Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-13
HIGHWAY TOWNS
MUST WAKE UP
PERSHlNG WAY OFFICIALS WILL
NOT couNTENANcE LAX
~ METHODS.
EACH TOWN ON ROUTE
49, MUST BE ORGANIZED
Financial and Personal Report Re-
CURED, Each Place on Highway
Sharing Obligations in Proportion
to Size-Hishway Must Be Living
Actually; Not Simply Marked T, rail.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republlcan.
Cedar Falls. July 1S.-The mere
locating of a route does not make a
highway. according to Pershing Way
officials, and relocation Of the way"
thru parts of Iowa and Minnesota
has been put up to H. F. McDougal.
general manager of the Pershing
Way Association, it became known
today.
Every hamlet, town and city on the
sanitation, giving adequate financial
and. personal support, all sharing
alike the responsibility in proper
ton to size. The Pershing Way is a
big community betterment project.
including folks from Winnipeg to
New Orleans, and every man who
joins the P.-W. association is ex-
pected to do his full share.
Must Be Living Actually.
That is the idea on which the Per-
shing Way is based and on which
Manager McDougal has brought the
organization to its present place Of
sminence among highway assocla-
tions. It must be a living actually,
not merely a marked trail. officials of
the association hold. This idea as
brought to the fore during the re-
cent meeting of the board Of direc-
tors here. it was learned today. It
resulted in the adoption Of resolp-
that all communities on the Pershins
Way fully accept their obligations or
be cut off the route.
s The directors instructed the ran
ager in all such cases to Change the
routing of the highway to include
such communities as Will render their
fair share Of support, taking care
that the new locations be 50 devised
as to follow practical routes and TO
include attractions pleasing To the
tourist. Where changes are necessary
that will cut out cooperating com
munities on that section. all oblisa-
ton from these communities shall be
cancelled at once"
I This decree from the directorate
means that there must be an active
Pershing Way club in every com
munity on the highway, ready with
financial and physical efforts to i'm
prove the Pershing Way and the
towns thereon.
Now Relocating Portions.
E The embarrassing task OF re-
locating portions of the highway thru
Iowa and Minnesota is due to the
fact that 1t was located originally by
the convention system of popular
voting in mass meeting where the
voters had not even Joined the assoc
citation. This method tended to s;ive
the location more or less Of f1:sity
on the. route, and the town lacked
the interest apparent where the no
cation was in doubt.
The preliminary organization mile
age thru Iowa was all collected, and
the highway marked, but, except: in
some instances the different c,m-
munities have not organized their
Pershing Way Clubs nor obtained
their memberships as was understood
at the meeting to the organization.
Unless the lax communities awaken
soon, they will find themselves off
the Pershing Way, which will be re-
located to include only these towns
that will keep working for It's i'm
proyement.
Working along these lines the Per-
shins Way Association believes the
Pershing Way is one highway that
will always be more than just a
marked trail leading from poin'. to
point across country. It intends to
profit by the experience of other
highways that have died" after the
marking was finished.