Show ROAD bonding BOnD NAMES OP OF NOTED ROADS CHANGED there its is no more reason for aw ashing the names of our famous ways than there would be for aw ashing the names of crack trallis trai says charles INI ilayev president I 1 the chicago motor club it ig 18 right yi tor for tho the railroads to esta establish numbers for their trains and these rubb are always used by railroad menth it old familiar names however lire are UM ti by the traveling public the bieth century the overland ih euprea S or tile tho seminole limited known 01 by numbers would loso 1080 half their ti 0 mance tho the sallie bame Is true of 0 ott og highways alling state and federal high ways by numbers Is tile the ellic efficient lelit method but in using numbers we should not abolish tile the historic callies that have attached themselves to those highways no routing agency agen would wish to go back to the old syi tern tem of using names only the combi nation of tho the tal number and th the unofficial starne hinline Is IB ideal such canei its as the lincoln grant dixie appalachian pa pala chian lachlan old spanish trails and the th national old trails have a tremendous 0 historical and geographic til significance nit leance ance traveling over these roads Is more of an adventure than it if these thes famous names were to bo be discarded for the highly and highly ila F personal numbering system the recommendation of the pint joint board of the interstate highways at washington to eliminate the names of 0 highways has met with organized opposition till all over the country it li 13 pointed out that at the beginning of 0 the good roads movement men have been moved bovid to give their funds because of the inspiration of such names as aa linco ln lee and harding it Is also pointed out that the traveling nit public has hae become so familiar with these names that much confusion would result in eliminating them entirely the and Ostian alii waya known its as numbers ambers 21 and 22 would never have gone down in history let us retain our numbers for efficiency but let Us ug retain our names name for sentiment in this manner the engineer and the layman will be satisfied |