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

l Miss Alma Rittenberry, who is more in- | terested in "The Jackson Highway" even | than she is in the fine vegetable garden that she has, and the great amount of milk and butter that she attends to herself and Is proud to tell her friends about it. is not only a splendid, enthusiastic work CT, but a writer of ability and force, whose articles are read by the large following, that many of the prominent magazines boast of. among the last recruits . of which is the Southern Good Roads Maga- bzne whose editor Mir. H. B. Warner, is chairman of our distinguished towns mans CHon. oscar w. Underwood cam paign in North Carolina.
 Finding Miss Rittenberry busy at her
 home the other day interrupted her long | enough to get word about ''The South
 ern Good Roads Magazine" and a recent word about "The Jackson Highway" of | which she is the efficient chairman, In her usually enthusiastic manner Miss RittenberryA said:
 "Yes, am going right out on the road to work for the Southern Good Roads
 Magazine. It is a southern magazine, well edited, and published to help the people as
 well as to help the editor. My object in going into the work of soliciting subscrib- CTS and advertisements for 1t is the same,
 and 1t takes money to keep up the work
 of the Jackson Highway, which we know
 issa surety, but we want 1t speedily built. :" The recent Southern Commercial Con gress at Nashville was highly in favor of the Jackson Highway" I ventured. "I should say it was," came the quick reply. Il was delighted with the recogni-
 ton that the Southern Commercial Con gress gave the work. The Jaekson High way and the National Highway, the pig
 road from New York to Atlanta, possibly
 into Mobile. were indorsed by this im- portant body, most heartily
 l The study of good roads is'a faelnat- ns subject, l suggested. particular at
 this season of>the year.
 Yes" replied Miss Rittenberry Tt is wonderfully interesting Roads lead every ! where and from everywhere They are
 like Suffrage as old as creation. It is
 said the roads of Egypt were splendid
 during Cleopatra's reign. The history of | roadmalxing extends back over period
 of 2510 years. The Romans learned the
 art of making paved roads from the l Carthagenians, and the Roman roads nave always been regarded as models from which to copy and plan for present day work"
 There is much road building go- ing on all over the country; people are
 waking up to the fact that good
 highway through the country is the
 best investment that can be made
 While it increases taxes (as we or . the sunny side of Red mountain know : since the Board of Revenue lowered the ] grade and widened the Twentieth street road across the mountain), II also en- hances the value of your land. Presi-
 dent w. w. Finley of the Southern railway, who has done and is doing SC
 much for the cause of good roads. say.
 that every improvement in a highway be 1t waterway, or a wagon road
 means an enlargement of the oppor.
 tunlties of all those engaged in any kind ofebusiness contiguous to it." ? "Of course, the farmersis the one wht | Is most benefited by the good roadl ! proposition,' l remarked.
 Yes, most directly and vitally in , lterested," was the reply, but it eff 5 fleets every one of us, inasmuch as WI
 are all interested in the welfare of thu
 farmer and in the conditions of coun
 ,try life being such as to stop the drif
 of the sons and daughters of our farm CTS into the towns and cities 'and in ! crease the aggregate production of ou farms. Unless this can be done, tn problem of feeding and clothing ou : people and maintaining our presen standard of living promises to grov more difficult from year to year. Bankhead says: Good roads are ave . . nues of progress, the best proof Of ,n telligence; they aid the social and religion ! advancement of the people; they increas
 the value of products; they save time labor and money; they are the initia sources of commerce, which swell i ! great streams and flow everywhere, dis Itributing the products of our fields. for ests and factories. The highways are tn common property of the country, thei
 benefits are shared by all, and all shout
 contribute to them.
 What effect. has the automobile ha