Arizona republican., 1922-04-27

10 Genoa, the sea on one SIDE, and on
the other abrupt slopes covered with
vineyards and fruit trees. Then, such
a different picture! The rough stony
road, from Jerusalem, down 10 Jeri-
cho: it was on this road, you remem-
Der, that the traveller fell among
thieves, and it is to this day very
sinister piece Of road. So steep and
uneven is it that though one goes
from Jerusalem to Jericho (down hill
all the way!) in about an hour, it
takes three hours to return, and three
horses, hooked up Russian fashion,
three abreast. to get back. Again,
like the Russians, the gait is a swift
gallop all the way down, irrespective
of comfort, life or limb OF the unifor-
tunate traveller!
Columbia Highway
Almost more beautiful than any
road which / have ever seen any
where, is the Columbia highroad in
| your own Northwest, on the heights
overlooking the Columbia river, out
OF Portland, Oregon. The two visions
OF beauty and loveliness and gran
deur that have remained with me
ever. since a visit to this wonder
country" some years ago, are first,
the city OF Portland with her hedges
Of fragrant pink roses CT have never
seen hedges of roses anywhere else,
not even in California;, and then this
triumphant boulevard, with its glori-
GUS vistas out over the water, its
winding curves, and its unexpected
glimpses, which for sheer beauty ]
have never seen equaled.
My other vision of beauty which
has remained with me, as a fragrant
memory, for years, was my first visit
aif fxy faf y
ing over one OF the most thrilling
routes in the world, through the
Painted Desert, we found ourselves
in Fairyland-nothing less! First, the
Woman's club building, where we
were invited for luncheon. ! know
now how bee must feel in the heart
of an American Beauty rose! We
were literally embowered in hundreds
of these gorgeous roses, which made
the exquisite pink Of the Portland
roses look pale! On the tables, on
the walls, overhead, underfoot, our
pathway was indeed a flowery one.
Everywhere we turned we were
greeted with glowing beauty and
chant fer figures said there were, by
actual count. 500 roses used in the
decora tion, and it did not seem to
be regarded as anything remarkable
except by the lucky visitors And
then my first glimpse of your broad.
hospitable streets, bordered with palm
and date trees.
Cannot Forget
Do you wonder that L could not
forget, and that / was delighted to
repeat the fairy like experience? In
deed, / feel so temptd to iinger on
in this City of Delight. that the open
| road, even though a good one does
not interest me AS ! was invited
here, however, to keep to the roads,
l must away" and on to the roads
my subject.
1t seems TO me that good roads
should be OF more vital interest to
women, country women certainly,
than even to farmers, and men in
general How different is the life
today. for the woman on faraway
farm, from that of only a few years
ago. Much of this difference is
largely due to good roads, or at least
paSsahle ones. and the better the road
the better the life of the housewife
the city. but often bringing the things
| OF the cities to her very door.
Whatever the state OF the roads
men (given the desire) can always
''get to town. but it is a different
| thing for Motheri THE roads are
too rough for her!"
| Another picture ! have OF your
great plains. a memory going back
| over-I don't like to say how many
| years-my first visit to the West. A
prosperous looking farm, large red
barn, with healthy, happy looking
cattle. small, tho well kept dwell
| ing house, and standing listlessly in
the doorway, the figure of a woman
watching the train 90 by! For miles
and miles around that home stretched
vast level plains, as far as the eye
could reach, and as the train bore US
swiftly on, / wondered what the life
of that woman held beside the daily
| grind or monotony of only domestic
toll, with few neighbors, at long dis
| tances, and no way of reaching them
! | though Of her in the night watches
| that dread hour just before the dawn
with some loved one i'll unto death
and the doctor painfully. slowly
making his way over almost impass-
able roads; or when the life of not
one, but possibly two, hung in the
balance while he urged his weary
beast through quagmire and rough
| places,
work OF women
/ can only speak authoritatively OF
woman's part in the good roads
movement, in my own state, and that
| largely through the vision. and prac-
! tical work of one woman, Miss Hat
| tie Berry of Greensboro, n. c., secre
| tary of the North Carolina Good
| Roads association and responsible for
one OF the biggest pieces of legisla
| ton in the history of the state, the
authorization of a statewide sys-
| tenn of roads. She wrote the bill in
1913, that established the first high
| way commission, and she never slum :
| bered nor slept, working early and
| late, with rare tact and effectiveness
until 1921, when by her indefatigable
work she held the general assembly
in line until it had voted $50, 600, 600
bond issue for a system OF highways
under state control, state mainten-
ance and state construction. North
| Carolina is the first state in the
| Union to authorize as much as $50
100000 for roads at one time; the
other four states being New York,
Illinois California and Virginia. 1t
in a matter of pride to realize that
it is due to the skill, cleverness, and
above all, TO the unceasing industry
VI q WOuldn llaL 4NpheA ~oA oAAAto -
owe her $500 miles of hard surface
road. In the is months preceding
the passage of the bill Miss Berry
accompanied by three women work
ing with her, Travelled from one end
of the state to the other; spreading
the gospel Of good roads through 40
counties, speaking in several towns
in each county. In one of our west
ern counties where 1t costs $3.50 a
ton to haul coal four miles, and
everything else in proportion. the
women. particularly. implored her to