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Show NAMES OF NOTED ROADS CHANGED "There is no more reason for abolishing abol-ishing the names of our famous highways high-ways than there would be for abolishing abol-ishing the names of crack trains," says Charles M. Hayes, president of the Chicago Motor club. "It Is right fur the railroads to establish numbers for their trains, and these numbers are always used by railroad men; the old familiar mimes, however, are used by the traveling public. The Twentieth Twen-tieth Century, the Overland Express, or the Seminole Limited, known only by numbers, would lose half their romance. ro-mance. The same Is true of our ... highways. "Calling state and federal highways high-ways by numbers is the efficient method, but in using numbers we should not abolish the historic names that have attached themselves to . those highways. No routing agency would wish to go back to the old system sys-tem of using names only; the combination combi-nation of the official number and the unofficial name is ideal. Such names as the Lincoln, Grant, Dixie, Appalachian, Ap-palachian, Old Spanish trails, and the National Old trails have a tremen-dous tremen-dous historical and geographical significance. sig-nificance. Traveling over these roads is more of an adventure than if these famous names were to be discarded for the highly efficient and highly Impersonal Im-personal numbering system. "The recommendation of the Joint board of the Interstate highways at Washington to eliminate the names of highways has met with organized opposition op-position all over the country. It Is pointed out that at the beginning of the good roads movement, men have been moved to give their funds because be-cause of the inspiration of such, names as Lincoln, Lee and Harding; It is also pointed out that the traveling public has become so familiar with these names that much confusion would result in eliminating them entirely. en-tirely. The Appian and Ostian ways, known as numbers 21 and 22, would never have gone down in history. Let us retain our numbers for efficiency, effi-ciency, but let us retain our names for sentiment; in this manner the engineer en-gineer and the layman will be satisfied." |