The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
THE PROPOSED PAVING BOND IS.
SUE.

proposed by the city council to pro
vide permanent street paving and the
sum so produced should be in = sum
sufficient to meet the present require
ments, which are large Brunswick,
las been very slow TO grasp the idea
of permanent road building and as a
/ consequence she is woefully behind
other Georgia cities in that great civic
improvement and almost actual neces-
sity to proper growth and develop
rlent.
\ few years age, after very rer-
sistant effort the city succeeded il
paving few streets in the business
81 ction of the city with vitrified brick
and here the work started and rather
unfortunately stopped.
This work has proven entirely sat
isfactory and in addition to providing
a permanent proposition has saved the
city large sums Of money in the mat
ter of temporary construction.
The fallacy Of temporary street paw
ing and roc edway building has long
been exploded in energetic and pro
gressive communities and funds thus
expended is simply to disregard sound
methods and waste the public rev
enUes in a source from VIII : ade-
quate returns are absolutely impos-
sib,e. The original cost o. temporary
paving plus the cost of upkeep is al
most prohibitive, and vet this is the
plan we have been forced to adopt in
brunswick and which hes served 10
place us behond other cities in the
state in this class of city building.
The amount Of the proposed bond
issue has not been fixed by the city
council; these gem men realizing
t'lat some relief is necessary and very
correctly concluding that the time for
some permanent movement in that IL
rection has arrived they have set the
T achir.ary in motion for an issue Of
plu1icipal bonds for that specific pur-
pose and they will, very likely. al
tNoir next meeting agree upon the
amount of the issue.
Experience. always a wise teacher
has suggested that this bond issue
ought to be in 8 sum sufficiently large
to pave practically all of the down
..5rrn business section of the city and
2 Yortion OF the residential, Union and
Norwich streets for instance, and
N ny of the side streets intersecting
these thoroughfares. To do this We
81 ould say that the sum of two hun
drcd thousand dollars should be pro
vi',ed, certainly not less than $150,-
00G will be required. if the Job is
DE as it should be. keeping always
the idea of permanency in mind.
7h. condition of the streets Of the
city and the roads of the county is
deDlorabIe today and it has reached
that .oint where some remedial step
must be had. People who are prone
t. criticise, without stopping to think,
have been loud in their complaints
against both city and county authori-
ties for the present situation. While
some criticism NAV be justifiable, it
ought % be remembered that up to a
few weeks ago governmental embar-
goes ard restrict ons made it impos-
sible to purchase road building ma
terial. However, the war is over.
These restrictions have been remov-
ed and eerywhere there is going to be
s. rush Of communities to improve
their roads and streets.
What we should do here in Bruins
wick is to vote that bond issue right
now. get in touch with the contractors
as soon as possible and get the work
under way It's the one crying neces-
efty of the hour and it is growing in
day by day
AS we stated in the beginning, there
should not be one citizen or one tax
payer to enter protest against this
great forward movement; it should