The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-11-26
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ALL ACTIVITIES
FOR GOOD ROADS
National Organization Will
Push Work in States Where
Sentiment Is Ripe
LOUIS v. HILL OF THE GREAT
NORTHERN HEADS ORGANIZATION
Public Highway Systems Rather
Than Disjointed Sections Of Good
Roads Is the Plan Which WILL Be
Carried Out

Roads Is the Plan Which Will Be
Carried Out.
Washington. Nov. 26.-In the or
ganfzatton of the American Associa-
tion for Highway Improvement by q
gathering OF some of the most promi-
nent men In the country at the Co.'S
mos club yesterday national cru
sade for good roads throughout the
country was auspiciously begun.
With this new organization as q
clearing house for all similar move
ments, the work will be systematized
and carried on until the 100000, 900
acres of land now uncultivated are
made productive as result of the
building of thousands of miles of i'm
proved highways.
The biggest railroads in the coun-
try. including the New York Central
lines, the Pennsylvania, the Great
Northern, and the Southern Railway
company, pledged their assistance at
yesterdays meetings. Representa-
tives Of thousands of farmers, auto
mobile, hotel. and other business men
likewise pledged their time and mon
ey to carrying on the great work.
Statistics were produced to prove
that good roads would increase the
productivity of millions of acres Of
uncultivated land. 1t was also shown
that better highways, enabling more
country children to attend distant
schools, would aid the cause Of edu-
cation. Commerce generally through
out the country will be increased ma
terially as result of the plans adopt
ed yesterday.
Will Coordinate Work.
The organization of the association.
which will coordinate all the work
that is being done by various states
organizations, was accomplished
without the slightest hitch. Every
body who attended the meeting was
enthusiastic about the outcome.
Logan Waller Page, director of the
ONCE of public roads of the depart
ment of agriculture, was elected pres
ident Of the new organization.
w. c. Brown, president of the New
York Central lines, who sent word
that he was willing to do all in his
the extent Of giving up considerable
portion of his time in serving on COM
mittees, was elected vice president
Lee McClung, treasurer of the Unit
ed States, was elected treasurer. as
suring careful. accounting of all the
funds that are collected
]. T.. Pennybacker, Jr., now chief of
road management in the department
of agriculture. was elected secretary,
and was authorized to engage perma-
nent headquarters for the association
in this city. w. D. Brown was elect
ed organizer. His work will he to
gather all the other organizations,
having good roads as their object,
into the national body.
The following board of directors
was elected: Louis Hill of the Great
Northern railroad, chairman; James
McCrea, president of the Pennsylvan-
Ia railroad: w. w. Finley, president
of the Southern railway company; B.
F. Yoakum, chairman of the Frisco
railroads system; Logan Waller Page,
DR.. E. ]. James, president of the Uni
versity of Illinois: R. D. Chaplin of the
association of licensed automobile
manufacturers; Bryan Lathrop of the
Lincoln Park commission. Chicago;
Lee Mcclung, treasurer Of the United
States; John NJ. Goodell, editor of
Engineering Record; Melville o..
Stone, general manager of the Asso-
ciated Press; Walter H. Page of
Worlds Work: Alfred Noble. past
president of the American Society of
Civil Engineers; Leonard Tufts, pres
ident of the Capital Highway associa-
tion of Pinehurst, N. j.; LAFAYETTE
Young, senator from Iowa; w. c.
Brown, president of the New York
Central lines; James S. Harlan of the
Interstate Commerce commission;
Joseph W. Jones, John A. Stewart,
Robert P. Hooper, George C. Diehl,
A. G. Spalding. C. S. Barrett. Clarence
Wilson and ]. E. Pennybacker.
Strong Executive Committee.
As an executive committee the fol-
lowing were chosen: L. w. Page. w.
W. Finley, B. F. Yoakum, Alfred Mo-
BILE, Lafayette Young. The committee
on ways and means comprises B. F.
Yoakum. chairman; James s. Harlan,
Chaplin, Joseph W. Jones. The COM
mlttee on membership IS neaded Dy
Melville E. Stone.
Logan Walker Page called the
meeting to order and outlined its pur-
poses. He said that there were too
many engineering and economic prob
lens that would have to be handled,
but with the cooperation already as
sured there was not the slightest
doubt that the movement would be
crowned with success. d
There Ia no state in the union"
said Mr.. Page. "that has a perfect
good roads law. with an administra-
tive force absolutely free from poll
tics. One of the greatest objects of
our organization will be to bring
about perfect laws in the various