The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-17
|IrM0RIAL HIGHWAY
n HONOR JEFF DAVIS
.,rv HIGHWAY THROUGH
N[ TsON WILL TRAVERSE
D alw SOUTHERN STATES.

HIGHWAY to traverse the SIX
A ne% Syrre the backbone OF the
ates , .b and to memorialize the most
d .oa .;r faure in the history OF the
,nan''' rrfferson Davis, president. OF
:ctl3G2 Elaborate states, is the object
le Conc (ood roads organization that
IA new : 7or1ned in south Georgia, as
= a',.; 2sl stated in The News -,;o
f T,1s Jeff Davis Highway Assocla-
Ia5 The name Of the new organ,
po Is M, ~, the Jeff Davis highway"
arGn All .;,ie of the new good roads
IN, which it proposes to have COM
butte E ,ra,r Vicksburg, Miss, through
letel : :nn; Alabama, Georgia, South
ss -. North Carolina and Virgi-
aroG.Gb, terminals at Richmond, Va,
IA gg,',..",onah. Ga. William r. Bowen,
. E,3az,gerald, is president.
Should Honor Davis.
,,.,. If the outstand features in
Aan Mann history have been memo
Ie''i"% :, rrans-continental or trans
RIS l,, h;ghwavs," Isador Gelders,
|S lu."1 81 tfe Fitzgerald Leader and
fp@ .,rr of the association, said in
CI L;a;3o The project. Probably no
Pa, ANN has meant more to any great
:a .'I If country than has Jefferson
y.g , ia the south, and certainly no
I an has meant more TO the SCUM S
S aT3. wounds inflicted during the
i,' wears in which Jefferson Davis
Ra .ssbi.bed his claim to fame have
l. a' .raiciently healed to permit peo-
\ all sections to look back on his
4 VI and career without bitterness, "
4. Iccrders continued. "and it is only
,r that the great section which
ns .d and almost idolized him in
,torld sponsor a permanent and
nj memorial to him in death.
Highway Is Needed.
.r,. Ter Davis highway, as the
,.,5r;ation has planned it, is a
,4,sr necessity in the hurried and
o,,-l.d times in which we are llV-
10 one recognized path has been
s.t4 ort over which tourists can
.rsr the heart of the south. This
r,r3v as our consulting engineers
r m291ed it, is the most direct
most easily negotiable route
mrgb the south, avoiding as it does
Mountains of the northern por-
n, Of the southeastern states and
errg largely to territory where
Al, can be built straight and level
q comparatively small cost.
#~pch historical and sentimental in
rs% attaches to the points through
Ir5 the highway passes, from the
I'M Of view OF both northern and
,h.m tourists. Its three terminals
Vcksburg. the scene of one OF
mos. heroic seiges and defenses
& The war between the states. Savan-
!. the goal OF Sherman's last cam
ben. and Richmond, the seat OF the
kG.sdarate government during most
d its existence.
Intersectional City.
#rhc highway passes through Mont
bmery the first capital OF the jeff
kus government, where, in fact, he
inaugwated as president and the
sce near Irwinville, Ga, where he
finally captured.
Ehe highway included in the JEFF
bUS route is already practically
npIee. save for short stretch be
Ken Fitzgerald and McRae, Ga,
Hich will include bridge over the
FmuIgee river. State and federal aid
to be asked in completing this
Itch when recognition is gained Tor
route as a trunk highway in the
e and federal highway systems.
Mr. Bowen, president, and Mr.. Gel
secretary, of the new association
been prominent in good roads
Fements III Georgia for the last III
years. They sponsored the cen
route Dixie highway route iron
bon to Jacksonville, the last link Of
Rch has recently been completed.