The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-07-16
ROAD BOOSTERS
IN BROOK|NGS
ANNUAL MEETING OF WlNNIPE
TO GULF HIGHWAY ASSOClA-
TON is HELD HERE
CAUSE OF GOOD ROADS GET IMPETUS
Splendid Meeting is Held, With a Good
Attendance From All Along High
way-Meeting in Detail

The annual meeting of the South Da-
kOta Winnipeg to Gulf Highway Asso,
citation was held at the Commercial
Club rooms in this city on Saturday
afternoon. The meeting was a SPLEEN
did one, and the cause of good roads in
eastern South Dakota received a new
impetus. The attendance was very
good and was a representative one,
every county through which the high
way runs being represented. Forty or
fifty delegates were present, and as
many more local road boosters helped
them hold a very interesting meeting.
The session was held in the assem-
bly, room and was called to order by
President II. F. Brownell of Sioux
Falls, about two-thirty. Mayor John,
son of B~rookings, gave a very APP
propriate address of welcome, which
left no doubt of the city's pleasure in
having the road boosters with us.
President Brownell responded, and
stated hat the association was espec,
tally glad to come to Brookings be-
cause the local road boosters had al
ways been among the enthusiastic in
the work of the organization, and had
done and were doing much for the
cause of good roads.
The first speaker was Mr.. Flynn OF
the United States Department of Agri.
culture, who happened to be visiting
the college. He said that the good
roads bureau had been receiving the
smallest appropriation from congress
of any bureau in the department, but
he made the prediction that in the
next ten years it would receive the
largest. The national government is
awakening to the necessity of road
work and will, without a doubt, make
large appropriations for this purpose
in the next few years. Mr.. Flynn ad-
vocated the use of convict labor for
road work, and mentioned the splendid
roads he had seer built in this way in
North and South Carolina, Georgia
and other southern states. Mr.. Flynn
advocated the education of young peo-
pie in the value of good roads through
the public schools, and thought that
this would be the best way of spread
ing the propaganda. Good roads, he
thn1Uht would holm moro than anU
other n thing in keeping the young
men contented on the farm.
President Brownell gave his annual
address, which we publish in full at
the end of this article.
Hon. E. C. Issenhuth of Redfeld,
chairman of the state highway com
mission, gave the principal address OF
the day. Mr.. Issenhuth has been in
the thick of the good roads fight in
this state for many years and carried
the cause to victory in the legislature.
He explained some of the difficulties
of good roads legislation in the past
ten years, and of the final passage of
Tic looCuhulh lodu Jaw Ills 10 hV
said, was by no means perfect and
needed amending, but at the time Of
it's passage it was the best hat could
be secured from a somewhat hostile
legislature. Mr.. I%ssenhuth read a let
ter from the Fourth Assistant Post
master General which stated that if
+lo Dofronc a1onu rrra1 rortnc foi1oI
to keep the roads in good shape the
government would discontinue SER
vice. This stand by the government
will insure that the rural routes in the
state will have attention. The legis-
lature when it provided for the state
highway commission made no appro-
priation whatever for its maintenance
and the members are not even allowed
Office room in the capitol building. The
travelling expenses, postage, ETC., is
paid by the commission Sentiment,
however, is rapidly changing, said Mr..
Issenhuth, and he predicted that with
in FIVE years every man who runs for
Office will have a good roads plank in
his platform. Bankers, merchants and
other business men could do a lot for
the cause of good roads, said the
speaker, by personal work with their
customers from the country. In clos
ing his address Mr.. Issenhuth, on be-
half of the State Highway Commission,
formally dedicated the South Dakota
Winnipeg to Gulf Route as a state
highway.
Prof. Solberg, who was present, was
i~ntroduced nv President Brownell as a