The Washington herald., 1913-10-12
GENERAL ENDORSEMENT
FOR LINCOLN HIGHWAY
From ALI Walks of Life Come Letters
Advocating Road from Ocean
to Ocean.
AUTO CLUBS SEND LETTERS

! Detroit, Oct n.-Nation- wide interest Is
expressed in the Lincoln Highway, ac-
cording to a report just issued at the ma
tional headquarters of the association in
this city. The Lincoln Highway has re-
ceived the Endorsement of leading business
and commercial organizations, boards of
trade. automobile and other clubs,
United States Senators and Representa-
/ tives. railroad officials, bankers. and
prominent citizens, generally including
/ the clergy. All appear to be enthusi-
astic for the obtaining OF this 3,D00-
mile highway from New York tc San
! Francisco as memorial to Abraham
Lincoln.
/ The board of directors of the Automo-
/ bile Chamber OF Commerce of New York
mas passed the following resolutions:
Resolved. that the Automobile Cham
berof Commerce approves the plan and
objects Of the Lincoln Highway Associa-
tior. Inc, and will render the association
such assistance from time to time as may
properly be feasible"
| Another Endorsement comes from the
| PENNSYLVANIA Motor Federation, which
met in convention at Harrisburg. Pa,
! for the purpose of emphasizing the $50,
600 bond issue referendum which is to
/ be decided by the voters of the State
Z ~
Whereas, the Lincoln Highway As
sociation in selecting the route of the
subscription Ocean-to-ocean road from
New York to San Francisco has seen fit
TO cross the State of Pennsylvania; there
fore be it,
! Resolved, that this convention call
upon the road enthusiasts of the State to
support and encourage in every way the
building of this great transcontinental
/ o. g.
| The church, both Catholic and Prot
estant has given the highway both
financial and other assistance. Cardinal
Gibbons has written letter to A. R.
Pardington, vice president of the Lincoln
Highway Association, saying:
| Il am greatly pleased to know that
success to this undertaking is assured,
as l believe that such a highway will
be a most fitting and useful monument
to the memory of Lincoln"
| In Salt Lake City, Utah, the Rev.
Frank G. Brainerd, opening a series Of
sermons Sunday on ogden on the Lin
coin Highway" in the First Congrega-
tional Church, is enthusiastic over what
the highway will mean to his COM
munity.
''It is a name to conjure by" he said
in the pulpit. 1T calls to the heroic. 1t
unrolls mighty panorama of fields and
WOODLANDS: OF humble cabins ana trl-
umphant farm homes and cattle Oil a
thousand hills; burrowing mines and
| smoking factories, winding brooks, COM
merce-laden rivers, and horizon-lost
/ oceans.
And because it binds together all these
wonders and sweeps forward till It
touches the end of earth and the begin
ming of sea it is to be named the Lin
coin Highway 1t brings back to US the
lank figure of the growing boy walking
the country roadway with borrowed
books; the dreaming out, surveying, and
building of his highay of the soul, that
should stretch from that mysterious
ocean of the past, whence he came, to
the mysterious ocean of the eternal, to
which he would go; a highway along
whose everyday travel he had a gentle
word for the sorrowing, a hand for the
one in trouble, a sharp prod for the in
different, WORD of counsel for the per-
J picked, and inspiration for the doubt