The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-22
GRAFT |S HERE FOR !. CONFERENCE TODAY Will Also Appear as Witness
 in Oyster Trial TALKS GOOD ROADS Thinks Alabama Should Stop Running After So Many "Isms" and Take
 Up Good Roads Work
 in Earnest
TALKS GOOD ROADS

FoY the purpose of attending meet ing of the executive committee of the Ala bama Good Roads association today, and of appearing as a witness in the prosecu- tion in the criminal court tomorrow of a local firm charged with violating a sec ton of the oyster commission bill, John Craft of Mobile is in Birmingham. MT. Craft, as Is known. is president of the Good Roads association and of the oyster commission of the state.
 'The executive committee of the Good Roads association" stated MT. Craft, will meet for the purpose of codifying the records of the recent convention in Birmingham, and of discussing means of financing the association.
 we will take some atcion toward di- verting the minds of the people from is sues and 1sms, and concentrating them on the necessary improvements which must be made in Alabama. We have a faction here advocating local option and control of the railroads, and another in- sisting that the railroads be let alone.
 As resultthe people do not think of good roads, which are absolutely es- sential, and of developing the latent water power of the state and of many other things that are really of import ance"
 In course of his interview on good roads, MT. Craft made the announce ment that an effort would be made by the association in Alabama to arouse he ;ptaract nf Gaporase to etiII ftr- ther extent over state highways. The How first to be delivered will take the form of an address by Congressman John l.. Burnett shortly after the be- cinning of the session of Congress in December.
 During our convention" stated MT. Craft Congressman Burnett made 0 brilliant speech This speech he will repeat in Congress and he will also give an account of the work of the association in Alabama. We are ex- pecting great things, for the people are becoming aroused to tpe importance of the work"
 The oyster commission, according to MT. Caft, is exerting every effort to the end that the regulations in reference Co the sale of oysters be obeyed to the letter. T have just read,' he said. where two people in Gadsden were suffering from the effects of having eaten oysters alleged to have been bad.
 '1 am writing now to J. A. Julian of Mobile, secretary of the commission, in- structng him to investigate this shipment in order that it might be established whether the oysters were unsound when they left Mobile, or whether they be- came bad as d result of having keep kept on hand too long a time
 'The case in Birmingham. which will be tried ing the criminal court tomorrow, is based on an alleged violation of a sec ton or two of the oyster bill. J. H. lnge of Mobile the attorney of the eommis- sion will he on hand to aid in the prose cution. The commission is on the alert and conditions, as a whole, are good. v
 Other well known visitors last night were Dr. w. Fl. Oates of Montgomery, state mill and jail inspector, and Frank Stollenwerck of Montgomery, representa- tive of that county in the legislature.