The Nevada County picayune., 1919-12-25

uenllal nomination through the method
 of direct voting. The first of these pres idential primaries will be held March in New Hampshire. From that date
 on they will come in rapid succession
 until the voters of the twenty-one
 states have expressed their preference.
 In many of these twenty-one states the women have the right to
 vote through state enactment. In those states where they do not have this right they are exceedingly anxious to
 obtain it in time to participate in the primaries. The argument they are mak-
 ing goes to the point that if they are
 to have the vote next November, when
 the presidential election will be held, they should have voice in the choos-
 ing of candidates.
 Want a Double Celebration. The drive on, with the series of
 western conferences behind it, has in
 view the definite object of obtaining ratification of the amendment by the necessary three-foHrths of the states by l February 15, next year. On that date the centenary of Susan E. Anthony. the mother of the suffrage movement, will be celebrated. The suffrage lead
 CTS say that nothing could be more fitting than to combine with the ccle- l brati0n in memory of Susan E. An
 thony celebration expressing grati-
 tude for the ratification of the con
 stitutionai amendment. The speakers i that are going into the territory that
 needs attention are dwelling on the ap- propriateness of finishing the censtitu.
 tfonal amendment on or before the date of the Anthony centenary.
 Twenty states, or two more than | half of the required number to ratify the amendment. have already given it their support The intensive campaign dat has just been started is 10 be felt in the far West, in the cen tral West and in the south Sulfragists feel absolutely confident that the fol- lowing states will ratify just as soon as their legislatures can get to work: l Connecticut. Delaware, Florida, New
 Mexico. North Carolina. Vermont West Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana,
 Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia, New
 Jersey and South Carolina. fourteen
 in all. This would bring the total af- i tirmatiYe votes for the amendment up
 to thirty-four, leaving only two addi- l tienai votes ta be obtained. The wom
 en say they have 1t least ten oppor- l tunities for these votes that will be
 lacking under their plan of computa- l ton.
 Great Road Building Projects.
 The United States has entered on
 an era of good roads building. Be ] tween July l, 1918, and November
 l, l9l3. the agricultural departmen approved l,31J road projects, in- voIving the Improvement of 12,159
 miles. at an estimated cost of approx
 lmately $iS11f3. CHI. of this sum, ap-
 proNimately SIS, ,592 167 represents fed eral funds Since the passage of the
 federal aid road act 1927 projects 1 have been approved. These cail for 1 the construction of 1S.j96 miles of
 road at an estimated cost of S225, ,26I,- ST. of which about $95, 49s 110 will be i borne by the federal government. Grat- 1 flying progress also has been made in connection with the national forest II ad work. From July 1, 191S to No vomber l, 1919, 70 projects involving i 023 miles of road, were approved, anl plans were completed for the improve
 ment of 60 others, asgregatiuS 946 miles.
 During the present and the next ifs cal year. there will be made available for road improvements III least $l,0o0- IIG0 coo. Certainly few laws, if any have produced grcater results. either in terms of expenditures for good pur- pose or in terms of helpful legislation and machinery, than the federal aid road act. + seems clear in the cir cunstances, that the principal limiting
 factors in the 1920 program will he those of rail transportation for and production of suitable rend materials, the contractors. organization available, and the labor supply. The suggestion has been made that the federal super ! vision Ut lttFilANtAN N HAiFAt'4 ttf ttNh'-Il from the department et agriculture and placed under a federal highway commission. A hin having this pur- nose in view has been introduced in the senate. l. provides fer federal Ebiehway commission of three each re- ceiyirs salary of Slooop a y-ur.
 The commission Is given the power to select or establish the highways to be comprised in the system after hay ing requested the state highway de nortmentS to recommend routes. and to determine the order in which all or narts of such highways shall be con structed. reconstructed, improved, re- noired and maintained. The federal government is to assume the mainte- nonc, of these roads. The commission Is fnrthermore empowered to take over tbe work of the department of agrt- culture relating to highway transporta-