The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-09

penees necessary to carry on this eduea-
tional work
Your chairman was invited to attend
the meeting of the Illinois Womans Good
Roads association. which held its first
session In the Auditorium hotel, Chicago.
April 3D., TO tell of the work OF the jack
son highway. but an empty treasury pre-
vented her from going. She was also ex-
tended the courtesy of an invitation to
the Good Roads congress which met June
~ IN Baltimore. but was deferred from
attending by the same thing that kept
her from Chicago, but Mrs. Walter W
Watts, president of the Daughters of 1s12,
North Carolina. represented the chair
man in Baltimore in the following beau
tiful words:
Ladies and Gentlemen: In behalf OF
the Jackson highway committee, in my
own behalf as state president and in be-
half of the North Carolina Daughters Of
1872 as well as in behalf of the patriotic
citizenship of North Carolina, the BIRTH
place of Andrew jackson, file my earn
est plea for the great, practical and use
fui monument, in the form of public
highway from lake to gulf. which was
launched under the auspices of the Ala
bama Daughters of 1872, in honor of the
hero of New Orleans. Andrew Jackson
was man of action and one in whose
veins blood ran warm and quick; therefore
no monument of unfeeling stone to him,
no statues of cold metal but better yet,
a great utility to honor a great utilita-
rian pulsating, life given thoroughfare,
devoted to the needs and pleasures of
those whose prosperity and happiness
were largely made possible by the tenac-
ity of purpose and temerity of patriotism
OF this great North Caroinian. Call it
the jackson Highway, build it better than
Appius Claudius built the Appian way,
and as near as possible along the routes
OF the doughty old warriors military
roads, and monument will have been
built to General Andrew Jackson, patriot,
soldier and statesman that will survive
longer than the Coliseum OF ancient Rome
ana reflect honor for the pride of pos
Hon. Victor o. Atkins, .member of
the Alabama highway commission. and
non. Key Miner, vice president of
Alaoama Good Roads association and
commissioner for Clarke county, wrote
TO your chairman, inviting her to at
tend the Mobile and Selma midsummer
good roads meeting on the Gath of July
at Pine Hill. and tell of the work
OF the National Society United States
Daughters of 1912. state Of Alabama,
on the jackson highway. This was a
distinct recognition of the work of the
Alabama Daughters of 1872 and a COM
pliment to the chairman, and without
one penny in the treasury the chair
man accepted the. invitation. As a child
In tennessee. the state where Andrew
Jackson lived and died, this chairman
had often heard when one was speak
ing OF person that had not the where
withal with which to pay his travelling
expenses. this homely saying: "Ie took
his foot in his hand and went over the
hfll.' So she picked up Southern Good
Roads Magazine and went over the
entire proposed route of the Jackson
highway.
Mr.. II. B. Warner. the editor of South
ern Good Roads, had given much space
and announcement to the Jackson
highway, SO the chairman felt that in
taking mp the magazine and soliciting
orders at 81 per year in thus working