The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
ASSOCIATION FOR ] JACKSON HIGHWAY Plans Announced for New Body to Carry Out
 the Project

The following statement was issuee yesterday regarding the newly formed Jackson Memorial Highway assoeia- tion:n
 "The purpose of the organization O. the Jackson Memorial Highway asso- citation shall be to carry 10 completion the proposed trans-continental hish- way from Chicago to Mobile and on 10 New Orleans. splitting the middle basin, connecting the lakes and the gulf. 10 be built from county 10 eoun- Y, from state to state. as monument 10 Andrew Jackson. the seventh Pres 5d-nt of the United States.
 The officers Of he Jackson Me uaorszi Highway association shall con siSs Of g president. i've vice presidents. recording secretary. treasurer and cor responding secretary
 President Ma John J. Yerirees, Nashville. Tenn hrst vice president. Carter | Harrison. mayor. Chicago; second vice president. Frederick L. TAonpson. publisher Mobile Register, Msblle. Ala tn5rd vice president, Mar lin Behrm4z. mayor New 0r} ans. lourth vice president -, sardis, Mss, recording secretary. MT Edwin E- Everett, editor Public Opinion mag szine. Terre Haate. Ind. treasurer. Es3l Ferguson. Birmln shamz correspond 4ng secretary, William Brown, Nash vile
 The officers Of this association shall held 1heir respective offices for two years and shall constitute the executive board If an officer resigns the executive -lsa f1ie someone from the state the official was selected from.
 Five members of the executive board shall constitute a quorum to transact any business that comes before the board No salary shall be paid any officer sx- cept To the treasurer and the correspond ing secretary. Their salaries to be fixed by the executive board at its first reg ular meeting. which shall be held in Nashville, the date to be selected by the president.
 ,The executive board shall appoint chairman from each of the seven states through which the Jackson highway passes, viz: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky Tennessee, Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana, with the understanding that these state chairmen, in their capacity as chairmen. shall appoint from each coun- ty through which the Jackson highway passes one person interested in good roads, which shall form a state commit tee, to work up the interest in their state in behalf of the Jackson highway, in ac- cordance with the plan and purpose of the highway commission in the above named states.
 Tt is the purpose of this association to adhere to the route selected and asked for by the Alabama National so- ciety, United States Daughters of 1872, a patriotic organization, which took the initiative in planning, launching and working for transcontinental high way from the lakes to the gulf, and naming it in honor of Andrew Jackson, namely, from Chicago down through eastern Illinois, through Indiana to Louisville, through Kentucky over the reconstructed Louisville and Nashville turnpike by the Hermitage to Nash vile on the turnpike through Franklin Columbia, Pulaski, Decatur Birming- ham, Montgomery. Mobile and New Orleans.
 Tn the minutes of the first meeting of this association it shall be recorded that Miss Alma Rittenberry of Bir- mingham, Ala, originated the project o1 this transcontinental highway splitting the middle basin and that it was launched under the auspices of tho Alabama Daughters of 1872, and activ. work begun in interesting those alone the route, and that the annual repor made by the chairman of the Jackson highway on October 31, 1911, to tn, president and board of Alabama Daugh ters of 1912 be also spread on tn, minutes.
 Any person paying s1 to the treas urer can become a member of this as sociation, and all those paying b, March 1, 1912, will be recorded as char ter members.
 The money paid into this associa tion shall be used for campaign pur poses, in keeping up interest that ha been aroused until the Jackson high way is completed, as the eXecutiv board shall direct.
 As the highway is to be built il true Jacksonian way, county to county state to state, the best way to built the highway is for the counties to is sue bonds and build in the missin, links Much of the highway is alreadl built.
 "There is nothing so helpful to town am