Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-21
MODEL. FOR OTHERS
Montgomery County Selected
by Federal Government.
FORMAL MENTION OF PLAN
Federated Women's Clubs to Meet
Thursday, When Details
Will Be Given.

With the promise made in advance that
they will hear the first formal announce
ment of the plan of the federal govern
ment to make of Montgomery county the
model county in the United States, the
Federated Women's' Clubs of Mont
gomery county will hold their annual
meeting Thursday at the Columbia Coun-
try Club, Chevy Chase, Md. Mrs. Robert
Warfield. the county president, has is
sued the call for the meeting, and she
will preside. Mrs. William c. Ellicott of
Baltimore, president of the state fedora
ton, also will be present and at the
country club all of the delegates will be
the guests of the Newcomb Womans
Club, OF which Mrs. Morris Croxall is
president.
Chief interest attaches to the meeting
because the program will include an adj
dress by Willet M. Hays, assistant sec
rotary of the Department of Agriculture.
and it is stated that the feature of Mr..
Hays talk will include an outline Of the
governments proposal to undertake i'm
provement enterprises of wide scope in
Montgomery county Residents of the
county and automobilists of the capital
in general are familiar with the results
secured to the county by the govern
ment-inspired project of building a
stretch of experimental road all the way
from Chevy Chase Circle to Bradley Lane.
Road Used for Experiment.
In this project the bureau of public
roads of the Department of Agriculture
placed in service half-mile stretch of
road which is subject to strenuous use
and on which it's experts can watch the
effects Of traffic. Eight different kinds Of
bodybuilding or road-preserving materi-
ais were used in this experiment and the
results Of usage under all conditions will
give to the experts an exact basis upon
which to continue their campaign of
good roads education throughout the
country.
But, while the government secured
fine stretch of experimental roadway,
Montgomery county gained an unusually
level and serviceable boulevard, and it
is expected that Mr.. Hays will make an
nouncement of the departments plan to
extend this same sort of experimental
| work all over Montgomery county.
Montgomery County Selected.
Officers of the Federated Women's Clubs
in making the announcement of Mr..
Hays address have said that the Depart
ment of Agriculture has been perfecting
its plans for some time, intending to take
one of the nearby counties in Maryland
or Virginia for all of the experimental
work of it's different bureaus And Mont
gomery county has been chosen.
Besides describing the continuation of
the experimental road work which is pro-
posed, Mr. Hays will tell about the inter-
est of the bureau of soils in giving actual
demonstration to its scientific work in
soil improvement, soil analysis and to the
selection of crops to which the soil of the
county is bsst suited.
Similarly he will deal with the extern
sion of the work of the bureau of edu-
cation In the Montgomery county schools.
The experimental work of other bureaus
OF the department proposed to be done in
the county also will be outlined.