Arizona republican., 1919-04-20

TOWNSEND BILL n
 GET MUCH SUPPORT
 IN NEXT CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, April i2-Many na- tlonal organizations interested in one way or another in highways improve ment Wlli support ih the next congress what IS now known as the Townsend ohi. rms Is evident from the numer- ous inquiries received by the American Automopiie association from all parts or the country. These letters find their way to the A. A, A. main head quarters because of the CO., operation of lnls countrywide organization of car owners with the American association ot state highway officials in the pass age of the federal aid road act. as a result of which the federal govern ment is now spending s275. 900. 900 in the next two and one-half years with like amount contributed by the several states.
 Director of Roads J. E. Pennybaeker who recently designed as chief of ! management of the United States bu- reau Of public roads to devote his en- ergies 10 A. A. A. highways work, thus outlines the support that will ur- 1 doubtedly accumulate behind the bill which will call for q federal system of interstate highways;
 Nfhic IL IS 10 De expected that the SIX million motor car owners in an or ! sanized form should contend most wig l oreusly for maximum federal con- cern in roads progress. there are other national associations the members of 1 which have an equally great interest in i highways improvement. For instance, the national grange would approach the subject from the transportation vi Sippa if nrafifS fa i little to raise crops which cannot be ! economically delivered to market The 1 United States chamber of commerce,
 with its powerful local chambers and
 thousands of individual members all
 over the country, gives evidence of its
 interest in the subject by adding to it's
 committees one which will devote it's
 activities to highways betterment. The
 American associatio nof state highway
 officials composed of the respective
 state highway departments and the
 federal bureau of public roads is con
 cerned because these are the road
 building organizations upon which the
 various commonwealths depend for the
 construction and upkeen of state high
 ways and for eoordinating these state
 systems with a national policy 10 meei
 interstate needs.
 with the road user. the road build
 CT, the food producer. and big bushes:
 coming together in the interest of 2
 sound national policy toward highways
 it cannot be doubted that tangible re-
 suits clearly in the interest of the pub
 lie welfare would result.
 "There has recently been a get-to-
 gether movement of the national bodies
 identified with memorial and interstatf highways resulting in the formation O the associated highways Of America These coordinating agencies will m ] doubtedly sit in when the nationa
 bodies seek to smooth out their differ
 ences at common table, so to spea k
 10 the end that congress may know just where the thoughtful men O l America stand on this flIndamenta a l question of highway improvement. s'It is not ropaganda. primarily, bu } counsel which is needed at this stage It is the time for getting down to bras. tacks, with each organization speaking : as a whole for all the interests Of al ? it's constituents and in a spirit of co ordna ting their interests with those 0 5 the other bodies involved"