Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-18
PROPS NAMED
FORPRESIDENT
BY AUTO MEN
Muncie Man Will Head In
diana AutOmOtive Trade As
ISOLATION for Year.

Officers were elected, resolutions
adopted and a report submitted by the
highway committee adopted at the clos
ing session yesterday of the annual msct-
ing Of the Indiana AutOmOtive Trade As
ISOLATION at the Athenaeum.
The new officers and directors are as
follows: President, J. COoDer Props II
Eduncie; vice president, ". L. johnson,
Vincennes; treasurer, R. V. Law, Indian
apolis; secretary-manager L. NJ. Shaw,
Indianapolis; directors: Carl COons, Co
Iumbus; J. F. Frohbieter, Evansville; a.
I. Shrader, New Albany; Harry Cole,
Terre Haute, and Glen McCanaha, Rich
mond.
RESOLUTIONS
ADOPTED.
One Of the resolutions adopted favored
q Federal ruling that would permit auto
mobile dealers to deduct depreciation from
the amounts on which they are assessed
for income tax on used cars as they &C.
cur. Other resolutions were adopted
urging State and county officials TO do
as much road building, grading and re-
pairing as possible during the winter
to relieve the unemployment situation;
commencing Governor McCray's stand on
Federal farm relief; favOring the eQuali-
,
the efforts OF the railroad labor board TO
reduce freight rates; indorsing relief
from burGensOme taxation and favoring
a safety campaign regarding the opera
ton Of automobiles on streets and roads.
ADOPTS REPORT
ON {. S. AID.
The report by the highway program
cmmftsee relative to Federal aid in road
~buflding, which was adopted, was in part
as follows.
Five years ago the Federal aid high
way bill apportioned more than 100000
to Indiana. At this time about 100000
Of that fund is stin unused. The State
highway commission makes assurances
that road projects are now contemplated
to cover that entire amount, but we wish
to remind this convention that unless
work Of those projects is actually under
way by June, 1922, those funds viii re-
vert TO the government and viii be lost
for use in Indiana The new Townsend
Phipps -Doweu highway bill, which was
substituted as a compromise for the
Townsend bill was passed by Congress
and was signed by the President within
the last two weeks. This bill provides
Federal aid funds OF about s1,S00000 i'm
mediately available to Indiana and an
other 100000 available about Jan. L The
total road funds available for 1922 viii
be more than S6,OO0OOO. Maintenance
Of soft surface roads Of the State high
way system today is costing about S4,-
10000 annually. There are about $500
miles IN the State highway system. The
per mile maintenance cost is therefore
about 81, 800 per year. The original cost
Of a gravel road is about $4,000. In ten
years the construction and maintenance
cost per mile of soft surface road
amounts to $4,000. The State highway
commission says that 1t costs $4,000 to
$4,000 a mile to build permanent high
ways. Using Federal aid, the State and
Nation sharing the cost equally, a per-
mament road would not cost more than
$1,000 q mile to Indiana. The money
proposed to be given to Indiana as
Federal aid came out OF Indiana in Fed
eraI taxes. If we do not use II some
other State vii eventually use it"