The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-30

| tricts is wiped out by the building of
 new roads the improvement of the old
 ones. Farmers will be shown struggling
 over bad roads, sick from the strain, the | doctor unable to reach them, and finally | the undertaken unable to get them to | their graves. There will be shown in con- | trast the farmer who enjoys good roads,
 hauling big loads comfortably, getting | sick in comfort, the doctor reaching him
 easily and he will be seen on his porch
 watching his neighbor go to his grave smoothly and without hitch.
 The American Association for Highway | Improvement will have the advantage Of being the first organization to show these l pictures. The moving picture feature of l the convention and congress will be one of the stri:ing features of the combi- nation of entertainment and education | that will mark the event.
 | The danger of bad roads to automobil- ists will also be shown in moving picture | form and will particularly appeal to hum | dreds of tourists who will attend the ses- sions of the Touring Club of America. | When the convention is over it is prob | able that most of the films will be shown
 in moving picture houses throughout the United States.
 l Secretary J. F. Pennypacker of the American Association for Highway Im- provement, has received a letter from l d. A fNOuulIte u BlIflllHSltl, SctTtldTy of the Alabama Good Roads association, | asking for particulars of utilization with the national organization.
 Secretary Pennypacker has forwarded the desired information.
 Secretary Rountree's letter states that a number of people interested in the Ala
 hama organization are urging that the state association affiliate with the ma tional association and that the informa- ttn,, ;~ J kafa lao 1f. l,a state convention in Selma in October. If the Alabama Good Roads association desires to affiliate with any larger organ ization, it should accept the invitation of the one referred to. It is headquartered at the national capital, has the sanction of the federal government and is the only highway association in America that is recognized by the International Roads congress, which has headquarters in Paris and is the central head of all the au- thentic good roads movements of the world.
 More than this, the president of the American Association for Highway Jm- provement is none other than Logan w. Page, director of the United States of- | fee of public roads.
 This organization has the personal as well as the official support of President Taft.
 | The Alabama association at it's annual
 meeting at Selma should not neglect to get in line with the national organiza | tion. Alabama needs the semi-offical | assistance that is offered by the larger association and the larger association can be made more efficient by the utilization of the state and other associations. Col. G. w. Newman of Washington who writes special political articles for | The Age-Herad, is literally a walking encyclopedia. He not only has a won derful ready fund of general political and other information that he carries about at the tip of his tongue or on the stub of his pen, but he has an equal capacity for remembering dates and figures. | His very informative articles. all of them teeming with facts and figures of history. are usually written without ref erence to records or books.
 | An instance of Colonel Newman's won derful readiness in retaining facts is given | in the following experience, related to me | by government clerk. The clerk had 1 been asked to prepare a paper on ,he | life of Napoleon for literary society to which he belonged. He remembered | that "Savoyard' had. written about a year before an article on Napoleon that | contained some new facts. He called at | Colonel Newman's home out in the north
 east section of Washington one morning
 and was met at the door by the colonel. | The young man told the colonel what
 he wanted and without hesitation he gave
 the name and date of the newspaper in
 which the article would be found. The | paper had been published about one year previously.
 1 But Colonel Newman did more than | this. He gave the name of number of | books that the young man would find in 1 the Congressional Library and referred | him to volumes and pages where he would find all the information he desired. All this as he stood in the door without reference to memorandum of any Kind | or without hesitation. The young man | found the information just as the colon al | lod 1iraoted