General Coleman du Pont
CHAIRMAN BOAnO OF NATIONAL COUNCILLORS
Charles Henry Davis, C.E.
♦	President
FREDERIC REMSEN HUTTON. M.E.. SC.D.
GENERAL SECRETARY MORGAN. LEWIS Be BOCKIUS, Philadelphia Gencral Counsel Waldron Williams, new York chairman national Membership committee
Cambridge, Isss . June 7, 1917.
Ly dear Mr. LeBlanc:
Thanks for your letter of June 4th. 1 appreciate the strength of the arguments that you advance. Nevertheless whilst they are strong arguments I do not believe that efforts along the line of Congressional appropriations for one highway will be productive of results. I have been interested in road work for three generations in my family. I today have no personal coxanercial interest in road building, or in the profits growing out of road building, or the manufacture of machinery, or the supplying of materials. I am devoting my interest, time, and attention from the public point of view, I am giving my time and my money freely.
The correspondence of this office covering this subject from the public point of view has amounted to 633 average ccmmunications daily incoming and outgoing during a period of 4 consecutive years. The more I have studied the problem from every angle and from every comer of the United states, the more convinced I am that we cannot get GOOD ROADS EV^RYWHRRE in these United States until we commit the National Government to the building of a system of national highways at the sole expense of the government to be maintained by the government at their sole expense. All other efforts will be a waste of time.
Now while I am so convinced please do not misunderstand me.
V/e will cooperate with all and every effort along every line towards road development because whilst we have our own opinions those opinions may be wrong. We are willing to admit that. Therefore please coxxmand us in connection with the work that you are doing in any way possible and if we can furnish Literature, maps, information or anything else that will be helpful for your particular activity and your particulea: point of view we stand ready to accord it.
Old Spanish Trail Assn., Mr. S. A- Le Blanc, Sec., Mobil®, Alabama.

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Elias Vander Horst. C.E., new York Vice-President in charge of National headquarters
SECRETARY TO BOARD OF NATIONAL COUNCILLORS ARTHUR H. BLANCHARD. C.E.. A.M.. NEW YORK
Timothy W. Sprague. S.B.. boston Enginccr to Board of National Councillors Will Ward Duffield
ENGINEER OF CHART CONSTRUCTION
Francis Hurtubis. Jr.
COUNSEL AUTOMOBILE LEGAL DEPARTMENT
Robert Bruce, utica. n. y.
Stanley E. Bates, S.B.. Chicago
John C. Mulford Chief cartographer
NATIONAL HIGHWAYS ASSOCIATION
JUDGE J. M. LOWE. Kansas city. Mo. Vice-President president National Old Trails roao department A. L. Westgard. new York Vice-president
DIRECTOR TRANSCONTINENTAL HIGHWAYS
Henry Branson Varncr
VICE-PRESIDENT PRESIDENT NORTH CAROLINA GOOD ROADS DIVISION
Joseph Hyde Pratt. Ph.d.
SECRETARY NORTH CAROLINA GOOD ROADS DIVISION
Nelson B. Clark, boston, mass.
CHAIRMAN DIVISION OF PUBLICITY
Francis Hill Bigelow assistant Treasurer
JOHN Phillips Marquand. Boston, mass.
NATIONAL HIGHWAYS EDITOR C. H. Claudy. Washington
Charles E Foote, new york Technical editor national Highways publications
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Walter Agnew Alsdorf. columou's. o'hio" Assistant director-general Zacchius Davis Dunlap. Nashville, tenn