Show PROTEST LOSING LOSINO ROADSIDE TREES Beautiful Row of Oaks Ruthlessly Destroyed By Progress Highway building has made possible the th rapid development of our OUI country Good roads mean progress and way high builders and all nil responsible tor for the th crea crea- creation crea- crea creation creation tion and construction of good roads are aro ar doing an Important work for Cor humanity and the th coun coun- country country country try writes a motorist returned from a southern to IT In this march of progress road d builders with ruthless hand have hae ha sometimes destroyed In a few days s or weeks vistas of o beauty which whIch It has baa taken centuries to produce An An Instance may be b cited inthe In Inthe Inthe the despoliation of one of ot the tho scenes of ot great treat beauty beauty- on the Toad road to New Smyrna Fla Some one committed a crime against nature when In modernly modernly- ine Ing this road which connects Daytona Dayton and New Smyrna there was cut away away one on ot of the th most Un- Un Unusual un unusual usual and beautiful stretches of lined lined forest roadway In the th Unit Unit- United United United ed States Staten The Tho Th soul loul of o a man would be bo dead who could not ap- ap appreciate ap ap predate It Gone are aro ar the th ral like ral-like old with vaulted arches seemingly supporting r the blue firmament above Ones One's Im- Im Imagination Imagination pictured the tho th old road leading to a land of enchantment The natural beauty of the interlocking Inter Inter- Interlocking Inter locking trees tree was enhanced by t s of o Spanish Sp Sp moss with Uh II its delicate tracery tracer making a fairy fairy- fairylike Ilk like c scene ne words word I tall fall to describe Late In the th afternoon with the thelow thelow thelow low western sun throwing Its It gold gold- golden golden en light ll ht through the th entwIned branche branches there ther was produced a weIrd and find beautiful effect whIch fascinated In years year put past those travelers who teho who who- were so 10 fortunate as to pass along the way Just Juet Justas Justas as the th rays of the th sun added to the tho charm of o these thes wonderful old trees so 60 the th slivery moon of ot a 8 FlorIda night produced an effect never uever to be forgotten impossible It ought not to bo be b an sible thing thin for tor who are charged with the responsibility for carrying out rams pros of ot road Improvement to find from the engineerIng standpoint a a solution for the problem Involved In straightening and otherwise Im- Im Improving proving pro a highway and at the same samo time preserving in lure large measure the royal trees which line the th roadside There Th r Is II moreover moreo a consid consid- consideration consideration that should appeal evento even evento evento to those thole It if such there ther be who regard a tree merely as something left standing Bt through the th careless carelessness ness of our less lell progressive prot ances ances- ancestors ancestors tors That consideration Is this The tourist Is II I a a- valuable asset ass People go o where trees are art and whenever a beauty spot scot is made madI less Ipsa u beautiful through their destruction de- de destruction de destruction It to th that t extent has hu a lessened charm for tor the tho th dl traveler tra It Is not so 10 widely ly sought People co go to oth- oth other other oth other er places instead |