The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-04-22

1ecent utterances Of national GRANGE
nave a great significance.
ON OF the principal speakers Of the
american Road Congress was N. p.
Hull, master Of the Michigan State ,
orange. and a member Of the legisla- |
tive committee of the National GRANGE
who in his address said:
Il call pom the American Automo-l
Die Association, with the men who
are striving. as many Of you are striv-
ing. and l~egitimately and fairly striy-
Ing, to build transcontinentai high
ways improved highways if you please.
to keep in mind while you are studying
TINS question and using your efforts to
puiid those great highways connecting
the cities OF the country. that you will
not forget the necessity to you and to
me, the necessity to this great nation
OF ours, the great economic need of
improving the common country high
ways. from the home of the man at
the other end of the bad Dad to the
city. that you may be better off, and
that the farm people of the United
States may be better off,
J. Arthur Sherwood master of the
Connecticut State Grange, in his an
nual report made this pertinent COM
ment: 1.-The grange is. and should be,
the champion Of good roads. The in
creasing number Of motor vehicles
upon u highways present a problem
difficult of solution. The legitimate
demand Of automobile traffic must be
met. Stretches Of road here and there
are pleasing, but the continuous mile
age is what the farmer as the motor
ist desires. ! believe that a continual
ton of our present policy in Connects
cut will insure this in due time
c. S. Stetson, chairman Of the
+. National Grange Executive Committee
and master of the Maine state Grange
was one who was listened to with
great interest at the second Fedora
Aid Convention call by the A. A. A
National Good Roads Board. His con.
! else summation will find general com
mendation:
1--WE do not believe tina Federal al
means the a~ppropriating Of nationa
funds for local improvement Of roads
1t is certainly wrong to ask nationa
aid to do what properly belongs to tn
local community to perform, and IL
any good roads movement the Stat
is the unit to which the municipalit.
should look for aid, and the State i
turn to cooperate with the NatlOna
government for interstate and othe
roads that are of sufficient import
l ance to warrant the employment o
I national aid in building. Any othe
! course is untenable, demonstrations
I and basically wrong"
Experience gained by states whic
. have been most active in bulidin
good roads has shown that whateve
e plan Of aid to counties and other sui
: divisions was originally adOOted. tn
8 logical outgrowth has been the adOl
ton Of q system Of State highway
( constructed AND maintained at the so
e expense Of the State.
t So far as any except local travel
concerned county lines cease to eXls
Roads between large centers OF popl
lationa have become a necessity; an
O their general Importance o~vershadoV
e their local usefulness. State roao
carry local traffic, as we'll as achleVln
d their general usefulness; this fact sin
g ply leaves local funds to be investe
: in other roads which the local con
lie munities need. =,
h Most State road systems reach TT
important points within their state
County seats, large cities. points
special interest where travel concel
# trates are reached by these highway
But they take no c~ognizance OF pom
d Of equal or greater importance GU
side state lines.
d The demonstrated fact in the Sta
A. is the logical conclusion in the Great
,e State-the Nation. Extension OF Il