The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
PLAN ROAD CLUBS THROUGHOUT SOUTH Will Be Feature of Good
 Roads Special IS OF VITAL INTEREST Every Place in South That Special Train Stops a Club Will Be Formed Whose Motto Will
 Be Good Roads"

Washington, May 5.-(SpeciaLl-- Plans are being made by the Ameri- can Association for Highway Improve ment to form local road clubs through out the entire south. Working in con- Junction with the officers of public scnools of the United States department of agriculture and the Southern Rail- way company, which has adopted the novel method of sending a road inn provement exhibit train throughout the south, the American Association High way Improvement will make efforts to form a road association or club at each stop along the route.
 With this end in view ". D. Brown, who holds the position of organizer on l the staff of the association, has been assigned to accompany the train start | ing at Uniontown or Demopolis May S | or 9. MT. Brown is not with the train, Charles P. Light, former state high way commissioner of West Virginia, now special representative of the as- socia ton, will replace him. The two men are working together on plans for leaving a trail of road clubs behind the improvement special"
 The American Association for High way Improvement was formed to cor relate and harmonize the efforts of all existing organizations working for road improvement. More than a score of the biggest existing associations have joined the association, which has it's headquarters at the national capital and scores of others have made applica- tion for associate memberships.
 The plan of the American Association for Highway Improvement is to provide the whole country with a network of road clubs which will work together toward giving the United States com plete system of public roads. The road special now travelling through Alabama was decided upon after a conference be- tween President Finley of the Southern Railway company, the officials of the government office of public roads and those of the American Association for Highway Improvement The associa- tion will supply all local clubs that may be formed with the outline of a consti- tuition and bylaws and instruct them in the meth ods that may be adopted to bring about improved roads. Persons desiring to form clubs will be instructed that they can be of vast assistance in solving the problems do road adminis- tration, construction and maintenance; that they can and should aid the local road authorities in carrying out in the best manner the duties which their sev- eral positions require of them and at the same time the road club should not hesitate to insist upon efficient and thorough work on the part of the road authorities Those desiring to form clubs in the various towns will be in- structed how to go about obtaining state aid and even the services of ex. perts employed by the United States government. The representatives of the American Association for Highway Inn provement will show them the way to actually bring about improved roads in their own territory.
 The local road club phase of the good roads movement is of vital interest to every town in the south since it means the application of new methods and vast improvements in each locality. Every town in the south has it's opportunity now to take it's place among the fore- most good roads cities in the United States.
 As all points where organizations have already been formed the efforts of organizer will be directed towards strengthening the existing association.