Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-02-13
AMERICAN ROAD
BUILDERS HOLD
GREAT MEETING
Where There Are Bad Roads
IIIiterateS Abound; Good
Roads Otherwise

"The Relation of Highway and
Motor Transportation Development
to Education was one of the prin-
cipal subjects discussed at the big
nation wide good roads congress
and machinery exposition he'd at
he Coliseum in Chicago, February
S to 10, according to an announce
ment made by officers Of the Am
erican Road Builders association,
under whose auspices the congress
was held The subject was pre-
sented by Prof. c. ]. Tilden, ma
tional director of highways and
highway transport education,
Washington, d. c., one of the fore
most leaders in the good roads
movement.
Improvement Of the highways
bears such an important relation
to rural and city education that
the subject is beginning to receive
considerable attention, not only
from highway but educational Of
i ficials. The improvement for the
highways in many sections of the
country has made it easier for
school children in the rural dis
tricts to get to the rural schools
and to reach handily and quickly
the higher institutions of learning
4 in the cities. Wherever roads have
been improved statistics show that
educational facilities have broad
ened and there has been marked
growth in school attendance. Cen
alis data, compared with road sta
tistics. shows clearly the re'ation-
ship between illiteracy and bad
roads Many factors contribute to
illiteracy, but it IL considered sig
niflcant that where one Is found
there is usually the other.
I'm Arkansas, Missouri, North
Carolina and Mississippi, where
less than . per cent of the reads
are improved. according to census
figures, 374,7SS native-born white
illiterates out of a total popula-
tfon of 10000 In Massachu-
sets. Connecticut, New Jersey and
Rhode Island, where more than
80 per cent of the roads are inn
proved there We're only 20,500 ma
tive born white illiterates out of
asgtotad population OF 6,025, 900. !
While Prof. Tilden presented the
subject of THE Relation of High
way Improvement to Education"
his address was followed by gen
eTal discussion open to the entire
congress.
other subjects discussed were
1.-THE Local and National Import
ance of the Lee Highway" by DR..
S. NJ. Johnson Roanoke, Va; "Our
National Road Problems" by Thos. |
II. Macdonald, chief of the United
States Bureau of Public roads,
washington, d. c., and Highway
Improvement in New England" byI
A. w. Dean. chief engineer, Divi-
sion of Highways Massachusetts,
department of public works. The
subject of THE Highways Part in
1.-THE. Development of Efficient
Transportation" was presented by
G.. w. Reid of the Federal High
way council, Washington, D. c.,
and that of Types of. Pavements''
by James II. Macdonald, New
Haven, former state highway COM
missioner of Connecticut. II. G.
National City company, New York
ldiscussed Highway Finance" II.
CT Shirley, secretary of the Fed
ieral Highway council, Washington,
Id. C., discussed the subject of
"Subgrades and L. N. Hines,
chairman of the board of county
commissioners Detroit, Mich, read
a paper on Recent Developments
lin Road Building" 1'The Relation
Between Engineers and Contrac-
tors was presented by w. A,
|, Rogers of Chicago, president of
the Associated General contractors.
Other subjects, including those of
Business Forecasts for 1921 and
1892" and 1.-The Continuance of
Federal Highway Appropriations
and "Highway Researches and
What the Results Indicate" were
atan discussed