The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-28
GREATEST ROAD


portant to social life in rural com
munities as to the financial life.
There are some communities in Kan
sas," she said, that would be pushed
ahead twenty years by a system of
S65day roads.
Roads a Social Factor.
DO you know that a greater part
of the insanity of the state comes from
rural communities. That is because
of the isolation. i believe in the
home, in children, in everything of
that sort, but farmers owe it to their
women to give them social advantages.
Now there are thousands of women
isolated by the fact that they cannot
visit their neighbors because so much
of the time the roads are 'mpassa BILE"
S. A. Bardwell, representative to the
legislature and chairman of the house
roads committee, told of the admins
tration plan for state construction of
the proposed s60.000.000 worth of
roads. He cited the fact that a con-
stitutional amendment is absolutely
necessary. j. NJ. Gilman. state repre-
sentative from Leavenworth county.
was scheduled this afternoon to dis
cuss the good roads plans from the
Any claim that motor vehicles should
be exempt from other forms of taxa
ton because they are bearing the
brunt of the good roads expense did
Roads Saved France.
a message from overseas was to be
given this afternoon by Capt. Luther
R. Tillotson. Co. A, 10th engineers,
who was in the Argonne forest battle.
He stated that every American SOL
dier who has been in France realized
that the hard surfaced roads of France
were one of the great factors which
helped win the war. The American
boys, he said, will all come back to
America confirmed good roads advo-
Gates and will insist that the United
States catch up with the procession"
in good roads building. Kansas boys
on their way to the Argonne forest
swith the 35th division, he said, trav-
eled over 500 miles of hard surface
road, some of it more than 1000 years
old, and as good today as the day it
was completed. He told how vigilant
the French government is in main
tanning the highways by continuously
repairing them.
Fred c. Trigg of the Kansas City
tionaI highways. Harry Russell of
Fort Scott, farmer and secretary of
the Fort Scott Cha mber of Commerce,
in a speech approved the new benefit
district road law e. L. FrizeIl. state
representative from Pawnee county
discussed the proposed new state law
which Will provide some method of
building roads thru cities of the third
class.
ALI Williams, Columbus, discussed
the problems of highway building
contracts from the legal and technical
viewpoint. H. S. -McFadden, assistant.
state engineer, talked of the various
widths best adaptable for highways
which. he said. should be based on
the amount of traffic. but that for the
purpose of rural highways. it was not
necessary to have broad highways. the
standards being eighteen to twenty
feet
A business session was to be held at
O'Clock this afternoon. Resolutions
were to come up at that time.
Banquet This Evening.
This evening a banquet will be held
at the Chamber of Commerce, begin
ming at o'clock. Reports of commit
tees will be heard.
Tonight al 1880 o'clock joint meet
ing of the Kansas Official council and
the association will be held at the city
auditorium. Governor Allen and Ar
thur Is. Hall of the Illinois Good Roads
association will be the speakers.