Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-29
ROAD BONDS URGED
At ATHENS MEET

ATHENS, Ga, April 27.-Indorse-
ment of the proposed $75,000,000
state road bond issue was given by
legislators, editors and county Off
Gals who met here Wednesday with
the District Association of County
Commissioners. The resolution in
dorsing the movement was introduce
ed following addresses by Judge G.
H. Howard, attorney for the high
way commission; w. r. Neel, state
highway engineer, and T. G. Farmer,
Jr., managing director of the Geor-
gia Good Roads association, an or
ganization perfected to arouse in
terest in the bond issue.
That the proposed bond issue is
one of the livest, if not the foremost,
questions before the people of the
state at this time was clearly shown
by the large representation of citi-
zens from the thirteen counties in
this district who attended the meet
ing.
They were here from Hartwell,
Eatonton, Greensboro, Madison,
Monroe, Covington and many of the
smaller towns in this section, and
in discussing the question privately
many of them declared they could
not see how any one could oppose
putting the issue to vote Of the
people in the general election.
Representative in the house and
senate of the Georgia legislature
were at the meeting and Joined in
the vote adopting the favorable res
olution, a vote which Chairman J. M.
Hodgson, of the association of COM
missioners. declared unanimous.
Mr.. Farmer highly praised DIR. c.
M. Strahan, of Athens, the hrst
chairman of the highway commits
sion, for his pioneer work in lay
ing the foundation stones for the
great system of highways for Geor-
gia. At the close of the addresses
the visitors were the guests of the
State College Of Agriculture at din
ner. The dinners was served by the
Young women of the home economics
department, who received vote OF
thanks from their guests for their
splendid dinner.
At the invitation of DR.. A. M.
Soule, president of the agriculture
college, the visitors inspected the
plant, some of them for the first
time, and went away congratulating
the state for it's agricultural college.
An automobile tour of the city
and county and a theater party
as guests of the Palace theater man
agement closed the day.
Judge Howard used the roads be-
tween Atlanta and Athens over
which he had Travelled to the meet
ing, as an example of what road
constructio- by counties meant to
the state. A bad stretch Of roads |
through DeKalb county was linked |
u.> with a stretch of good roads in
Gwinnett and Walton, which in turn |
were linked up in Oconee with an
other stretch of bad roads, which |
Joined Clarke county's splendid |
highways at the county line. The |
speaker said the benefits that |
should be derived from tie good |
roads were lost in the stretches of |
bad roads, and said nothing but a |
state bodybuilding program could |
remedy such situation. He point |
{ I out that federal aid had not been !
equally distributed over the state, |
as was intended by the government I
in it's appropri; ton, but that 800 |
of the federal fund had been spent |
in Georgia on less than one-third of |
tn counties.
Mr.. Farmer explained that the
good roads movement was not a
r0litic- movement, but an organiza-
ton Of public-pirited citizens from
all sections of the state, who had
no ends to serve other than to pro-
mote the construction Of public high |
ways in the state. He said the as
ISOLATION was backing the bond
movement as the best means Of COM
pleting the highway system, but |
that if anybody knew a better plan
than this the good roads associatin
was willing to accept it,