Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-10
BIC ROAD BOND
ISSUE BOOST
Motorists and Farmers Sup
port Plan, is Claim at
Trenton Meeting

TRENTON. May 10:-Opponents
OF the $40. 900. 600 bond issue plan
OF financing the construction of the
state highway road>program are GO
Ing TO have an uphill fight if they
arc TO defeat approval of the road
bord issue which is to come before
Che voters for decision next fall.
The first gun in the campaign for
approval of the plan was fired last
NIGHT when the New Jersey Auto
motive Trade Association met for
its third annual convention here.
The autoists are behind the PROPOSE
ton to a man. and they are going to
bend every effort to get the bill
across. and save 1t from the defeat
which was the fate OF the proposed
1000. 900 state institutions bond
issue last fall.
But that the automobile interest
will not be alone in their campaign
became apparent last night when
Senator David Fl. Agans. Republican,
of Hunterdon, who is master of the
State Grange, told the autoists that
the farmers of the state are going
10 fight for the bond issue with all
their power. The senator declared
that a statewide conference of
grange representatives will be called
in the immediate future. when plans
for the campaign will be discussed.
Every Grange in the state Is going
to be used in this campaign" he
said.
Senator Agans told the writer that
the farmers did not take anybody's
figures in coming to their decision to
get behind the bond bill. I'VE m
ployed our own engineer, at our ex-
pense." he said, ito study the whole
------~u NJ aoff-Ga1 nth that
we turned his figures rel to expert
accountants in New York, and finally
we came to the conclusion that the
bond issue plan is the proper and
business-like way of building the
system. "The farmers must have
good roads, he said. I'VE sat around
the table with the autoists. and are
with them on the bond bill. It is
a case of the lamb lying down with
the lion."
What the automobile men expect
to do in their effort to get the voters
10 pledge the state to an expendi-
indicated by remarks of Harvey S.
Moore, of Trenton, secretary-treas-
urer and general counsel of the or
SANITATION. Every garage is going
70 be a center for the work of get
ting the voters to approve the is
sue" he said. The autoists. he de-
rlared. are going to use newspaper
advertising. as well as posters in
garages and wherever they can be
displayed in the campaign. He said
The opening of the campaign, which
will start at once
Assemblyman Arthur Pierson, of
Republican, Grand Ola
Man" of the assembly and intro
Queer of the bill which submits n
bond issue plan TO the voters, put
the plan in brief. and spoke in
Its favor. Referring to the often
criticism that the amount
for state roads has increased great
ly since the idea of a comprehensive
state road program was first adopt
ed. declared that since that time
G917) 'when the original system
x~f-TznTea and the mill tax i'm
posed, the war has come and gone,
10 per cent has been added to the
mileage, so per cent TO the unit cost,
and at least so per cent TO the char
acter and permanency of construc-
ton. Add to this" he asserted, "all
over navigable streams IN
the Act of 1920. and we have
a problem that is from three
20 four times greater than in 1917,
the financing has not grown"
The Union man pointed out the
fact that under the reimbursement