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' Page Two LENOIR NEWS-TOPIC, HfiBT FEVER OF ROAD BUILDING IN THE STATE J. C Stikeleather, Western Member of Commission, Says $40,000,000 Could Be Spent in West Alone If the Money Was Available "There is a great fever of road building enthusiasm in North Caro lina. The demand for State and Fed eral aid is so great throughout the State that the commission, if it had the money, could spend $40,000,000 in the western part of the State alone. The commission has an avail Able fund of about $4,000,000 this year for the entire State." This was the statement of State Highway Commissioner James G. Stikeleather when an Asheville Citi zen reported asked him if the com mission is experiencing any difficulty in obtaining applications for aid in road construction. The commission ers are gratified at the attitude they have found in all sections of the State and are now starting actual work lo carry out the policy formu lated at the rirst meeting, which ad journed last week at Raleigh. The program for this year consists of two definite aims maintenance of high ways and improvement of bad links in the inter-county trunk line roads of the State. The Asheville member of the high way commission said that he was greatly impressed with the qualifica tions of his associates on the commis sion. Chairman Page is an experi enced railroad builder who takes up highway work in his State with ear nestness and zeal, said Mr. Stoke leather. Mr. Xorfleet is known as the best business man in Winston Salem; Mr. Cameron is a successful farmer and business man; they are aid level-headed business men, said Stikeleather. Mr. Stikeleather stated that the existing field forces of engineers and inspectors are to be retained if they prove efficient in the execution of du ties entrusted to them. Discussing funds available for im mediate use, Mr. Stikeleather said that from the 80,000 automobiles in the State the commission will receive $12 to $1") each, or about $1,000,000. Because of the fact that the Federal apportionment for North Carolina has not been expended in the past two years there is an accumulation from this source, making a total from that source of approximately $3,000, 000, the grand total amount for roads for the vear will be possibCy over $4,000,000. The commission is beginning its work by taking up the question of maintenance of inter-county roads. The State is divided into four dis tricts, one assigned to each member of the commission. Mr. Stikeleather has under supervision twenty-six counties in this part of the State and is now visiting the various boards of commissioners to discuss mainte nance plans with them. There is a million-dollar fund for maintenance in the hands of the commission, or a net sum of $000,900 to $700,000. Maintenance is an obligation laid upon the State by the Federal gov ernment, and is one condition for the appropriation of Federal aid in road construction. The State commission also makes maintenance a condition vhich must be met by all counties. The State commission is now propos ing to meet the counties on a basis of $50 n mile; that sum being the maximum for the commission, the counties to meet it with a like amount. If the maintaining of trunk line roads should cost more, the ad ditional cost must be borne by the county; none of the State mainte nance fund c:in be expended on lat eral or connecting county roads; it is intended for use on the arteries which form part of the State high way system. There is now a total Piatt: mileage of about 3,000 miles of roads and possibly 500 miles will be gilded thU year, said Mr. Stikeleath er. The piyruents for maintenance will be made quarterly, and the work will be subject to inspection by the State highway engineers. In road construction, which is of equal importance in the commission's program, the commission announces that it wiiil give preference first to unimproved or bad stretches in the main highways; second, to isolated counties in the east and west which are remote from the main State trunk lines. In McDowell county, for instance, Mr. Stikeleather stated that there is not a mile or surfaced or even good sand-clay road, although a trunk line passes through that coun ty. In Rutherford the read to Bat Cave is badly in need of improve ment. There is also a number of counties which are cut off from the State highway, and are entitled to udies! iuiei TOUR Wt HAIR Use Grandma's Sage Tea and Sul phur Recipe and Nobody Will Know The use of Sage Tea and Sulphur for restoring faded, gray hair to its normal color dates back to grand mother's time. She used it to keep har hair beautifully dark, glossy and attractive. Whenever her hair took on that dull, faded or streaked ap pearance this simple mixture was ap plied with wonderful effect. But' brewing at home is mussy and out of date. Nowadays, by asking at any drug store for a bottle of "Wy oth's Sage and Sulphur Compound" you will get this famous old prepara tion, improved by the addition of other ingredients, which can 'be de pended upon to restore natural color and beauty, to the hair. - A well known downtown . druggist says it darkens the hair so naturally and evenly that nobody can teiu it lias been applied. You simply damp en a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one strand at a time. By morning the gray hair disappears, and after another application or two it be' com ci beautifully dark and glossy. Look out for Span ish Influenza. At the first sign of a cold take CASCARA ErQUININE -hi tahWt rjtaxxiara coiu icimj j form afc. no opiataa break up cold Standard cold remedy for M yea la J4 hourt relieve grip in 3 day. Money back If It fails. ThairauinebaahataRedtop wu Mr. HUTs picture. At All Drug Stores. aid in making connection with these trunk lines. The character of the road surface which the cjmmissior. w.H favor wll! be determined by local conditions, said Mr. Stikeleather. In counties where there is abundance of natural top soil material roads can be built which will save money for the county and the State, especially now when prices for hard surface in some local ities is excessive. The road from Connelly Springs to Salisbury, said Mr. Stikeleather, is one of the best in the State, and it is constructed en tirely of natural top soil material found along the road side. There is a gravel road that with proper main tenance will give satisfactory service for years. On the other hand, there are counties where there are no de posits of satisfaetoyr road building material, and in such places the com mission believes tha tit is economical to build some form of hard-surfaced highway. All predictions that the optional feature of the Pharr-Matthews road law would cause the progressive and wealthy counties to take the Cead in road building is the limit on funds. The commissioner also made it clear that the priority rule adopted by the commission is the relative impor tance of road work in each commu nity and not the date on which ap plications were filed for aid. WHAT SHOULD BE DONE IF GERMANY REFUSES TO SIGN Military experts, under the direc tion of Marshal Foch, have been charged with the drafting of a re porton what should be done in the event that Germany refuses to sign the treaty of peace. It is indicated that the methods of coercion which the allies would adopt may include the occupation of more German territory, the blockade of enemy ports and the discontinu ance of the dispatch of food supplies to Germany. The naval terms to be incorporated in the peace treaty, concerning the Kiel canal and Heligoland, have been revised. Instead of destroying the fortifications of the canal, makfcig it a strictly commercial waterway, the aEies will leave the present fortifi cations in existence. Frogress of demobilization was an nounced by the war department last Saturday as follows: Total dis charges, 1,769,909. Officers resign ed or discharged, 96,812. Total troops ordered remobilized, 1,949,-000. ABOUT 800,000 TROOPS UNDER BOLSHEVIK FLAG The armies under the command of tke bolshevik government in Russia comprise approximately 800,000 men but only about 250,000 of them are actual combatants, according to in formation received at Berns from sources usually considered reliable. These forces are divided into 15 armies of 17,000 combatants each. Twelve of them are described as com pletely organized. Each army con sists of two or three divisions and each division of two, three or four regiments. The number of officers and men in each regiment varies from a few hundred to 2,000. The first army is under command of Gen. Michael Touhatchevski, who, until the bolshevik revolution took place, was a simple lieutenant in an infantry regiment. His military edu cation is far from complete, but his general staff is composed entirely of officers who formerly belonged to the Russian general staff, so that they compensate for the deficiencies of their commander-in-chief. The second army is headed by a well-organized general staff which in cludes three colonels who formerly belonged to the Russian general staff. The commander-in-chief of the third army is an individual! who, up to the time of the bolshevik revolu tion, was a sergeant in one of the regiments of Siberian infantry. He also is supported by a general staff composed of former Russian staff of ficers. The fact that so many officers of the former Russian army have con sented to serve with the bolsheviki is one of the worst features of the sit uation in Russia. Without them the bolsheviki would have been unable to organize such military forces as are now at their disposal, and their dic tatorship, based solely on violence, would have been ended long ago. The artillery equipment of the boCshevik armies is declared to be very incomplete. A division has, on an average, from five to eight guns. Munitions are said to be scarce and their supply is deficient. Munitions fot the infantry are running short. WOULD GIVE FIVE MM I BOTTLE Railway Superintendent Sayi Tanlac Helped Him to Hold Hi Job "I would give five dollars a bottle for Tanlac before I would be without it," said Joe Owens, division super intendent of the Memphis Street Railway, whose address is Box 131, Memphis, Tenn. "I was getting in mighty bad shape with stomach trouble," he continued, "and was all broken down and tired out. I was so nervous and had such awful headaches thai I could hardly sleep or rest; I could eat but little of anything, for nothing agreed with me; I was simply down and out and don't believe I could have kept my job much longer if I hadn't got hold of Tanlac. "Since starting on Tanlac I have gained five pounds, I eat and sleep just fine and it has strengthened me up and made me feel so much better every way that I can't say enough in its praise." Tanlac is sold by leading druggists everywhere. 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