The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1921-12-29
NOW FOR A REAL GOOD ROADS
YEAR.

The coming year should be a road
building year in Georgia Costs are
likely to be lower than at any time in
the last three or four years and the
| need is greater than ever. In the
Tampa Tribune a few days ago was
a story with a map of Florida and a
seven column headline on the front
jpage of one section of the paper to
this effect: Florida, with only $4,000
motor vehicles. preparing for more
with $33,0O0,00O bond issue for coed
roads Improvements" If Florida
with only $4,000 motor vehicles.e is
going after good roads in that fash
ion, Georgia with more than twice as
many motor vehicles, ought to go -af.
ter good roads with at least equal eff
fort. Florida is not stopping says
the Tribune And it ought to be GER
tain that Georgia is mot stopping"
Florida has no more reason to build
good roads, 365-days-in-t he-year roads.
than has Georgia, if as much. Poli
tics should be forgotten when it comes
to roads, sectional selfishness should
play no part, local interests should re-
member that in through roads is
found the secret of the greatest SER
vice roads can perform, because
through roads acne serve both local
and through traffic.
The people o no country should be
tied within the confines of their coun
tty by the lack of good roads in adj
Joining counties; it should be possible
for any Georgian to start up his car
and point its nose in any direction
and go where he pleases in Georgia on
"a good, hard road, whether he wants
1to visit his relatives, or sell goods to;
ia merchant a hundred miles away.
ior dc some shopping in the neighbor-
ing town or the far-away city, Or go
TOR the doctor, or take his cotton to
market or his pigs to the fair or his
produce to town, or do any one of the
hundred.andsone things that can be
done more easily, quickly and cheap
ly over good roads than over bad
ones.
Then there is the tourist business.
It is a business, and a big one. II IL
were sought after properly it would
bring hundreds of thousands Of per-
sons to, Georgia, every year, many of
them prospective purchasers Of Geor-
gia land, all Of them with some mon
ey to spend and the necessity of
spending II while in the state. Tour.
list money is new money, 1t comes
from other states; 1t Is money Geor-
gia would never see except for tho
tourist business. 1t is big money and
II Is worth going after California
has found II so. Boston and Philadel.
phia have found 1t SO. So, has Dem
YER. There Is no more reason for
tourists to go to California, Colorado,
or MASSACHUSETTS,. or Pennsylvania
than there is for them to come to-
Georgia. Is II historic spots they
want to see? What state has more
OF these to offer than Georgia.? Is II
fine climates Is Il scener7? Is 1t
TO combine a pleasure trip with pros
pecting tour Georgia has the great
est combination OF attractions for the
average tourist. All she has to do Is
to make II possible for visitors to-
travel over the state in reasonable
amount of comfort. They will do the
rest.
The biggest attraction Georgia
needs right now 10 offer tourists Is
good roads-and good roads will serve
not only them but the home folks "a
wen. Let's build county-seat-to.
county.seat system OF good roads and
invite visitors frcm other states to
help pay for them.