Evening star., 1925-03-25
ARLINGTON OPENS
ROAD BONDS DRIVE
Era of Prosperity Forecast
at Banquet for Elec-
tion Campaign.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLARENDON. Va, March 25-That
Arlington County Is on the threshold
of great development and the road
building program. If favored by the
voters at an election April 90, will
serve as a stimulus, was the trend
of speeches at a banquet last night
OF the District Good Roads Commits
sion held in the Ballston engine
house
The banquet marked the firing of
the first gun by the commission in
a campaign having as its principal
i'm the winning of support for the
bonds which are proposed to be is
sued to finance the project. There
were about 200 in attendance, in
cluding visitors from the National
Capital, county officials and men and
women prominent in civic activities
In the county.
state Senator Frank l.. Ball served
as toastmaster and addresses were
made by Arthur Orr chairman of the
good roads commission; j. Gordon
Mckay, chief of the division of high
way economics, Bureau of Public
Roads: John l.. Nagel, one of the
designers of the Arlington Memorial
Bridge; Mrs. Florence Cannon, presi-
dent of the County Welfare League;
w. J. Ingram, supervisor of Arlington
district; Charles T. Jesse, the county's
delegate to the State legislature:
John Crack. chairman of the board of
directors of the Ballston fire depart
ment; former State Senator J. Cloyd
Byars, Charles r. TAYLOR, president
emeritus of the Clarendon Citizens
Association; Fred S. Swinden a well
known attorney; former Sheriff A c.
Clements, Capt. John II. Talman.
county superintendent of roads. and
Harry S. Fellows, mayor of Falls
Church.
Commission Is Praised
POSTMASTER Ball declared that the
Good Roads Commission has -labored
hard for more than a year to Law out
o system of roads. Its work is prac-
cally completed" he continued, and
IT. is up to us to carry on the good
work" He said that he favored the
bonding method of procuring the i'm
provements, adding that bonding was
simply a matter of borrowing money,
and when it is considered that most
people follow this course in buying
homes, he could see no reason for not
applying the same principle in get
ting the roads.
Mr.. Orr's address was in the ma
ture of complete report of the de-
ltberations of the road commission
character and ability of the men as
sociated with him in working out the
plan. n
The taxes for the new roads must
De levied over the entire district"
he said, and the problem confront4
ing the commission was to arrive at
plan which would result as nearly
as possible in an equitable distribu-
tlon OF the benefits. In my opinion it
Is as nearly composite of what citi-
zens and taxpayers of the district as
q whole desire in the way of a road
program as it is humanity possible TO
devise"
Speaking in defense of the Gar
rlson road extended proposal, be-
heVed TO be the outstanding objection
OIL the opponents of the plan, Mr. Orr
SAID that one of the fundamental
PRINCIPLES by which the Commission
was guided was that every com
mun1ty should be provided with an
improved outlet to Washington and
that the road traverses a community
Highland Park-that is entitled to
such an outlet by virtue of the taxes
1t pays.
Two Plans for Outlet
To give Highland Park this out
let, he said, the commission had the
choice of two plans-Garrison road
EXTENDED or Browns Bend road. The
former was favored by the commits
sion, he said, because it would cost
less and provided a 50-foot right of
way, as compared with 30-foot right
OF way on the Browns Bend road
Another important point in favor
OF the Garrison road, it was pointed
out by Mr.. Ball, is that it will form
connecting link with the new
Memorial Bridge, get an immense
amount of the tourist traffic from the
Lee Highway, where it joins that
roadway at Falls Church, and be of
great benefit to Ballston and Claren-
don, through which it runs.
In summary of the meaning Of a
road" Dr. Mckay said that it is more
than a strip of concrete, macadam or