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Show BBBBBBBBB UU THE TRAIL TO LINCOLN'S SHRINE. Is thl nation too busy, too forgetful to take time for sacred memories ot the greatest American? Ih Indlaua so heedless of its historic heritage, as the home state of Lin-coin Lin-coin s boyhood. that it will permit commercialism to clutter up with billboards bill-boards the approach to the Nancy Hanks shrine'' We do not believe It! And yet that Is the proposal and it may go through if the warm hearts of i the American people are not stirred to respectful but emphatic protest. Indiana appropriated the money for j the "Lincoln Homo Trail." But that trail as now laid out, passes a mile and a half away from Lincoln's boy-hood boy-hood home! It is proposed to let some tire manufacturer, for advert is ! ing purposes, build a spur road from ihe I rail to the shriue' The trail, as routed, misses all those scenes through which the boy Lincoln trudged back and forth, to Gentry vlllc. I morning and evening, to and from his work. Imagine what it would mean to your boy if you were to drive over the real Lincoln Home Trail with Mm, and say "Son. this is the road Abe Lincoln I walked when he was a boy There is Itheabln where he lived and studied I by the firelight at night. In those fields he worked and worked hard ' Instead of that, the boisterous bill-hoards bill-hoards will scream: "Use Goofem's Tires!" Ask Governor Warren T. McC'ray. Indianapolis, Ind , to build that trail right |