Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-01
APPROVE HIGHWAY POLICY:
Federal Good Roads Move
ment Given Official Com
mendatiOn.

Formal approval of the policy of federal
cooperation with the states in highway
construction and maintenance character
lied the annual meeting of the board of
directors of the American Highway AS
ISOLATION held in this city this week. The
decision of the association is of vital i'm
portance to every state interested in the
Improvement of it's public roads.
Until the present time the American
Highway Association has not through its
board taken a definite stand in the matter
of federal aid except by resolution at the
annual road congress in which it pledged
it's association TO the congressional joint
committee. Its efforts have been con-
fined principally to educational and adj
visOry work in all the states. aiding in
the formation of road Improvement as
sociatiOns in the various states and mu-
inequalities and assisting in the drafting
of uniform laws for highway building.
maintenance and supervision.
An invitation to confer with the joint
committee of Congress investigating the
subject of federal aid with view to de-
termining whether or not such a system
would he practicable. and. if So what
form the federal aid shc3ld take. I'M
doubtedly led the board of directors of
the American Highway Association to
take definite stand in the matter. and
Immediately following the meeting of the
board the members conferred with Sena-
tor Bourne of Oregon. chairman of the
joint congressional COMMITTEES. and his
fellow members of that committee. in re-
Spouse to the invitation extended some
time ago.
Confirm Pages Action.
The members of the board of directors
who were present at the annual meeting
were Logan Waller Page president of the
association. who is also director of the
United States office of public roads: w.
W. Finley. president of the Southern
railway. who is chairman of the as
sociation's executive committee; Alfred
Noble, the eminent past president of the
American Society of Civil Engineers: ].
NJ. Goodell. former editor of the En-
gineering Record: George G. Diehl, chair
man of the gooi roads board of the
American Automobile Association; A. q.
Batchelder, chairman of the executive
committee of the American Automobile
Associations: George w. Cooley, state
highway engineer of Minnesota; j..
+. Nelson. representing the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway Company; Jesse Tay-
Tor. president Ohio Good Roads Fedora
ton. and A. II. Huston of Columbus,
Ohio. The consensus of their opinion
was that there should be federal Coop
Grafton in highway construction and that
the best results could be obtained by
improving those main highways which
carry the greatest volume of tonnage and
serve the largest number of people, with
an eQuita BILE distribution of such highway
improvement among the states. At the
twO-hour conference with the joint con-
gressional committee the views of promi-
nent members of the board of directors of
the association We're made known, and
will probably have much influence on the
final judgment of Congress.
The members of the board of directors
passed resolution confirming the action
of President Page in approving the en-
ploynent of j. r. Pennybacker. secretary
Of the association as statistician of the
congressional joint committee and eX-
pressing appreciation of the honor done
the association in this appointment