The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-10-05

and women who served their country
during the late World War. It is to
serve as a monument to these men
and women, that the road was first
projected.
The sentimental side of the project
is being brought to the fore through
the markers which are being erected
along the highway. A system of
monumental markings has been de-
vised which will give every commun-
ity opportunity to number their own
local heroes with the millions in
whose honor the road is laid out.
The scheme is for the erection of
terminal markers-twelve foot
bronze statue of American soldiers in
trench uniform, at New York City
and San Francisco. Harvey Toy, mil
ionaire San Francisco hotel owner
and director for the Victory High
way association in California, has Of
fered a reward of $500 to the Cali
fornia sculptor designing a fitting
terminal marker, to be erected at the
two ends of the highway. Mr.. Toy
plans to have the state of California
secure and present to New York City,
the terminal marker for the eastern
end of the highway.
At the state lines, there will be
other statues of soldiers foot
groups this Understanding at cat
tention." Appropriate bronze plaques
are to be placed on the bases of these
monuments, and the states rolls of
honor will be enclosed within the
bases.
Coming down to the county, as the
lowest road unit, the plan is to have
the women of each county traversed
by the highway, raise a monument to
the men and women of that county
who gave their lives during the war as
a special and fitting monument to
those who made the great sacrifice,
bound up with the project, as a whole,
which is a memorial to all who served.
In several counties along the route
of the Victory Highway, the cam
paigns of the women to secure the
funds for the county boundary mark
ers are already under way.
Shawnee county, Kans., the county
in which the national headquarters of
the Victory Highway association are
located, was the first county to COM
mence this work, under the direction
of Mrs. C. A. Wolf, Topeka club wo-
man and Vice President of the Vic
tory Highway association.
Pottawatomie county, Kansas,
Thomas county, in the same state,
Elko county, New, and Denver coun-
ty, Colo, already have started the
movement for the erection of the
county markers.
In Shawnee county, the women
hope to have completed their cam
paign, and to dedicate the county
monument by November H.. Armi-
stice Day. In Pottawatomie county
the leaders in the work believe that
the marker will be in place at the
western edge of the county by
Thanksgiving Day of this year.
A standardized design for the
markers of county boundaries has
been adopted. 1t consists of an
American eagle, with outspread
wings, brooding over her young, in a
nest. The group is mounted on a
pedestal of concrete, and on the base
is fixed bronze tablet, giving the
names Of the residents of that county
who died during the war.
The design was made under the
direction of DR.. Thomas S. Roberts, /
curator of the geological museum of
the University of Minnesota, and one
of the leading ornithologists of the
country. DR.. Roberts declared after
the completion of the modal that its
fidelity to the life appearance of the
eagle is remarkable and that the
whole group was excellently con-
ceived and developed.
Within a few years, the officials of
the Victory Highway association are
assured, the highway will be marked
from coast to coast with the intimate
and local monuments, which will form
as a whole, what Casper Yost, in an
editorial in the st. Louis Globe Demo
crat has declared, is "the biggest
memorial undertaking in the history
of the world"