Arizona republican., 1920-05-16
FILMS USED FUR
 FURTHER|NG THE
 ROADS MOVEMENT

wASHINGTON. D. C.. May 15.-A highway educational enterprise has been launched in Virginia never before attempted by any state. according to highway officials and others connected with the better road movement. Gen eraI C. C. Vaughn, Jr., president of the Virginia Good Roads association, and D. B. Ryland, of Lynchburg, secretary, have contracted for the production of a film to be entitled ''Virginia's New Hour in which an effort will be made to get before the public a complete re- valuation of the state in the minds and hearts of the people, and to create a new conception of the highway as a public utility
 The significance of this enterprise, highway authorities say, is nationwide Other states have taken steps to over haul their highway laws and their con struction and maintenance methods, but it has remained for Virginia to take the lead in one of the most com prehensive and far-reaching studies of the highway and it's relation to all walks of life ever undertaken.
 For years" says General Vaughn, good roads advocates have @talked about what better highways will do :" In ''Nirginia's New Hour we propose to show the modern road in action, and to demonstrate it's beneficial effects, not only upon our commercial and in- dustrial activities, but upon the whole range of Hfe-social, religious and edu- cational, taking in all walks of high and low degree.
 "One of the fundamental points we are striving for. is to turn the tide of youth back to the farm.
 ssWe realize the magnitude of the task we have assumed, and we hope to set in motion forces that will in due firm. ,-ae-t4If in, v,Iacfpc- 44nov, fhn disproportion between the progress of the fields and that of the cities, between that of industries and that of agriculture. AS we see it, the old type of earth road is at the bottom of the trouble and we hope in the scope we are taking in .sVirginia's New Hour to bring to the people Of Virginia a new and higher conception of what the road means to their prosperity and happi- ness and to the future development of our state.''
 The film s1 Being produced under the authorship and personal supervision of James W. Brooks, director of the educational bureau, federal highway council, Washington, D. C,
 Educational institutions of the state will have a place in the film and student bodies wifi be asked to take part in staging the dramatic features necessary to a correct portrayal of
 
 towns and cities and also leading in- dustries will appear on the screen as a part of the general plan to show how far the state has advanced in some re- spects in contrast to a woeful lack of progress on the roads.
 Owing to the significance of Virgin ia's determination to get at the bottom Of this bad road trouble, and to present the remedy from the ground up, as it were, reaching out into every phase of the states social and economic struc ture. much interest is being taken by government officials whose work has to do with rural development.
 Hon. Edwin T. Meredith, secretary of agriculture, and Hon. T. H. MacDon- aId, chief of the United States bureau of public roads, are to be among in vited guests at the premier showing of ''Virginias New Hour" at Richmond, the date of which will be announced later. The list of invited guests will also include state officials, mayors of Virginia municipalities. and the of ficials of all civic, commercial and farm organizations throughout the common wealth.
 Places of historic and scenic interest in Virginia will be transferred to the screen as a means of impressing upon the people the fact that millions of dollars will flow into the state annu- ally. once a statewide system of modern roads is constructed. With this aim in view. an important section of ''Nir- ginia's New Hour will be devoted to American Shrines Revisited. 7"
 The cameras first work will begin on a journey Down the World Famed Shenandoah Valley in Apple Blassom Time"