Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-12-21
STATE GOOD ROADS
FEDERATION TAKES
!. FORM At ST.LOUIs
WILL WORK TO REVISE AN
TlouATED ROAD LAWS AND
PROMOTE BETTER ROADS.
FUND PAID IN FOR THE WORK
Federated Road Associations Elk.
peeted to Be Most Effective
Good Roads Force in
the Country.
FUND PAID IN FOR THE WORK

The Federated Road Associations,
In which all organizations having an
interest in the betterment of roads
and the regulation of traffic thereon
are eligible to membership, was per-
manently organized at St. Louis on
Friday, Dec. 8, to meet the urgent de-
mand for a correlation of the various
state bodies encouraging the building
of highways and for unified work for
better roads by an organization having
the facilities and financial strength
to successfully urge a comprehensive
system of state road improvement
and secure progressive legislation
governing construction.
The following officers were elected:
President, Daniel G. Nugent; first
vice-president, Edward M. Flesh; Sec
ond v~ice-president, Harry B. Halves;
third vice-president, Allen W. Clark;
fourth vice-president, F. w. A. Vesper;
fifth vice-president, Samuel Plant;
temporary secretary, Paul J. Fisher;
treasurer, Festus ]. Wade.
One of the immediate objects of the
Federated Road Associations is to
urge the legislature, which meets in
January, to Immediately accept the
federal aid road act and to pass laws
that will enable Missouri to be the
first state to use the federal appro-
priation on it's roads.
The Federated Road Associations
was suggested last spring by the Au-
tomobile Club of st. Louis and since
that time the club has taken the mi
tiative in the preliminary work that
has just resulted in the permanent
organization of this nucleus for a
powerful merger of all clubs and as
%sociations in Missouri interested in
securing better highways and better
advised road laws.
The Automobile Club of st. Louis,
Business Mems League, st. Louis Au-
tomobile Manufacturers and Dealers
Association, st. Louis Clearing House
and the Associated Retailers are
the public-spirited bodies that have
set the ball rolling by organic
ing a tangible association on a
firm basis around which may rally
all the various state associations.
Each membership in the Federated
Road Associations is 800 a year and
it is expected that every association
in the state will Immediately join the
new body, and that the dues from
this source will so augment the large
st. Louis contributions that the ag-
gregate amount will be of importance
commensurate with the bigness of
the work to be done.
The first work to be done was the
revising of the road laws so that a
new code, designed to meet present
n future conditions, might be ready
for presentation to the legislature in
January. w. T. Rutherford, assistant
attorney general of Missouri, was EN-
ployed by the Federated Road Asso-
Citations to revise the obsolete road
law. Mr.. Rutherford for the last four
years has handled all the business of
the attorney generals office pertain
ing to road laws and bond issues. He
is declared to be the leading expert
in the state with the fullest knowledge
OF the shortcomings of the old road
laws and what is needed in new acts.
The objects of the Federated Road
Associations are set forth as follows:
/. To encourage and promote the
building of county, state, interstate
and national highways.
2. To assist in the preparation and
passage, in this and other states, of
adequate, comprehensive and pro.
gressive laws relating to good roads,
their construction, maintenance and
regulating traffic thereon.
3. To cooperate with and assist
national, county and community good
road associations.
4. To establish permanent offices
and employ such clerical and profes
soinal assistance as may be required.
8. To secure and keep in a con |
venient place maps, literature and
periodicals dealing with the subject
of good roads and to cause to be pub.
lished and circulated such literature.
6. To bring under the directing
head Of this organization all associa.
ton. interested in the subject of good
roads and make of it the center or
clearing house Of the good roads
movement.
Z. To maintain an advisory depart.
ment, where any citizen can secure
legal, engineering, CONSTITUTIONAL and
practical advice dealing with the sub
1ect of good roads.
.. To prepare and furnish city and
state newspapers articles and maps
dealing with the subject of good
0. To provide speakers and selec
and send delegations to counties re
Quiring assistance and good road
meetings and conventions.