The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
BACK The VICTORY
Denver Is Strong for Trans
continental Motor Route.
Is a Stopping Point for Coast to
Coast Tourists.

The city of Denver, Colo, is backing
the Victory Highway more enthusiast
tically than that city has backed any
other transcontinentaI highway move
ment in the past. The Victory High
way is the only Unconstitutional motor
highway which passes thru Denver
en- route from coast to coast. Denver
Will be a stopping point for tourists
on their way from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. as well as the objective OF
stub tours into Colorado. with the
establishment OF the new motor route
across the country.
Newspapers Back Victory Highway.
Denver newspapers are lending en-
thusiastic cooperation to the project
In the Rocky Mountain News of Feb
ruary "a, there appears the following
editorial on the Victory Highway:
The highway situation IN northern
Colorado is not different from the
steam railroad cituation- Denver Is
left off the map. The chief city be-
tween the river and the coast, a dis
lance half the breadth Of the CONT
nent. is neither on a national high
way nor on n transcontinental route
it is a stub city insofar as these
are concerned.
1T is seriously proposed to build
what would be known as a Victory
Highway from coast to coast. and a
fine beginning has been made with
the project from both ends If 1t
is successful. Denver will be on the
direct route. This is worth while to
a city that is accepted all over the
nation as the headcenter of-the out
fitting point for-weStern tourist traf-
fic, the city that is recognized as the
gateway 10 the national park chain
THE Victory Highway would be
worth a great deal in a business way,
much more in time than as a tourist
thread And Denver is very much in
need of a regular meal ticket as well
as the dessert that comes from the
In addition to the local standpoint
the Victory Highway project is worthy
Of support and commentator as a
national undertak ing-A Sacred Way
Those who have been pushing the
highway from the Pacific and the
Atlantic coasts have the Invaluable &C
compartment of imagination and the
energy that generally goes with the
other. Colossal statues. one at the
Golden Gate the other at the eastern
end of the highway, to the memory of
the heroes vino lied in the war, would
be followed with stale and county
monuments at boundary lines COun-
ties would be able to honor their in
dividuai dead in this manner. The
highway from beginning to end would
be an everlasting reminder to the gem
erations that were not of the war of
what part the United States played in
the Great Adventure and the effect
American participation had upon sub
sequent history. The American people
are in need of such a reminder al
ready they are inclined to forget the
pledges given at the time; they need
some token to keep them from fall
ing back into the rut Are we not
forgetting. are some of US in our re-
actions not willing TO forget, the ideal !
ism that burst upon the land in the
spring of 1917 and that radiated, with
a force never put behind q radio
message from a man-conStructed sta
tiOn, to the ends OF the earth--a hui
man wave? The monumental high
way Will serve as a memory binder to
the whole nation.
New land. new communities. new
ideas will be brought. into communion
with the Halfway House of Denver. |
when it is connected with the main |
highway The road would go thru the
Great Divide into new fields. Not /
much Is required in Colorado high |
way construction to make the nation |
al plan effective. A little bit of cen !
centrated energy on the part of Den
Yer citizens would be sufficient. And |
Denver must not scatter its shot; it |
must not be boosting '-what a hate |
full word-every selfish and half |
baked highway scheme that comes !
along: there are too many highways /
being built on paper"