The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-29
CAMBELL ASKS
NEW ATTITUDE
He Condemns Government
Treatment of Homestead
ers-Cornrntitees Named

treatment OF homestead
ers-Comrntitees Named
Good roads, Improvement of condi.
tions as affecting the homesteaders in
the western part of the state, and the
general advancement Of the state
commercial interests, are the topics
which have commanded the attention
OF delegates attending the annual
meeting of the North Dakota FEEDERS.
tion OF Commercial Clubs which open.
ed in Grand Forks Wednesday even.
ing, and which continued today. The
gathering will adjourn tonight.
AT the session Wednesday evening
resident j. Dexter Pierce and o. NJ.
fhurber were the speakers. This
morning N. *. Mattson held the
speakers included Will Campbell, sec.
retary of the Northwestern Develop.
nent league; D. N. Neill of Red WinR,
president OF the Minnesota Federation
of Commercial clubs. NJ. c. Bachei.
Ter of this city. and several others.
The sessions have been very largely
OF an informal nature. and have been
very interesting.
Al this mornings session Of the
federation the committees were ap.
pointed as follows:
Resolutions-A- A. Davis, C.. 8.
Lyon. T. U. Richmond.
Nominations-E. J. Lander. q. W.
Funk. 6, Iangeland.
Revision Of Constitutions. p.
stine. H. N. johnson. A. A. Lee.
Good Roads-Nels K. Mattson. N.
n. Fuller. A. I. Hunter.
immigration and Emieration-Dr.
Charles McLachlan. e. N. Hegge. G.
E. Fuller.
Expositions-M. G. Bachelor. %. NJ.
Neil. Will c. Campbell.
LansfOrd in the Game.
feature Of this mornings session
was the receipt of a letter announc.
mercial club at Lansford.
The news that a club had been oY.
ganized in this lively little city came
as pleasant surprise to the renre-
sentafives of the various commercial
bodies Of the state and the readinr
or the letter was followed by hearty
hand clapping.
The letter follows:
Gentlemen: Please find enclosed
application and application fee from
tne Lansford Commercial club, which
ciuo desires to be enrolled as a mem.
ner OF your federation. The Iansfnra
commercial club was organized last
night with membership of thirty
business men. and it is the ''up1tfon 1f
az that the club Will be of lasting
benefit to the city and a great 'hain
to the federation II admitted. Please
eau on us at any time for anything
and II it is in our power we WIN he
round cooperating with you"
Inc letter was signed by the new
president, G. G. Banks. and the secra-
tary, William E. Holbein.
Roads Considered.
Ihe entire session this morning was
taken up with a lively discussion of
the good roads problem. many of the
part.
The discussion set forth the fact
that the matter of good roads ia North
dakota boiled down is In reality q
proposition to make two blades Of
grass grow where one grew, before
or to build over the poor roads in tha
state into highways that will save the
farmer and business man time and
money and increase property values
poth IN the city and in the farming
Log drags and dirt came in for their
share Of compliments. and county
commissioners and road overseers who
hang back from doing their duty re.
ceived their due in the form Of lust
criticism.
Learn to Make Highways.
That half OF the men who receive
a -ollege education would be Of con-
siderable more service to the county
at large and their homo community
in particular if they had received a
practical training in good roads
building and could go out into the by-
ways and hedges and accomplish
something for their neighbors and
themselves as well was the contention
OF D: NJ. Neil of Red Wing. Mimi,
Of Commercial clubs.
Mr. Neil asserted that the man who
is going to use the roads and derive
the most benefit from substa antiai
highways is the man who has got to
get out and hustle regardless Of thu
proposition of taxes. He said that
the man who sits down and waits for
the man across the street to take up
the roads matter will never get any
farther along than the place where he
sits--waiting. waiting
Use Brains
Mr. Neil also urged that brains be
put into the building of better roads
Just as brains are put into everything
else that augurs for the betterment Of
the community. He characterized the
making of good roads as a locality
PsoPooAIaoAS anu ucC10I60 InaI th0
fewer hands the money for good roads
purposes had to go through, the more
work could be accomplished in the
right direction.
E. J. Lander. president Of the Grand
Forks Commercial club, suggested
that the townships help themselves in
the matter OF better roads and that
the farmers and business men of each
township make 1t a point to see that
an adequate amount for the work IA
levied. He said that four townships
in Grand Forks county had adopted
this plan.
Central Energy idea.
President Lander urged central en-.
ergy" in the work. saying that this w.
the crux of the entire proposition o.
better roads-the getting together Of
those interested and intelligent ex-
penditure Of the funds at hand for
the work.
Nels K. Mattson Of New Rockford.
secretary Of the Good Roads associa-
ton Of North Dakota. said that he was
not progressive In politics but wac
q progressive In point Of community
and state uphft. He told Of how the
roads were kept up In a'the old couu.
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