Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-01
AUTO CONGRESS
WILL FAVOR AID
FROM i. s.
Incoming Members Declare for
General Highway Movement
With Subsidy.

With rare exceptions the rev con-
gressmen who win begin their duties in
washington with the incoming admin
istration are pronouncedly in favor of
Federal aid in improving the highways
Of the country In connection with the
preparation for the forthcoming second
Federal aid convention. to be held at
the national capital March 6 and Z,
these expressions from various memr
bers-eect have been received:
c. F. Curry Third California: q be-
lieve in national participation and Fed
eral aid in highway construction. in in
terstate highways reaching into every
section of the country. provision for the
payment of which shall be equitably
apportioned among the several states
ami the Federal government, when a
proper basis of cooperation for the
contraction of such roads shall have
been arrived at.
FRANK L. u NARY T-iSllbtulu
nois: Speaking to the point, will say
that l am in favor of good roads and
that the government shall formulate
system by which government aid may
be bountifully extended in assisting in
the upbuilding of our roads all over the
country"
~. S. Should Ad.''
Allen w. Barkley, First Kentucky:
Nothing would conduce more to the
prosperity and happiness. of our people
than general system Of improved
highways and I am convinced If this
result is to be brought about the ma
tional government should cooperate
with the states in the permanent i'm
provement of their roads"
Allan B. Walsh, Fourth New Jersey:
"A network Of good roads we'll made
and properly maintained would, 1 be-
lieve be q large factor in the fuller
development and more thorough unfit
cation of the whole country. Proper
maintenance of roads when made tends
toward economy Both the making and
maintenance of good roads would seem,
therefore, to be important objects of
state anu DdIlOQ8I
Howard Sutherland, member of con-
gress- at-large, West Virginia: 81 have
advocated Federal aid in the building
OF good roads for many years and will
do all that lies within my power to adj
vance the Federal aid plan and assist
in every other way in agitating the
subject of good roads and in building
them"
1t is worthy Of note that many boards
of trade and automobile clubs have
called upon their representatives in
congress to serve as delegates to the
Federal aid convention. In several in
stances. eX-governers OF states who
have interested themselves greatly in
the good roads movement have been
named and will positively be present.
4 Prominent in the list is Ex-Governor
4 James Brady, of Idaho, who has also
Just been elected as senator from that
& state, to succeed the late Senator Hey
Fl burn.
List Is Growing.
The list of delegates named by gov
IL errors to officially represent their states
has in the past week been increased by
"A large NUMBERS. IN THIS HIST is T.. >.
ii Stetson, chairman Of the National
Grange executive committee. as Off
s cial delegate from the state of Maine.
ri Stetson had already agreed to address
the convention and 1t will be of great
interest to have from the official rep
Fesentative of the farmers their view
point on the good roads question.
very interesting item of news to
he farmers Of America is the fact that
Several influential railroad managers
ire enthusiastically in favor Of i'm
proved trunk line highways and will do
nat they can to encourage congress
N putting through the right sort Of
ederal aid law. Railroad men, with
ear vision, see that the development
good roads and the increased use of
pc motor vehicle is bound to swell the
8oume of their own business, particu-
rIy through those vast areas of the
ountry not yet fully developed. The
$reater part of the American continent
pm belongs to this partly developed
assification