Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-02-14
BUCKEYE STATE ne
RURAL MEETING
Congress of Good Roads to
be HELD in Columbus.
PROCLAMATION OF cox
To Keep Boys and Girls Upon Farm
Will Be One of the Chief Sub
jects to Be Discussed at
Large Gathering.

Columbus, O.-Ohio is to do what
no other state has done. 1t will
hold a rural life and good roads
congress in Columbus, March 12 and
IL, at Memorial hall. A proclamation
calling such congress has been is
sued by Gov. Cox. The congress will
attract several thousand delegates.
These will include the leading rural
life and good road advocates in Ohio
and many from outside the state who
have national regulations in forward
movements.
Many Speakers Invited.
The program of speakers is being
prepared. Among others it will in
clude United States Senator Jonathan
Bourne of Oregon, Logan Waller
Page, office of public roads, Washing
ton; Senator Claude A. Swanson, Vir-
ginia; Hon. Philip T. Colegrove, Hast
ings, Mich; G. Gordon Reel, highway
commissioner, Albany, NJ Y, and
Jesse Taylor, president of the Ohio
Good Roads federation. Gov. Cox,
Lieut.. Gov Nichols and Speaker
NV dihc VI Tic OulO uOuS6 also WIFI
make addresses.
Invitations will be sent to 10000
in the state and outside, including all
the state, county and city officials of
Ohio. members of boards of trade and
commercial organizations, ministers
| of all denominations and those asso-
ciated with the rural life and good
roads movement.
The congress will be held under the
direction of a committee consisting
of Dan R. Hanna, Cleveland; Jesse
| Taylor, w. A. Hite, chairman of the
committee on roads and highways of
the Ohio house; A. H. Huston, chair
man of the board of trustees of the
! Ohio Good Roads federation; ]. 1.
Hudson, chairman of the senate COM
mittee on roads and highways, and
Miss Edith Campbell OF Cincinnati,
member Of the board of education of
/ that city and prominent rural life
worker.
Gov. Cox's Proclamation.
Following is Gov. Cox's proclama-
ton:
"The constant and steadily increas-
ing migration of our people from the
farms to the cities makes it impera-
tive that we seek the cause, to the end
that the influx into the cities be less
ened. The disproportionate number
of urban and rural inhabitants is a
positive menace to our well-being as
people. The diminishing food sup
ply grows ever more alarming and
We must, as a community, begin the
solution of the greatest of all prob
lens.
Our farmers are constantly COM
planning of their inability to keep their
sons and daughters upon the farm.
The city dweller sees thousands of
men and women who he knows would
have done better in the country than
they are doing in the city. That, so
far, most of the efforts to stay this
unwise transfer of habitation has been
confined to theory, or, at most, to de-
sultory action upon the part of only
portion of the people.
"Ohio should take the lead in the
solution of this great problem. The
state is advantaseously located geo.
graphically. Her people are of the
bone, fiber and mentality to face
courageously all questions. Her re.
sources are such that here may be
worked out for the betterment of man.
kind any system which may be
deemed the proper one.
In considering the betterment OF
rural life the means of communication
first suggests itself. Conservation OF
resources, scientific farming and so
cial activities of our people are all de
pendent upon good roads. 1t is there
fore well that in any study Of ouI
rural life problems we include road
betterment.
"To arrive at a proper understand
ing of our needs, to devise ways and
means of solving the problems which
confront us, 1 hereby call rural life
and good roads congress to be helt
in Memorial hall, in the city of Co
lumbus, on March IL and 13, 1913
J The suggestion is made that one day
be given over to social problems o.
rural life and the other to good roads
The hope is INDUCED that our people
from every section. county and city
alike, will yield their moral suppor
by attending the congress-"
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