The Prescott daily news., 1914-05-26
MAKE THE ATLANTA ROAD CON- .GRESS THE BIGGEST EVER HELD

Every county and State official in the South interested in any way in the building or maintenance of roads or streets ought to be making plans to attend the American Road Congress, which will meet in Atlanta next No vember. This ought to be made the greatest gathering of men interested in road building ever held in this coun try
 There is no other section of the country more vitally interested in the upbuilding and maintenance of roads. There are a thousand questions which must constantly present themselves to every county commissioner 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? Will it be brick, will it be concrete, will it be macadam, will it be sand-clay, or will county in some cases be justified in having merely well-made good dirt roads?
 Which kind or road will give the best service and in the long run prove the cheapest?
 Will it be less expensive to the county to issue bonds and build thor oughly good roads of the highest type of material, or will it be better to drag along slowly and potter away, doing little work here and a little work there, and trying to so patch up the roads as to make them at least pass able?
 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 poli- tical purposes in order to give jobs to superintendents or to day laborers?
 What are the influences that are brought to bear to induce the use of this material or that?
 What are other counties doing?
 What has been the effect of road building else where on material, edu- cational and religious progress?
 These are few of the many ques- tions 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 presented by experts. Probably every important line of machinery used in road build ing and every variety of material will be on exhibition Hundreds of engin- eers and contractors and machinery makers will be there to study every phase of highway improvements.
 1t behooves the people of the South to see that every county is represent cd by men of integrity who have an earnest desire to study every phase of this road question.
 In advance of the meeting of the Congress all of these subjects should be actively discussed by the people of every county They should be inquir- ing of their officials what answers they are prepared to make to these questions and how far they have stud jed 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.
 Editorial from Manufacturers Rec ord May 2l, 1914.