The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-28
CALLS FOR ROAD WORK
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culverts and bridges, grades and
bitches. County and township road
officials are overwhelmed with the
amount of repair work demanding
their urgent attention.
ITO help and encourage these men
to restore the roads of Kansas to good
condition without exhausting or great
ly depicting the road funds of the
widespread need of volunteer service,
of willing hands to help fill mudholes,
to open drains, to repair culverts, to
reeStablish grades; of more teams and
plowS and Scrapers, and of men to
direct them.
The aid and the cooperation in
this work of all the people of Kansas
for just two days would accomplish
wonders. Every friend of good roads
in Kansas should be, and believe will
be, glad to give, as his personal con-
tribution to his home community and
state, two days labor, or its equiva-
lent, on the roads.
THAT we may cooperate in so fine
a demonstration of public spirit, at a
time when 1T is so urgently needed, L
have designated Wednesday and
Thursday, August Is and 10, 1915 as
Good Roads Days for Kansas.
II call on every patriotic citizen of
Kansas to volunteer two days of road
work on these dates. If unable 20 per-
form the work himself, L urge him to
hire a substitute and 10 see that the
substitute renders faithful service in
the cause OF better roads
Il recommend that all county and
township road officials give their serv-
ices to the people on these two days;
that they put into use all the road
making tools and machinery at their
command, keeping all the drags busy
where dragging will be effective and
is needed.
Unless a better way be found, /
urge this plan be adopted by the road
officials in every county for organic
ing the work.
Let the county engineer be the
road general Where there is no en-
gineer the county surveyor should
take command.
The county road general shall ap-
point a road colonel in every town
and in every township in the county
containing no town. The road colonel
shall choose road captain for every
road district.
The road colonel shall divide his
territory into special road districts,
each district to consist of one main
Travelled road from the town, or such
a road across the township.
Every road captain shall carefully
inspect his district well in advance of
the two good roads days to determine
what is to be done. If necessary he is
to select boss to oversee the work
on every particular job or section in
his district.
The road colonel IS to prepare a list
of all available men in his town and
work or to supply substitutes. These
names shall be divided among the
road captains. Every captain shall
personally invite his list of toWnsmen
and the farmers living in or near his
district to join his band of volunteer
road workers.
I'm this way every man in every
county, or nearly so, will get a per
sonal invitation TO help in this COM
mendable work. Also it will provide
for giving attention to every main
travelled road and will avoid confusion
and lack of system.
knowing how greatly the Kansas
press can help in promoting a general
movement of this kind, 1 ask that this
proclamation be given the fullest pos
sible publicity by every editor and
publisher, and that every Kansas
newspaper publish in advance of the
two good roads days the roster of the
complete county organization from
general to bosses, with details of all
local arrangements of every kind, and
that the newspapers encourage and
enthuse their readers to join in the
movement personally
ITO the women of Kansas, who are
Just as greatly interested in making
the two good roads days effective as
are the men, suggest they organize
committees in towns, townships and
districts and arrange to send refresh
ments to the workers on those days, to
encourage and cheer them in their eff
forts
ssTf everybody will heartily, gener-
ously and periodically join in this two
DAYS campaign in road-making, the
results will demonstrate in a most
striking manner the community spir-
it of the Kansas people, and thousands
of miles of Kansas roads will have
more good work put on them in two
DAYS than ordinarily could be done in
months Our roads will then be in
prime condition for the great season
- raaxketing, when good conditions