Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-12

politics as he believed was the duty
Of all the people TO support the high
way commission in it's labors. He told
| Of the necessity of the maintenance Of
the highway commission as an agency
through which government cooperation
only could be obtained. He told of
the securing of forest and Indian res
~ervation roads which he said could
have been obtained only through the
had no other benefit from the high
way commission than the building of
these Indian reservation roads, then
we have been well paid" Nh. War
den advocated the selection of a state
system Of roads to be built by the
state and of a county system to be
built by the counties. He told of the
pressing need of a state road leading
north from Great Falls to the oil
fields, and closed his remarks with
Lets get together and get as good
a road Statute as~~-We- can devise,
which will have the support of the
state administration, the highway com
mission and the state as a whole"
AT the evening session Congressman
Elect Scott Leavitt. president of the
National Park to Park Highway asso-
! citation, discussed the needs of Mon
ana for roads as he had found them
during his trip over the state east of
the Rockies during the recent political
campaign. In response to a question
as to whether federal aid is needed, he
told of great areas into which only the
crudest of roads had been built and
which cannot be opened up without
federal aid. He proposed a great ma
tional road system, a state system and
d county system, and held that this
association could have no object other
than to provide road money without
placing any more burden upon the or
binary taxpayer.
Co-Operation
W. G. Ferguson, president of the
Montana Association Commercial Or
ganization Secretaries, promised the
cooperation Of that organization in
putting through the measures which
the committee will place before the
legislature.
Prof. Clinton B. Moore of Butte en-
lghtened the committee upon the his
tory of the good roads movement in
the state of which he had been q pro-
pOnent.
W. B. Dennis of Oregon delivered a
most interesting talk upon the subject
!, of good roads and road legislation in
which he said he agreed with Mr.. Edy
upon his concrete and definite road
program and expressed this message:
.tYou will never make Il success OF
your program unless you adopt a state
system divorced of all county lnflu-
epces. 1t IS not right to call upon the
: counties to build any part of the state
/: system
He informed the committee that in
!: placing the proposed tax upon the au-
tomobile owners, it gave them the
l right to demand that all the money be
} expended upon the roads n said that
if this took from other departments
any of their moneys, this woutd have
TO be made up in some other way.
Feasible Program
: The speaker predicted that within
=. five years u large percentage OF the
, states would adopt state road systems.
-, and would return to the counties every
cent they had eXpenped upon state
! roads. He recommended that Montana
a not only pay the interest upon the
county road bonds but that it take
j over the payment Of the prlnclpaI OF
the bonds.
The open meeting was closed with a
talk BY Eugene Carroll OF Butte re-
garding road construction IN SILVER
i Row county and said the county had
g accomplished wonderful results with
9 the help of the state highway eommls-
5 sion and the federal government.
4 Arrangements nave been made with
Nr, Cannon to deliver talks IN the
state While en- route TO his home, he
+ to appear in Livingston Wednesday: in
l RnJings Thursday, in Miles City Fri
j., day and in Glendive Saturday.