Show PIONEER OF S MAKING LA LT T APPEAL PEL FOR OCEA HG WAY OVER UVE OLD TRAIL i iI I The Oregon Trail D Destiny seems et ms to have prompted prompt prompt- ed d the tho movement of that farsighted far far- sl sighted multitude who passed along alon Us its course toward sunset Youn Young men boldly moved out on the plains Trappers came came-au- explorers missionaries gold seekers anti ancI home builders Over people passed it through the tho South pass to lo Oregon Ore Ore- gon Aon and California following the dim trails of buffalo anti anel antiI I Indians II Long stretches of it II were vere lost h by the tho marches marc of oC Improvement The Th farmer took no note or of It In sentiment and plowed voer it Il towns have e sprung up across It Irrl irrigation ditches traverse It- It small wonder that wo we old pioneers call It the Lost Trail and siy it II with ith a heartache the younger generation can hardlY under under- Ezra d En Meeker 1 By JACK JUNGMEYER SAN FRANCISCO April Not iS-Not In a generation ha has a. a more romantic appeal been made mn e to lo the AmerIcan people than the proposal lay by Enl Ert Meeker year old pioneer that the government restore the tho old Oregon Orlon Trail b by making it Il a national hl highway lie the epic of the lOs Os and the opening or of the great sunset empire In which lie he took conspicuous part to be en engraved ra ed in a 2000 mlle band of macadam stretching from the Missouri to lo the Pacific const coast as asan nn an abiding memorial to the spirit or of orthe the pioneers It Is pure a labor of love with tho venerable old patriot and historian and so ardent Is his passion to restore restore re- re store the most remarkable road known to history that In the face Cace ot of great hardshiP anti and almost Insurmountable insurmountable mountable obstacles he has succeeded succeed succeed- ld ed In recovering and marking about I 1600 miles of the old trail To do this he retraced with a prairie schooner and an ox team leam the road roal b by which ho he and the tho vast army of oC rs trekked half a century before seeking out the ancient ruts and tile the many crated stretches stretches- The Journey took over n. n year and ho traveled 6 miles This lie he did it at the ago of oC 73 driy- driy InS InS' from Cram PuyalluP Wash to wash Yash D. D C C. his first appeal to congress Since Sinco then he has been tireless his zeal unflagginG Ho has already alread enlisted the support of oC the of six states fo through governors which the trail passed At tho next session of congress the tho theold old man it if he lives lI will again make his appeal to the nation Meantime he Is IR malting converts to los hlll romantic romantic ro- ro mantic cause In the Washington state at the exposition hero I realize said Ezra still amazinglY keen ot of mind and hale for Cor Corall that sentiment In this all his years case casc must le he bolstered up and justified justi- justi apparent corn com lied fied b by some very And In inthis advantage surely mercial this day of the tho motor vehicle the tho transcontinental highway value of a who thinks must appeal to anyone CHILD IS ALREADY TIlE TJI WELL GROWN WhO WIIO W WILL ILL LIVE TIlE DAY WHEN VHF AS TO TO SEE IS CARRIED AND JD ANDAS I AS MANY HS ARE BY MOTOR AS ASBY ASBY BY RAIL at the automobile now how Look Jook out in all Is it cities everYwhere ut JIt competing with traction cars lie H the chance chanco motor cars Give these ld roadbed bell and you ou wm vili ven ery on oil a a great rat throng soon o on eli tho lie now but and lost Orl Oregon on Trail Trall wherE wo we plodded behind our patient oxen A figure figur out of the tho turn past holding on onto onto the thc present trying to elicit from froma to generation a a. JiLting I a tribute to the spirit ot of the pathfinders pathfinders path path- finders monumental task lusk for Cor old It Is n. n tIts t t rt T V. V V jp dl fl I t I II I I II II I I II V Ft ti fr V I 44 4 54 z- z i Portrait of Ezra Meeker arid nd a stretch of the old Oregon Tr Trail lil Chimney rock on the North Platte P where Nebraska his hia prairie schooner passed I bent t shoulders and silver sll hair Meeker he cannot lie down until ho has given his last energies to its Ils accomplishment |