4 'GOOD ROADS DAY' IS PROCLAIMED Governor Fixes May 24 as the Day on Which to Work on the State's Highways Thursday, March 24. was to-day officially proclaimed by Governor Brumbaugh to be Pennsylvania's third "Good Roads I>ay" upon which the people of the State are called upon to go out and work on the highways. The Governor's proclamation points out that improved roads are of eco nomic importance and that last year 60.000 men gave of their labor with out cost. The Governor's proclamation is as follows: "Whereas, The demand for good • j A Personal Message to Every Thinking Man and Woman in Harrisburg and Vicinity You want a newspaper in which you can have accurate, editorials that are sane and uninfluenced implicit confidence, that reflects the true spirit of the a newspaper that is always reliable —The Phila people of this country, that gives you news that is delphia Record. 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THE PHILADELPHIA RECORD RECORD BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA | MONDAY EVENING, roads in this Commonwealth is uni versal and increasingly insistent, and "Whereas, The rapid development of our transportation routes is essen tial to the well-being of our people. Our great agricultural interests are largely dependent upon the develop ment and upkeep of our highways. There must speedily be established an all-year, satisfactory highway service from our farms to our mar kets and market stations. Producer and consumer alike require this serv ice. With the steady increase in the number of automobiles • used by our people in passing from one business center to another the importance of good highways is increasingly mani fest. As we open our State to visitors and citizens alike we shall Hud the scenic splendor of Pennsylvania m creasingly appealing and our high ways increasingly important; and "Whereas, In every town and city and in many rural communities many of our leading citizens, imbued with high civic purpose, have formed im portant bodies to promote good roads, organizing voluntarily associations such as Chambers of Commerce, civic associations and State highway or ganizations—all of which is service of tho loftiest character and worthy of all commendation. These, together with the press of the Commonwealth, have all commended the plan of ob serving a State-wide good roads day; and "Wheresas, on Good Roads Day in | 1916 upwards of fifty thousand citi zens gave freely the day to work upon the roads, five thousand eight hun dred and sixty-nine teams were given | and one thousand one hundred and j twenty-one drags added to the :iuc cess of the effort. Approximately | four thousand seventy-two miles of i roads were treated. The judges of the courts in many counties joined the 1 Executive in issuing proclamations. Many splendid women provided free j luncheons for the workers. Many! large corporations with cordial Rood | will nave of their men to aid the| movement, and generally our people entered with zeal and intelligence | upon the effort to make the day lho| great success its purpose merited. "Therefore, I, Martin G. Brum-1 ttXRXUSBURO TELEGRAPH baug.h Governor of this Common wealth, fully In accord with th most enlightened and progressive spirit of our people and anxious In every way at my disposal to encourage and sup port the people in their laudable de sire to secure good roads throughout the Commonwealth, to the end that this Htate-wlde interest may be heart ily promoted and that we may speed ily secure a system of highways worthy of our people and their activities and that, even with Inadequate appropria tions we may establish safe, comfort able and permanent avenues of travel, do make and publish this proclama tion: "That each and every supervisor of the several townships in this Com monwealth is obligated by law and In good conscience to give this move ment. for good roads cordial support and to help make this flay memorable in the forward movement for hetter roads. "That all our citizens having a patriotic regard for this great Com monwealth shall, so far as possible, plan their personal duties in such manner as to give this entire day to the improvement of ohr highways. When this is not possible, I ask them to make such contributions in money as wilj enable the local authorities to add to the substantial good the day should accomplish. "That all owners of automobiles, living In cities or towns repair on this day to the country and volunteer their services to the end that their services may add to the safety and comfort of themselves and others when traveling upon our highways, and "That this may be a State-wide movement, memorable for the great good It shall do in the improvement of our highways and in fostering an increased sentiment for good rouds everywhere In the State, in all of which the State Department of High ways will most heartily co-operate, I hereby designate and set aside Thurs day, May 24, 1917, as State-Wide Good Roads Day in Pennsylvania." - - : "■ • T * ■- '• MARCH 12, 1917. Bishop Assails Clubs With Sunday Bars Philadelphia, March 12. A cru sade to close the bars of drinking clubs on Sunday was inlUatejl yesterday by tho Right Rev. John J. McCort, auxil iary bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Philadelphia. In a letter to tho Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Philadelphia. Bishop McCort vigorously denounced the drinking club as "Intolerable" and as doing "inestimable havoc to tho welfare of our young men." tie emphasized the need for curbing the Sunday sale of booze In clubs later In an interview in which he declared that the drinking club should be as strictly regulated by the State as are saloons. Mme. Gluck Would Shoot Sons Before War Comes Boston, March 12. "Shoot, your sons dead, American mothers, before you allow them to enllst for war." Such Is the advice or Alma Gluck, tho .singer and wife of Zimbalist, the violinist. Mme. Gluck Is of Rumanian birth, her husband is a Russian. "if every woman would pledge her self to kill her sons before she let them go to war, there would be no war," she continued, with emotion, in an interview. "I would. Before I would let a son of mine KO to war and be shot after he had killed the sons of other women, I would shoot him myself with my own hands. You think he might re- < turn alive? Maimed? Maimed, crip pled or sightless? Ah, that would be worse than death. War is never justi fiable —never, never, never." Mme. Gluck has two daughters, a girl of 13 and a baby of 18 months, but no sons.