Arizona republican., 1915-01-17

lutlOH pleuBu1S Sl,0UU,VVU WoitH ol cement. The large manufacturers had been more liberal, many sub scriptions from s5,OO0 to $S,OO0,OOO having been made. Official red white and blue markers of the as- sociation had been placed along the route in many places.
 l know all will be interested in knowing the officers and directors of the association and the states through which "The Great Highway will pass.
 Henry B. Joy. president; Carl G. Fisher vice president; Roy D. Chap in, vice president; Paul H. Deming, vice president; Harold J. Larsen vice president; Emory w. Clark treasurer; Russell A. Alger, direc- tor; F. A. Seiberlng, director; A. Y. Gowen, director; John N. Willys, di- rector; Hon. Albert J. Beveridge di- rector; A. R. Pardington, of New York, vice-president and secretary.
 New York starts the highway then. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, ohio, In diana, Illinois. Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming. Utah, Nevada. California | ming beauty of the highest type was considered. Trees are to border the entire length The birds were not forgotten. Flowers. bushes and vines . typical of each are to be seen along the roadside as one motors to his will. The Lincoln highway associa- tion has encouraged the help of ten women. Others cooperating in the work are ''The American Association of Landscape Architects "The Wild Flower Preservation Society of America The Andibon Society, and in number of states, the gov ernors. state foresters and road com missiOners.
 Planting of the Lincoln highway is being directed from Chicago and by Mrs F. E. Kendall, chairman of the Lincoln Highway Planting Commit tee of the Conservation dept. of the General Federation of Womens Clubs. How the women became in terested in the movement is best told by quoting from an article writ ten by Mrs. Kendall.
 When Mrs Philip N Moore was president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, she said she ad- vocated an ocean-to ocean highway as the most fitting memorial to Ab- raham Lincoln She hoped that if the government chose such a mem orial the women's clubs would see 1 it properly planted When a mem orial building on the Potomac was chosen some business men proceeded with the idea of the Lincoln highway. When the road was blazed a year |, ago September 1, I wrote to Mrs Emmons Crocker of Fitchburg, Mass who was conservation chairman of the general federation. 1 had been working for conservation of the soil and better country conditions, as chairman of conservation for Illinois and two years on the general fedora tion conservation committee. Mrs. Crocker met the idea with enthus- asm I saw Walter Logan Page, head of the goods roads bureau at Wash ington, and was assured that the plan was feasible. Writing to the secretary and president of the Lin coin Highway Association l found that they both were glad to have the corporation of 1,500000 women in making the highway beautiful.
 'The Lincoln highway tree planting committee was then formed by Mrs. Crocker with myself as chairman. ! We found the foresters glad to CO., operate, especially in the west where there is so much and so few to plant it. Luther Burbank wrote that i though his time was priceless so was the work of the women and he would do whatever he could for us. H. L. Graves, head of the forestry department Clifford Pinchot and others gave us encouragement and so We started, and, 1 believe, have made a grand start
 Good roads means so much to wo- men. Those living on farms are iso- lated and shut in. In the dullest sea : sons they can't get out, often be- cause the roads are so bad. The edu- cation of their children is interfered with by the bad roads. In Europe where the roads are good when a man retires he goes to the country. Now when a farmer retireS he seeks l the city or town where there is some social life. Coming in, he brings with him his children who are not prepar- ed for city life and may not profit by the sudden change. But with good roads the women can come, and go to the library the woman's clubs, to church, and the children to school. The example of q beautifully planted highway like the Lincoln highway and it's great tributary roads, will be of tremendous influence all over the country, not to speak of the good it will bring in crossing the conti- nent
 Every year 100000 Americans go to Europe to tour the old country s good roads. We feel that when we have a splendid highway 3500 miles long-the finest road in the world that many will teur here instead. leaving their money here. This will mean much along the highway and to the country. When we have the highway connecting with the national parks, Glacier Yosemite and Yellow stone, through tributary roads we have planted, we believe that people xs-iH