Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-15
Gainesville is so

highway movement. Gainesville is so
big now, and grows so much every day,
that you won't be able to go around here
with your highway and you'll have to
come our way. Well be ready for you"
| c. d. Mitchell, the Chattanooga pillow
manufacturer, spoke briefly and was fol-
lowed by J. F. Lee. state president Of the
Farmers Union, who had his audience
laughing and calling for more when he
sat down.
E. H Clay, of Marietta, said that the
people of Marietta and Cobb county want
| to see the a-Chattanooga highway
built and will give their hearty cooper
alton. Just let our Dalton and Mari
eta great newspapers get together on
the trail Of this highway, and we will get
| it for our suburban neighbors, Atlanta
and Chattanooga" said Mr.. Clay.
"And let me tell you" he continued.
| "that the credit for our convicts having
been put on the public roads in Georgia
centers down to one man-nobody else
| than the Hon. Hoke Smith, our present
governor" This statement was cheerec-
| Mr. Clay expressed the original idea
that the devastation wrought upon the
| countryside by Sherman's army as It
drove Johnson's forces to Atlanta, 45
years ago, can in a measure be repaired
| by the national government with federal
aid in the construction of a highway
where the army marched.
E. w. Ray, editor of the Rcworth Post,
was called upon next by Colonel Mar
tin, but the tempting sights of the waiting
| barbecue must have lured him momen-
tarily away from the court house grove,
for he could not be found. And F. @.
Reynolds, secretary of the Chattanooga
Good Roads association, was introduced
as the next speaker.
Rev. George r. Stuart, the evangelist,
who arrived from his home in Cleveland,
Tenn. with the delegation from that
town, while Mr.. Reynolds was speaking,
was introduced for the last and best
| speech on the program.
| Evangelist Stuart is pioneer good
roads worker He has already brought
about the practical revolution of his home
| county, and as he says, he has been
preaching against bad roads almost as
much as against sin for some time past.
Evangelist Stuart said that he likes
a man who does things, and that he'd
rather be a cur dog going down the road
/ at a mile minute with a tin can tied
i to his tail, than blooded canine scratch
ing feas under the shade of rose bush.
PARABLE OF MUDHOLE.
He made a parable of a mudhole. He
pictured a watch set on that mudhole
! through % years to keep check on the
damage it wrought. The mudhole, he
| said. was one that could be fixed for a
dollar and a half in two hours. But no
body fixed it. Everybody was content
to take his chances getting through.
"A farmer comes along in a buggy,
and drops into 1t, and breaks his trace
chain. Charge that up: so much for har-
ness repair. Another farmer comes
along in a wagon. He breaks his shafts.
| Charge that up. A farmers wife comes
/ along in a buggy, with nobody else In
the buggy except their little boy. They
all drop into it, and she don't know what
! to do to get out, and the horse gets
mad maybe and kicks of the dashboard
and maybe hurts the little boy, break
ing an arm. Charge up the dashboard.
| Charge up the arm; Doctors bills. A
| loaded wagon comes along, and the horse
barely pulls through and strains himself
and probably says things In his own
mind, and comes out on the other side
with the beginning Of an ailment that
maybe winds up with his having to be
| shot Charge that up"
what does the man sayT' (Voice
| from the crowd)
''He SAYS things, like as not, that are
| not in the catechism, and I'm not going
to risk my immortal soul repeating them.
! But let's go on checking. A farmer
| comes to the hole, gets in, pulls back
ne.
wagon load, and tries It again. Charge
that up; delay, and two hauls instead
| of one. And keep this up for Is years,
sitting right there by that mudhole that
It would cost $50 to fix in two hours.
See what the total would be at the end.
! ST can go out in the country and take
a text like this and preach against bad
roads like 1 preach against sin. be-
lieve it's a sin. anyway, to be content to
have bad roads"
| He made another parable OF the farm
err who got a stretch of good road past
his door, and became ashamed Of his
fences and put up new ones so they would
fit better with the road Then his fences
| made him ashamed of his barn, and he
built a new barn. Then his barn made
his house look dingy, and he built new
house. Then his old buggy looked shah
by. and he bought new one Then he
got a new horse, with some blood in him.,
and after that he had to buy new har-
ness Then he bought new furniture for
his house. And when he found out that
he could go somewhere on the road and
hold his head up for looks, he began TAX
ing his family to church regularly every
Sunday, and he made his children keep
their attendance regular at school The
whole parable wound up in a revolution Of
the farmer who started with good new
road.
1.-The good road starts at the stable and
don't stop till it transforms everything
in tho parlor" said the evangelist.
An Overland automobile was the first
| Chattanooga car to arrive in Dalton Sat
urday noon. 1t wore the banners Of the
Chattanooga News, and its passengers
were r. c. Lake. o. d. Chapman, E. G.
Skinner r. H. Hart and r. II. Hart, Jr.
CHATTANOOGA CONTINGENT.
| In the successive Chattanooga cars were
the following representatives Of that city:
White steamer, c. c. Lynd, E. S. Gill
' and r. w. Barr LocomObile, News scout
! car, Frank q. Reynolds, secretary of the
/ Good Roads association; W. c. johnson.
I business manager of the News; ]. P.
/ Fyffe. city editor of the News and H. s.
Thompson, official trumpeter of the cara
van Thomas, Randolph Rose, owner; E
| H. Branam, P. NJ. Birmingham. Al Mar
shall, and Fred Saul. Pope-ToledO, Major
w. J. Bass, T. c. Thompson, P E. Ma
honey, ard w. NJ. Cline, staff photogra-
pher of the News. Buick, +. g. Joyce and
w. B. Royster, secretary of the chamber
of commerce. Mitchell. chamber OF COM
merce car, R. a. Brantley, ]. P. Daley,