New Iberia enterprise and independent observer., 1916-02-19
NATIONAL HIGHWAYS.
Editor Enterprise

UllI 10 dC1 TIRE, construct dllJ
maintain National Defense
Highway; to plovide employment
for citizens Of the United States
and to physically and mentally
educate them for defense.
[ have no doubt, the States
through which the National Be
fense Highway Will run, will
gladly give to he United States
all necessary rights Of way-per-
haps hundreds Of miles Of prac-
tically completed highways
vided the United States maintains
them.
Construction and maintenance
is to commence and continue un-
der the supreme authority of the
President by L. S. Army Engineer
Officers.
The bill if adopted will provide
the following:
A National Highway circling
the United States within its bord-
ers. and running strategicaIly
near the Atlantic. Pacific and
Gulf States. as well as our North
ern and Southern Boundary lines.
A National Highway. to be
used in times of peace by auto
mobiles, auto trucks and other
vehicles fer commercial and
healthful purposes.
A National Highway extraord-
inarily useful. when war threat
ems or we are attacked. Over it
men in greatest numbers and mu-
nitions and supplies can be trans
ported quickly to anycpoint North.
South. East or West. @
A National Highway, 10000
miles long, that will give work
at good wages for many years to
at least 100000 American citi-
Zens in good times and to several
times that number ir ''hard
times" The employment of new
men periodically, will aid great ,
ly to our trained reserves. -
A National HIGHWAY providing !
physical and mental drill for all
manual and clerical employees
thus fitting hundreds of thou
sands Of young men for National
defense-and to be better heads
of families. !
You can assist in passing such
a Bill. Advise your Senators and
Representatives to work for it
Ask your automobile and other
Associations to boost it-Give the
Bill all publicity possible If
publicity can be OBJ
tanned. Congress will pass such
measure. /
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled. That the Presi- |
dent be. and he is hereby, author
lzed to acquire. establish. con-
struct. improve. and maintain for
the defense Of the United States,
4 national defense highway.
Sec. 2. That the national de-
Tense highway shall commence at
Los Angeles. California. and 90
eastward by practical route
through the States of California.
Arizona, New Mexico, Texas.
Louisiana. Mississippi, Alabama,
md Florida to jacksonville, Flor
da, thence northward through
Georgia. South Carolina. North
Carolina. Virginia, District of
Columbia, Maryland. Delaware.
pennsylvania, New Jersey, New !,
I ork. thence northward through l
he State Of New York, Massa- d
New Hampshire, and
Maine. to Portland. Maine. Com
nencing again at New York. New
I ork, thence westward through
he States Of New York, Penn
'ylvania, Ohio. Indiana. and Hi
lois. to Chicago, Illinois: thence .
1orthwestward through Wiscon- :
'in and Minnesota. to St. Paul and
Minneapolis, Minnesota: thence :
westward through South Dakota
North Dakota. Montana, Idaho,
md Washington, to Seattle,
Washington; thence southwark
through Washington. Oregon, and t
california. via San Francisco and q
LOS Angeles to San Diego, Cali 9
ornia. :
Sec. 3. That rights of way for
he national defense highway
hall be acquired from the sew
raj States on conditions satisfac-
ory to the President. 6
Sec. 4. That construction, i'm
'rovement. and maintenance of I
ho national 1oforeo L. lxr. In