New Britain herald., 1925-11-27
DISSENTING ON HIGHWAY NUMBERS r

One of the valued readers of these columns has been heard from as a dissentcr. He is welcome as such. We have q crown of roses ready for all dissentcrs who apply In a spirit of good will and can prove where we are wrong. Next to being commended for venturing an opinion that meets with ap- proyal we are never so happy as when receiving notice that an er- TOT in judgment has been male. What pains us most is not 10 hear at all from commenting commen- tators or disappearing commenta- tors. It makes ifs feel that the bread thrown upon the waters did the fish no good.
 Our disappearing disscntor let 1t be known that numbering the highways instead of giving them names was not as great an evil as we had painted. This is good news, anl will give the autoists less to worry about.
 The road numbering situation, as our disscntcr claims, has some good qualities, For instance, when he takes a tour he looks up the main highways on q map, notes the numbers, and then follows the numbers on the poles. Evcntu- ally he will get there in spite of the fact that the trip takes on the appearance of multiplication table.
 This is splendid so far as 1t goes In thc lrs. place, ho must have a reliable map with reliable numbers, And 1t depends somewhat on where 1 inc autoiSt is going. We have read frequent drnunciations of the lack Of uniform numbers on markers along the sJmn trail in ditforon+ states, so that q motorist starting on road 2 will be OH road G4 attcl having truyclc.l a few hundred miles, or even nss. However, i
 may be in" object of the depart
 mont Of agriculture to make th' markers uniform.
 But our main contention wa' that distinctive road markers nce' | not he confined 10 numerals, Th' Lincoln Highway has distinctive markers its entire length - or dit have onco -- and the same hoIl
 good of other main transcontinen .'Dl rog,s Thousands of autoist
 1a1c lrl>.rs"l these highway
 guided by thcs" distinctive mark
 crs, which in most cases Wor
 erected l.y automobile associations
 Tho numra1s will not eliminate 'h. distinctive names of thcs
 main roads, Tho I'oston Post roa,
 and tho Mohawk Trail will con
 tinuo to h. called such long a(tr
 most Of us are forgotten. We wil
 rra lily admit that numerals fo
 subsidiary roals may be an ad1ar 4eo ,>,n whom o>'r'appinG distiuc
 .Ncly named reads, as will l." tl
 r,sc with rontn No. through Nc'
 I.u@anG. as u,l as inc other pro
 posed New England numhcrc rou',- Whom this is don" e" $ fr.rad will have 10 F.t new map vI'n uDa numbers on 'cm. And . Inc powers 'tt h" lon'' chang = their minds aUou- I0a nnmnors he . for, 'ln ink l- lry on tl.o maps ou , friend wM uot I.a greatly incor - ,uar.,.l
 - Wmn tlr C'mrtrr oE Coumrrc
 Hus returned "s,a Nv ],rsny r. .r.n'#~ .'.~a WIS ! fnriot of c,
 r.u.r-a v-n road m#rLIs O mca@a}s '..' ersn ,N.~fm"E hr | trunk Ii-.~ay~. TDc numhcr il didn't hIa much. What rom'' mos. wtr. tr" names Of con'ieuo' y towns Finally New Er'@a "; . r.ac1,I. Au'ajsts arr having sue " experiences every day; but Inc. i some have better luck.
 There oro two sides 10 cvei n question. cycn on thc question s meluay markers. W" greatly fc' S that no matter what we say a1o l it. aul what o'her motorists sa ritho gentlemen running tb" mar
 ing and numcral drrur1mnts " Q do about as they please. Some a r toizts will be helped and e,hc a aor'f nerd surh hpln. Numera