National Highways Association
NATIONAL
HIGHWAYS
SIGN
POST
NATIONAL
HIGHWAYS
ASSOCIATION
WASHINGTON
DISTRICT
OF
COLUMBIA U. S. A.
Executive Offices
To	” Elmwood,” Cambridge, Mass.
HON. WOODROW WILSON	April	Tenth
President of these United States	Nineteen	Hundred Seventeen.
White House Washington, D. C.
The NATIONAL HIGHWAYS ASSOCIATION, at this most momentous stage in the history of our dear Country, desires to put its great National Organization at the disposal of our Nation, to the end that our people may gain, in the shortest possible time, an adequate system of NATIONAL HIGHWAYS, and as an outgrowth thereof GOOD ROADS EVERYWHERE.
Transportation preparedness is the rock upon which battles are won or lost. Troops held for days where they are not supposed to be. without support or supplies and food, become mobs — and mobs cannot fight.
“ PREPAREDNESS” is the watchword of the hour. We are all for it. Some for War! Some for Defense! 1 Some for Peace!!! There can be no real Preparedness for War, for Defense, for Peace, without
NATIONAL HIGHWAYS and GOOD ROADS EVERYWHERE
We are calling upon our one hundred and two (102) DEPARTMENTS and DIVISIONS, throughout our Nation, to render our Government and our people their very best, unswerving work towards this end. for our Country;
We are calling upon the one hundred and thirteen (113) Members of our COUNCIL OF GOVERNORS, of our forty-eight States, for their best and full-hearted efforts towards this end, for our Country:
We arc calling upon the one hundred and thirty-nine (139) Members of our COUNCIL OF COMMIS-SIONORS, in all the State Highway Departments of our States, that they may respond with their united strivings towards this end, for our Country:
are calling upon our seventy-four (74,1 Divisions in our COUNCIL OF NATIONAL ADVISORS, in t two hundred and eighty-six (286) “ men of recognized ability and eminence in the Arts, Sciences, Letters " throughout our Nation, to likewise give their utmost towards this end. for our Country;
And finally, we are calling upon all our MEMBERS throughout the Union to give “ aid and comfort ” to our Nation and its people to this end, for our Country, that we may have adequate highway transportation over NATIONAL HIGHWAYS and GOOD ROADS EVERYWHERE.
And we hereby call upon each and every TRUSTEE, OFFICER, and MEMBER of our COUNCIL OF GOVERNORS, COUNCIL OF COMMISSIONORS, COUNCIL OF NATIONAL ADVISORS, NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PRESIDENTS, NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS, and our DEPARTMENTS and DIVISIONS and their vast national membership, and all of the MEMBERS of the National Highways Association, TO WRITE YOU, OUR PRESIDENT, pledging their united, unswerving support to our Nation, our people, and our Government, to the end that we may all have
NATIONAL HIGHWAYS and GOOD ROADS EVERYWHERE
whether they be for War! for Defense!! or for Peace!!!
APPROVED:
Chairman Board of National Councillors.
Respectfully.
President