Mountain advocate., 1922-01-20
CONGRESSMAN ROBSON
WORKS FOR EX-SOLDIERS
CONTINUED from last week.
An Advocate of Good Roads

An Advocate of Good Roads
He offered the good roads bill
which recently passed, and had it in
charge in the House. There are two
roads ideas in Congress-one, known
as the Townsend plan, to confine
Federal aid strictly to interstate OF
transcontinental roads and to have
the law administered by a commits
sion here in Washington; the other
to build interstate and intercounty
systems, linking up the farmer with
his market and bringing the produc-
er and the consumer closer together
to be administered by the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Speaking in support of his own bill
in the House, Representative Rob-
sion said:
Less than 2 per cent of the high
way travel of the United States is in
terstate, (from State to State.) The
other SO per cent of highway travel
is intercounty or within the States.
The Townsend plan proposes
Federal aid for a system of roads
interstate in character, few trans
continental lines for the tourists
and "joy riders" of America, the 2
per cent of highway travel.
"The Robsion plan proposes a
connected system of intercounty and
Interstate roads to receive Federal
aid. a farm-to-market, producers-to-
consumers system to take care OF
the SO per cent of travel as well as
the per cent and bring the bene-
fits of Federal aid to every county
in America.
"There are now about 100000
motor vehicles in the United States.
One-half of these, as well as a large
majority of the other vehicles, are
in the hands of the farmers. The
farmers and business men must have
good roads as well as the tourists
and joy riders.
THE Robsion plan is indorsed by
the Federal highway officials, the
state highway officials. and the farm
organizations of the Nation"
This latter plan was adopted in
the recent road law carrying $780,
100000, OF which $75,OOO,OOO is to
be expended in cooperation with the
States, and the other $15,OOO,00O
for forest roads and reservations.
With nearly 2OO,OOO,OO0 acres OF
land in this country controlled by
the Government it is important to
have roads and trails maintained
thru these areas, not only to provide
routes, but for protection of the Ma
tional forests from fire.
That money is for the remainder
of the present fiscal year, ending on
June 80, 1922. I'VE shall continue
to fight for a program to provide
500, 100000 a year for the next
several years to be administered un'
der the new law" Representative
Robsion said.
He likes to talk pridefully about
his home district, about Kingdom
Come" and the home people, who al
know him as ~. NJ" and to whom
he always writes Dear Friend.
This big-hearted, capable Kentuck
ian, gauntly Lincolnlike in stature
is thoroly self satisfied that he Il
representing the finest and mobiles
and truest people in the greatest dis
trict in the Union. He will tell yol
that at the outbreak of the Spanish
American War thousands Of tn
young men from that district volun
teered-so many that they could no
all get into the service.
Those mountain people have al
ways been loyal to the core to tn
Government and intensely patriotic
he says. During the World War n
man. woman, or child in my distric
was convicted of disloyalty TO tn
Government-and that's a yer
proud boast While il is noun
famous country and the people ar
considered to be poor yet one count
in my district oversubscribed il
quota to the Liberty Loan ever
time and more than any other count
in the United States.
Another county oversubscribe