The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27

president of the United States Gcod 1 Roads Association up to the time of hls
 death, and while he did not live to see the completion of the Bankhead National | Highway as continuous road from | Washington to San Diego. ne took part in the pathfinding tours which preceded the | location of the road, and realized before 1 his death that the construction and com pletion of this great highway named in his honor was merely a matter of a
 comparatively short time.
 During his career in the House ot Representatives and in the Senate lie
 made a great reputation as a practical,
 constructive statesman, and he will live in history as a powerful and influential friend of American rivers and harbcrs and as the father of the good roads movement in the Uented States.
 In conclusion, 1 am going to take the liberty of making a suggestion to the people of Alabama. It is well known that the old hall of the House of Rep iresentatives in the capitol was dedicated many years ago as a statutory hall ard each state was given the privilege of 1 placing in it the statues of two of it's distinguished sons. The statue of tne | eminent educator and phianthropist, pr Jabez l.. M. Curry, was placed in statu- tory hall by the people of Alabama hy
 authority of the legislature. Alabama
 
 statue in that hall Who among her sons l is more worthy of perpetual remein- brance there than the late Senator Bank head-a man who devoted thirty-three years of his life to the service of his 1 state in the halls of Congress-?
 | His work was always along construc-
 tive lines. There are many public build- 1 ings in Alabama towns and cities which | stand as monuments to the zeal and | fidelity with which Senator Bankhead | always served the people of his state; | Mobile harbor and the waterways or | Alabama, including that great national water course, the Warrior river, Wnlch now affords the mineral districts Of Aia- 1 bama all-water transportation to domes- | tic ports and those of foreign countries offer still greater evidence of his useful ness as a public sarvant. He exercised | potent influence in the location of the nitrate plant and dam at Muscle Shoals' I but the state highway system whlcl | within a few year. will offer safe and dependable transportation routes of ines l timable benefit to urban and rural com- I munities alike and which is only part of the great national system for whicn Senator Bankhead labored so zealous'y 1 for many years and which he lived to | see an accomplished fact in principle ae I least is perhaps the croWnlng acnleNe-
 ment of a career covering a period of | O I it cumulative and enduring evidences as
 to his usefulness.
 | Alabama has had many great sons who have rendered distinguished services | to the state and nation; the activities or | some have been confined within statS l lines. others have given prestige to the lstate bv the services they have rendered
 the nation as a whole, but do not know of any whose services. both to the state
 and nation, judged by practical results have been as useful as those Of the iaee l Senator Ban<head."
 l Immediately after the speaking Col John Franklin, expeditionary com- mander of the convoy. consisting o1 1 fifty-four different types of motor trucks 1 20 officers and 160 men, gave the order and from the zero mile stone south of the i White House from which all National | Highways will radate the convoy which was lkened by Secretary of War Baker, as pathfnders in the cause of complete I national unity started on it's S,900-mle 1 march through twelve states or the l Union.
 A ROAD OF REMEMBRANCE 1 As if going to war the long caravan | crossed the Potomac into Virginia. and where in that mother of states, an Pres ] dents, can you not travel over Road of Remembrance? At Alexandria mem- I hers of the party halted long enough to
 
 l ington worshpped and to tread with rev. | erent steps the churchyard adjacent to | read the names and epitaphs on the time worn and almost obliterated by the dis | integration of over century.
 l Passing the old Pohick church where Washington worshipped at former per 1 iod, the convoy put on steam over the splendid highway to Camp Humphries where a bountiful luncheon was served by the hospitable officers and their charming wives on the wide and pie turesque porch of the officers club. Fredericksburg naturally proud of the home of Mary Washington. mother of
 George. and that of his sister. fine ex- amples of colonial architecture wonder fully preserved, not far from which stand the beautiful monument to Mary Wash ington, where was pointed out to the writer the old boulder on which Mary Washington used to sit in prayer. faces the Heights" beyond where one of the bloodest battles of the Civil War was fought-received the convoy with cheers.
 brass band. warm hospitality and a de- licious banquet, and most interesting programme. Distinguished speakers ad- dressed the crowd among them the Lieu tenant Governor of Virginia, Buchanan, the mayor. Colonel John Franklin, com mander of the expedition. who responded in nimitable style for the convoy-Con- gressman Bland of Fredericksburg, and our own Congressman, John McDuffie, of Mobile said.
 q bring to the good people of Vir- ginia greetings and felicitatons from Alabama. We are proud that our state has given to this nation the pioneer in that progressive governmental policy of building better highways. The father of American good roads was our late be- loved Senator Bankhead. who so long and ably served his state and nation. His name is forever linked with the develop
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