The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-13
All in Readiness for the National
Convention Tomorrow.
Sessions Will Be Held i'm Repre-.
sentative Hall.
INTERESTS RAILROADS
Doing Their Best to Make Meet
ing Success.
Commercial Club i'm Charge of
Entertainment Features.

Prospects are beginning to look
bright for a successful gathering of
the good roads enthusiasts of the
country Tuesday and Wednesday Of
this week. 1t will be the occasion of
the tenth annual meeting of the Ma
tional Good Roads association. The
sessions will take place in Repre-
sentative hall unless it is found that
the quarters are not sufficiently
commodious to accommodate the
delegates.
In order to be prepared for
emergency the committee of the Com
mercial club in charge Of arrange
ments has obtained the list of avail
able places where the delegates might
be located, compiled last month by
the committee of the State Teachers
association. The people of Topeka if
necessary. will be called upon to. open
their homes for the accommodation
of the delegates, but it is thought that
the hotels will be able to take care
Of all delegates.
The governors of Florida Iowa,
Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana,
North carolina, Nebraska and Okla
homa have sent in list of delegates
agSregating $40. The mayors and
county commissioners in Kansas have
also sent in something like half a
thousand names of persons who have
been selected as delegates.
CdhlSb re SIFcu1df.
j. NJ. Connell, general passenger
agent of the Santa Fe. has issued a
circular which has been sent to all
agents of the company who are urged
TO arouse local interest in the Topeka
convention. 1t follows in part:
What kind of country roads are there
In your vicinity?
DO the farmers like them
DO the merchants think we'll of them
Do the plain, ordinary, every day citi
Zens approve OF them?
DO either of the classes named haul
the maxim I'm load over them, or do
they have to make the load fit the
road?
Do the citizers-whtfer road users
or not-reCogEize the Importance and
practical economy of good road con-
struction?
Do they realize that good highways
are worth all they cost to build and
rsaintain?
Do they know that good roads mean
reaper transportation for farm and
ether products?
Do they know that good roads in
crease the life of vehicles. save horse
flesh, automobile power and make riding
and driving easier. safer and more
pleasant? -s-1 -
DO they favor movements TO pro
mote better highways?
If they do. then interest them in the
meetings of the National Good Reads
as socfation at Topeka, December IA and
Is.
Talk It: preach it to the citizens.
Arouse local sentiment; that, after
all, must be responsible for the sue
cess of the movement.
Union Pacific Interested.
A letter from N. H. Loomis, general
solicitor for the Union Pacific rail-
road written from New York city state
that r. J. Clancy in the tax department
Omaha has a eli 70 +oiy Il;
Place on the program. To quote from
the letter: Il will ask Mr.. Clancy to
take up with Mr.. Mohler the advisa-
bility of requesting employees of the
company in Kansas to interest them
selves in the matter of this conven-
ton. 1t is certainly good work. and
] am glad that you are so much in
terested in it. 1 will do everything ]
can to help you" Mr.. Mohler is n
vice president of the road.
A news bulletin has been sent out
to the press of the state calling at
tention to the convention