Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

TiMgraphlc Reports From Many Parts of tin Conntry. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happening! In the Nearby Cities end Towns—Matters of Minot Mention From Mu/ Place*. PERMANENT HIGHWAYS URGED Former . Rensselaer Boy Speaks at Road School.

Vincennes, Ind., Feb. 27. —A feature of the final day’s session of the southeastern Indiana road school here today was an automobile inspection trip over improved highways in Lawrence epunty, 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. Banke, state manager of the Portland Cement company, and E. B. Schmidt, representative of the National Brick association, spoke in favor of the construction of permanent roads.

Profeesor R. C. Yeoman, highway extension engineer at Purdue university, told of the growing Importance of highways, and J. P. Scott spoke on the conetructlon of highways and told of the system being followed In Illinois. Professor Yeoman pointed out that roads formerly were built at the expense of rural conrumunities ih the local and township unit being' used as a basis of construction. said that traffic has changed so rapidly within the last ten years and rapid-moving vehicles have grown in volume to the extent that road legislation and road improvement have lagged behind.

The state highway commission bill and 1 the county unit bill now before the legislature, he said, propose to accomplish business system and reconstruction by adopting a larger unit of control. Many road superintendents and farmers attended the two-day session.