?IR, COOK "ON THE ROAD" AGAI> Not an Ardent Admirer of Men fron Missouri-As to "Pen" Law. Madison, April 15, 1921. Editor Keowee Courier: In regard to the financial troubler, of the County .Supervjior, will sa> that so far as we are Individuall) concerned we do not think it will hurt us much, for Mr. Shockley tc build the "missing link" on the new road owing to the fact that tho new steel bridge across Chauga will prob ably be completed in about two week? and the old, abandoned railroad bed is b?ing repaired from Westminster to Tugaloo river. When lt is finished we will have the best road from Westminster to Tugaloo rlvor that we have ever had, and ono of the best roads in tho county. I wus Just writing because t wai in sympathy with tho citizens of the whole coun try north of Madison to Long Creek and to tho North Carolina line. That country is full of roads and several mail routes. Many of the roads are practically impassable now, and il there is no work dono on them until next year they will have to be aban doned. Mr. 'Editor, how do you expect to got your paper circulated through that country without any roads? The mail carriers haven't any flying ma chines. They will have to have roads or abandon the mail routes. "Mr. Shockley is- told that If bc ""exceeds his 19'21 appropriation for roads he will land In tho peniten tiary." If that is law, why has ll never, been enforced until now? ll that law had been put In force the penitentiary would have been fuR ol Supervisors from Oconee county. We know that lt has been the usual cus tom for the last twenty years for our Supervisors to borrow money from the State Sinking Fund Commission to run the county business each year. Why discriminate and make an exception of Shockley? It seoma that tho ex->SupervIsor did not have any appropriation bounds at all. lt seems that when his term expired he went out of office In debt about aa much as Mr. Shockley's appropria tion amounted to. He has not been landed In the penitentiary-or, If so, we have not heard of it. Now, r, say that "we aro from Now, brother, you aro pori ..ole?me to that much hoi - ? id that tho Alis soudan ne/or- believes anything that he hears because he always bases his opinion of the other fellow upon himself. Wo remember that United States Senator ?>Reed, made famous by deserting his own party in Con gross, also was from Missouri, and now lt seems thnt we have a Missou rian in Walhalla who thinks it just right for Mr. Shockley to desert his friends-his roads, his mall routes, his reputation and all-Just to please one Missourian. But Mr. Shockley will only do that when he ls obliged to. J. A. Cook. ? Local Notes from I iii tie River. Little River, April 16.-Special: Tho farmers are enjoying a few days of wet weather after such flue wea ther for the past month. The farm ers have done much more work this spring than was done this time last year. Mrs. J. L. Talley ls spending a few days with her son, W. H. Talley, ot Salem. -Elisha P. Holden ls spending a few weok8 with home folks. Mr. Holden has been a patient In the Greenville (Base Hospital for tho past sis months. Wo hope ho will bo enjoy ing perfect health soon. Mr. and Mrs. P. N. Bryson made a business trip to Seneca recently, Mr. Bryson is numbered among our most progressive farmers and baa plenty of corn and drives fine stock, Claude Pearson and family, of Flat ShoaTS, were recent visitors to rela tives and friends in this community, Joe Cantrell, of Keowee River, spent a short while recently with bia fathor, Ri L. 'Cantroll. Ho reports a great deal of farm work done In his section of tho county also. Rev. Jeffcoat filled his appoint mont at Smeltzor school house lasl first Sunday night. There being a good attendance, he left an appoint ment for the next first Sunday ot fi o'clock p. m. Everybody Is cordially Invited to attend. E. A. Porry, of Salem, was visit ing rolatlves and friends in this sec tion tho past week. R. L. Madden hns boon doing fine work at bridge building for our sec tion. Wo cortainly wore glad to see it, for it was needed long ago. Miss Ida Holden Is back with her home folks after spending a few months visiting relatives and friends at Seneca and Newry. Her many friends hero are Indeod glad to have her among them again. Rov. Pick Alexander will preach I CITIZEN WANTS TO KNOW WHYS I -- " ? i And Wherefores, mid! Who's to Blaine *. in Present County Situation. Editor Koo wee Courier: Like many others, no doubt, we 1 were much interested in your edi torial of the 6 th i DB tant, aiuLavou 1 more so in your reply to Mr. Cook, t in your last issue. t The condition of our county finan- i ces, as revealed by you, are nothing i short of appalling, and we want to e know who Is to blame, Yet?*, the pub- a He ls "asking why" and "to Bave whose neck?" And, if we are not t mightily mistaken, "the public" ls o going to make the effort to find out t and tlx the responsibility for this c deplorable condition of our county's i finances. 1 lt would seem from your first edi- " torial that the cheif reason' for this c "shortage of funds ls the paying out J of $52,000 for a Sinking Fund Com- t mission debt. What particular debt c was this, please? And by what right g was tills money diverted? Was it to J pay maturing bonds issued by Oco- li nee county? If so, theil cnn you tell c us, please, what went with tho sink- I lng fund that we supposed had been t accumulating for these many years? t Wo confess our Ignorance; but we 1 bolieve there are many other tax- f payers In Oconee who are just as much in the dajk as we ar*, and who t aro Just as anxious to be enlightened, li and tho shedding of a little more v light on this situation could be noth- 1 lng but beneficial. li We heartily endorse Mr Cook's t attitude. Our Supervisor has his li convict gang, and we suppose the 1 county will have to manngu to feed s tb em somehow. He also has his ma- f chlnery. so why not ltd. him work s them where, in his judgment, it will ,s do the most god? Of course, were S the Co^ntv Highway Commission dis- I posed to pay Supervisor Shockley on b the' same basis as they are paying s their contractors, whereby bo could tl realize a little profit to'help along s on tho other roads, lt might be dif ferent; but rumor has it that only ti ono member of that board was will- tl lng to that proposition, the others, h thanks, to their frugality, wore only tl willing to reimburse him for the h actual expenses incurred. Some c nerve, to say the least! o It certainly is loo bad for our County Supervisor to be so hamp- ti ered so early in his official career, s Hands tied-"hog tied," you might 0 say-on the one side. On the other I y sido, fining tho penitentiary if he c trios to do anything. Hut somehow ii wo have an abiding faith that Jim j h Shockley can pretty nearly take caro J t of himself if given half a chance The greatest effort, if rumor ls cor- I t root, has been to muzzle him. In ! t ?i fact, we hear "it ain't been done t yet," and may it not be done until | n there has been sufficient light shed a upon the situation, so that every-1 f one may understand just what ls the matter-and who is to blame. W. S. Bearden. Westminster, S. C., R. F. T)., ' April 14th, 1912. Notes from Walhalla Route 2. Walhalla, Route 2, April 18. Special: Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Stegall and Alonzo White, of tho Coneross community, were recent guests of E. C. Stogall. Mrs. Charles Smith and little daughter, Ruth, of Anderson, aro spending a while as tho welcome guests of the former's brothers, W. . A. PELFREY, ADDISON L/BE, Trustees of Unity School Dist. No. 20 April 20, 1921. 16-17