Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-28
GOOD ROADS FORCES
FORM ASSOCIATION
At A BIG Meeting
City Courthouse Was Packed -
Overlooking When Georgia
Good Roads Automobile Asso-
citation Was Organized.

MACON, Ca, May 2.-If there is
man in Middle Georgia who opposes good
roads, he doesn't dare make his position
known, for the state has put aside its
business and pleasure and each county
has joined hands in the great rnovemens
that looks to a rehabilitation of the public
highways.
At the mass meeting held here Monday
night there was but one sentiment e1-
pressed. There was no rivalry between
counties or sections and no jealousies be-
tween communities. You didn't have 70
! ask man If he was for good roads. he
was here for that purpose.
When the mass meeting was called 20
order at o'clock Monday night the city
court room was packed to OVERLOOKING ana
many were standing in the rear and In the
, halls. There wee many who stood with
out and listened though the open WIN
| dows.
The ball for good roads was put in mo-
ton and started rolling through the STATE
with energy. Clark Howell was mace
chairman and Emroy Winship secretary.
| Enthusiastic speeches were made by rep
resentative men throughout the state
resolutions introduced and adopted organ
izing the Georgia GOOD Roads Automoolle
association, and indorsing the magnificent
work of the Atlanta Journal and New
York Herald, the Constitution, the Tele-
/ graph and the state press generaliy On
behalf Of the movement.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
The following resolutions were unani-
/ mously adopted:
"Resolved. That this meeting me made
the Georgia Good Roads Automobile as
| ISOLATION and that 1t be Incorporated as
such.
RESOLVED. That this meeting be made
of this committee appoint an executive
| committee of seven, of which he shan De
| chairman. and to which committee shall
| he entrusted the detail of the Georgia
Good Roads contest to take place in No
vernber next and that this COMMITTEES shall
announce at its leisure the details cf said
| contest with the view OF shaping such
/ contest so that they will best serve. tne
the interest of county co-ordinate efforts
| at good road construction In the state, 80
/ that in due time the county roads may
1 connect into a general system OF thor
oughfares. in this state.
Resolved, further. That this state ex-
| ecutive committee Of this association be
authorized to incorporate itself at once
! for the above end and that all contribu-
/ lions to the state good roads contesI snail
be given through this convention
! The following resolution was presented
/ bv Mr. Charles Wilbur. Of the Macon
! Automobile Machinery company;
/ JOURNAL is PRAISED.
eve the Bibb County Good Roads as
/ ociation. in mass meeting assenapleo Tor
| the nurpose of devising a plan to better
! the general conditions OF the public nigh
Uavs of the south and more especially In
/ Georgia. congratulate the Atlanta jour
/ nal upon the interest 1t has manifested
! in the movement II has inaugurated IN
] bringing TO the attention Of the public
/ this magnificent campaign.
| 1--WE further wish to express our m
dorsement of the national movement for
n,,bIic road betterment inaugurated by
| the Atlanta Journal and the New YORK
/ Herald.
| 1--WE further wish to extend to the At
| Iants Constitution ana the state press orr
/ hearty co-operation and invite them TO
] me-, Z with us from time to time that we
NAV mutually agree upon the best and
| sneediest plan possible for carrying into
! execution this Contemplated project
| This resolution was adopted by unanl-
nous vote and followed by applause
! Commissioner A. j. Long. of the county
| hoard of roads and revenues OF Bibo
/ county. took a shot at the fee system III
/ a spirited speech, followed by RESOLUTIONS
against the system and in favor OF SAL
| aries for city and county and state Of
fciaIs. TIE resolutions follow:
GOOD ROADS FUND.
Resolved That-this convention petition
the legislature to pass a law giving the
right to each county by vote of the clti-
Gems to change the fee system to a salary
] system for remuneration of its officers,
! the money saved by this plan to be put
/ into a special fund to be expended upon
| the roads of the respective counties.
Many speeches were made during the
meeting, which did not adjourn until II
| O'Clock. Clark Howell outlined the OBJ
feet of the mass meeting. stating that one
| man in Georgia was responsible for the
meeting and that man was Mayor J. @.
Knapp, of Fitzgerald, who had brought
nearly fifty machines to Macon. crowded
with south Georgia delegates.
Mr. Asa Gambler, of Atlanta, then made
an address, in which he declared for
good roads-not for the acknowledging
for the man with mule.
Mayor Knapp, of Fitzgerald; Editor
! PendIeton, of Macon; Clarence Black
shear, of Laurens; Colonel Bowen, chair
man county commissioners. of Ben Hill
/ county; Hon. Ogden Pearsons, of Nom
roe county; Mayor Ham. of Jackson,
Butts county, and Frank Ethridge, OF
Jackson had delivered stirring appeals
for good roads and as the applause for the
last speaker subsidized, a voice from the
audience called the attention of the chair
to the fact that Hon. James r. Gray. Of
The Atlanta journal, was In the audience
and but that was all the speaker
was heard to say, as his voice was drown
ed in the cheering that followed.
EDITOR GRAY SPEAKS.
Mr.. Gray spoke at length, urging that
action, precise and businesslike, be taken
by. the committee. He made plea for
good roads throughout the length and
breadth of the state and showed that
each county site should be the center OF
system of good roads leading in all
directions. His reference to state and
national highways was received With
hearty c5So-=.
Colonel y. F. Tiff, of Dougherty, was
the next speaker and he had just arrived
from Albany. explaining his delay due TO
an accident to his machine from the bad
roads over which he travelled.
Other speakers of the evening were T.
B. Heard. of Dolly county; Mason, OF
Dougherty; Mckinney, of Bib; Myers, OF
Waycross; Long. of Bib; Editor John
Hodges, of Perry, and Roland Ellis, Of
Bibb.
SOUTH GEORGIA IN