16 Aug 1917 Part D - Green River Republican, Butler County, Kentucky *********************************************************** Submitted by: Butler County KYGenweb GRR Transcription Team Date: 11 Jun 2007 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** 1917 August 16 Part D This transcribed by Beverly Carroll Hodges from images scanned by Alice Warner To be proofread later by Alice Warner, original images available online at http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/butler/photos/grr/16Aug1917.pdf You will need Acrobat Reader or another PDF viewer to open the image 1917 Aug 16 D Henry K Kurkamp Dr. J. B. Kellogg Column 2 Thanks to the pushful, pervasive automobile, American road building has “got a move on” There is everywhere the cry for roads , for more roads and for better roads. The drawback has been that as yet there has been no co-ordination of these multitudinous enterprises. The president of the National Highways Association, Charles Henry Davis, C. R. in a recent paper stated that we spent last year $349,955,967 as more than two thirds the total of money expended so far on the construction of the Panama Canal for our road improvements throughout the country. Mr. Davis contention is that good roads , roads that run for thousands of miles through state after state are properly not the responsibility of the state, but of the nation. He would have the federal government build a system of national roads joining the West with the East, the North with the South, connecting every part of the country, as is the case with national highways of Europe, and As history shows, such as was the essential equipment of every first class power of the past. How would such an enormous construction be paid for and kept up? “ Suppose” ask this eminent engineer “the government built 100,000 miles of properly planned roads, and at the same time purchased say 300 feet of land on either side. This land would so continually increase in value, and on demand for leasing on long rental, that the cost of the road and the land purchased would soon be paid. A rental rate of high per acre would pay the interest on the-------- But much would rent at vastly higher rates in cities and towns, high enough to give the nation an income equal to its total annual expenditures” from these national highways alone! President Rowe of the American Automobile association says that in ten years the United States will be covered with systems of national roads. By that time he says we will begin to see the necessity for separate systems for freight and passenger traffic. Present highways will be greatly multiplied and largely increased in width. The quality will be improved as the country begins to learn the art of road building. Good roads he believes are the greatest practical step toward national preparedness. Column 6 SKINNER Watson B. Colman Dr. Kilmer & Co. HE HIT THE BULL’S EYE THEN Governor Cox Of Ohio Explains Why His Marksmanship Improved Suddenly On Rifle Range. James M. Cox governor of Ohio told this story when he visited Fort Benjamin Harrison, says the Indianapolis News; I was over at the rifle range Major Darrow asked me if I wouldn’t like to try shooting. The men then were shooting from the 600 yard range. I said “yes” so Major Darrow borrowed a rifle for me from one of the men and another for himself, and we lay down across the sand bags and began pepping away. “After each shot that either of us made the man down in the pit waved the red flag that meant we had missed the target altogether. Finally after about a half dozen shots a piece the major said; “Young man, telephone down to that man in the pit that Major Darrow is shooting” and so the young man did and then the major shot again, and the pit man waved the emblem that signified the major had hit the bull’s eye. “Then I said to myself um hum and so I turned to the young man on my right and I said “Young man telephone down to the pit man that the next time I hit the bull’s eye too. Business Column 7 MUST BE GIVEN FULL TITLES UNREADABLE “Miss Mary Ann Matilda Josaline Smitharingale, M. --- ready” is the correct form that should be used by the mistress of a well – ordered household at Vancouver, B. C. in the future. Instead of --- “Mary Ann” when inquires are made concerning the family meals. At least, this is an example of the demands now being made by the recently acquired Progressive --- -- ---. One of the demands made in the members of domestic labor by the league, is that the full name must be used at all times by the employer of the servant, No --- may the member of the household ---- his butler as “Jones, Smith, James or Jevins” not if the league has its way” The new order must be ----- after this fission; Origins of Minerals According to one account, Gerhert, afterwards Pope Sylvester II, learned the use of the minerals from the Moors in Spain in the tenth century. Another account is that Leopardo of Peru introduced them from the East into Italy about 1202. The use of them was not general until the invention of printing.