The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26
DELEGATES HAVE
 REGULAR FEAST TOOthsOme Barbecue Served
 At East Lake DODGE IS SPEAKER Arthur Hooker, Secretary of National Irrigation Congress, Also De-
 flyers Address-Commit-
 tee on Resolutions
DODGE IS SPEAKER

The members and delegates of the Fourth National Good Roads Congress were entertained yesterday at an old fashion southern barbecue held at East Lake. Immediately following the ad- journment of the morning sessions the body were carried In seven special street cars to the place of the barbecue.
 The tables were spread in the grove across the lake and this necessitated a circuitous route around the body of water which was undertaken by many of the delegates on the "dinkey" train. Others went a-foot while few availed them- selves of the little launches operating back and forth. The day was ideal for the barbecue to say nothing of the splen- did list of viands. salads and what not The committee who had this feature of the congress in charge was headed by c. B. Rogers, and he was one of the cen- tral figures at the occasion. Many were heard to say that the barbecue was the best ever.
 Following dinner the crowd were at- tracted to the casino, where a meeting was called to order by Senator John H. Bankhead as chairman, who introduced the first speaker for the afternoon, Sem ator Martin E. Dodge. Senator Dodge continued his address begun shortly be- fore the adjournment of the morning session.
 He delivered an interesting and eio- quent address in which he took the posi- tion as favoring federal aid in the build ing and maintenance of public highways. He also commended the abolition of the convict lease system and the working of the states prisoners on the roads. Sem ator Dodge is one of the best known good roads promoters in the United States to- day.
 The next speaker of the afternoon was Arthur Hooker, secretary of the National Irrigation congress.
 "The United States, more than any failed to grasp the idea of transporta- ton. I would like to show you the image of transportation as a whole. Take a map and trace out the water ways over which tonnage moves; fill in the steam railways over which still larger volume of tonnage moves ; and then trace in the little, narrow, contracted, inefficient, improperly con- structed highways of today over which all of this tonnage is moved before it
 can pass to the ship or the railway.
 Then you will see under what defic- tent system the American people are struggling today.
 l Do you not see that the National Irrigation congress is vitally interested in the success of the good roads move ment for the reason that every pound of produce from the irrigated tract which goes to market must go over some sort of road-good or oakland why not make it a good road?"
 Before the adjournment of the meet ing yesterday afternoon in the casino at East Lake the following committee on gress by the delegations from the va rious states. each of whom selected a member: w. S. West, Georgia, chair man; J. w. Overtown, Alabama; E. J. colcock, South Carolina; A. T. Wit beck. Mississippi; J. L. Saunders, Vir- ginia; J. Whitson, Tennessee; E. B. Bailey, Florida; Rev. George L. Fish, Illinois; J. E. Warner. Missouri; Martin C. Dodge. District of Columbia Robert Hooker. Washington state; W. P. Blair, Ohio; J. D. Clarkson, Maryland; A. G. Batchelder New York; J. Hampden Rich, North Carolina