Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-01
AUTO CONGRESS
WILL FAVOR AID
FROM j. 8.
Incoming Members Declare for
General Highway Movement
With Subsidy.

With rare exceptions the new con-
gressmen who will 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 18th the
preparation for the forthcoming second
Federal aid convention, to be held at
the national capital March and I,
these expressions from various mem
bers-elect have been received:
c. f. Curry, Third California: Il be-
Iieve in national participation and Fed
sral 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
and the Federal government, when
proper basis of cooperation for the
contraction of such roads shall have
been arrived at"
Frank T. O'Hair, Eighteenth Hi
nos; Speaking to the point, will say
that I 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 Aid"
Allen w. Barkey, First Kentucky:
Nothing would conduce more to the
prosperity and happiness of our people
than a 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 well made
and properly maintained would, l be-
lieve. be 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 max ing and
maintenance of good roads would seem,
therefore, to be important objects of
state and national legislation.
Howard Sutherland, member of con-
gress- at-large, West Virginia: 'I have
advocated Federal aid in the building
of good roads for many years and will
do all that lies within my power to ad-
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-governors Of states who
have interested themselves greatly in
the good roads movement have been
named and will positively be present.
Prominent in the list ia Ex-Governor
James Brady. of Idaho, who has also
Just been elected as senator from that
state to succeed the late Senator Hey
burn.
List Is Growing.
The list of delegates named by gov
ernors to officially represent their states
has in the past week been increased by
large numbers. In this list is c. S.
Stetson chairman of the National
Grange executive committee, as Off
eial delegate from the state Of Maine.
Stetson had already agreed to address
the convention and it will be of great
interest 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 managers
are enthusiastically in favor of i'm
proved 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, particu-
larly through those vast areas of the
country not yet fully developed, The
greater part of the American continent
still belongs to this partly developed
classification.