The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-03-11
ASK BISMARCK
TO TAKE LEAD
FOR HIGHWAYS
Good Roads Association Cam
paign Begins in Few
g< Days
PLANS ARE ENDORSED,
Far-Sighted Men Approve Plan
to Give State Network of
e. ...f Roads
PLANS ARE ENDORSED.


The North Dakota State Good Roads
association was not organized for the
period of year or two, as some peo-
nile may imagine, but the officers ana
directors of the association reallzet'
at the start that it would take se''
eral years to carry out the oD)ects
os the organization, and therefore
thev are preparing for the future
right now. That is the principal rea-
son for the membership campaign III
this city next week. It takes large
number of memberships TO finance
the organization 50 that it can 40 ell
fectiye work, and every effort Will De
made to have sufficiently larse
treasury so that the work OF the Or
panization will not be hahlpered III
any way.
That the objects Of the ASSOCIATION
meet with the approval OF the peo-
ple is evidenced by the following eX'
tract from letter received at th-
association office yesterday:
81 heartily endorse your state
ment that you are in the good .
roads game to stay until every
county and township in the state
jnaugurates a system of highways
connecting with the state and
federal highways. 1t will make
North Dakota better place and
if Won beat the other states to-
your good roads millennium it Will
be the best state in the union.
There iss no question whatsoever
but that roads make states as =.
they make nations"
Investigate Plans.
There is no doubt but that the pee
ME ri the state are in favor Of good
Z rsa,,s .ts2s 9fllyediescr an t.so nsph-
dds to secure the good roads The
North Dakota State Good Roads asso-
citation is investigating the road plars
of all states in the union, and. is IN
touch with the Bureau of Public
Roads at Washington When all the
data is at hand it is believed that
4 comprehensive and workable coh-
stitutional amendment can be prepar"
ed that will meet with the hearty ap~
proyal of the majority or the voters
in the state. Sure it is, that under
the present highway laws in this
state it is impossible to complete any
given road across the state and at
the same time take advantage of fed
eral aid for the highways. We are
working under what is practically a
county out in plan Of building high
ways with state and federal aid, ana
anv one county can make it impossi-
bic to complete highway that will
be of any great use to the state IN
general. .,.
This winter has been an exceptional
winter for North Dakota, the first or
its kind since 1897 and it may be a
decade before we will have a similar
winter. Motor vehicles have been
able to run in nearly every part OF
the state all winter long, but next
winter we will find it different. The
chairman Of the county commission
ers Of Golden Valley county stated to
the writer the other day, that they
!, ndQ DullL d SlduSu lcNu iAOA III AichAA
Beach for several miles, and last wiz
ter it was possible to use this piece
Of road all winter long with wheeled
+, vehicles. He is heartily in favor Of
plan that will give to all portions
of the state 365-day highways, start
ing somewhere and ending up somd-
where. instead of a short piece here
and there throughout the state, as
seems to be the rule at this time
q -s Asked to Set Pace.
Bismarck is being asked to set the
pace relative to the numDer of menl-
berships in the North Dakota State
Good Roads association. The goal is
set at 200 life memberships, and these
should be easy to secure, for there Is
no other city in the state that wants
good roads more than Bismarck
When the committee wait on you
Monday morning do not make ex-
cuses, but back your wishes with
your money and thereby assist in
making it possible to resure a real
trunk system Of highways for the
state Let us make North Dakota the
best state III the union. We can do
it If we back up the only organiza-'
ton in the state that is pledged to
securing this trunk system Of high
ways. Let's go. --. -,