Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-03-16
PAVEDROADSTO
OPEN CEORCIA'S
OPPORTUNITIES.
SAYSPATTERSON
Will do More for this State Than They
Have Done for California,
He Declares

After stirring address by Judge
L. Il. Patterson, of the state high
way commission, in which he pointed
out that Sumter county could not af-
ford not to vote for permanent high
way construction, Sumter's campaign.
TO pass the $500,000 issue April 8. to
build paved highways through the
rural districts was launched Satur-
day with Judge j. A. Hixon as cam
palgn chairman. Lovelace Eve, busi-
ness manager of the Times Recorder.
VINO spent three years in patriotic and
other campaign work in the vicinity of
Atlanta before coming to Americus a
Few months ago, was chosen secretary
of the campaign, and later was ap-
pointed by Chairman HiXon to act as
| treasurer to handle the funds that
will be required to conduct the cam
paign for bonds.
The meeting instructed Chairman
HiXon to name campaign committees
IN every part of the county, which he
announced he would do within few
days, declaring that he wanted the CO.
| operation of every voter in putting the
bond issue "over" and that he wanted
none on the various committees but
I the men who could be depended upon
| to do active work for the bonds.
1t was a highly successful meet
| ing, being attended by many of the
best men from all parts of the county.
Preceding the speaking the Americus
| troop of Boy Scouts paraded the
downtown streets bearing banners
boosting the bonds and later they lin
ed both sides of the courthouse steps
as the audience filed in. Following
were the inscriptions on their ban
ners:
Don't leave all the good roads
for us to build and paw for"
Uncle Sam pays half the cost;
you pay less than one-fourth; we
pay the balance"
Build concrete roads now and
let us help pay for them"
Vote bonds leave two-thirds
of them for us to pay"
Vital Issue Before People.
Judge Patterson was introduced by
Congressman Chas. d. Crisp, of this
district, who said in part:
"One of the-most vital issues is be-
fore the United States today. Thai is
sue is good roads The federal gov
ernment realizes how much it means
to the United States to have good
roads and is making large appropria-
tions to aid the several states in MAX
ing good roads. At it's recent session
congress appropriated $200,000,000 for
this purpose, but the government feels
that unless the people have local
pride enough to put up part of the
money for highway building they are
not deserving of federal help, and that
is the reason it is not putting up all
of the money. Uncle Sam offers to
match our good roads money dollar
! for dollar, and unless we put up our
| part we get nothing. l do not believe
there is a more progressive county in
Georgia than ours but it is up to US
to act for the counties that act first
in this matter are the one sthat are
going to get the most.
Judge Patterson spoke in part as
| follows:
while we are doing wonderful
things in Georgia, we are not doing
what we ought to have done. The peo-
pie of Georgia are Anglo-Saxons, and
the Anglo-SaXon moves slowly. ! say
| this to you, because / am Georgian,
and it fits me as well as the rest of
you. But when you get the Anglo
| Saxon started you can't stop him. The
people of Georgia were slow to start
on this road proposition, but there has
, been gradual evolution. 1t was hard
| for them to get the idea of durable
roads. They used to ask what was
the use to build good highways for
| those automobile fellows, forgetting
that their horses could pull twice as
much over paved roads as over dirt
ones. They forgot, too that they could
use these paved roadways when they
| needed roads most in the spring for
! hauling to and from the farm, when
our dirt roads are usually in their
worst condition and the least valua-
Die. They forget that we need good
roads the year around, and not just
when the weather is dry or in the off
season.
'But now they have got the idea and
you can't stop them
The California Way.
I'VE need durable roads locally, and
the state needs them. We have eli
mate in Georgia that we have not been
properly capitalizing. In Florida,
where they haven't much better cli-
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