Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-14
We learn to do by dOing-or by being done.


IA III
M to come back and find around his own door
\ step things more wonderful than ever he
saw in distant lands; an experience which in no wise
cheapens the value or delight of travel abroad, but
which does admonish us of how much we are missing
every day at home. Were we called upon to choose
between trip through Tuscany and one through
Fulton county-but why bother with puzzles before
they arise. The fact is that a way is now being
opened whereby we may see our home shire from
center to rim in its wide diversity of interest and
its wealth OF scenic charm; and visitors too, will
be enabled to see and TO learn what Fulton county
really means
The good roads workers. IN cooperation with
the board of county commissioners and the AUTOMOBILE
lists are planning Tor days tour within the borders
Of this county. The commissions civil engineer is
now at work on the road map calculating the mileage
and the route with view toward including in
single days run practically every developed highway
within Fulton boundaries. There will probably be
an aggregate of hundred and fifty miles of roads
and streets When his task is finished, the projected
route viii be carefully explored, road readings will
be taken turns and forks noted and then all the in
formation thus gathered will be compiled and pub
Hshed by The Journal in guide book for the tour
lists convenience
It is now expected that sometime this summer,
perhaps on July the Fourth, inaugural tour will
be conducted. beginning early in the morning and,
lasting through the day The participants viii prob
ably carry lunches for a picnic dinner somewhere
n the woodland stretches of the journey There
may be prizes to add to the trip the stimulus of
contest Three or four times in the course Of the
days tour, the motorists win be brought through
the heart of the. city and led out again to some
new section of the surrounding country.
Thus. they will see Fulton county in its entirety
Its manufactures and its FARMS its divers points of
admirable system Of roads, its wondrous variety of
natural resources. its hills and streams and forest
hauntE Their eyes viii be opened WIDE and also
their minds, to the richness the beauty and the
promise Of country to which many. if-not most of
them. have been blind simply because they chance
TO live in it
This enterprise means vastly more however, then
the oneday tour we have mentioned. 1t means that
through all the months and years 10 come any mo-
torist, whether Albanian a visitor will find
it possible and easy. whenever he wishes, to cover
the countrywide route, portion of 1t. with as
surance OF finding his way back home. Thus scores
Of comparatively and interesting automobile
trips viii be opened It has been truly said that
ninety-nine out Of every hundred of our motorists
would be utterly lost at any of a number of
points In this county and that the great majority of
them know fewer than half dozen roads with any
degree Of certainty. But when the county has been
thoroughly mapped and The Journals Jude book
issued, 1t win be easy for anyone to go anywhere;
and a result a quickening era of exploration and
discovery right here at home will begin.
This. as we have said, viii prove a pleasure and
profit only residents, but also to visitors 1t
viii prove, advertising feature of far-reaching
value 1t viii bring into widespread and continual
notice all that the county has to offer the home
seeker and the investor. So far as is known this is
the first American community that has hit upon
plan so inviting and fertile in rewards