Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-07-19
TINES PAFHfIRBER
NEAR GOTHAM
Kansas Cityah, Reforming
From Trip With Col Deli u.
Potter Enthusiastic Over
Good Rosds Progress.

Kansas City, July tsy--sTho National
old Trails Road Associat.on reports
nne progress through ~ president,
Judge J. ~. Love Of Kansas city. The
ansocsntion nov has membership %
more than tao hundred thousand and
expects 10 lncrense u 20 one.qoarter
ininlon before congress consehes next
December, when united effort Will
be made 10 procure AN appropriation
for the Ocean-to-Occan highway.
Col. Dell n. Potter % clifton, Aria,
national organizer Of the association.
accompanied by Bert G. gmlih OF TIA
Los Angeles Times has nearly com.
pleted a motor trip from Los An
gcios 20 New York In the interests Of
the highway movement. Judge Lowe
joined the party at Kansas city ana
went a. far ~ wheeling, w. va. H0
has Just returned, and u moro en-
fhuslAsiic than ever over the pros
poets Of tho association.
I'VE found a UNIVERSAL sentiment
all along the line Of the old trails
road through Missouri. Illroia, Indl-
ma and Ohio IN favor o. rebuilding
she old historic highways. either with
nr without national aid" said Judge
Lowe.
"But as congress appropriateH pub.
Tic revenues 10 All Sorts OF purposes,
and among these ttfi .000. 900 during
the last twenty years. tte.00o.00e In
1914, ss3.O00.OOO Ia tho river and
harbor bill now pending. without a
word or line In the constitution nu-
thorixing such expenditure. tho peO-
pie are. at last. fully determined tnat
some portion Of the revenues shall DO
applied under tho exprens provision
of tho constitution 10 building the
national highways ~ the country.
And especially are they determined
on this policy az they have f0uad that
every harbOr front In the United
States, except the ono at New Or
leans. IN controlled OF owned by the
railroads
''in other words, they believe that
some portion OF the peoples money
should be- invested in the peoples
highways
I'VE found the STONE culycrts and
mile stones AL along the Cumberland
road from vandaiia, east. built BY
the government nearly a hundred
years ago. IN splendid preservation.
The road itself Ii IN fairly good con.
dltion across Indiana and ohio. Thty
are building acme me roads around
Columbus. IN Ohio they a-e 20 vote
on ss0,0o0,OCN bond proposition
September ,. They confidently ex-
poet 10 carry u.
4 left the organization car at
wheeling, having been with Il for two
weeks, and averaging three or four
open air meetings each day, I was
pretty tired. We found the people
everywhere more interested Ia tho
road question than IN politics. or any
other question. And the people east
are more alive 10 tho danger Of a
rival fane-oontincntal road. called
the northern route. which Ii being ac-
lively promoted BY way OF Toledo.
Chicago. nea Molheg. Omaha. etc.s
tnan our people seem 20 %, Il
\ "a national rans-contlnentaI high
Way. or Highways, II inevitable. and
tho question va should face H.. Shalt |
IN old trails road through Kansas City
be tue .nrni % got It's place on tho
map7
"iiy nnlteAd EFFORT 40 can win, but
BY waltln6 we can. and viii ioSc. We
are nronflapd by tho business man
along the feuin an organisation OF
onesqunFier million before congress
meets aNnin. with little effort III
am Euro We cen effect such an organ
lsation aad thus restore the old ma
iiOnai plRo % the place II held for
more fl,an aunfsar Of a century"