The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-13
$4,000 FOR ROADS
Big Membership Goal For Kan
sas Association.
Organization To Include Every
County In State.
EANcI I'd Ic nCNCDAI MANAGEP
FANSLER IS GENERAL MANAGER
He VIII Direct Movement From
Topeka Offices.
Once a Month Meeting Plan In
All Counties.

The Kansas State Good Roads as
sociation has decided to throw off its
beggar's garments and blossom 10 tn
in the full accoutrements of a self
supporting organization. No longer
will the Kansas State Good Roads
association maintain itself and carry
on its work with funds solicited from
individual boosters for good roads.
At a meeting OF the executive COM
mittee and the officers of the asso-
citation it has been decided that the
Kansas State Good Roads association
become an association of good roads
boosters and advocates in fact as well
as In name. A big membership cam
paign is to be launched almost i'm
mediately. The goal is set for 10000
members-and it is expected that no
trouble will be encountered in listing
that many Interested men and women
on the rolls of the organization.
The plan is to organize a good roads
association in each county in the
state. This county organization will
be maintained an integral part of
the Kansas State Good Roads asSo-
citation. Members in the county asso-
Citations will pay membership dues to
the county organizations. The county
organizations will affiliate with the
state orga nization and pay the state
orSanization a small per capita tax
on the county membership. It is
from this per apita tax that the state
organization will be maintained
Largest Share in County.
Under this plan the biggest share
of the membership fees will remain
in and be spent in the county which
Roads association.
Operation of this system of affili-
ated county good roads organizations
will assure the state Ganization a
living income 1t will enable the state
orEa ni1ation 10 send out field men and
organizers into unorganized counties.
building up an orGa nization in the
state which will assure the largest pos
sible percentage of good roads in all
parts of the state.
In Monthly Meetings.
One feature of the new good roads
association plan is the at least once a
month meeting plan. The idea is that
the county good roads associations
hold meetings and entertainments just
the same as Ndo other organizations
and clubs. At these meetings the So
cial side of a gathering would be given
some considerable prominence. En-
tertainments and other features which
make for the success of any club
would be a part of the program. In
fact the county good roads organiza-
clubs organized and maintained for
social purposes as well as for the pro-
motion Of good roads.
Another advantage claimed for this
system OF organization is that the
county associations would select their
own delegates to the meetings of the
state association. AS it is now the
county delegates are appointed by the
governor-very many times on a po-
lticJl basis. 1t is lett up to the indi-
vidual named Is a county delegate to
the Kansas State Good Roads asso-
citation convention whether he attends
or not. He must pay his own expenses
under the present system. and only too
many times the named delegate does
not quite see his way clear
Under the new plan the county as
sOciations will not only elect their own
delegates but will pay the expenses of
that delegate. In this wav it is
thought that the delegate will in ev-
cry case attend the state meeting
and il he does not his alternate will
J. A. FansIcr. General Manager.
In addition to the launching of this
plan of cooperative action and self
support, the Kansas State Good Roads
association with the aid of its affili-
ated county organizations will forth
with begin an educational campaign.
The work of directing the new or
ganization plan OF the Kansas State
Good Roads association is to be left
largely in the hands of J. A. Fansler,