Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1919 — PROF. R. C. YEOMAN ADDRESSES ROAD SCHOOL MEET [ARTICLE]

PROF. R. C. YEOMAN ADDRESSES ROAD SCHOOL MEET

Vincennes, Feb. 27.—A feature of the fiinal day’s session of the southeastern Indiana road school here today was an automobile inspection trip over improved highways in Lawrence county, Illinois, which is just across the Wabash river from Vincennes. A similar parade was held yesterday in this county. At the opening session yesterday C. D. Banks, state manager of the Portland Cement company, and E. B. Schmidt, representative of the National Brick association, spoke in favor of the construction of permenent roads. Prof. R. C. Yeoman, highway extension engineer at Purdue university, told of the growing importance of highways, and J. P. Scott spoke on the construction of highways and told of the system being followed in Illinois. (Prof. Yeoman painted out that roads formerly were built at the expense of rural communities with the local and township unit being used as a basis of construction. He said that traffic has changed so rapidly within the last ten years and rapidmoving vehicles have grown in volume to the extent that road legislation and road improvement have lagged behind." 1 ' The state highway commission bill and the county unit bill now before the legislature, he said, propose to accomplish business system and reconstruction by adopting a large unit of ents and farmers attended the twoday session.