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; sdon the name Stephen 1°. Austin j Nvun abandoned and Jefferson Davis | Memorial Highway substituted.
News reports state the highway from Ked River to Laredo is now * being marked by the highway department as Jefferson Davis Highway and the highway commissioners say Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway is settled for the Orunge-El Paso road.
This if persisted In means the destruction of the Old Spanish Trail from St. Augustine, Fla., to San Diego, Cal., as a national highway, for .Texas with one-thiru the distance across the continent can make or break the project.
The Old Spanish Trail was organized at Mobile in 1915 and has been a continuous active organization over since. At a conference in Hous-' ton in 1919 San Antonio was asked to assume the national headquarters work. The value of connecting, such a project across Texas was recognized and the San Antonio* Chamber of Commerce appropriated §1000 and. others followed with support In loyal measure..
In tho 10 years of this work members have spent over §100,000 per-* sonally. They have succeeded not only in making the Old Spanish Trail a connected transcontinental trunkline of very valuable possibilities to the South, but they have rostered the construction program until §35,000,000 has already been spent; $7,900,000' of construction in progress will be completed this year: §3 0,000,000 of new construction will be inaugurated.in 1925.'
The Old Spanish Trail is known all over the land. It Is of record in' national offices everywhere, on all maps, In government manuals, at schools, libraries, colleges, and .with all magazine editors Interested in outdoor life and auto travel. More magazine and feature articles are published than for any other national highway. Its name, its historical background, its potential service to national tourist travel, and the possibilities of its territory for settlement, development, fishing, camping and resting, all appeal to the Northern editors. If let-alone it will, bo the nation's best-known highway.
The O. S. T. Association in the past. 10 years has published 40,000 .service and general maps; 10,000 four-color lithograph wall maps, 50,000 miscellaneous leaflets and booklets; 20,000 travelogs, and now has a wealth of material ready >£or a Texas Travelog of 20,000 copies; magazine and feature articles have reached a circulation of over 4,000,-000; over 2000 miles of roads have been marked and new marking is necessary; zero milestones have been dedicated bv presidents, and governors; O. S. T. field men have traveled over 50,000 miles in this work, in the early days they wallowed in mud and mire working out courses of the highway across the continent; now they aJ- J the women are organizing and beau-Ihijjfr A ! ci Tying the highway nr.d they, too, j.{have made great contributions to trie an’ I service.
Is all this now to be broken down find all this time .and money to be wasted? And what explanation con we as Texans make to these other states from Florida to California that trusted our loyalty and entrusted the national work to Texans? What is the Texas situation with a trunkline north and south and one east and west, both marked Jefferson Davis both of them nationally known highways of interstate character and
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campsites and travel wmr*.—_ marking, beautifying, meetings, field work—iherc can be no dependence on finances or on tho allegiance of the workers In other states, or in this state, and natlohal magazine articles are in abeyanco with n .half dozen editorial requests arc before us. Texas has a vital interest In tho preservation of this Old Spanish Trail project, and In Its utmost development and publicity. • North Texan has the samo interest as .South Texas for travel must pass southward to get to this trunkline. It is a serious thing .to hamper, hurt .of break a project, that has achieved so much and that now Is enjoying unrivaled construction progress in all its states, and that has huilt. up such favorable recognition all over, the United States.
SUMMER CAMP FOR
GIRLS IS PLANNED
Tyler, Texas, May.9.—-From June G to 20 tho homo of Mrs. Walter Connally at Hitt’s Club Lake, eight miles north of Tyler, will be the scene of a summer camp for girls between the ages of 14 and 21. -The camp will be under the auspices of the Young Peoples Service League of the Episcopal diocese of Texas, opc-n to girl3 of all . denominations, and proposes to.train for leadership.
The camp staff includes Miss Dorothy M., Fisher of Houston, ma-tronrin-chargc; Rev. W.. N.. Clay-brook of Tyler, Bible instructor; Mrs. J. R. Greenhill, Jr., of Houston, camp director; Miss Rachel Summers of Austin, assistant director; Miss Maggie Clarke of Tyler; health director; Miss Sadie Schnemayer of Austin, camp dietician; Miss Zenda Ashbacker of Houston, swimming instructor, and Mfrs. Earl Scroggins, Mrs. D. G. Connally and Mrs. J. D. Patterson, all of Tyler, counsellors.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, ARKANSAS.
In the foothills of the beautiful Ozarks.
The Mountain View Hotels Company invites you to spend your vacation with thorn. 'Hotels built of stone, cool and modern. Hotels company owns rooming houses, apartments, rent cottages, and tent city, with lakes, springs (including famous sulphur and lithia springs), parks, tennis courts and golf links. Has own band of 1C pioces, and orchestra of 10 pieces. Daily concerts. A high-grade summer resort built for high-grade people. No jazz—no tipping—no	drinking-—no	, rough
stuff. A family resort where husbands can leave their, wives, and fathers their families, and know they are in as wholesome environments as if they were in their own home. Cool rooms, well spread tables, and at moderate prices. Tent city provided for those who desire cheaper rates and outdoor living. International federation convention June 28 to 12. Nation’s great preachers, teachers and singers. Six sessions daily, all sessions free. University Musical Institute July 13 to August 17. Advance work in piano, voice, violin and band instruments. Free use, under reservations, of lake, boats, goif, etc., to guests of tho hotels. Season opens June 20 and closes September 10. Write Mountain View Hotels Company, Sulphur Springs, Arkansas', for rates, programs. ete.—Adv.__________________