The log cabin Democrat., 1914-01-16
GOVERNMENT AID
 FOR PIKE ROAD
LITTLE ROCK TO Fl. SMITH
MULE RRY MAN THINKS PROP FER EFFORT WOULD SECURE
 NATIONAL AID.

That the proposed pike from Lit. tie Rock to Fort Smith would be built entirely or in large part by the national government if the proper effort were put forth to secure the appropriations, is the belief of Ben Woodruff of Mulberry, prominent good roads advocate who stopped off in Conway few hours yesterday afternoon. Mr. Woodruff is not a stranger to Conway, having attended Hendrix College in it's early days now a member of the board of trus- tees of that institution He is in business at Mulberry at present. but IS thinking of removing to Conway to make his home at some future time.
 MT. Woodruff is chairman of that department of the State Good Roads i convention which has for it's pur- pose the construction of the Little Rock-Fort Smith highway. He states. however, that he has found it diff cult to secure the proper amount of interest and cooperation among the leading citizens of the towns along the proposed roads. A meeting called at Russellville last year to discuss ways and means to buid the road was not attended by a sufficient number to take any action, but Mr Woodruff stated that, he expected to call an- other meeting in the near future
 When we think of the vast sums | appropriated by the United States government for various purposes" :" he said, it is surprising that no con- certed effort has been made to secure national aid for road building. The Little ROck-Fort Smith road would be valuable link in a chain of good roads from coast to coast. 1 sincerely believe that if we will send a delega- tion of our people to Washington we can get an appropriation suffici- ent to build this road"
 National aid for road-building was strongly endorsed in the following resolution passed by the Good Roads convention shortly before adjourn ment yesterday afternoon:
 Whereas, There is now being urged from every section of the nation, up- on our national Congress, federal aid to the states for the purpose of con- structing and maintaining the high ways therein,
 Therefore, Be it resolved, that we petition and memoraliZe our represen- tatives and senators in that body to use their support and inhuecne for the passage of said legislation, and that they use their best endeavors in case said aid is extended to procure for Arkansas just and equitable portion thereof
 The convention also emphasized the need of the Little Rock-Fort Smith highway in the following resolution:
 Whereas, There has been intro duced in the Thirty eighth and Thirty Ninth General Assemblies of the state of Arkansas bills providing for the erection and maintenance of macad- amized road from Little Rock to Fort Smith; and,
 Whereas, Said bills have met with defeat, due on both occasions to an i'm proper support upon the part of the good roads association and the people in the said protected district; nd,
 Whereas, The said roads would pass through section of the state abounding in great crops of fruit, alfalfa, corn and cotton, and said roads connecting two of the largest cities of the state and under the pro- visions of said bill the same could be erected and maintained at a cost not exceeding one and one-half mills per year to those living in said im- provement district; now therefore, be it
 Resolved by the delegates of the Arkansas Good Roads and Drainage Association in convention assembled in the city of Little Rock, That we endorse the provisions of these two bills, known in the session of the Thirty eighth General Assembly as the regular Ragon- Martin bill and in the sesion of the Thirty ninth Gen. eral Assembly as the Ragon-Arm- strong bill and that we urge upon the members of the Fortieth General As sembly the importance of said road and to this end each delegate to this . convention of his representatives to