Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-24

Dust!ess, fIyIess. sernnIess city the substitution of the automcbiA is the reason.
 Stewart Mcdonald vice president of the Moon Motor Car company, says ments of Chicago. New York and Kansas City, in selling their street sprinklers and substituting washing apparatus will be followed very short ly by similar action in other cities.
 Street department officials have found that the same payroll will clean and wash the streets as has been used for sprinkling them. The washing each night removes the dust and the further elimination daily of the horse for city use does away with filth which now draws flies and produces germs.
 The time is not far distant when the horse will be entirely out Then the general use of asphalt and wood blocks for all city streets will be found more practicable and the ques- tion of cleaning the streets will be greatly sinlplifed. With cleaner streets the sanitary condition of cities and the health of the people will be vastly improved
 Congress has the power to extend National aid to good roads under the inter state commerce clause of the
 
 military highways and to establish post roads,. Jefferson thought SO. Madison thought so, and so did Cal houn. There Is no question about the power of congress in the premises4'
 So asserted Chairman Henry of the Rules committee of the House of Rep resentat1ves recently when he conclud- ed the debate which preceded action that creatd a committee on Public roads-the first time in the existence %va% &kr received a recognition which places it among the big subjects now demand ing positive national legislative att tention.
 It will be remembered that the March Federal Aid Roads convention In Washington called by the American Automobile association, through it's resolutions committee asked congress to create a committee to which all roads matters would be referred. Con gressman Slemp of Virginia wa the author of a speech wherein the con- for the committee that has just been named.
 Twenty-one members have been se- lected to constitute this committee, with Representative Shackleford of Missouri as chairman.
 Of the twenty-one. fifteen are new members of the house. The remaining six have given highways nratters some considerable thought, Chairman Shackleford undoubtedly leading in his activities. Byrnes of South Carolina. Slemp of Virginia, and Prouty of Iowa are well-known advocates 3f Federal participation, while Saunders. another Virginian. and Whitacre of Ohio, have evidenced interest in the subject. New York has two mem bers on the committee-Ten Eyck and Dunn; Pennsylvania Is similarly flaw ored-Dershem and Shreve. Political ly there are 1< democrats. republi- cans. and 1 progressive, the last being the Michigan representative.
 That the good roads subject has arrived in congress" there can be no doubt. It was only 8 year ago that one of the senators from Oregon-Jonathan P. Bourne.-told his colleagues that the good roads ques- ton was of far greater importance than the pending tariff and currency questions combined" The Joint com mtttee on Federal Aid, of which Mir. Bourne is the chairman until it com pletes it's report, has accumulated vast amount of valuable 1nforma ton which Is now obtatnable in printed form upon application at Room 130 Senate office building, Washington, D. c.