Arizona republican., 1914-04-12

old trails have been marked from
 the Atlantic ocean almost across the country to ;ho fJcifc. ana ,heY are
 included in the great national nigh
 way project. The western Daughters
 had quite set their hearts on the national highway Following the santa t'c trail to it's termination in west ern New Mexico. and thence over the old Kearney road or trail to san Diego. but this seemed to call for q compromise which we did: persuad- ing ourselves that we were doing exactly what we wanted to do in the first place. so that our efforts are united with the national high NaY or good roads association of the state and We of Maricopa chapter are trying to do our part our eastern sisters are doing their share ! toward building this great ocean-to- ocean highway in spitc of the fact that some of the eastern good roads experts have failed to grasp the i'm portant fact that each of the old ! trails hats a significant and To- mantiC histoly. II might have been nothing but a deer path ur d buffalo road which led to water, or perhaps it was only an aboriginc's Knowledge Cf an easy pass through the noun tains. There vet remains the pen that will give a complete story of the philosophy of the old trails. but be very sure that no path of any wild thing. whether man or beast vas the result of pure chance. This the caravans realized when they fol- lowed these thread-likc trails through l the forests across the plains and l over the mountains and it would 1 seem that the very stones by the Wayside would cry for voice to plead that the history that has been made in this long long trail from one sea to the other should be com 1 memorated in marking the trail all | the way: but that will come eventu- ally. if not now. Good roads are not l only d pleasure and of commercial | advantage, but they have their patri- | otic value if viewed in the light of | history. and history in the making | Then We cannot forget the rescue |
 sites from oblivion, and what others
 have accomplished has spurred the 1 Daughters on. We have erected ! monuments on old battlefields Mon 1 uments bearing the names of patri- | otS who gave their lives for the cause of liberty We have restored | the crumbling shafts over the graves Of revolutionary soldiers in hundreds of cemeteries throughout the eastern
 part of our land so that their names 1 and a brief record of their deeds may be read today in place nf lying i broken and crumbling. fast dsap- 1 bearing from the memory of man. We are gathering in our beautiful
 Memorial Continental hall at Wash l ington, D. C.. q priceless collection Of
 relics. some loaned for safe keeping. and many given into our custody outright
 i Old flags. the symbol of loyalty
 are being rescued from garrcts and
 placed in safety that the coming | generations may read the story oG | what the flag really means and how it grew from feudal badge to q
 national banner which no one may ] dishonOr
 We should love to say that the ! Daughters were the tirst to restore 1 Mount Vernon to the American peo- pie, but what does 1t matter so long as it IS restored and kept from the
 hand of the vandal or the usurper ] We would that we could claim that inc D1nphtprG cello to the American people-beau-
 thullE as the present owner is said
 to keep the old home of Thomas Jef- lferson-but We cannot and thus far congress has not seen it's way to restore to the people the home of
 one of our greatest presidents. and 1 we fear that before many years the ! graves there shall lie within the 1 boundaries of q citizen who is not ia descendant of Jefferson, or III
 whose veins flows not a drop of
 Jefferson blood. such an estate. if not owned by a direct descendant
 or relative, should properly belong 1 to the nation. as does Mount Vernon Another all important work of the D. A. R. is the work among the fu ture American citizens only in the | conservation of childhood is the flu 1 ture of national growth upward It would take more space than we | have to tell of the work of the b. | A. R. throughout the south among
 the mountaineers and poor whites as well as the negroes. Manual
 training and domestic science schools 1 are maintained and operated with | untold advantage The story is re- | peated throughout the east, the mid dle west, as well as the south. The alien races are taught in childhood