Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-08-30
ROAD CONGRESS
SOON To MEET
Important Matters to be
Considered at Atlantic City

Approaching the Importance of
the plan of the American Road Con-
gress, which is to be held in At
lantic City September 80 to Octo-
Der 5, to handle the road problem
in a scientific manner, S. s. Greg
DRY, president of the American Bar
Association, acting under instruc-
tons from his executive committee,
has appointed a committee to CO.
operate with the congress in the leg
islative section which i; to consti-
tute one portion of the program.
Frederick E. Wadhams, of AL
bany, N. Y; William D. Schier, of
Boston, and Henry D. hstabrook, of
New York, compose the committee
which will represent the American
Bar Association and have full charge
Of the legislative section of the
American Road Congress. The COM
mittee will aid in the selection Of
the speakers for the legislative Sec
ton and will use their influence to
induce all State Bar Associations
and members of state legislatures to
cooperate in the work.
In placing the Legislative section
under the auspices of the American
Bar Association, just as the High
way Education section is to be I'M
der the auspices of the Society for
the Promotion of Engineering Edu-
cation, the directors of the Ameri-
can Road Congress have made GER
tain the fact that practical plans
will be adopted in the handling Of
road legislation in the future. 1t is
intended to have a clear and con-
else discussion Of the model state
aid bill drawn up by the United
States Office of Public Roads and to
eTolve a definite program of legis-
lation to be supported consistently
in the future by the American Bar
Associations.
One of the great aims of the
American Road Congress, which
con%solidates the conventions of the
American Association for Highway
improvement, the American Auto
mobile Association and the National
Association of Machinery and Ma
terial Manufacturers, is to have the
work of the congress go forward
long after its sessions have ended.
In the Legislative section, for in
stance, it is hoped that a great
working organization will have been
perfected SO that al. the State Bar
associations will be using their in
luence with their own legislatures
to eliminate loosely-drawn road leg
islation and substitute compact laws
of the most modern kind.
Under the present system of road
management in the United States,
the laws governing the construction
and maintenance of roads are as
many and varied as the number of
states In the Union. With the Amer
lean Bar Association laying down
the principles upon which model
laws should be based and all the
State Bar associations enlistlng in
the movement for the future, 1t is
believed that the American Road
Congress will have laid the founda-
ton for a uniform system of laws
governing the construction and
maintenance of roads throughout all
the states in the Union.
Logan Waller Page, director of
the United States Office Of Public
Roads, who is the president of the
American Road Congress, in COM
menting upon the fact that the
American Bar Association had taken
charge of the Legislative section of
the congress, said hat all the other
sections of the big convention in At
lantic City would have the same kind
of scientific management.