Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-12
Heard
At the Omaha
Automobile Club

shortly after Christmas on an eastern
trip and will visit the large automobile
clubs of the east to pick I'D data con-
corning membership campaiEns 'Tbe
Omaha Automobile club has done re-
markably we'll this year and Il Is going
to keep up the good work during 1918"
remarked Powell. Powell and achieve
ment have always been autonomous. so
that 800 membership for next year Is as
good as gold
Fat Finances.
The sinking fund this year has grown
from tsil last December 70 nearly 81, 800
at present. or an increase OF close 20
si,too. And the general fund, after a year
OF real accomplishments which took
money to see them through. is right
around $500.
Gould Dietz. treasurer. says he is going
20 hire n coiored boy TO lug the money
70 the bank IL the members keep coming
In the way they have the last year.
Call for HustIers.
We want more hustlers Listen. you
enthusiastic members. There are dozens
OF members who have brought IN from
one TO half q dozen new members the
last year and we are anxious 10 see this
honor roll grow fatter. In the large
clubs Of the east hustiing committees
keep their eyes peeled for a friend In
need of club benefits.
Here are few OF the willing woi kers"
on our honor roll: Dr. Kant. samuel
Friedman. Sam Burns jr.. Gould Diet=.
ID. w. Hart. q. l.. Gould. 70. +. Peterson.
J. u. George. Barton Willard. A. L.
Shaffer. Il. A. Clark. Randall X. Brown.
Frank w P1eging. w. b. Cheek. Clarke
q. Powell.
Many signs Placed.
over 800 square feet OF board Cor
total OF In signs) was used during 1915
In making direction and danger sIgns. 20
place on the roads. These signs vary
from exao inches TO hs largo as Cx6 feet.
Tho present system of making n uniform
sign has been worked out by c. l..
Gould. chairman OF the road sign com
mittee. Each name Is painted in black
on white background. with a red stripe
running through the name 80 that a
small arrow can be nailed on the eni
most convenient for directing traffic
The sign work has cost the club this year
about tios. This includes all cost--making
erection, drivers time and upl1eep Of the
sign car. rhe sign car has covered Doug
las. sarpy. washington. Casa and Dcdga
counties and there isn't a Inotorist In
Omaha who has not some time been
thankful for those direction boards.
Roads and Bond Issues.
sandwiched in among paragraph after
paragraph in the road maker. telling OF
the bond issues In different states and
counties for the paving of county high
ways, we find this unenviable record OF
what Nebraska Is doing for permanent
roads; This state CrNebraslSa) Is not
feeling particularly proud OF the report
Of the Department OF Agriculture which
shows that II stands next TO the bottom
In permanent road Improvement with 3
OF l per cent OF surfaced roads" Vote
for the bond issue next spring.
Cost of Had Roads.
The road committee OF the county board
OF Brown county, Wisconsin. declares
last ten years by constructing cheap
(dirO roads. A bond issue for $4,000
for paving eighty-five miles OF highway
"a certain 70 pass up there. State en-
gihser % West virginia produced figures
which proved that bad roads cost that
state s6oooaooo a year.
what 0thers Are Doing.
King county. Washington. In which
Seattle Il located. has over 10000 avail
able for road construction. Doug as
county has more population and II Is time
for the bond issue
One hundred ana sixty miles Of perma-
nent highway az a cost OF $4,000 have
been built in Montana and Idaho In the
last two years.
Massachusetts viii have nearly half Of
It's counties using prison labor on roads
next year.
Green county. Iowa. ON the Lincoln
Highway, will build six additional miles
OF gravel road next year on this over
land route.
Indiana has. during the Last eighteen
months. built sixty-eight miles OF paved
road on the Lincoln Highway Noble
county. same state. win vote on a nd
Issue TO build permanent road twenty
one miles long and fourteen-foot wide
across the county,
Hubbard county. Minnesota. has just
completed ninety-one miles OF fine high
way, built under direction Of the State
Highway commission.
state HishN way Commission Needed.
Nebraska Is one Of only four states IN
the country which has no State Highway
commission. Talk It up for the next
legislature.