The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, November 21, 1929, Image 10
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WILL LAURENS COUNTY DWINDLE?
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lu the November 14th issue of The
Laurens Advertiser the first article
on the front page, headed “Commis
sion Now Shaping Report,” gave the
story of the progress of the secession
movement, which proposes to put to an
election the tjuestion of whether the
northwestern corner of Youngs town
ship will secede from Laurens county
and enter Greenville county.
Should the election be held and
prove successful, Laurens county will
lose upwai'ds of a quarter of a mil
lion dollars of assessed value of prop
erty, about 400 voters, a population
of upwards of 2,000, several school
districts and several churches.
Some years ago Newberry officials
opposed to building the Calhoun high
way through Whitmire — the north
west corner of Newberry—were met
with a proposition by the Whitmire
section to secede from Newberry
county, and the road was promptly
built. Whitmire is still in Newberry
county.
A little later the people resident on
the ridge between Bush river and Little
river, lying south of Kinards and
Goldville, becoming discouraged in
their continual application for a bet
ter highway down the ridge, threaten
ed to secede from Laurens county
unless they were given a good road.
The supervisor built a ridge road
down that ridge to connect from state
route 56 to a Newberry county high
way running down by .Bush river
church and Helena to Newberry. This
Bedenbaugh ridge is still in Laurens
county.
However, the Nqrthwestern portion
of Youngs township", though they beg
ged for roads enabling them to go to
market at Fountain Inn and to send
their children in by bus lines to Foun
tain Inn, were only heard. Nothing was
done. Now they are to determine
whether they shall be citizens of
Greenville county or citizens of Lau
rens county. They have the right to
determine the matter for themselves.
The writer would dislike extremely
seeing any part of Laurens county cut
off from the county, but the people
have a right to go into any county
they can get into, where the conditions
of living will be better than where
they are.
Youngs township has only one m 1*-
of state highway in it, and only seven
miles of county highway, from Gray
Ck)urt to Woodruff bridge. Their case
is paralleled by Jacks township, which,
while it has state highway route 7
diagonalizing the township, and one
mile of state route 56, it has not a
single mile of county highway in it.
The northeastern part of Jacks town
ship has talked of seceding and join
ing Newberry county. They may, if
the Youngs township secession suc
ceeds, develop a second secession.
Newberry county has developed a
number of highways, state and coun
ty, just across the line from these
Jacks township people. The tempta
tion will be strong.
Similarly, the southeastern section
of Cross Hill township will be tempt
ed, for lack of good roads, to join
Greenwood county. The remainder of
Youngs township, if they continue to
be neglected^ may join Spartanburg
CPVinty. Princeton, if it doesn’t get a
paved road on the Dixie highway, may
secede and join Greenville or Ander
son county. The entire ridge between
the Repdy and the Saluda rivers,
southeast of Ware Shoals, sadly needs
a ridge read, and has asked for it time
and again. If they don’t get it, they
may secede into Greenwood county.
So Laurens county may continue to
dwinide, z'ld what is the complaint?
Lack of good roads. And why the lack
of good roads? The answer is the re
actionary spirit, the defect in the
$500,000 good roads bond issue bill,
which presented that bill for referen
dum to the Democratic primary where
it was successful, instead of to a gen
eral election, where it would probaoly
have been successful.^ Result: Re-ac-
tionaries attacked the act after suc
cessful referendum, and secured the
Supreme court jailing that the act was
unconstitutional, because presented to
the wrong kind of an election.
That is the reason why these and
other sections of Laurens county are
without good roads today. That $500,-
000 bond iss^e would havi' prevented
I this secession threat of the northwest-
lern comer of the county, and would
have satisfied many other sections
'vhich are hot now satisfied. There
are dissatisfatied sections in every
township in Laurens county, even in
cluding Laurens township and Hunter
township, which townships are best
supplied with roads.
! There was a very much dissatisfied
ridge between the two Rabuns, until
at the last election their demands were
met with a promise by the county
delegation that a ridge road should
be built up from the Laurens-Prince-
ton highway, between the Pabuns, to
the Greenville line. That road has leen
built, or almost finished.
Why not solve all of this discvintent
at one time, by passing a county-wide
good roads bond issue of $600,000 as
originally proposed and approved by
the people ? If such a bill were passed,
and if another bill were passed le-
forming the county chain gang con
trol, and road and bridge maintenance,
by putting the entire business under a
commission control, with a county en
gineer in charge, as is done m many
progressive counties, then we would
have a reduced taxation for county
Cross Hill and the other towns of the
county are dissatisfied because they
have not complete touch with all coun
try seciSoas. ^
Will the delegation leave it
way, and run the risk or losing not
only the northwestern comer of the
county, but ultimately other sections
of ths county? Will they let ^.Aurens
county dwindle, or will they give us a
progressive and necessary policy of
ample funds for a county highway
system, and scientific and business
like control of the expenditure of all
funds devoted to road and bridge
maitenance and construction in Lau-
road maintenance in a very short time, ^ rm. * •
. . .u u u 1 irens county? That is a question for
but we would have very much better ,
roads; and there would not be a farm
house anywhere in Laurens county
more than two miles from a highway.
These two bills have been present-, ,.
ed to the members of the delegation. nothing
They have not, however, had the sup
port of the county commissioners and
supervisor; nor have they had the uni
fied support of all members of the
delegation. They have not been passed.
the delegation to answer, and a ques
tion for the county commissioners and
the supervisor to answer. Thus far
the answer has been in favor of al-
on, they may get cesults, not on one
ridge dr another, but the county over.
Every precinct which fails to get sat
isfactory bills passed at the next leg^
islature, should at the following Dem
ocratic primary put the question to
all candidates, “How do you stand on
a county-wide good roads bond is
sue?” and also the question, “How do
you stand on reforming our road and
bridge maintenance expenditure to a
scientific and non-political basis?”
Ultimately Laurens county will
w'ake up and enforce its views on pro-
gressiveism in road building, or it wr^l
disintegrate, growing poorer and
weaker year by year. Roads cannot
be buiH or maintained by a political
organization. They can only be prop
erly built and maintained under a
competent engineer’s direction, gov
erned hy a non-political commission^
as in Newberty county, and otha?
nearby counties.
J. F. JACOBS.
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At all stores.
Ask for the big package
for a dime.
Next year there will be an election. I
Should the upper part of Youngs!
township secede before that time, the
county highway system and county
road and bridge maintenance question.
H. n. HENRY
F. M. Poland
As a result, we spend a great deal of economical and efficient ex
money each year (upwards of $100,000 county taxes for road wd
a year in recent years) for county bridge maintenance, and the making
road and bridge maintenance, while | best use of the chaingang fore-
many of the roads are deserted and | become red-hot questions the
are washed into gullies; bridges un
built where they ought to be buijft, a
little new highway building done, but
precious little; and the people, at least
a large percentage of them, extremely
county over. Candidates will probably
be called upon to announce their atti
tude towards theiC red-hot questions.
If the people wake up to the point
where they will expr^?? '^hemselves
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