Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-07-30
WAR WAGED BY IDIOTS
ON AUTOS TO CEASE
Gar Owners and Farmers
Together

Americas car owners and farmers
here alike, many of them owning au-
tomobiles, are disguised with the petty
senseless and idiotic legislation pro-
posed by some of the human freaks at
the capitol inimical to autoists. Sew
eral crazy bills have been introduced
but, fortunately, all have "died in the
borning" and should remain forever
dead
The intelligent class of farmers
has come to look upon the AUTOMOBILE
list as a friend who can be a great
power toward bringing about much
needed Improvements in the country
roads. This is because the farmer
has learned that the autoist is a rest
less hustler for more territory"
The automobile has brought the city
business man face to face with the
conditions that have confronted the
farmer from time immemorial.
1t has shown the city man why it
is so difficult and costly for the
farmer to market his products.
Before the improvement it used to
be a question of how much you could
pull. Now it is entirely a question of
how much a wagon will hold
This is the meat of the good roads
question. On bad roads many good
mule has been ruined marketing a bale
of low-priced cotton, because the
cheaper the cotton or anything else
he grows the more the farmer is OBJ
liged to pile on in order to get any
thing at all out of it.
These and similar conditions have
made a good roads booster of the city
| ss-man-autoist, and he set
about urging those authorities who
are responsible for the conditions of
the roads to a systematic improve
ment
| County commissioners only need TO
know that they have the support of
all the people and they will very
soon undertake a needed work Ev-
erywhere the city man is urging coun-
| ty authorities to build substantial
road beds, cut hills and fill hollows.
The autoist and the farmer is meet
ing to discuss the best means to have
the work done as quickly as possible.
| Counties are issuing bonds to build
roads, and there is a vast amount
of work already done, a greater
amount under construction, and,
enough of it contemplated, to make
Georgia bloom into "a great flower of
prosperity. =
The farmer who thinks the aims of
the autoist arg selfish is mistaken But
if he should fbe selfish and the farmer
should getFa system of good roads
through The state, the latter would
fairlToTer-top the autoist in the
| benefit and advantages that would ac
crue from the realization of this good
roads movement.
The farmer should stand by the
autoist in the present crusade against
|
is and will prove to be a much better
friend to the farmer than the freak
politician.
Only just laws should be passed
regulating the driving, etc, of auto
mobiles. With good roads the day
will be close when the farmer can
own machine. Nor will it be a
machine for pleasure only, but in
which he can market his products and
in quantities and time that will make
it much cheaper and more expeditions
than by animal transportation
Nothing will more quickly kill
those matters now afoot for the bene-
fit of the farmer and the city bust
ness men than a lot of freak Iegisla-
ton, such as is now in bills before
the Georgia legislature.