The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-07-07
COOPERATION FOR GOOD ROADS.

The time has gone when there was any real
thought that the people OF any section could
make any substantial progress without good
roads. The necessity for these is realized and
the only trouble is to get the unknowing to join
in with those who know in providing the money
without which good roads cannot be built. For
this reason there should be an end to any lack
of cooperation between any of the organizations
working for good roads. and the people.
This week the North Carolina Good Roads
Association meets at Durham, the days July 9
a:sl 10. This meeting should be largely attended
and we desire to call the attention of the people
to matters of Importance in this connection, these
set out in an article written by Mr.. D. Tucker
Brown, organizer and field engineer of the State
Good Roads Association, which reads:
The North Carolina Good Roads Association
was organized solely for the purpose of promoting
an interest in better roads throughout North
Carolina, and to cooperate with the officials and
people of the State with a view to solving salts
~factorily the allirnportant question of road con-
struction and maintenance. 1t IS non political
and non-partisan and its existence depends upon
the people who are willing to join hands in the
one great mission OF providing North Carolina
with more and better roads.
The members of the Association have been
~untiring in their efforts to assist in any way the
road officials of each and every county. They
have given their time and their money toward
Il SldHLI11S oLIN III oNo - A0AAtSt
Gus road Improvements; they have lead the
fights for bond issues in numerous counties, and
whenever and wherever their help has been
called for, have responded without hesitation.
Can, it be said by the road officials and citizens
of this State that the present laws are adequate
and sufficient to insure proper road construction
and maintenance? Can it be said that there are
not large sums OF money wasted each year on
the roads of North Carolina1 Do the people of
this State, knowing that the solution Of the road
problem is the most vital question facing them
today, wish to neglect it's consideration as they
have in the past? Do its citizens wish to see
North Carolina drop far behind the other pro-
gressive States?
Il can answer these questions, and to each one,
NO.
Il would therefore like to know why the cit
zens, road officials and legislators do not join us,
the association, in our efforts to solve III a salts
factory way the road problem.
The association has presented to the leglsla-
tors a bill, which it thought should have become
a law, but was defeated; on what grounds and
for what reasons ! cannot say, but had the citl-
zens of the State lent the association their sup
port the bill would most assuredly have been a
law today.
Did the association present to the legislators
a bill which did not meet the approval of the
known? Why don't they cooperate with the
them to frame a law that will be acceptable and
beneficial; not inlure the prosperity and develop
ment of their State by approving the legislation
proposed by the North Carolina Good Roads
Association?
The best way to cooperate is to attend the
Good Roads Convention at Durham July 9th
and 10th"