The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1915-02-19
HOOSIER MOTOR CLUB
WANTS HIGHWAY BEAUT|F|ED
Trees On The Dixie Highway
Especial to The Leader Enterprise)


When piece of property which to build home
of the first things he thinks of the of identifying the
setting The old setting
distance back from the roadway and then lining the approach
still has and few of
who stop look down these beautiful home approaches
There nothing traveller notices in his ourneyng than
the and shrubs indigenous the through which he
passes long been that poets have written
of the Tree.
Far off India stands first the Importance of her forestry
In have just commenced take Of the Importance
We stand fourth in the list of this respect
The good roads reality goes hand in hand with the
Forestry movement there fitting time than
the Dixie Highway stretching it will from the north boundy
limit country present
lasting and permanent exhibit of and shrubs that will be
equalled on any n the world.
translation of of Henes poems interesting
connection:
In the far North stands Pmetree Lone upon wntry heght
sleeps have thrown covering of white.
dreams of a Palm that far in the Mornng-land
Stands midst heaps burning
linking the Pinetree of the North with the Palm of the
South Dixie highway will do than present roadway for
the traffic, will show the traveller what the countrys
forestry really From far California the cry
preservation Forest along highways One article Motor
ny Magazine Francisco bears this headline Pant Pay Trees
on Highways which advocates planting Fruit
trees along reads claiming the annual production from such
important the matter upkeep these highways
This article states part County Forester Grant charge
planting for Orange County, sprung surprise the
Gon of the Southern California Arborcuua Association River
SIDE paper which he set forth that by investing
$500 in Young nursery going be posi-
BILE for him to put miles highway shade trees period
three years. redcuousy low cost of four cents per tree
Here wonderful idea for the proposed Dixie Highway aoc
alton to take up push could possibly be way
to mark the road permanently exhibit
stranger through him the people something what
can be produced fruit trees shrubs and plants
each section through which passes First of
question of good roadway the road which begins
where and ends nowhere advertisement for the small
through only the favored few reach it, the
pose in suggesting Dixie Highway provide continuous
connected permanent roadway which itself would be advertise
men would afford through travel and
enable the Counties surrounding country through which
it passed markets for his produces the farmer who
produces thousand Potatoes and through bad
ions and thereby limited market facilities only dispose 500
b hes has an produce but labor and
a with the Highway passing through his County, hard
f. d. improved with beautiful and shrubs he only
pdue closer with the outside world but adyer
til % his county and her products When visits Town
or ty one seeks the main street; always the best lighted
stranger judges the entire section by what he
on this street, it impossible he shuns that place his
and he tells Others This is bad advertising we'll lighted
well kept we'll paved street. with the exhibit of Cys wares