The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-07
ADD To The LIST
More Honorary Advisors and
Directors for Victory Highway.
Four New Officials Are Chosen
From Pacific Coast.

Two new honorary advisors, both
of them from the Pacific Coast,
have been added to the board of the
Victory Highway association.
Frank B. McKevitt, of Sacramento,
Cal, and NJ. H. de Young, of San
Francisco, owner and publisher of
the San Francisco Chronicle, are the
names which have been added to
the list, which already includes those
of fifteen of the most prominent
Americans, headed by that of War
rem G. Harding president of the
United States, Thomas A. Edison.
Henry Ford, Luther Burbank, Casper
Yost, editor of the st. Louis Globe
Democrat; Coleman du Pont, Harvey
S. Firestone, William T. Sesnon, DR..
F. L. Bartlett, of Denver Civic and
Commercial club; Governor Sproul.
of Pennsylvania; Governor Mabey, of
Utah; Senators Capper and Curtis, of
Kansas, and Frank Is. McKevitt and
NJ. H. de Young above mentioned,
are some national leaGers who have
consented to serve as honorary ad-
visors of the association, in recogni-
ton of the memorial nature of the
project.
Two new directors from California
are also announced. They are Harvey
NJ. Toy. of San Francisco, millionaire
hotel owner, and Carl Lamus. of
Sacramento.
In answer to the notification from
L. -.
board of executive committee of the
board of directors, sent during the
absence from Topeka this summer of
George w. Stansfield, president of the
association, Toy wrote the following
letter:
My Dear Mr.. Whiteker:
1 am very proud indeed to receive
your announcement that have been
appointed to the board of directors of
the Victory Highway association.
My pride comes from several
sources.
One is that I should be associated
with the distinguished men who make
up the advisory and active board. An
other is that should be given an op-
portunty to serve on a project that
seems to me of great consequence
great in its material advantages to
the people of all sections, not the
least my own, and greater still per-
haps, for the sentimental idea con-
nected with it.
No monument that could have been
conceived. 1 believe. would better or
more lastingly embalm the memories
of the men and women or the service
in the great war. If there is any
thing I can contribute to make this
project attain the ultimate success
that belongs to it I want the board of
directors to command me.
The highways in my own state are
already engaging my attention. I am
president of the San Francisco to
Reno Highway association, which is
advocating the Truckee canyon route
"a route that has been endorsed by
the Victory Highway authorities in
Nevada.
All of my time now is practically
being given to public affairs and L
expect that not a little of that time
will be given to contributing what L
may toward the Victory Highway
success.
I have, as you know. offered a prize
of $500 for the design of a statue for
the terminal mark of the highway,
and it is our hope that San Francisco
will not only contribute the statue to
mark the western end, but will pre-
sent to New York the duplicate to
mark the eastern end.
With best wishes for the success of
our Victory Highway, 1 am
Very truly yours,
HARVEY NJ TOY.