The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, October 15, 1930, Image 10

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A CITIZEN WHEREVER WE SERVE POWER COMEANY town is really a good deal more trouble than it’s worth. Try the big-town plan. Even if you live some distance away from a street car line, you can drive your auto to a convenient place in the residential section, park it there and let a street car carry you the rest of the way on your shopping trip —witnout any bother at all about traffic or parking when you get downtown. Ride the street cars for a few days when you shop or go to the theater. The conven ience of it will convert you to regular street car riding. Try a “sample” ride! A Big-town HABIT Atlanta is America’s 22nd city. Whether the Census Bureau agrees to it or not, the population is here. We are too big a city for small-town habits to persist. Bringing the auto downtown unnecessarily is one of those habits. In small towns it is all right. There is lots of room at the curb or in the center of the street for parking. There is lots of room on the streets for the automobiles that come in town. But in Fulton County alone there are nearly 60,000 autos, and only room for 2,665 of them to park at the curb in the business district. So you see why your car so delightful in less congested sections — becomes such a problem downtown. And why driving it to