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$30,000,000 FOR ROADS A YEAR. Governor Cooi>er Will 1'rge a Law Extending Over Six-year Period. Speaking before the county supervi* sors of the State, Governor Cooper expressed the hope that South Caro\ lina might be able to spend $20,000,000 a year for six years in the construction of permanent highways. "I realize." said the governor, "that if I had made this suggestion 10 years ago that you would have thought that I was crazy. But the war has taught us to think in bigger terms. We have seen the sum of " " " ~~A ?'?nnor flip DeO ?10U,UUU,VUV Icliscu auw*-, x - pie in subscriptions for war pur. poses. Why cannot the State spend $120,000,000 in six years 011 some thing so vitally necessary to its future as improved roads?" The governor declares that if South Carolina is to keep pace with the other States of the nation it must build permanent highways. Men are not coming to South Carolina and buy farms on unimproved highways when they can go to Georgia, Florida and North Carolina and buy them on improved highways. The governor says quite frequently you hear of a prospector coming down from Michigan or some other State and looking over a farm with a view to purchasing. He leaves after the trip of inspection and nothing else is ever heard from him. The bad roads have knocked the chances of selling him any property in the head. Governor Cooper says the solution of the race problem lies in attracting more white settlers to the State. This cannot be done, he says, until we ; have built better roads. The governor told the supervisors that he expected to ask the State highway engineer to have three bills prepared. One would provide for a r,i"*" T-/10c hiiilt nwnpd oicice a * slciii ui i uaua, ~ and maintained by the State. The second would provide for a county system of roads, built, owned and maintained by the counties. The third would provide for roads to be built by the counties but with State aid along the same line as the aid extended to the weak schools. These bills, he said, he would submit to the members of the general assembly fin their consideration. Confidence was expressed by the governor that the next general assembly would provide funds for the construction of permanent highways, and he urged the supervisors to begin making preparations this year with this in view. He urged them not to start on something too expensive, something that they could not keep up. GIANT SHIP JUST MISSES MINE. Leviathan Narrowly Escapes Explosion Off New Foundland. , New York, April 27.?The giant ' tvnnn ohir* T^viflthnn with 12.000 soldier passengers, the last of six transports to arrive here today, bringing in 22,972 men, missed a mine by only 30 feet while off the Grand Banks of New Foundland Tuesday morning, her officers reported when she docked. ; Officers of the ship said that the ijeviathan had been warned to look crut for a floating mine the day before by the transport Mount Vernon, which had preceded them. On receipt of the radio warning the course of the Leviathan was changed and she sailed nearly 100 miles to the southward of the location of the mine as given by the other transport. ^ Infernal Machine Sighted. The floating infernal machine was sighted dead ahead of the transport, the officers said, at 10:30 a. m. by Lieut. Commander Harold Cunningham, who was on the bridge. Quick thinking and quick action was all that averted a collision. A desperate whirl of the wheel sent the great steamship past the mine with margin of safety of 10 yards. None of the soldiers aboard knew until they had docked how close they had been to danger, for the officers kept the incident to themselves, believing that if it became known it * - , mignt cause neeaiess aiarm. DIARY OP LIEUT. BRUCE. (Continued from page 2, column 1.) solving problems. The entire division is billeted hereabouts in what is called the Chatillon sur Seine Area. Dec. 18. Grancey.?Hurrah! We are getting leave, the first batch leaving today. This is certainly a muddy town. We have band concerts on Sunday, in the Plaza, opposite the church. All the Jeune filles come out ^ and flirt with the soldats. -V Dec. 25. Grancey, France.?Xmas Day. Our thoughts are homeward tori? v. Packages from home. Oh. vou chocolates. v Dec. 31. Grancey.?New Year's ; Eve. Everybody's making all the noise they can. Resolutions are being formed that will remain unbroken?until tomorrow. EDWIN C. 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