South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-26
BOOST GOOD ROADS
At NORTH LIBERTY
Rally Staged BY Northern Indi-
ana Motor Club Draws Big
Crowd to Hear Speeches on
Movement.

Good roads are IN store for St.
Joseph county in the near future,
! roads that viii not be torn up and
filed with holes in a few years This
fact was proved Tuesday afternoon
and evening by turnout of at least
100 automobiles from Mishawaka.
| Walkerton. Lakeville, South Bend and
farmers from all parts of the county,
to North Liberty where they attended
| the first meeting of the combined
/ forces OF the Chamber Of Commerce,
/ the Northern Indiana Motor club and
! motorists OF the county.
Regardless of the bad weather
/ which caused the South Bend and
! Mishawaka delegates 10 postpone the
\ trip from 1 o'clock until 1880 o'clock,
autos left the Chamber OF Commerce
/ and made the trip TO North Liberty,
| where they were met by more than
/ 100 other machines and all formed in
line and paraded the streets of the
! little city.
The feature Of the parade was a
| novelty house built upon the automO-
/ bile OF the owner OF the North Liberty
| Lumber company. on the roof hoated
| a pennant bearinp the words, Good
Roads Mean Better Homes
Visitors Treated Royalty.
! The enthusiasm Of the North Lib
| erty people over the good roads move
/ ment was clearly seen by the remark
| able way in which they treated the
| people from the other cities. AutOists
| who were unable TO find room for
/ their cars along the streets were told
\ to leave them in the yards; people
/ were asked upon the porches of the
| residences to rest after walking around
l the streets and making a survey of
\ the towns buildings.
A baseball game was played be-
| tween North Liberty and South Bend
| business men, which, of course, re-
suited in a victory TO this city of 10
TO ?. The game was featured by the
| playing OF II. G. Spaulding, secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce. A fly
was hit by DecOudre of the North
/ Liberty team to Willette. playing
/ shOrtstop, who only touched the ball
| and Spaulding. who was as ever back
\ ing him up, also got his mitt on the
\ ball and caused it TO go back to VIII
I lette and after considerable Juggling
I the ball finally settled very comfort
/ ably in Spauldings arms and the SIDE
was out.
The mass meeting held in the even
ing at the town. hall proved beyond
| doubt that the entire county was
about TO revive and see the need OF
! good roads, the kind that will last
| for q number of years. This can only
| come about. according to r. G.. Geyer
| Of North Liberty, by cooperation or
| every person of the county.
I'VE need good roads, not only for
! the city man with a motor, but for the
! farmer who has his produce to carry
| to town" he said. THE farmer needs
! the city people to buy his products
/ and more than that the city man needs
/ the farmers products. We, the city
] mt IN
! the farmer than they are on us. They
/ can live if we refuse to buy their
/ crops, while we soon would perish
/ without them. For these reasons we
/ should have a means of transpOrta-
/ ion that will allow the farmer from
/ the distance to enter the city with his
| produce and sell them to the city
man."
Sims i'm Talk.
F. I. Sims. principal of the high
! school Of this city. in speaking of
! the value of the good roads TO the
! farmer as well as TO the people of the
/ city. said that crops that are a few
miles from town are brought in and
| a big price is paid for them while
| hundreds Of bushels of fruit and
other products Of the farm that are
/ grown Is or more miles from the
1 city are left TO rot on the farm be-
cause the farmer is unable 10 get them
\ to the city Not only does the farmer
| lose" he said. but also the city man,
I for if this farmer was Given a way
to get his crops to the city the price
would naturally drop. as more stuff
would be brought into the city"
The motor club Of northern Indiana
] is taking an active part in the good
roads movement. 1t is believed that
while at Liberty more than so new
members TO the club were secured and
many more will join during the COM
ing license fees. About one-third of
automobiles in st. Joseph county pay
ing license foes. About one-third OF
/ it reaches this county.
The purpose Of the Motor club is
to organize all owners of autos of the
state into a body and present the case
to the legislature. which is the only
hope of getting a new road law which
will give the county and sectional
roads more work.
". q. Cullar, who is probably
North Liberty's strongest worker for
good roads. said the reasons that the
country roads are not as good as they
should be is that up until this present
time no thought has been put on
roads. They were used TO draw the
grain to town and good roads could
not enter into the mind of the farmer,
as ne had no use for them, but today
with the thousands Of machines
throughout the country the greatest
thought of the farmer and city man
Is good fOadS, a means OF tranSporta-
ton where they can go and come
when they can without feeling IT
long tedious job.
Why Roads Are Poor.
Roads have been poor. he said, be-
cause of the lack of good material TO
/ build them with, or the lack OF the
means 10 get the good material TO the
road that needed il. Farmers who
/ have always worked out their road
tax have been accustomed to loafing
/ on the Job. which would seem reason
able because of the low wage that is
I appropriated TO them by the state.
/ The road should be built by contrac-
7 tors who are familiar with the work
I and have the machinery TO go ahead
with il. which is by far more modern
I man the machinery of the county.
other talks were made by J. F.
Price of North Liberty, NJ. Blair Of
I Nishawaka and II. G. Spaulding OF
! the chamber of Commerce. The dele
/ ystio, returned last night feeling that