BULLETIN No. 5
ADDRESS
BY
HONORABLE FRANKLIN K. LANE
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
AT
CONFERENCE OF REGIONAL CHAIRMEN OF
THE HIGHWAYS TRANSPORT COMMITTEE
COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1918
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RESOLUTION PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE
"The Council of National Defense approves the widest possibleuse of the motor truck as a transportation agency, and requeststhe State Councils of Defense and other State authorities totake all necessary steps to facilitate such means oftransportation, removing any regulations that tend to restrictand discourage such use."

WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1919





[2]MAP SHOWING REGIONAL AREAS

Recognizing the national value of our highways in relation to, andproperly coordinated with, other existing transportation mediums, andmore particularly the necessity for their immediate development thatthey might carry their share of the war burden, the Highways TransportCommittee was appointed by, and forms a part of, the Council ofNational Defense.
The object of the committee is to increase and render more effectiveall transportation over the highways as one of the means ofstrengthening the Nation's transportation system and relieving therailroads of part of the heavy short-haul freight traffic burden.
National policies are directed from the headquarters of the nationalcommittee in Washington to the highways transport committees of theseveral State Councils of Defense. These State organizations, which byproper subdivisions reach down through the counties to thecommunities, are grouped together into 11 regional areas, as shown bythe map used above. The State committees of the different areas areassisted by and are under the direct supervision of the 11 regionalchairmen of the Highways Transport Committee, Council of NationalDefense.




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COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.
HIGHWAYS TRANSPORT COMMITTEE.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
ADDRESS BY HON. FRANKLIN K. LANE, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR,
        BEFORE THE CONFERENCE OF REGIONAL CHAIRMEN OF
              THE HIGHWAYS TRANSPORT COMMITTEE,
                     SEPTEMBER 17, 1918.

I did not come to-day with the idea of bringing you anything new. Onthe contrary, I have come here to get the inspiration whichassociation with those from the outside gives. There is no hope forthis place unless we can keep in contact with the remainder of theUnited States. In isolation we think in a vacuum, and it is only whenwe know what you are thinking of on the outside that we get theimpulse which leads to construction. I think I can say out of myknowledge of 12 years of administrative work in this city, that wehave to look abroad, go up on the tops of the hills and see the greatvalleys of our country, before we know really what our policies shouldbe. When we live alone or live in                        
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