The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-02-18

as q help to the farmer. Our schools
and churches would be greatly
helped the social life of the country
would be improved. The saving
that would result in the hauling OF
farm products and fertilizers would
be astonishing We shall publish
later an extended report of Mr.. Par
ker's speech
Two points were emphasized in the
address of DIR. George T. Winston,
the first that bad roads in this State
cost our people &c. 900, 900 annually,
but because it is an indirect tax the
people prefer to pay it rather than
spend a few hundred thousand per
year for good roads /; second, that
the bad condition of our highways,
more than any other one thing, is
responsible for the too rapid drift of
population from country to town. 1t
follows naturally, therefore, If our
abandoned farms are to be reclaimed,
if farm values are to be increased
or oven maintained, we must have
better roads.
In the note from Fred R. Crane,
an Illinois farmer, which we pub,
lish in another column, he says that
the most potent argument in behalf
of better roads in Illinois is that
good roads and rural free delivery of
mails are inseparable-the farmer
cannot enjoy the advantages of free
mail delivery unless the roads are
kept in good condition. It looks as
if this fact is to aid the good roads
movement in North Carolina also,
for no speech in the Congress at
tracted more attention than that of
Superintendent A. W. Machen, of
the rural free delivery service, re-
garding it's relation to good roads.
related the history of rural free
delivery and talked of it's advantages,
but these SUBJECTS are not new to
PROGRESSIVE FARMER readers. He
did make it very plain, though, that
rul al free delivery routes will not be
maintained where the carriers must
traverse neglected roads.
Senator Simmons appeared unex
peotedly, and made a good speech.
His declaration that the State ought
to take it's oonvicts off the eastern
farms and put them at work on the
public roads, was loudly applauded.
In the afternoon, DIR. Charles D..
Mower delivered a thoughtful
speech, an outline of which will
probably appear in next weeks Pro
GREssIVE FARMER.
THE ORGANIZATION.
The organization of the "North
Carolina Good Roads Association"
completed Thursday evening.
The officers are as follows:
President-P. 81. Hanes, of Win
ston-Salem.
Secretary. A. Holmes, of Chapel
Hill.
Treasurer-Jos. q Brown, of Raj.
eigh.
The following district Vice. Presi.
dents were elected
First-R. R. Cotton, Bruce.
Seoond-W. R. Cox, Penolo.
Third-William Dunn, Newbern.
Fourth-Dr. R. 81. Lewis, Raleigh.
Fifth-A. w. Graham, Oxford.
Sixth-Capt. A. B. Williams,
Fayetteville.
Seventh-Robert N. Page, Bisooe.
Eighth-Theo.F F. Kluttz, Salisbury.
Ninth-Capt. S. B. Alexander,
Tenth-George S. Powell, Ashe-
Vile.
The Executive Committee COASTS ts
of the President, Secretary, Treas
urer, and the following other gentle
men: Messrs. S. L. Patterson, of
Raleigh, A. W. Graham. of Oxford,
W. A. Riddiok, of Raleigh, and Paul
Garrett of Weldon.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The following six resolutions in
to good roads work may be
saken as the platform of the Associa-
tion at this time:
"ReSOLved 1, That we endorse the
work of the Office of Public Road In.
quiries of the United States Depart
of Agriculture, for the better
ment of the public highways of the
country, and that we believe that
this office should be enlarged into a
bureau of the Department of Agri-