The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-12
Association, After AIl-Day Meeting, Agrees to Use
 of Name
MISSISSIPPIANSOPPOSE ALABAMIANS EFFORTS
Miss Rittenberry, Pioneer in Move ment, Tenders Resignation and Makes References to President
 Atherton and Directors

The Alabama-Jackson highway, running from Nashville Tenn. to Selma, Ala, through Fayetteville Tenn, Huntsville, l Gadsden, Birmingham and Montgomery, VIII be incorporated as leg of the Jack son highway, which runs over the Mis- sissippi route
 The use of the hyphenated name was conceded Alabama by the Jackson High way association yesterday, following an all-day discussion, mounting at times to the dignity of argument as to whether the name of Andrew Jackson should be used to designate both the Mississippi and the Alabama routes When the final count was taken, on resolution offered by E. G. Dent of Bowling Green Ky, for the incorporation of the Alabama route, the vote stood 15 for and against, with Vice President Creveleigh not vot- ing.
 Following the adoption of the resolution W. T. Sanders of Athens, who favored the Decatur route, but who voted for the resolution in order to get the highway through Alabama, announced that he would withdraw from the association at once, in order to organize the North and South highway, to run from Nashville to Montgomery, through Athens and De- catur.
 MISS RITTENBERRY RESIGNS Miss Alma Rittenberry, who has been referred to as the patron saint of the Jackson highway, and whose efforts for the Decatur route through Alabama have featured every meeting of the Jackson Highway association offered her resigna- I tion as a member of the association, fol-
 lowing the adoption of the resolution
 which gave the highway to the Hunts vile route.
 Miss Rittenberry's resignation speech,
 coming at the end of nearly five hours
 of heated discussion. was directed to-
 ward President Peter l.. Atherton of the
 association and was crisp denunciation
 of the directors and the methods they
 have applied in the operations of the as- sociation.
 T invited MT. Atherton to Birmingham where he was named president of the
 association, thinking that he would carry out my desires and the desires of those I represent" she said. And I must say that he has played thunder representing them"
 And then she addressed the assembly in these words:
 'Tf Andrew Jackson knew the unchiv alrous act of you men, he would turn in his grave; he at least was courteous to women
 The Alabama-Jackson highway will be operated under the same general officers as the Jackson highway, these officers to be supplemented by vice president and three state committeeman from each of the states of Alabama and Tennessee. The meeting began at Il o'clock yes terday morning in the ballroom of the Tutwiler and adjourned at 30 yesterday evening. A luncheon given at noon in the private dining room was the only break in the days session. MISSISSIPPIANS CONFIDENT The morning session was given over to the organization of the meeting. When the meeting adjourned for lunch, the Mississippi people expressed confidence that they would be able to keep from Alabama the name of the Jackson high way
 However, the real business of the meet ing began immediately after lunch, when Peter l.. Atherton offered a resolution asking that the Alabama route be incor- porated as a part of the Jackson high way. The resolution of Mir Dent was substituted for the one of MT. Atherton, after resolution offered by J. H. Nathan of Sheffield saying that the association did not have the power to designate any other road or any other branch as part of the Jackson highway, had been
 voted down.
 W. T. Sanders of Athens offered an amendment to the Lent TeSOluIlOn Wnlcu asked that the Alabama route run from
 Nashville through Athens Huntsville. Birmingham and on to Montgomery, and that it be called the North and South highway. The amendment was lost by vote of 1o to 8.
 When discussion on the Dent resolution was called for by President Atherton, he announced that each man would only be allowed five minutes to present his case From the beginning of the discussion, President Atherton expressed himself as being in favor of incorporating the Ala bama route He arose frequently to re- assure the gentleman from Mississippi that the association was not trying to take anything from them, but was trying to get the best results for all sections. In his opening address, he declared that
 reports to the contrary notwithstanding,
 he kbad never discriminated in favor of
 one southern route over another
 The discussion on the Dent resolution
 was confined almost entirely to Judge
 Nathan of Florence, Hugh Locke of Mis-
 sissippi, R. T. Simpson of Florence,
 w.. M. McBeath of Mississippi all rep-
 resenting the Mississippi route, and
 Judge J. c. Higgins of Nashville, E. G.
 DentAof Kentucky. w. T. Sanders of Ath-
 ens, and Miss Alma Rittenberry working
 for the Alabama route.
 LARGE SUM RAISED
 tIuph I,ocke of MississiDpi said that his