Show cur BERlAND ROAD HAD MAY MA Y BE RESTORED Women Urge Government to Repair Highway Washington The The women of the Society Society So So- of ot the Daughters of the Amer Amel American lean ican Revolution are confident nt they say a that some time the United States I hutt gov gU will wUl take bold ho d of the IDU move movement went ment to improve e the tb Historic trails snaking milking a great national highway frond from the Atlantic to the Pac The be move l ment which would use us as a i basis for a i national transcontinental highway Uncelebrated Un tb celebrated old Cumberland road i Hd by the Uie United States a century y ago ngo in In III response to the demands of ot the tbt people Ut living west of the toe Alleghenies terl t with Kansas City Chapter of the I P p. p A It and unel tins lias since IDe received the lOr l'Or i indorsement of the tin national ulza tiou Lion 1 The D D. A A. A U. U has no objection to tu building of the proposed Id I'd Lincoln high highway highway way WHY cross across the country along a tint ruI re northerly route but art are i convinced that the Cumberland road und and the historic trails which led from the Mississippi ippi river pr to the till Pacific l' were were selected d b by bythe the Uw pioneers because bei-ause tb they were wele tb ib th- th natural highways offering the It f 1 I I e. and andor or 01 that reason were tbt the I best beRt tOut routes known n to tilt the lIar hardy ly settlers settler of the days claYH Uncle Sam spent Si on oil II th th- Cumberland road read which ruN Bids i ed for a distance of ut about sc S Sod PO o miles one of or the longest lon st straight ht roads 11 1 constructed d h b by tiny i got government CI t In III I the h. h world Tit The plan Ilan tu to m 1111 this Ihl famous pil pike from from 1 Md Jd to St Rt i Lind ouis but a portion of f the western end never 11 11 was The surrey survey e WHit was run to Jefferson City it the vi of Missouri t is iiri It It th tilt the plan pion to have the road roid run tin through Jh the Ile of Ohio Oh ludiana mid coati 1 tI to St I Lents LouN surveyed lIr In III toli 1 the Clad ui n as not lIot thrown open until IRiM IRIS From l anti I I the die road ul wl the fhe of f into l tit the western oun try by In the earit tit fifties till the l took tonk front from It tilt the bulk of the II i wIll well pIla us the lIc mills I between ann and the west ushering rin in the period of It Its declines decline 3 V |