The Cordele dispatch., 1920-02-09
GOOD ROADS MEET
HERE WEDNESDAY
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interested should attend the IL ing
Wednesday at eleven o'clock. The
letter in large part is as follows:
"As you know the legislature at its
1919 session, following the request Of
the Governor and the committee ap-
| pointed by him to formulate legisla-
tion on this subject, passed two bills
providing for the States becoming
an active factor in road building
The first provides for the re-organiza-
tion of the State Highway Commission
by the appointment by the Governor
This has been done and in our judg
ment the new commission is composed
of men of high character and eminent
ability on whom the people of Geor
gia can depend for the successful
handling of this important matter;
providing the legislature at its 1920
session will adopt the other bills rec
ommended by the committee for the
completion of the machinery and the
successful handling Of this great pro-
position.
"The second bill adopted provides
for an increase in the automobile Ii
cense fees which are now based on a
schedule of sixty cents per horse pow
sr of the motor vehicles. which will
average about $500 per car annual,
" or an aggregate Of approximately
SLIGO, 600 per annum This sum is to
De used along with such other sums as
nay be appropriated by the Federal
Government and the Counties of Geor-
gia, by and under the direction Of the
State Highway Commission The Fed
9ral aid fund allotted to the State Of
Georgia became available in 1916 ard
in increasing amounts each year for
I period of five years, but will end
with the allotment to be made to the
counties by the State Highway Com
mission in 1920 1t may be that the
Federal Congress will make other ap-
nropriations for road building but we
10 not know that this will be done.
"At the present time this leaves the
available revenue for road building in
Georgia, the automobile license fees
rs mentioned above $1,750,000 and the
1920 allotment of the Federal AID
Fund and such sums as may be provi-
led by the counties of the State thru
bond issues or other methods Should
this be all of, the revenues for
carrying on the construction of a sys
tenn of hard surfaced highway
throughout the state in all probability
t would require twenty-five to thirty
years to complete such a system II
/ is the Judgment of those Who have for
! years actively undertaken to bring
about the coGstrupctj0n Of u system
of state roads that this period of con
struction should be shortened, so that
the present generation may enjoy The
great benefits to be derived from the
construction Of these roads, And it
will be better that the state be author
zed to make a bond issue CT sufficient
amount to bring about this construc-
zion of state roads within a period OF
six or seven years 1t is estimated
that $40,000.0O0 of bonds will accom-
plish this and that the interest on
such an amount and the retiring Of
said bonds can be provided for thru
the revenue resulting from the in
creased automobile license fees. In
order to accomplish this it will be
necessary for the Legislature to pass
bill providing for an amendment to
the State Constitution and that such
amendment be approved by the people
at the next general election. We
recognize that such Il proposition in
volving this large issue of bonds with
the necessity for full payment of them
and yearly interest thereon, if put be-
fore the people without definite infor-
nation that the means will be pro.
vided than by increased taxation, that
the election would probably be un-
favorable to such bond issue.
1T is our purpose TO start a cam
paign of information on this subject to
show the people that this bond issue
of Forty Millions of dollars can be
made, the interest paid and a retir-
ing fund provided thru the revenue
arising from the automobile fees. and
no additional tax levy be necessary for
This purpose"
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