continent; now the women are organising and beautifying tho highway and they too have nude .Trent contributions to tho service. Is all this now to lao broken down and all this tine and money to bo wasted? And what explanation can wo no foxano make to these other states from Florida to California that trusted our loyalty and entrusted the national work to 1’oxans? Jhat Is tho I’oxno situation with a trunk-line north and south and one east and-west, both marked Jefferson 3avic end both of them already nationally known highways of interstate and international character and with nationally recognised names? And what of the great travel movement that depends upon tho national trunklines to carry thorn on their interstate journeys? foxes is the middle third on the Old Spanish frail. Its geographical location will give it large advantage in bringing and keeping travel in the state. fexas has lauds to settle; it needs investment and development—all this good will and national interest built up by ten years of work should not be lightly oast aside. ?exas, in naming roads for local sentiment, should not interfere with highways of interstate and national diameter. 2ho llnooln High- way if named and mrlcod according to the ideas of each state would soon lapse ao a national highway known to everyone and sought by tens of thousands in their overland trips. Plans involving tens of thousands of dollars asn now "in tho air"— —printing travelogs, maps, developing campsites and travel comforts, marking, beautifying, meetings, field work—there can bo no dependence on finances or on tho allegiance of the workers in other states, or in this .'State, and national mgasino articles are In abeyance with a half dosen editorial requests before us. It Is suggested this calls for such editorial and other attention as you can give. fexs.s lma a vital interest in the preservation of the Old Spanish frail project, and in Its utmost development and publicity. -forth foxas has the aano interest us south •"’oxas for travel must pass southward to got to this trunkline. f?he idea of marked copies to the Highway Coaalssloners and others Sc also submitted. It is a serious thing to hamper, hurt or break a project that has achieved no much and that now is onjoying unrivalled construction progress In all its states, and that lias built up such favorable recognition all over tho united .-tutoR. dinoeroly. May 5th, 1925 im/b H. B. Ayres, OH? Managing Director