Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-05
10 MILLIONS FOR
GOOD ROADS PLAN
Of LEG|sLAT URE.
Bill Providing for Huge Sum
for Construction of High
ways Is to Be Introduced in
Assembly His Week,
tsescIA1 eosassronpsnes 70 MORNING JoueNAL

. 1t is recognized that New Mexico
WI remain at a standstin unless its
highways compare favorabiy with
those of adjoining states. With Arl-
IONA contemplating S50,000,000
bond issue for roads and California
having already expended 100000. geo
on its roads, New Mexico must quit
road building in small fragments as
in the past and do it on scale COM
men3urate with demands of motor
travel. The state has been abso-
lutely isolated from the rest of the
United States this winter as far as
n otoT travel is concerned. bond
| issue of $4,000, 900, it is argued. will
mean that Uncle Sam will match the
/ expenditure with another S20, 900. 0Nh
and as road building goo; mostly
/ into wages it will mean that 1000
men will have employment for two
! years, thus solving the problem of
J employment for the men returning
/ from war. 1t will also relieve the
/ tax budget for the time being MAX
ing unnece ssary the general Yevv
! and specific leVies for roa1 building,
! True, the interest and sinking fund
/ will require income later but it is
! felt that a tax on gasoline ana 2n-
= lOIlDDlle | teIlStS VIII meet IHul re-
| Quirement lille at the same time
good roads will spell prosperity for
! the state. Spending money in drih-
! let's is worse than wasted, it is
/ argued. when it comes to providing
an adequate road system for so large
a state.
Tax on Gasoline.
! 1t is figured that tax OF cents
! on gallon of gasoline would mean
/ n daily income for the state of 81, 200
and would incidentally also solve the
! problem of immediate employment
| for men returning from the front and
who find these are to be given the
preference for inspectors, to be paid
| on a percentage basis.
| The matters of an inheritance and
also an income tax are being serious
! " considered by legislators. 1t is
! found, that while the men with
shriveled vision and narrow souls en-
Joy the shortlived fame of posing as
being "economical' although they
never fail to draw their mileage and
/ per diem to the last penny, what New
| Mexico needs is a few Alexander
| Hamiltons who will smite the rock
of her resources and have abundant
revenue gush forth. New Mexico
cannot well afford to lag behind
other states in public improvements,
in education, institutions and high
ways. 1t is noticed by statesmen
that the crowds rushing through to
| California or settling in New York
do not ask: what are your school
expenditures 2" but What kind of
! schools have they there. what kind
of roads, what kind of life?" No
t,xF h. 81.
or among the cannibals on the upper
Congo, but there is no rush of poo
pie or capital to either place. The
wise men among the legislatures in
! sist that public monies he spent
! wisely and that economy that does
not impair efficiency must be insisted
pom but that parsimoniousness 1oes
not bring prosperity to the people or
| blild up a state.
The question of who is to he the
! state engineer is again much dis
cussed. Capt Herbert w. Yeo of
Las Cruces is beng mentioned more
frequently. 1t is also stated quite
openly that Theodore Rouault will
not be reappointed game warden and
that Thomas p. Gable will be the
nominee.
Roosevelt Memorial.
For the Roosevelt memorial scrv-
ice at the new museum next Sunday
preparations have been completed. In
| absence of Maj. w. II. II. Llewellyn
! chairman of the Memorial committee
who goes to Albuquerque to deliver a
Roosevelt Grafton, State Senator John
S. Clark will call the meeting togeth-
er. Governor o. A. Larrazolo will call
4 preside and Archbishop j. b. Pitaval
will pronounce the invocation. Hon
Frank Springer will deliver the ora
i ton. The music will be by the Vic
tory chorus. Seats will be reserved
I on the platform and in the transepts
for the members of the legislature, the
! legislative staff and the state Off
Gals, some 200 in all. The remaining
| 700 seats will be reserved for ticket
holders, tickets to be issued to all who
apply in the order OF application
Small children are to be barred so as
not to detract from the solemnity and
dignity of the occasion.
There is a movement on foot to turn
the New Mexico Military institute over
to the United states as an artillery
school. This would mean increased
prosperity for Roswell for the stu
dents would be OF least double the
present number, the building opera
lions would be greatly increased anc
Roswell would become a second Wes
Point At the same time it would re.
lieve the state treasury of considera-
BILE expenditure. Along these same
| lines there is earnest discussion o.
placing all the collegiate state insti-
buttons under one board of universit!
regents, This would not mean the
removal or abandonment of any insti-
tution. on the contrary, the school O
mines would probably receive many
times the present number of pupils
the State college would receive ever.
pupil it has now and then some: botf
plants would be improved and in
creased Systematically and New Mex
leo would be in position to offer IT.
boys and girls university faculties thai
being sent to California. Massachu
sets or elsewhere for their university
education. 1t would mean unity O.
management and double value for al
moneys not expended. The three in
situations would have an income o.
more than half a million dollars, in
GLIDING the interest on their Lane
moneys, the federal aid and the state
appropriations. Their three plants arr
worth over 100000. Duplication
would be avoided and yet, Las Cruces
Socorro and Albuquerque would eacl
get more than they had before.
The next step would be to place al
penal and reformatory institutions un