The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-12
BRUNSWICK COUNCIL
- or DIXIE HIGHWAY
FORMED LAST NIGHT

IlOd was S9lO,OO0, a grand total of 81,
657,149.SO. Quite some loss.
Now, ii is estimated that the cost
per ton per mile averages 26 cents to
the farmer for hauling in the United
States. If this is the case, some one
must be paying for it, as there are
thousands who are hauling goods at
the cost of over 81 per ton per mile.
How many who have not been here
and want TO come are asking about
conditions? | personally have an
swered thousands Of inquiries and
know that next year you will see
more than ever, but not half of what
is your just due, because of the burden
of bad roads. This again brings us
to the question of your market lin
its, and | will say that they are as
far extended as the limit of automo-
bile travel. Maine draws travel from
as far west as Denver and she counts
the money spent in hotels and garages
alone in one season at $S0,000,0 900.
Draw a line from Rochester. N. Y,
to Chattanooga, Tenn, and another
from Fargo, n. D., to Chattanooga, and
within those lines you have a market
so large most people can hardly re-
alize it of the cities in the United
States with population of 100 900 and
over. Thirty per cent lies there The
automobile registration shows mil
lion cars directly tributary and acces-
sible. The greatest travellers by au-
tomobile lie there and thousands came
to me in my office when | was con-
nected with the Hoosier Motor club
and asked: Can | get into the south :?
Can go to Florida? On showing them
road conditions their almost universal
reply would be: Well, l guess l shall
have to tour east or west
What does that mean to Georgia
and the south? 1t means that you are
losing a lot of hard cash You
are being retarded in growth which
you should have.
why, with your advantages. Geor-
gia alone is a good field for you. Re-
Gently in Atlanta, Thomasville and AL
bany prominent citizens asked me if it
Brunswick from their cities by au-
tomobile. | want to take my car and
my family with me for couple of
weeks in and around Brunswick. s
How about this? Can you see it? Is
it worth while? | think it is and /
think the Dixie Highway association
with it's band of great public spirited
men from that eminent gentleman,
Judge M. M. Allison, our president. on
down through the list, is doing more
for you and the state of Georgia than
you realize at first. The wonderful
work OF these men deserve to go down
in history as an example of our sons
of what can be done in a great cause.
The breaking down of the noun
famous barriers which are holding
back this horde of people is no small
task. 1t means labor and constant eff
fort. It means diplomacy and tact.
You as city, yea as an entire state
could not afford to employ these men
to do for you what they are doing in
actual constructive work, to say moth
ing of the advertising feature
AS you are no doubt soon to go
into.a campaign of advertising on your
own hook, let us look for a moment
on what the Dixie Highway associa-
ton has already done. We have not
had all the clippings of articles deal
ing with this Dixie highway yet we
have enough to show us that in news
papers of circulation of 10000 and
over we have in less than a year re-
ceived 10000 columns of reading mat
ter, or 900, 900 inches This is alone
in newspapers and does not count
magazine or trade paper articles. All
of it has ben space that you could not
buy at any price. and yet if we figure
it on an average basis of advertising
it would cost you over 100000.
rs it worth your while to support
the Dixie Highway association? / am
going to appeal to your intelligent
,selfinterest for an answer.
'You can see from this where your
markets lie, your county, your neigh
boring state, and the great middle
west, and you cannot afford to let the
approaches, great and small to your
city, retard your progress or deprive
you Of your just dues"