Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-15
GOVERNOR DAVIS FMORs
s25,000,000 ROAD FUND
Given Ovation by Good Roads Assn
s..fl citation When lie Voices
Suggestion.
HIGHWAYS BODY IN SESSION
HIGHWAYS BODY IN SESSION
Delegates From All Parts of Virginia
Here to Participate i'm Gathering
(which Promises To BE Epochal iii
~ Annals of Road Building.

HcTc I'D tartlClpttc I'LL NatHcrnS
Which Promises to BE EpoChal i'll
of Road Building.
Three hundred or 400 delegates from
every section of Virginia were in at
dissertation here. in Murphy's Hotel
Wade II. Massie president OF the as
s;ociailon Was chairman 2, the morn ORR :
inS sathsrinS ana me ADDRESS q n MIL
and responded to by G. l.. Scott.
Motor, parGsi.posi routes routes, werG DIS,
Assistant Postmaster General and Gov
ernorr Davis addressed the convention
on the subjcct OF Future Highway
The Governor received an ovation
when he proposed to raise S2J,000.000
miles of good roads in the state high
way. system by lcvyinr special tax
OF mill and increasing the auto
mobile license rates 30 per cent. He
declared that he wanted TO be known
as the Good Roads Governor" and
believed that since, The war was over
building OF Il great system of high
ways Of "a lasting character.
CANDIDATES SHOULD DECLARE
TIIEMSEI.NES EON HIGHWAYS
Governor Davis declared that at the
rate We are going 1t would take siAty
nv. years, AMI cost In "risinal con.
STATE highway program adopted by
tho General Assembly vf l9lS.
lie suggested that candidates for the
next Legislature should declare them
Selves Oh the various problems of good
roads u was time that Virginia was
rid Of hcr swaddlinE clothes so far
rs the State CONSTITUTION prohibits
bonds for building purposes.
COULD MAKE Sa1.U0u.VOn
tNtij.tHLE ~ FEM YEARS
Fortified with carefully prepared sta
igf nj tnl In, t.,N y, vi Sh n
how under his plan a total of $4,000.
GOO could be made available tor good
d 5nnr n S4S WbsG
apl,roXimatcly Sla,OU0,00V would bc
for maintenance alone: lie argued that
come from the mill tax and automobile
licenses; about Si,5O0.OoO from the Fed
eral government, even under the pres
ents "diSttnctly unSutisfylnS system of
Federal AID; and about s1.l25,000 in
convict labor. In 1928. he stated, un-
with no outstanding debt. and tho work
could be continued indefinitely on the
same basis IL the people desired it;
while under the bond issue plan APP
proXimatcly Sl0.0e0. 900 would not go
into roads at ALL but would be paid
out in interest 10 the, money lenders.
&C. saunders presided in the after
noon. - state Highway Commiss ion
err G. p Coleman addressed the con-
yen,ion on Ways and Means for the
CONSTRUCTION of the State Highway
system" He declared that the draft
ing OF uniform traffic regulations was
one of the most important problems
u would call your attention to the
/. fent that il Is the speed. above fifteen
wheh doe en- the ween
light surfaced roads" said the COM
missioner. who also, expressed the
opinion that fast-moving motor trucks
would soon destroy not only the light,
but the heavy surfaced roads.
ADVOCATES SPECIAL ROAD
49, TAN OF FIFTEEN CENTS
Commissioner Coleman declared THAI
In order for the State to meet the
necessities required by the Federal APP
preparation acts and to provide funds
roads which arc RAPIDLY going IL
pieces, We must have special State
Sg6ad tax Of nor less than IL mills,
or 10 cents on the 500. the tax TO
apply 70 all properties subject TO State
tnX;; This based on the thrce-tcnths
mill tax. would yield Sl,S75,0OO. which
amount. together With present Federal
aid and convict labor, would amount
70 approximately 100000, but there
is every indication that Federal aid
near future With this increase Wa
would have approximately $4,000. 0OI
annually for highway construction.
r. B. Airport, OF the Richmond Auto.
mobile Club, explained the attitude Of
the automobile owners towards high.
va! impEovcmenl in Virginia He de,
ciafea tAat me SHVoo automobile own.
-
reasonable. and even an unreasonable
tax II they could ge, some results 70,
their money. He said that the auto
mobile owners had so far received very
little return or VIVA; they had expended
Tor good roads and likencd the situatio,
e 10 the hypothetical case OF the r., +
Y being useless II ten miles OF 1t.
tragic was lacking somewhere bctwec,
Washington and Richmond
SUGGESTS APPROPRIATIONS ny
VIRGINIA GENERAL. ASSEMBLE
8. SECRETARY Treasurer c. h SCOTT re
ported $500 received from dues aut
/; other sources. There Is now "A balanc,
of sl9la in The treasury He sur
gested tina; the constitution be amend
ed IN several particulars, that the as
: bociaiion be Incorporated and that IN,
General Assembly be asked TO make a,
+ sa;,propriat.on 10 assist /; in It's work
,Fhe following committees were an
pointed:
Nomination committce-R stuar
Roger, s - Boyd, John T.. Wake,
Edward Aeeks j :. Collision. " q
Wood, s Il. CULLEN W T. Moore G :
Luck, L. H. DRESSER Il l. Cowherd
iSr.
Resolutions committee l. Evlaud
: o. l.. Evans. Henry Roberts w
-RollinGe. l.. ~. Woods Dr. : & Guar
RAM; General c. G. Vaughn. G. = cole
man. n. Slaughter. George T. Adams
Wade n. Massie.
8 asIAotion pictures OF road work wer
shown at the ngh session.
j EDWIN C.. RYALS Is DEAD
Naa. n 49,