The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-23
THE VICTORY HIGHWAY.


IN the construction of the Victor
from coast to coast?
The Kansas capital is headquarter
for this mammoth movement an,
from all over the country come re
ports of it's importance and its mean
ing to the hundreds of thousands o
motorists.
For instance read these extract
from editorials in San Francisco:
(San Francisco Bullein).
When the Victory Highway is COM
pleted it will constitute the greatest
monument in all history. From the
pyramids to the peace palace at The
Hague there is nothing that compares
with the gigantic enterprise of pro-
claiming our part in the World War by
means of a paved roadway crossing the
continent and linking the two oceans
with concrete chain $500 miles long.
The most colossal of the triumphal
arches, ancient or modern, becomes a
minor circumstance when contrasted
with the Victory Highway. And, like
the roads of ancient Rome, it will be
an enduring monument preserved as
long as the United States remains the
great republic o. the West.
AT edCH emu OIL the highway tuere
will be an enormous bronze statue of
a soldier standing at salute, the one in
San Francisco facing New York and the
one in New York facing San Francisco.
There will be other statues at the state
boundaries and at each county line, a
memorial containing the names of the
men of the county that gave their lives
to the cause of their country.
Arrangements have been made for a
prize of $500 for the best design for the
terminal statues, the same to be open
to competition among sculptors in Cali
forniHr and it is proposed that San
Francisco, in addition to erecting her
own bronze statue, shall donate n dupli-
cate to the City of New York. The
statue in New York will bear tablet
stating that it is the work of Cali
fornian sculptor and the gift of San
Francisco.
AS far as completed the Victory
Highway is already attracting more
business than any other road.
Everything is in favor of the Victory
Highway. 1t is declared by the Auto
mobile Association to be the best of all
possible transcontinental routes, not
only in the matter of the maximum
service, but also in respect of scenic
attractions. The entrance to California
is by way Of the Truckee river canyon,
and after a stretch of desert country it,
will present to the tourist a most allur-
ring picture of the beauties of the state.
For this and other reasons the enter
prise is supported by the leading Of
ficials of the country from the presi-
dent to the governors of the respective
states.
San Francisco wants the Victory
Highway because it is the nationally
designed monument to our part in the
World War. She wants it because it
will be another link between the East
and the West, and she wants it because,
when completed, it will bring the maxi
mum of roadway tourists to San Fran
cisco.
(San Francisco Chronfcle).
Early completion of a transcontinen-
tai road between New York and San
Francisco, a road essentially rich in
historic interest and unsurpassed in
scenic beauty, such is the dream of the
Victory Highway Association, of which
Harvey M. Toy of San Francisco is
director for the bay region. The OBJ
1ect is to establish this highway as a
lasting memorial to those who gave
service to their country during the
World War. 1t would be difficult to
conceive a more fitting memorial.
Here is a project of vital interest to
'Californians IN general and to the peo-
pie or the San Francisco bay region in
particular The Victory Highway As
ISOLATION was organized and incorpo-
rated in Topeka, Kan, but Califor-
MAN, Ben Blow, is at the head of it,
and the aims and objects are of such a
character as instinctiveIy to command
the cooperation and active support of
every man, woman and child in the
state.
This is in no sense visionary
scheme. The highway is reality. 1t
runs from New York City to Camden,
N. J., crosses the longest suspension
bridge In the world into Philadelphia,
thence to Wilmington, Del, on to Bal
ttmore and Washington, up the Cum
berland country of Maryland to Wheel
ing, w. Va, thru Springfield, Columbus
and Dayton, o., into Indianapolis and
Terre Haute, Ind, thru st. Louis and
Kansas City, Mo-, out thru Topeka,
Kan, on to Denver, Colo, Salt Lake,
Utah, Reno, New, and across the High
Sierra to the Golden Gate.
Toy has offered prize of $500 to the
California sculptor who will supply the
best model Of terminal statue, casts
of which will be erected in Central
Park, New York, and in Golden Gate
Park, San Francisco. The figure will
be that of a soldier in full trench uni
form. The plan is to coordinate such
eross-state highways as will give q
continuous line across the continent.
The new roads necessary to be built
will be constructed by the use of fed
eral aid funds. The Victory Highway
already Is paved from New York City
to st. Charles, Mo-, twenty-one miles
west OF ST. Louis. Certainly everything
that can be done should be done to en-
courage and assist the building of this
and all other highways into California.