The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-06-11

gent appllcatlOn. For instance, the
people of the United States paid
$685., 600. 900 for road programs in the
year Of 1915. This amount Of money
will pave with brick twelve roads
from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast.
Ninety per cen of this none was
wasted, not because anyone stole any
Of 1t, but because Of the lack Of an in
telligent plan for its expenditure.
Every one in these days is for good
roads, providing the road runs past his
farm. or through his town. and hence.
when the public provides money, each
individual insists that the road in his
community is the most important one
to build, and the public officials hand
ling the funds become the center Of
. wire pulling contest in which they
have to satisfy all possible elements.
Now, there are 2,075.O0O miles Of high
way in the United States, and II we
tried to build all OF them at once. the
money IL scattered so thinly, that the
result 10 practically waste.
It was because OF these things that
the Yellowstone Trail Association was
organised. II by a Of a long line
national highway connecting up state
after state. city and town in . con-
tinuous line, enriches the country, a
road might be raised out Of IN aver
ago road. and give special ~signidcap.c
In each community. then q national
and logical starting place for road i'm
provemsnt program 10 provided. and
that = the purpose Of the Yellowstone
Trail Association.
What roads should be improved In
your community? That answer ID that
road should be improved for which
there h tho greatest demand for its
use. The Yellowstone Trail Associa-
ton carries its advertising program
Tor auto travel to Ill parts Of the coun-
try. Il marks the road we'll. It has its
Information bureaus. II carries ON IN
tensive advertising campaigns. simply
Tor the purpose Of crystalising In pub
lilo minds the need for improvement
Of that PARTICULAR road. II 1 man hv-
lng II . small town sees nifty ANTONIO
biles each day 60 through his COM
munity on . certain road. it, occupants
stopping IN the town, spending their
money, and looking over the country.
Il creates on the part Of that town or
community IN interest In that road.
When this same thing II done on .
Continuous stretch Of road from the
east to the west, then the things be-
comes national.
The Yellowstone Trail Association
h Organised 70 that the public road
thought IN Ohio and Indiana meets the
pabltc road thought In Montana and
Warrington. Il n done In this man.
ner: each year the Yellowstone Trail
Association holds IN annual state
meeting In each Of the seventeen
states through which seventeen states
Il r. organised. Representatives from
Ill towns along the Yellowstone Trail
In the state gather ct these state
meetings The plans for road improve
ments. for publicity, for marketing,
for tourist travel. for educating public
thought - applied to roads are talked
over 1t this state meeting, particular
y the. application peculiar to that
state. ! This state meeting elects q
member for the executive committee,
and when all state meetings have been
held, . meeting Of the executive mem
bers elected Ii called together, and
they discuss the same questions
der Amusement Of the state meetings,
and arrive at conclusions and plans
for the year. At this executive com
mittee meeting, the man from Ohio
meets the man from Washington and
Montana. and the man from Idaho
meets the man from Minnesota and
Wisconsin. and there Is the national
common problem.
The organization, however, il much
moro intensive than this. In each
town whore the Yellowstone Trail
reaches. there IL Z representative Of
tho Association. known - the trail
man" This trailman u II constant
touch with the general offices q the
Association n Minneapolis, MIMI, and
t1roagh him, the Minneapolis Offices
aTo - touch With tho local conditions
clear acroes The united States, 90 that
IT, general organixaticn OF the Vel
lcWstone Tran Association b able 20
really reflect national thought, b.
can1o 9 IT. clooe rslationship with
eadh stown md community clear across
~ Unite1 States.
IT, YolloW1tooo Trail II tho Oldest
h1vANay orGpnisatioa n America, b.
ngg9rUA11Do4 AlD11. II organisation
hoo6QuaEto90 spofD 1rst located at
rilGo o1ty, 1oonk; thea the orennisa-
a. 49, v611yG1goly : lo0ssly discon-
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