Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-12-01
: MAKING THE PATHS
: STRAIGHT FOR PEOPLE

Washington, d. C.-An association of
practical men, working together for a
common public purpose; national in
its scope, yet depending. in largest
measure upon the cooperation Of the
states for the success of it's efforts,
and having no other object in view, inn
mediate or remote. but the improve
ment OF the public roads of the coun-
is the American Highway as
ISOLATION. 1t was organized at a con-
vention in Washington five years ago.
1t a no endowment. 1t is never in
Guided in any Of the appropriation bills
OF congress. 1t does not represent any
special interest. Its one purpose is to
make straight h paths of the people
1t depends for it's support upon the
annual dues of it's members. It's poll
tics is summed up in this faithful say
ing: An indisSoluble union of in
~structib states" bound together by
a great system of improved public
highways, built of the best available
materials, on scientific lines, under the
most capable supervision, with defin-
lite detectives. What it aims. at is the
common good-gOod a for all; MAX
ing easy the ways to market, opening
new and better highways for the post
neighborhoods together for the culti-
walton of all the arts of peace and, at
the same time, providing precautionary
for necessities of war, If war,
unnapplly, Should come.
The work OF the association is edu-
catlonal, but 1T is far more. Through
the office of public roads of the United
States, under the direction of Logan
Waller Page, 1t is served by the best
engineering talent in the country in
the location of public roads and in
methods of construction and mainten-
nee in making estimates of cost, in
prescribing the materials Of construc-
ton with regard to the character and
volume of traffic. in solving difficult
engineering problems, in building spec
linen roads as object lessons. in doing
everything, in fact, except the actual
manual labor in the completion of pro-
jected systems. All this is a tremen-
dously important mission for any or
s~antzation to undertake and it goes
without saying that, lacking the CO.
operation of the people and the help
OF the newspapers. it cannot succeed.
e there must be coordination in the
efforts of all existing organizations
working for road improvement, wise
and uniform legislation by the several
states. skilled supervision in the con-
struction of the roads, agreement
among the states n smaller political
units as to routes and service. SO that,
working together and building togeth-
er. there will emerge from the local,
county and state lines q harmonious
system as wide as the nation itself and
S@s ~ AAS AAAl1AAO0AS1SC duNdIlldk0 Ol tu0
whole people. This is the object of
the American Highway association
It's highest ambition Is to weld to-
gether in service all the good roads
organizations Of the county-national.
state and local-there is work and OPP
p%ortunity for all Of them: but, to make
their efforts most effective, there
should be definite planning and per-
Torrance and to secure this it would
seem that this association, with head
quarters at the national capital and
operating in close touch with the Uni
ted States department of agriculture.
is eminently prepared. The national
character of the association is attested
by its membership. which represents
every state in the union, and by the
composition of it's board of directors.
selected from IA states, covering the
country from the lakes to the gulf and
from the ocean on the eas to the ocean
on the west. The president of the as
ISOLATION is Fairfax Harrison, president
Of the Southern railway; the vice pres
ident is Logan Waller Page, director
Of the United States office of public
roads; the treasurer is John Burke,
treasurer of the United States: the
chairman of the board Of directors is
James s. Harlan. chairman of the In
terstate Commerce commission.
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