The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-04-21
GOOD ROADS MEAN PREPARED
MESS.

flynn county, winch Will soon NOl
on the bond issue for good roads:
Every mile of hard surfaced roa'
CONSTRUCTED along the main highway
OF the country is an appreciable gain
on the enemy's line" said Judge NJ
NJ. Allison, president of the Dixie
Highway association. in an appeal tS
the states and counties traversed By
the Dixie Highway. He urged ~ an
act OF patriotic preparedness they
should proceed with all possible speed
to the earfy completion Of the Dixie
Highway. This appeal was especially
directed to- communities along sec
tons where the Dixie Highway rep
resents the only and nearest com
pleted road between such important
centers as Nashville and Chattanooga
and Richmond, Va, and Knoxville.
Tenn.
THE nations leaders," stated Judge
Allison, ARE calling on all patriotic
citizens to do their bit in the defense
of the country stressing the vital i'm
portance of raising a maximum food
crop. This part OF the national de
Tense program will be materially
handicapped and an additional item
of cost tackled on to the present high
prices, unless roads are provided
over which the products can be quick
ly transported to market at the time
when they are most needed"
A section of the highway which can
be made impossible following TWEEN
ty four hour rain is as much an
agency Of tho enemy Az If IL were
possible for an ulan TO stand in the
middle of the road with bayonet
fixed and forbid the farmer TO haul
his products TO market. Under war
conditions demanding quick move
men of supplies and "a constant
heavy drain on the stored stocks,
the holding up OF deliveries to market
over an extended area of the country
might prove a great danger to the
nation
Ia the time of invasion OF the Grip
ping of important railroad lines, neg
lect in providing a completed Dixie
Highway between Nashville and Chat
tanooga, Virginia, Kentucky and
Tennessee and the ports OF Georgia,
might also result disastrously to our
nation -"While such dire conse-
1uences are hardly probable in the
present war. we do not dare ignore
The element Of risk when so much
Is at stake" said Judge Allison. BY
persistontly and inteligently
to bring about favorable vote on bond
issues and county appropriations and
by personal work, each man, woman
and child can do their bit asked OF
them by the president
one could hardly conceive Of a
more patriotic manifestation of a re-
united country than for the north and
south 10 Join forces in the Immediate
completion OF the eastern and west
ern divisions of the Dixie Highway,
thereby making it available for
transportation of men and munitions
for the mobilization of products OF
soil and factory and such other uses
Of the highway as the government
may see fit TO make
Major A. A, Fries, OF the corps OF
engineers OF the United States army,
has compiled some interesting tig-
OF the number OF motor ears avail
able and their possibilities of trans
porting troops and supplies. lie
states that 1t ought TO be possible to
set together 100000 machines of all
sorts in amy locality in a few days.
Those machines could transport 60o.-
006 To o,000 men 1870 to 800 miles
per day IL sufficient good roads were
available In the war zone. In addi-
ton To the speed and numbers which
could be transported in this manner
Major Fries points out why motor car
transportation is moe FLEXIBLE than
that OF u train. "A railroad must be
provided with side tracks. turn tables