The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-01-23
Over 100 Good Roads Enthusiasts
Backing Great Military
Highway.
PERMANENT OFFICERS
CHOSEN AT MEETING
Will Ask War Department to Connect
Camp Funston and Fl. Bliss
With a Permanent
Highway.

Every member of the Liberal dele
cation to the Good Roads meeting at
Hutchinson last Monday returned
with the same story-intense enthusi !
asm prevailed.
H. W. Magruder, presidet of the
Liberal Chamber of Commerce, Lee
Larrabee of the Star Lumber Com
pany, ]. F. Fuest, county commission
er and member of the hardware firm
of Scandrett & Fuest, John W.
Baughman of the Griffith & Baugh-
man real estate firm, ]. G. Trindle,
general manager of the Liberal Auto
Supply Company and pioneer good
roads booster, and c. W. Brown of the
Star Grocery Company were Liberal
delegates. And a live bunch they
were.
AS Baughman explains it Magruder
did all the work, Lee Larrabee furn-
ished the amusement and the balance
of the crowd were the audience. Be
that as it may the boys did some good
work and they deserve the commenda-
ton of the balance of US who re-
mained at home.
Liberal was signally honored, Pres
ident H. W. Magruder of the Liberal
Chamber of Commerce being elected
Secretary-Treasurer of the Associa-
tion, and two Liberal men being given
committee assignments. These were:
j. G. Tridle, Committee on Route,
Symbol and Marking; Lee Larrabee,
Committee on Permanent Organiza-
tion.
The following is from the report of
the meeting as given by the Hutchin-
son Gazette:
Enthusiasm, definiteness of pur-
pose and determination to see the
biggest internal improvement project
ever launched in the west-the first
of it's kind ever LAUNCHED in the Unit
ed States - thru its completion,
marked the convention here yester-
day of the Fort Leavenworth, Camp
Funston, Fort Bliss National Military
Highway Association.
A permanent organization was eff
fected and a definite program COM
prising a military roadway connect
ing the Missouri River and the biggest
military establishment in the United
States-Camp Funston and Fort
Riley-with the Mexican border,
along the most direct mileage feasible
was outlined. This program will at
once be certified to the state legisla-
lures Of, Texas, New Mexico, Okla
homa and Kansas with the recommen-
dation of the association that these
state legislatures memorialize the ma
tional congress impressing the mill
tary utility of the proposed highway,
and urging the national congress to
empower the war department to de-
clare the proposed route military
highway, and to provide thru neces-
sary legislation, plan for the financ-
ing and construction.
Delegates from Leavenworth,
Geary, Dickinson, Saline, Mcpherson,
Reno, Pratt, Kiowa, Ford, Meade and
Seward counties, Kansas, and from
Texas county, Oklahoma, and from
Sherman and Dallam counties, Texas,
and from Quay, Torrance, Lincoln,
Otero and Guadalupe counties, New
Mexico, attended the convention and
participated in the permanent organ
ization of the association.
Mayor Frank Vincent welcomed
the delegates and briefly outlined the
work of the previous tentative organ
ization meeting in Tucumcari, N.
Mex, December %.
c. W. Oswald, president of the
Hutchinson Commercial Club, and
H. W. Magruder, of Liberal, were
made temporary chairman and sec
retary Of the convention. The chair
was thereupon authorized to name
committees on permanent organiza-
ton, resolutions and legislative pro-
gram, log, route and markers, and
publicity.
AS such committees chairman Os-
wald named:
Resolutions and Legislative
Program
F. Dumont Smith, chairman, W. S.
Gibbons, Meade; W. S. Thompson,
Hutchinson; R. F. Crick, Pratt; w. W.
Watson, Salina; Rev. M. C. Brooks,
Pratt. g r uolI Cuunoon OLIa =. Mr.