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We suggest, therefore, that you join in an active, concerted movement, PARTICIPATED IN BY ALL COMMERCIAL ORGANIZATIONS IN CITIES ALONG THE THREE COASTS AND THE MEXICAN BORDER, to whom a similar letter is being addressed, to bring this project to the attention of the Council of National Defense, (1) directly, (2) through your senators and congressmen and (3) by a nation-wide gathering to be held within a month, in Mobile, where the movement originated recently.
Since that time, the United States Good Roads Association, of which U. S. Senator J. H. Bankhead is President, has passed unanimousl3r the resolution offered by the representative of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce, Captain John Craft, a nationally known good road3 advocate for a quarter of a century. It has also been adopted by the Alabama Good Roads Association, Bankhead Highway Association, the New Orleans Association of Commerce, the Louisiana Motor Club, the directors of the Old Spanish Trail Association from Miami, Fla., to San Diego, Cal., the Mississippi Centennial Directors and the city governments of various smaller cities along the Gulf Coast.
This resolution declares it to be "fundamentally important that our fortified positions be connected with through highways and bridges built by the U. S. Government under the supervision of government engineers and under the direction of the War Department."
While we suggest the passage of this or a similar resolution IN ADDITION to any resolution of purely local application, which this movement would merely aid and not hinder, we urge much wider and more effective action. PLEASE ADVISE WITHOUT DELAY, whether or not your organization regards this movement as of sufficient importance to justify your sending one or more representatives to the PROPOSED MEETING IN MOBILE WITHIN A MONTH at which the Council of National Defense will asked to be represented as well as the nation’s best advocates and experts in road construction.
Please, also, through jrour newspapers and by letter, urge other organizations and cities in your immediate section, to become immediately active.
We invite and urge a frank statement of your opinion of this enterprise, by return mail, and trust that you will call your officers together at once.
No time is to be lost; please act NOW.
MOBILE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Secretary
President