The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-04-18
VOLUME TwENTY-EIGHr. NO. %
A MILLION DOLLARS
A YEAR LOST
O'Connor In His Speech Wednesday
Night VIII Show How to Stop
Drain on Marion County

The Marion County Chamber of
Commerce has received the following
from Mr.. Charles O'Connor, field Sec
retary of the American Automobile
Association, who will address the good
roads meeting at the courthouse to-
morrow night:
''In order that the people of Mar
ion county may understand clearly the
great Importance of their attending
your good roads meeting to be held
in your county courthouse Wednesday
evening, April 18th, at 8 p. m, we de-
sire to make the following statement
for publication.
"The American Automobile Asso-
citation is the oldest, largest and
strongest good roads organization in
the world, having over eight hundred
branches in the counties from Maine
to California.
'It has pioneered successfully prac-
tically every main trunk line highway
in the United States.
"At a conference held in Detroit
last November, the American Auto
mobile Association decided, after a
most careful survey of conditions COW
ering period of years, to throw the
entire strength, financially and moral
ly, of its organization in behind the
construction, maintenance and stand
ardization of the main trunk lines
from from Chicago to Fort Myers,
Fla, via Ocala and New York to Mi
ami, via Daytona and see to it that
these two main trunk lines are put in
good, passable, every day in the year
condition by October 1st of this year.
"Now please consider this point
carefully: the East Coast route receiv-
ed over 95 per cent of the motor
transportation business in past years.
This year it is the intention of the
American Automobile Association to
see to it that there is an equal divis-
ion between the East and West Coast
and also that the general volume of
business to Florida is increased by
over so per cent and this means that
where four people come to Marion
county you may depend upon four
hundred people spending their money
in your. county, commencing about Oc-
tober 18th, this year, If the Marion
county people will do their part in
preparing for these people.
"Our objective is to speed up the
construction of the road from st. Pc
tersburg, Tampa, Lakeland, north to
Leesburg, Ocala, Micanopy, Gaines
vile, Alachua, High Springs, Lake
City, White Springs, Jasper, Valdosta,
Ga, Triton, Macon, Atlanta, Rome,
Chattanooga, Tenn, Murfreesboro,
Franklin, KY, Bowling Green, Eliza
bethtown, Louisville, indianapolis,
Lafayette to Chicago and to put in
standardized free service in every
county so that by October LIST, we may
have for the first time in it's history
a practical highway from the north
to the south.
Thirteen of the leading counties of
Florida, since January 10th, have en-
Enthusiastically adopted our national
plan and as it is being carried out in
business like way that assures sue
cess it means more money for every
citizen of Marion county and the state
of Florida.
"The American. Automobile Associa-
tion has never failed in it's promises IN
over twenty years and now desires to
see two good through routes from the
north to the south by October 1st.
eve wish, also, to make it plain to
your people that the American Auto
mobile Association is IN no way direct
ly or indirectly connected with the
Florida State Automobile Association
or any other organization in Florida
excepting it's direct branches installed
; by the A. A. A. since January 10th
) this year. The counties that have
come to work on the A. A. A. plan OF
Standardization on the highways, are
as follows: Pinellas, Hillsborough
,