Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1914 — PLAN ORGANIZATION FOR BITTER ROADS [ARTICLE]

PLAN ORGANIZATION FOR BITTER ROADS

Indianapolis to Chicago Road Proposed Via Remington, Rensselaer and Hammond. Indianapolis News. The Indiana Good Roads Association is putting on a campaign of education on the good roads question. G. E. Minor, who was formerly the state organizer for the National Highway Association and the National Old Trails Association, will be in charge of this work. Minor will, in addition to the educatonal work, conduct a campaign for members in the Good Roads Association. The plan is to perfect a state wide organization, with a local branch in each city and town in the state, each of which will have a president and secretary of Its own. The plan, as pursued in other states, was to use the local organizations for the distribution of literature and the dissemination of information on the roads question. Minor is an organizer of national repute and has had a large amount of experience in dealing with the good roads question. His office will be in the Indiana Good Roads Association office at 528 Meridian Life building. The main road to Chicago will be canvassed first, and he will build up the local organizations at Lebanon, Frankfort, Lafayette, Rensselaer, Remington, Crown Point and Hammond. From these local organizations the state association will be able to receive reports on road conditions and will be kept thoroughly in touch with everything pertaining to the good roads subject in the state of Indiana.