The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-02

is exactly the kind of an abnormal
 test that the Sunbeam engineers de-
 sire to prove or disprove the correct ness of their labors. Christiaens neith-
 CT looks. nor acts like g. man who has
 come straight from the battle front.
 He was elected not alone because of
 hi sbaility to drive, his nerve, bravery and feab1essness, but largely because
 he is, himself, an engineer, and can make observations Of value to the Sun
 beam factory and in turn to military authorities who are now taking the complete output of motors of the Sun beam people, Christiaens refused to discuss the war. He says when he gets back he will re-enter military ser vice, and that upon no condition will he answer a single question con cerIl- ing Great Britain's military status. He does admit that he is in possession of certain knowledge that would be of in- calculabIe value to his cOuntry's ene- mics, because being in the aviation service it has been his privilege to see more and learn more than soldiers isolated in some trench are permitted to learn He freely expects to win the Indianapolis race, because he is more or less familiar with the track, having finished in sixth place two years ago, and because he believes he has machine of superior speed and stamina. In Indianapolis he will
 
 many garages at the Speedway course, and it is expected that he, himself will live at the course It is surn1ised that this is not only in order to be close at hand for practice but also that he will avoid curiods people who would quizz him about the war
 National Highways Association.
 Resolutions urging Congress to ere ate a National Highways Commission to investigate and report upon the most economic and beneficial method for the Federal Government to par ticipate in the building of good roads aret being submitted by the National Highways Association to State Legisla- tures Chambers of Commerce and civic organizations in all sections of the country. !
 Believing that Congress is now prac- tically committed in principle to the policy of federal participation in good roads construction, this movement has been undertaken to direct such par ticipation along the most scientific and lines The form of resoIu- ton offered to the Legislatures and of Commerce provides tha9 the National Highways Commission shall survey and locate a system Of highways connecting all state high way systems by interstate trunk lines thus providing a national system of highways which will correlate the state systems just as the state systems in thirty-one states of the Union now sorreltae and bring to their highest value the county and township sys- .ems.
 In presenting the resolutions the National Highways Association has ad- zanced the argument that only by pro- l 1iding for some such scientific 1oca- ion of the highways on which fede- ,al funds are to be expended can the evils of the pork barrel" system of egislation be avoided
 With every t-good roads, measure hat is introduced in Congress it is made evident that the trend is away rom pork and toward a method of ederal participation which will secure he most efficient administration of he work and the most economic re- ults- Officers of the National High-ll ways Association express their confi- Lence that with the tide set in this Erection, they will succeed in their .ffort to have federal participation n this work guided and controlled " the counse1s of an expert comnais- ion-