Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-15

~ believe in national participation
and Federal aid in highway construc-
ton, in interstate highways reaching
into every section of the country,
provision for the payment of which
shall be equitably apportioned among
the several States and the Federal
government, when proper basis of
cooperation for the construction of
such roads shall have been. arrived
at" SO
Hon. Frank 7. OHair, Eighteenth
Illinois-"Speaking to the point, /
will say that l am in favor of good
roads, and that the government shall
formulate a system by which govern
ment aid may be bouptifully expended
in assisting in the building of our
roads all over the country
Hon. Allen W. Barkley, First Ken
tucky-"Nothing would conduce more
to the prosperity and happiness of
our people than a general system of
improved highways. and L am con-
WINGED if this result is to be brought
a bout the national government should
cooperate with the States in the per-
manent Improvement of their roads"
Hon. Allan B. Walsh, Fourth New
Jersey-"A network of good roads
well made and properly maintained
would, / believe, be large factor IN
the fuller development and more thor
ough unification 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 and ma
tional legislation"
Hon. Howard Sutherland, NJ. Cat
Large. West Virginia. have advo-
Gated Federal aid in the building of
good roads for many years, and Will
do all that lies within my power to
advance the Federal aid plan and as
sist 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 sew
eral instances ex-governors OF states
who have interested themselves great
ly in the good roads movement have
been named and will positively be
present. Prominent in the list is eX-
Governor James Brady, of Idaho, who
has also just been elected as senator
from that State to succeed the late
Senator Hepburn.
The list of delegates named by gov
ernors to officially represent their
States has in the last week been in
creased by large numbers. In this
list is the Hon c. S. Stetson, chair
man of the National Grange Execu-
tive Committee, as official delegate
from the State of Maine. Mr.. Stetson
had already agreed to address the
convention, and it will be of great in
terest to have from the official rep
resentative of the farmers their view
point on the good roads question.
A very interesting item of news, to
the farmers of America is the fact
that several influential railroad man
ayers are enthusiastically in favor
of improved trunk line highways and
will do what they can to encourage
Congress in putting through the right
sort of Federal aid law. Railroad
men with clear vision see that the
development of good roads and the
increased use of the motor vehicle is
bound to swell the volume of their
own business, particularly through
those vast areas Of the country not
yet fully developed. The greater part
of the American continent still be-
longs to this partly developed
classification.