ance will prolong the life of paved
rr ds to the maximum, and wall keep
4; d clay roods in good passable con
dition in all kinds of weather. A
Hand clay rood if dragged after every
ra n soon packs very hard so that
v. shouts are reduced to a minimum
*! d traffic ran move right along
»‘ er a heavy rain has fallen. The
complete system of signs, designa
tions and danger signals outlined
above should enable a traveler on a
sf be highway to make good traveling
time either day or night, without any
sD ns to inquire his way, and with
accidents almost impossible* if the
danger warnings are observed.”
county superintendents of schools,
By J. L. SIBLEY.
If you will walk around the streets
of the business section of Milledge-
members of city and county boards . ville you will see that our merchants
of education, representatives of uni- j have ransacked the entire country to
versities, colleges and normal schools I get go0(Js t0 3ell to ug Y ou will see
and men and women interested as I
citizens in the improvement of schools
and the promotion of education have
been invited to attend the sessions of
the conference. t
Set speeches and formal proceed
ings of any kind will be avoided as
far as possible. Although a definite
understanding will be reached in ad
vance that certain persons will be
prepared to speak, it is not intended
to confine the proceedings to those
persons. The meetings will be con-
"erences, in reality and frank and
free expression will be in order.
Among the conference topics an
nounced for such round table dis
cussion are:
1. Important recent progress.
2. Proposed legislative programs.
3. In what does th ereal crisis in
education consist?
4. An adequate supply of com
petent teachers adequately vrepared.
The pay of teachers and
school officers.
G. Special needs of rural schools.
The needs of higher educa-
Sources of revenue for educa-
7.
tion.
8.
tion.
9. Relation of education to the
production of material wealth and
the public welfare.
Among those invited to take part
in the conference sessions are: Gov
ernor Catts, of Florida; Governor
Bickett, of North Carolina; Governor
Cooper, of South Carolina; Governor
Hugh M. Dorsey, of Georgia; A. P.
Anthony, president, Peoples Bank,
Jacksonville, Fla.; President Murp-
hree, University of Florida; W. N.
Sheats, state superintendent of pub
lic instruction, of Florida; R. S.
Holmes, president, Community For
um, Daytona Beach. Fla.; E. C.
Brooks, state superintendent of pub-
California and Florida and even the
lands beyond the seas have given up
their fruits and products to tempt
the people of this county to spend
money, a large part of which will
leave this section to return no more.
And you will find the same article
selling at about the same price, prov
ing that it in spite of the competition
there is a certain amount of co-op
eration as to prices. Now I ask you
in all earnestness, i? there any con
certed action on the part of the citi
zens of this town to find a market
for any of the products of this coun
ty in other sections or any effort to
envent our raw products into higher
priced goods, so that when they leave
this community they will bring into
it twice the money taken out.
Have we not for years lived off of
the cotton bales that passed through
this city, and but for our schools and
clay works, has not Milledgeville liv
ed off of the county and not for the
county?
Our big cotton crops are a thing
of the past and our other splendid
resources have not been developed.
Our merchants have been as halfway
in their business as the farmer in his
planting and now both are in the
same ditch and who is going to make
the first move to get us out of it. If
,the farmers must come together and
find new markets and establish new
enterprises, they don’t need a town.
All they need is a warehouse and a
side track.
If half the effort is made in the
next few months to develop and sell
the products of this county, that has
been made to sell to us the products
of other counties, states and nations,
old Baldwin will blossom like a rose
and we will no longer have halfway
merchants or half-way farmers.
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Think of the amount of a hen’s energy, vitality and red
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