Arizona republican., 1919-01-28
Welcomed By Judqe Sloan

Welcomed By Judge Sloan
 The conference then was moved to the large hall of the School Admlnls- tration building which was found to be so small that a part of the audience had to stand out in the hallway But a stand had to be made somewhere; the conference could not be forever mov- ing, and there at 10:45 President Dwight B. Heard of the State Highway association called the conference to order A little later it was arranged that subsequent sessions of the con- ference should be held in the large au- ditorium of the Christian church which was pr4fered by the pastor, Rev. W. $. Buchanan.
 In very brief address, stating gen. orally the purpose of the conference, President Heard introduced Judge E. F. Sloan, who had been chosen for the welcoming address. On behalf of the mayor, the city commission and the citizens of Phoenix, Judge Sloan greet ed the delegates as the representatives of the progressive sitiZenS of the state.
 Judge Sloan briefly reviewed the good roads movement in Arizona which he said had it's beginning ten years ago in the enactment of a law looking to an improvement of the highways of the | state as distinguished from the road work which had been done by localities. There was not great interest in the movement, except by the owners of automobiles who Were comparatively few. The auto was a luxury. It has since become necessity, and the at titude of the people toward the road question had changed.
 Learned to Work Together
 Road building. said the speaker, had ! been interrupted by the restrictions 1 which the war had laid upon all in dustries. But the time so lost was not altogether a loss; we had learned much: we had learned what we could do by ! working together. We had learned that large things can only be accomplished in a big way, for it was in a big way 1 that Arizona had made the splendid record that stands to it's credit in every phase of war work.
 Roads, said Judge Sloan, have two values; one is their economic value, the increase of the value of property, the increased accessibility of markets, | tending to a more intense cultivation of the soil and the cultivation of a | greater area; saving to the producer and a saving to the consumer. But more important was the social value of roads which bring communities to- gether; which penetrate unassimilated bodies of foreign-born citizens and bring them into contact with their neighbors; a process of AmericaniZa- tion. Roads arrest the decay of isola- tion.
 Next to the little red school house." said Judge Sloan, good roads are the best preventatives of Stagnation. The good roads booster is missionary de- serving of honor''
 Attendance Was Surprise
 In introducing the next speaker. President Heard directed attention to the fact that the chamber of commerce had been given charge of the prepara- ] tion for the entertainment of the con- ference, and of that President Asbury
 of the chamber would speak
 President Asbury said that he had
 been given a happy and fitting place
 on the program, between Governor Sloan and Governor Campbell, so that
 the little he might say would be quickly
 forgotten. Regarding the work of preparation for the conference, he said
 that 1t was matter of regret that the
 chamber could not have made a better
 guess at the size of the attendance so
 that more convenient meeting place
 might have been arranged.
 In introducing Governor Campbell,
 he was referred to by President Heard
 less as the chief executive of the state than as a consistent and longtime ad- yocate of good roads,
 Governor Campbell Speaks
 The governor expressed his pleased
 astonlShment at the great audience.
 He remembered the time when a good ! roads meeting would not have brought out more than a half dozen persons
 in addition to the officials, members of
 boards of supervisors whose expenses I were paid for their attendance. This ? outpouring, said the governor, exem- plified the spirit which had so wonder l fully manifested itself in a year and a half of war work in which Arizona 2 led the other states, according to it's r population. Every call for subscrip- I tions to Liberty bonds was met and l passed. The contributions of the state . had amounted to s40,000,00O. You n will now be called upon to subscribe e other millions, and, know you can do ! it and never feel it.
 ;, Showing the rising spirit of the peo-
 pie with reference to roads, the gover- l nor said that in 1910 the total state e appropriation for roads was only S44,- s GOO, and counties that year had set e aside a total of s175,000 At this time, q he said, there was available almost s1,- = 300000, of which there woud be more r than sS00,000 from the 10 per cent
 levy: more than s3o0,OO from federa1 = aid and other small sources. o No First Class Road In State
 There was at this time, said the goy-