The Green Forest tribune., 1911-12-15
THE BOOSTER BANQUET.


 the second anr al banquet, which was given by the club at the Basin Park Hotel in Eureka Springs last Saturday night.
 There were about 150 boosters and guests present, and the true booster spirit was manifested on every hand. The slogan of this meeting was good roads. The principal promoters of the Great White Way through Benton county were present and told us how 1t was done.
 w. H. (Coin) Harvey was the lead- ing speaker of the evening, and the address he delivered should have been heard by every citizen of Northwest Arkansas whether Booster or Rooster. He is the man who conceived the idea of building the Great White Way, the immense turnpike that now traverses Benton county from end to end. It is an enterprise that has spread the fame of our sister county over the entire southwest and has immortalized its citizenship as the most enterprlslng people to be found.
 Gel. Harvey dwelt long and pains takingly upon the benefits to be derived from good roads, especially from great highways like the White Way, He says that such roads properly distribut- ed over the country will do away for ever and ever with the transporation monopolies, for it is a fact demon strated by the simplest figures that gasoline power when applied to auto mobiles and auto trucks on good high ways furnishes several times the cheap est mode of traf1ic OH earth, and not only that, but it is quicker by many odds. Automobiles already compete with passenger trains for rapidity of transit. Products of the farm can be loaded for market at the field on auto trucks and unloaded at the market, disposing Of the iob as quickly as it could be put on board the steam cars. IL brings the nearby markets to the very door of the farmer. Goods roads are the hope of the country. They will open an avenue through our industrial interests that will be nothing short of a revolution. The only thing lacking even now E for the people to get the spirit.
 E. B. Cutlery made a splendid talk along the same line and praised the good work of Col. Harvey, whose ideas and work have already multiplied the real values in q large portion of Ben ton county. Mi. Cutlery said the men who had built the Great White Way are of Che "can-do-it" variety. The ''can t-do-its" have been encountered, however. Like the poor they arc al ways with US, and they serve their purpose He says 3 certain amount of knocking $ necessary to stimulate boosters. Ite ikened the situation to a story he had heard about fleas on 9 dog. 1t tailet, about 50 many fleas to oc- cupy dog attention to keep him from worrying over the fact tnathe is dog.
 in bringing this booster meeting to this eounty our Benton county neigh bors hoped to help instill into our people the good road enthusiasm that will bring the Great White Way on through Carroll county, touching Eu- reia Springs, Berryyille, Green Forest, Harrison and Jasper.
 The building of good roads at the present time ie only 2 secondary object of the association. The foundation of the organization is to educate the peo- pie to the possibilities of good roads and have the country in position to secure national aid, which will as sure Iy come to good roads as it has to the improvements of rivers and other meth ods of transportation.
 RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
 Resolved: That it is the sense of this meeting that the building of a system of good roads in Northwest