The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-06-27
SOlOns Gathering for Fifty Day
Drive and Everything is
Ready for Action.
REPRESENTATIVE MANN
DISCUSSES HIGHWAY BILL
One of Most important Meas
ures to be Considered During
Session Will be State Bond
Issue for Good Roads.-Sen-
ator Akin's Last Term.

The Georgia legislature convenes
for its fifty-day annual drive tomorrow
and the representative from Glynr
and the senator from this district
have gotten everything in shipshapt
for the great opening.
Representative Mann left for AT
lanta early Saturday, by automobile
and is safely domiciled at his head
quarters before this time. Senator
81 Akin left last night over the
Sc .thern andris scheduld to reach the
capital early this morning. Both leg
islators left earlier than usual to at
tend meetings of committees of which
they are members.
1t is generally conceded that the
session which begins its grind tomor
row will be one of the most important
that has been held in some years, q
number of bills of vital Importance in
which the entire state is concerned
and a large batch of local bills, are
to come up for consideration, and it is
hoped, for final passage. The mos:
important bill, as far as the people
of the staet, generally, are concerned
is the state highway bond issue meas
duced considerably from the figures
$75, 100000, originally fixed by the
Georgia Good Roads Association
There is considerable diversity OF
opinion as to the amount to be nam
ed, if the bill is passed at all.
The general opinion is prevalent
that the bill to abolish the justice
courts in Brunswick will not be taken
up for consideration at this session
if the measure is ever reached at all
Represe entative mann, one of the
most enthusiastic advocates of good
roads in the state, and who is chair.
man of the highway committee of the
house, and president of the Macon
Brunswick Association, in discussing
the state system of roads, recently
said:
''As the time for the Legislature to
meet approaches, the interest in the
ever-important subject of permanent
system of state highways increases
1t is best to pass a state bond issue
and how large shall it be? Will the
10 tag license and the tax on gaso
E-he authorize sufficiently large
bond issue to complete a state sys
TEN? Would the people of the state
when the depression has passed stand
for one mill additional tax for = n
pleting a state road system?
For the farmers to meet the new
industrial condition that now con
fronts them will require very careful
planning. Better and wider market
ing conditions must be had as well as
a more economic and speedy access
to such markets. Everything that en-.
ters into his business, social and reli-
gious life is to great extent depen-
dent ON good public highways.
''The first thing l would suggest is
that the state system be divided into
two classes. The first might be call
ed the primary or county seat to coun.
ty seat system and includes only one
road through each county. The sec
ond would be the secondary or con.
Meeting roads. BY strict adherence
of only one road through each county
the mileage of the primary system
would be near $500 miles and should
certainly be completed before any of
the connecting roads are constructed
More than half of the. county seat
to county seat system could be con
structed of well-graded sandclay
roads. costing around $4,000 per mile
The other part of this system where
the traffic is much heavier should be
af the maCadam or concrete type
which can be constructed at about
$4,000 per mile. Following this plan
after making due allowance for the
roads already built by federal aid and
what the state will get each year from
this source, the primary system could
be constructed for, something near
$40 O,O0O,O
eEJhe auto license fund together
! nth the gasolene tax would possibly
finance this size of bond issue safe
ly. 1t would take the state five or six
years to properly and economically