Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-30
bETTERROADS IN
STATE URGED
BY CHAMBER
Trade Body Opposes Reduction
Of Cotton Acreage = Larger
Food Crops Advocated.

MACON, Jan. 30.-Crop diversified
ton as the most effective means @.
resisting the boil weey!l which. Il "a
declared, will reach Georgia this year.
and better roads through State ali.
50 as 10 improve marketing facilities,
are two Of the most important cam
paigns undertaken by the Georgla
Chamber OF Commerce. which to-day
Is holding the concluding sessions u
its first semi-annual convention
The good roads committee. OF which
Emory Winship, OF Macon, is chair
man has decided 20 employ a secre-
tary and will wage an earnest cam
paign in each county where the roads
are in bad condition. AutomobilIsts
as well as farmers will be organize
TO promote this campaign.
7 To Urge State Aid.
Cooperating with the roads com
mittee will be the public law commit
tee, Of which Barry Wright, OF Rome
is chairman. This latter committee
viii devise a-campaign designed TO lay
before the Legislature such an array
OF facts as will impel State assistance
for general highway Improvement
President C. J. Haden. OF the STATE
Chamber declares that he regards
| this as the most important project
yet taken up by the organization.
This morning the boil weevil is be-
ing discussed by the cotton by prod
ucts committee and the Georgia food
products committee Both are op-
posed TO any reduction in the cotton
acreage on account o. the weevil, and
declare that the pest can be as sue
cessfully resisted as the grasshopper,
the Hessian fly amid chinch bug have
been fought and conquered in other
States
Cotton Reduction opposed.
Chairman 3. L. Bond OF the by
products committee, declares that Il
will be a fatal mistake on the part
OF Georgia planters 70 reduce their
cotton acreage through apprehension
of boil weeYil ravages. He concurs
with Bradford Knapp OF Washing
ton. d. c., OF the Government Farm
Demonstration Bureau. in urging that
the cotton be retained and the crops
diversified.
Increase OF food crops so as 70 make
each farm self sustaining is advo-
Gated. Along the same line Is the
proposition OF President A. VI. Soule.
of the State College OF Agriculture, %
encourage the boys and girls in their
corn, pig and canning clubs. particu-
larry the latter II IS estimated that
nearly 800. 900 was kept within the
State last year BY reason Of the can
ming Of fruits and vegetables by the
youngsters.
The secretaries Of the various trade
bodies in the tate have perfected an
organization under the name Of the
Georgia Commercial and Executives
Association. w. 3. Register, OF Graf-
fin, is president and c. c. Galloway,
Of Athens. secretary
Governor Leads Parade.
Last nights demonstration was no
table for the number OF towns repre-
sented. There was a parade more
than a mile long which took an hour
to pass given point. eliminating a.
the theater, where addresses were
made by Governor John NJ. Slaton
Bradford Knapp and Professor Soule
The Governor led the procession.
The Eovernor's address was largely
concerned with the finances OF the
State and such methods as are nee
essary to bring the state expenditures
within Its income.