Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-22
CHEEK ELECTED
President OF
CITY AUTO CLUB
Publisher of Road Maker Out
lines Plans for New High
way from indianapolis
Through Omaha.

Election of officers for the en-
suing year was held at the regular
directors meeting of the Omaha
Auto club Wednesday. w. B.
Check, the present head of the club,
had no opposition and was unani-
mously reelected. President Cheek
has been untiring in his efforts, and
the sense CT the board was that he
has made such a good start in the
good roads movement, especially,
that the club needed him again at
the helm. w. L. Nesbit was elected
second vice president, Randall X.
Brown, first vice president; J. S.
White, treasurer, and S. T. Smyth,
secretary. Committee chairmen will
lie appointed probably at next meet
ing Of til, beard.
New Road Project.
Joe L. Long, publisher of the
Road Maker, and manager of the
Iowa Publishing company, Daven-
port, one ct the most prominent
road boosters in the country, has
outlined to the Auto club a new
highway from Indianapolis, Ind, to
Omaha ana the West, and the club
has promised support in the enter
prise. The route of the new high
way will start from indianapolis
and run through Danville, Ind, to
Danville Champaign. Bloomington,
and Peoria. ILL.,, and then on to Bur-
!,ngion, Ia, where it will follow the
Blue Grass road through southern
Iowa to Omah a. From Omaha,
tourists will take either the Lincoln
Highwsy or OLD. The object of
the rev route is to provide
marked road from Indianapolis and
points east through Omaha to the
~enlc west. Omaha will thereby
sesure portion of the traffic that
no| goes via Kansas City, or
through the northern part of Mis-
souri, via the Pixies Peak Pershipg
Transport Highway (the latter re-
Gently named "Pershing Transport"
in konoi of General Pershing, whose
old home is on this trail in Mis-
sourD. The Blue Grass road is one
of the Oldest and best known of
Iowa roads and this past year was
kept Up in excellent condition. Mr..
Long is enthusiastic on the new
route and will likely make trip
over The eastern half to stir up in
terest in The marking, which latter
has not been decided upon.
State Road Bond Issue.
The Omaha Automobile club en-
dorses the effort to get through a
large road bond issue backed up~by
the state credit, and believes it
would carry. Judging from the
success attending the large bond is
sues in other states. The success of
such a movement depends entirely
upon a campaign of education. No |
taxpayer wants to lose money |
through our present system of dirt |
roads, and he will quickly fall in
line with the progressive hard road
idea when he can be shown by facts |
and figures that permanent roads
arc no: only economical but they |
are all Investment as we'll. Rural |
motor express lines are bound to |
follow road development, which |
means that small jags of apples, |
garden produce and other small
crops, that are ordinarily let rot or
fed to hogs, will be sold for a good |
profit by reaching a consumer. The |
rural motor express will pick up the
stuff at tie farm gate, and the
farmers time is his own. Any at
tempt at bond issue without a |
thorough can paign of education be-
fore will result in failure, as the ex-
periences of cher communities and
states will testify
Amending Iowa Road Laws.
A strong effor, is to be made this
legislature 20 give Iowa counties
chance to bond for hard road build
ing. D. f. Goodell, state consul of
the Lincoln Highway, is of the
opinion that amendments will car
ny. Wher iowa secures favorable
laws for hard road building the old
HawEeye stare will show us all how
to lav the brick and concrete, east
ern states net excepted /