The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 16

PAGE SIXTEEN A THE CUWatllUnOW, 3WPM, nmwcri Do Wait? NOW et Why MS Ts." 1 --3 cj'jl-w OW that the world's greatest memorial at Stone Mountain is assured, there is one important detail which should not be over 1 II looked, and that is, the construction of a boulevard that will provide a two-way route and shorten the distance as much as possible from Atlanta to Stone Mountain, making the great monument easy of access for the thousands of tourists, who will flock here from every corner of the globe to see it. To do this would be of untold value to Atlanta, to DeKalb County and to the entire State of Georgia. TWO ROUTES TO GREAT MEMORIAL URGED Highway To Link Ai'anta nd Stone Mountain By Direct Line Proposed. IN3P1FED bv Warrfn G. Hardinc iu't before his death, in harness ac- President of the United States, a hichway rruicct of tremendous significance to Atlanta and Northeast Georgia, from both spiritual and material viewpoints, has been launched upon a wave of enthusiasm and resolution that means inevitable success.

It is the creation of a new improved highway from Inleside to Stone which is rlanned to run in a direct line to the base of the memorial and to provide, with the existine Stone Mountain Foad, two excellent means of approach to the memorial. The rroject is the S'one Mountain Foute Hichway, fostered by, an association created more than a year and composed, of men and women throughout Gecrcia who are indomitable supporters of the creat memorial and practical apostles of the important modern doctrine of adequate and improved roads. This project, which has been rressed f'r more than a ear, with a climax of activities at a meeting Thursday evening within sight of the placid faces of Lai and Jackson and-Davis as graved in the enduring granite of the mountain, is for creation of a 60-foot concrete highway over the general line of what is now the Indian Creek Church Foad, a post ruad that runs in a direct line from the newly developed suburb of Ingleside to Stone Mountain. Felief of congestion on the Stone Mountain Foad is becoming daily more ncces-sarv, as every automobile driver knows. Development of the new hichwa--, its supporters believe, will bring this about.

There will be then two great pathways to the memorial a monument thit has attracted the world's attention, and that is certain to bring the world to its base. The proposed highway will bring the monument three 'miles nearer Atlanta. It will open a beautiful virgin section, hitherto unknown to ceneral motor traffic, and will add charm to the Stone Mountain journey that will accentuate the grandeur and loveliness of the memorial's setting. With the new highway, the traveler to Stone Mountain will have the alternative of two routes, by one of which he may ro and hy the other return. The dangerous and tiresome consestion that is apparent every Sunday arid holiday, when thousands are lured to the spectacle of the greatest monument that ni.m lias ever known, will be relieved.

The extent of this congestion, which makes the road to the mountain row sn uncomfortably crowded and hazardous thoroughfare, is to be indicated hr the fact that Sunday before last more than automobiles -were counted on the road. There is jet another utilitarian argument preen'ed by pporrers of the tfiv it is to briti Fast Georgia three milrs rearer Atlanta and Decatur. The straight cut. fro in Mountain to orer the Indian Creek Church I'oute is fi as the ij to 0 miles of circuitous route over the Stne Mountain Road, which now presents the only course. This arrangement, by winch the route to AHanta may he shortened, lias been urged by East Georgia citizens fr years.

Residents of Athens, Monroe, Ixzanville, SneUvilie and other points, who hare found that qjick motor travel to Atlanta is necessary, have joined he.i'ti'ry in the p'arn of the Store Mountain Route Highway Association and ar creation of the new highway. E. M. Williams, of Monroe, is president of the association. Leader in its.

activities are citizen of Wal'oti, Clarke. Oconee. Gwinnett, IVKab and Fulton Counties. Sixty -seven counties were represcrted at the meeting Thursday afternoon, when the jiroieit was siren its greatest impetus. Of vxttetue significance was the assertion that no word of opposition his been beard from apv source to the new hishway project.

It was the late President Harding, who, pfter a visit to AtVanra that included a trip to the monument, related to Atlanta friend his vision of the rreafness of the memorial project how be foresaw a day of incessant travel to and from Stone Mountain, the necessity of a loop by which travel could nt.tne mre convenient and rapid. I was said at the meetipg Thursday t'r-st I'rejident in h.is oT hn.ia-'n the project embraced in rise and its fee convenient travel, h.i. federal appropriation for the h'ch-vay consTUction as now propped. Those friend who knew of h's r.r'mi in this re-sard hriv-e expressed their cor.f jten'e thit icit fo- rhe r.i3trers of stare tha m'ide tieces-r. rv trip to Alaska and the West the that his powers and hrousht his lintime'y death President Hardin; wocid hare become an active sponsor of the for a double pathway to iie memorial.

The proposed highway, which would be built by cooperation of the Federal Government, the State Highway Department and DeKalb County, will cut nearly three miles from the route now traversed over the Stone Mountain Road, and would provide a boulevard that would materially lessen the time for motorists to make the trip. 't he advantages of such a highway may be briefly summed up as follows: 1. Provide two improved driveways to the memorial. '2. Bring the memorial, by means of the short cut, three miles nearer Atlanta.

3. Relieve the serious traffic congestion that now occurs on the Stone Mountain Road on holidays. 4. Open up a beautiful section to motor travel. 5.

Create a highway that presents a clear view of the mountain as an inspiring goal of travel through most of its stretch. 6. Make available a variety of travel, enabling motorists to reach the" mountain by one route and return westward by the other. 7. Above all things, increase the facilities for reaching the mountain, which are, each day of the memorial's development, becoming more essential.

Besides providing a near relation between Atlanta and the memorial, the proposed highway will bring East Georgia three miles nearer Atlanta, and thus render travel between Atlanta on the west, and Monroe, Athens and other cities on the east, faster and more convenient. 8 1 1 Let every public-spirited citizen co-operate in pushing this constructive program through; let us not overlook anything to make Atlanta the mecca of tourists from everywhere, when this great memorial is completed. This Advertisement Published By Alrcr-dv hi mu Stone Mountain Route Highway Association And Approved By Stone Mountain Memorial Association undertaken, a ic; s'ep on the proposed new link. a force of workmen. of L.

T. V. Nash. County ill the tusk of fho tretil of from th City of S'one to the hise of th- memorial, a s'revh that has f.illen into b.ad condition with the heavv traffic. Ar a imn-ovetnent of th; stretch na so has the crow ins fame the creates memorial mae im-cerntire the creation of the rew hishwav.

the men and women who have dedt-rs'ed effor's and their n'b'isiarn t2sk of building if. I .1 A i.