The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-26
MAKE THE ATLANTA ROAD
CONGRESS THE BIGGEST
EVER HELD

:, the south interested in any way /
n the building or maintenance of road
n or streets ought to be making plan
TO attend the American Road Cor
@ gress, which will meet in Atlanti
= next November. This ought TO b.
r made the greatest gathering of mel
interested in road building ever helC
in this country
There is no other section of the
country more vitally interested in
the building and maintenance OF
roads. There are q thousand ques'
tions which must constantly present
themselves to every county commits
sioner and TO every road engineer
and many of them are difficult to
answer.
What kind of material shall be
used? How shall it be used?
Under what conditions shall roads
be built or repaired?
What will be the best material for
road making? VIII 1t be brick, will
it be concrete, will it be macadam,
will it be sand-clay, or will county
in some cases be justified in merely
having well made good dirt roads?
What kind of road will give the
best service and in the long run
prove the cheapest? go.
VIII it be less expensive to the
county to issue bonds aud build thor
oughly good roads of the highest
type of material, or will it be better
to drag along slowly and potter away,
doing a little work here and little
work there, and trying to patch up
the roads as to make them at least
passable?
What engineering will be required?
Are the officials now in office equal
TO supervising, laying out building
and maintaining roads?
Are the roads being used for po.
litical purposes in order to give jobs
to superintendent or to day laborers?
What are the influences that are
being brought to bear to induce the
use of this material or that?
What are the other counties doing?
What has been the effect of road
building elsewhere on material, edu.
cational and religious progress?
These are a few Of the many
questions that must confront every
man holding any official position in
any way identified with road or street
work At the Atlanta congress there
will be the opportunity of studying
these questions, Every phase OF road
building will be intelligently present
ed by experts. Probably every line
Of machinery used in road building
and every variety of material will
be on exhibition. Hundreds of en-
gineers and contractors and machin-
cry makers will be there to study
every phase Of highway improve
ments.
1t behooyes the people of the south
to see that every county is repre-
sented by men of integrity who have
an earnest desire to study every
phase Of this road question
In advance of the meeting of the
all of these subjects should
be actively discussed by the people
Of every county. They should be
inQuiring of their officials what an
swers they are prepared to make TO
these questions and how far they
have studied them.
If the people of Atlanta want to do
a great work for the south and for
themselves, they ought to carry on in
the near future an active campaign
to induce the county officials of the
south to come to this congress. They
ought to induce counties that have
made progress in road building to any
marked extent TO show what they
have done and how they have done
IT, The backward counties that have
not yet accomplished much ought to
be stimulated to send their officials
in order that they may catch the
spirit Of highway improvement.-Man
lfaoturer's Record.