West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1915-02-04

town last week. He had a petition
asking for State and Federal help In
building roads and highways and Sc
cured the signatures of many of the
leading business and professional
men of town, all however, first buying
admission at one plunk per. The
newspapermen were taken in too/but
were not asked to buy a ticket, the
gentleman having formerly been an
editor himself and knowing the hard
luck story we would lave told him
Since leaving town some one tele-
phoned the association's headquarters
at Wheeling And they claim they have
no such representative on the road.
Therefore. Notwithstanding, ct ce-
tera/ we publish the following inter-
View had with the gentleman for what
IL is worth
MIR. DAILY. state organizer OF the
West Virginia Business Mems associa-
ton. was a visitor at The Argus Of
fee last week
Mr.. DAILY is good roads enthusiast
as well as organizer and combines
both i'm an effort to educate business
men OF West Virginia to build up
the community. Mr.. Daily said:
THE merchant. the editor and the
producer form the triangle within
which circulates the community dol
lar. The dollar is the measure of the
circulation of the business sap OF the
| community. The game is to keep the
| dollar in the community. the county
| and the state by fostering home
trade. home industry, home products
Build community roads for. by do
ing so, the community obtains a
prominent asset. What the switch
is to the ware house and factory. SO
is the community road 10 the farm
If the community, road were as hard
as the switch 1t would be as hard as
steel. Therefore. we must make IL as
near the resisting power of steel as
possible.
Begin by pas sing state laws to
| build rural mail roads. These roads
no one can steal, for they have been
designated for over fifteen years. and
the local postoffice has a map OF
them, the rural mail man or his assist
| ant goes over them daily. All the
wagon wheel revolutions revolve and
cut them and 9Sh per cent of the au-
tomobile speedmaker's records are
spun over them. Every pound OF
freight consumed and produced in
the community has to be borne over
them
why indulge in false and mislead-
ing road doctrine when by building
the rural mail routes and connecting
them where they fail to connect. in
| terlace and overlap between station
stops on railroads we not only build
the community road but the inter
borough, cross state, interstate and
ocean to ocean highway as well
These highways cross state and con-
tinent and will be the cheapest con-
structed highways on record, for the
cost OF their construction will be the
cost of merely building the INTERIOR
ough connecting links"
Many merchants of Kingwood affix-
ed their names to Mr.. Days peti-
ton for Joint effort of community.
state and federal governments to take
hand in building roads and high
ways, which are" continued Mr..
DAILY, not only commercial and mail
but also military highways. The
president of the United States is ex-
ofiicio commander-in-ch of the
army and navy. The governor of the
state is ex-officio commander-in-chief
or the state militia. The governors
or the states and the president ought
to get together to build them. fed
eral road engineer from the army. a
man like Cocktails. should be appoint
ed TO look after the federal appro-
priation and have directive authority
for this work. He should have under
his direction the highway engineer
ana the county engineer of each state
ana his orders to them should be
brief: Gentlemen. you are all quail
ned civil engineers. You are to build
post roads for an indefinite period
VIII designate the interborough
connecting lines. following the most
approved military plans for often
sive and defensive military opera
ions, thus evolving highways supple
mental to the best military highways,
the railroads."