The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-05

on the Good Roads movement?' I asked Everywhere, in spite of prejudice, the automobile creates sentiment for better
 roads. The machine has come to stay and | it is Idle to fight it on the ground that 1t destroys a>road surface. If it does. then we must have a surface that it will not injure. One of the fine features of Good Roads is what they do for the rural school. Why good roads are a genuine sociological work. When we get the Jackson Highway built, which will be, as Hon. Logan Walter Page says, The trunk line supplemented by ntercommuncatins roads, every lane between farms will be improved. Then we will have. consoli- dated schoolhouses The library and the reading room of the school will be the library and reading room of the neighbor- hood. Country people are. hungry for good literature.
 The main assembly rooms of the con solidated schoo1house will be an as- sembly place for public lectures. There may be some 1oafing.' around the school
 house. Men will not go to the country
 store to swap lies and they will not spend so much time in the bar room. l They will sometimes come to the school l house, to the reading room and the lec- ture room. With an established school center, we'll located with regard to nbads and accessibility, churches would soon spring nearby and the location would become a social center. President | R. II. Jesse of the University of Ms
 souri, and MT. Page are both strong advocates of the central school | How does the Jackson highway stand in the estimation of the National Good Roads association?" I inquired.
 The National Good Roads associa- Etion, through Hon. Arthur c. Jackson l of Chicago, it's president. and in which | Hon. John Craft, President of the Ala | s1r nH
 President John w. ONeill. of the Jeff ferson county Good Roads association are directors never fails at its meet l ings to put in good word for the Jack
 son highway. l think it well worth mentioning that the club women of the
 country are taking an interest Tn good roads There are 10000 club women In
 the state of Illinois and they are going
 to send delegates to san Francisco to | the annual convention of Womens clubs, which meets there in June, pre- | pared to stir up greater enthusiasm.
 Mrs. Ross of Auburn Ala, who LOOK
 the initiative in the movement to build
 q national monument to the Titanic he roes. is going to ask their indorsement
 and support of her project.
 "I would to heaven some woman. q do
 not care from where) would take the in
 itiative in launching the project or get
 ting the club women to petition congress to appropriate. IT IT ldheS to bhiiu d tdh-
 al from Cairo, Ill., to the Gulf of Mexico
 parallel with the Mississippi river, believe
 in Federal aid for road building. provid-
 ed the states control it, but l am per
 fectly willing to step aside until The
 Father of Waters has been harnessed
 or partially confined. It is a waste of
 money to build roads in aNfioodeu dis-
 trict. Did you ever hear what s. $. Prem
 tiss said about the origin of the Missis- | lcip ff,-a Ia cnf1
 mighty made the world he had long
 narrow strip of land left and he did not know what to do with 1t. So he LOOK it and threw it as far as he could and
 told it to go and do as 1t d--d pleased 7 It sank into the earth and made the Mis-
 sissipp river and that it had been do- } ing as it d-d pleased ever since. Judg- ing from it's recent capers, we can hard ly doubt Prentiss account of its ori- T gin"
 How is the work for the Jackson High } way mainly carried on?'' I asked. By correspondence. mostly,' said Miss Rittenherry T wish you could know the amount of writing l do, but don't mind 1t when the responses are so prompt anu enthusiastic Any one who will stop 10 think will recognize the feasibility of the } plan, county to county. state to state and r the appropriateness of the name-and I am so busy. Mir. Will P. Blair Of Cleve-
 land, O., the first one to lndorse the Worn.
 wrote to me that it is only busy people : who did anything but I have been re- lieved of some of the work by the chair B men in the states through which the high g way passes I wonder if the public ever l, thinks of how hard the women work that l build our hospitals. churches and monu- a ments-for the women really do the work . The work of soliciting for advertisements in programmes that really do not adver- Q tise but just a form of asking for con, r is often harrassing to the business men. l They have many appeals-but with the
 programmes and. the selling of tickets it l often proves barrassing to the women.'
 
 s pink sweet peas which they carried or e their arms.
 s Miss Florence Golsan of Tyler, Tex
 another cousin. was maid of honor. She s was attired in white lace made over mes n seline and carried a bouquet similar te : those of the bridesmaids. Mrs. R. Nj e Motion, who was her daughters matroi a of honor. was very graceful and distin l gusshed. in a white French voile costume ' made over messaline, and great clus . ter of carnations and sweet peas. Hel : presence in the wedding added to its dig e nity and sweetness.