The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-07-19
FEDERAL MD FOR
ROAD BUILDING
APPROPRIATIONS OF $50, 900, 600
AUTHORIZED FOR THE
NEXT THREE YEARS.
HOW MONEY Is APPORTlONED
Each State Must Match the Sum
Given by the Government and Must
Properly Maintain the Highways
Thus Built.
BY JAMES p.

BY JAMES p. HoRNADAY
Washington.-Federal aid for road
construction will be continued as a
result of the authorization of addi-
tional appropriations for this work
amounting to $190,000,000, carried by
the postoffice appropriation bill signed
by the President June 10. Fifty mil
lion dollars is authorized for the fiscal
year beginning July l, this year, and
$65, 100000 and $40, 100000, respective
ly, are authorized for each of the two
succeeding fiscal years. In addition,
$6,500,000 is authorized for forest
roads for each of the two fiscal years
1924. The funds will be administered
by the secretary of agriculture
through the bureau of public roads.
The apportionment to be made to
the various states is approximately as
follows: Alabama, $1,o35,614; Arizona.
702,1SS; Arkansas, $S36.O95; Cali
fornia, $1,641, 800; Colorado, SS94,117;
Connecticut, $780, 500; Delaware, $243,-
$50; Florida. 1891 ,217; Georgia, ST.
331,S72; Idaho, $625,691; Illinois, ST.
1874, 1S7; Indiana, 81, 0 ,904; Iowa,
$1,401 ,915; Kansas, S1,4O1 ,521 Ken
lucky, sod, 1856; Louisiana, $664,660;
Maine, $463,440; Maryland, $427 ,086;
Massachusetts, $3.50, 7s4 Michigan, ST.
499,6SS; Minnesota, $1,415, 731 Missis-
sippi, $SG3,271; Missouri, $1,632,0S6;
Montana, $1,O31,257; Nebraska, ST.
054,126; Nevada, $685., 624 New Hamp-
shire, $243, $50; New Jersey, $62S,581 /;
New Mexico, $793,216; New York, ST.
464,299; North Carolina, $1,139,566;
North Dakota, $776.476; Ohio, $1,SS2,-
OO3; Oklahoma, $1,16S,226; Oregon,
$7SS,443; Pennsylvania, $2,265,969;
Rhode Island, $243, $50; South Caro-
lima, S707, 492; South Dakota, $780,
TOT; Tennessee, $1,09S, 461 Texas, ST.
950,115; Utah, $566,279; Vermont,
$243, $50; Virginia, $971,219; Washing
ton, $735,S06; West Virginia, $534,906;
Wisconsin, $1,263,211; and Wyoming,
$623,07S, making a total of $4S, 750,-
600.
States Must Match the Funds.
These funds must be matched by
the states and will be administered
subject to the general provisions al
ready in force.
The new legislation reduces the
maximum participation on the part of
the government from $4,000 to $16,-
$50 per mile for roads constructed with
the appropriation for the next fiscal
year and $4,000 per mile thereafter.
Bridges over 200 feet in span may be
considered as separate projects to
which this limitation does not apply.
In states where more than 5 per cent
of the area is unappropriated public
lend provision is made for an increase
In the amount per mile. The act also
provides for the extension of federal
aid to the construction of structures
required for the elimination Of rail-
road grade crossings.
Important provisions Of previous acts
under which large funds have been uc-
cessfully administered are applicable
to the new funds. States must main
tain adequate highway departments.
Funds to match federal aid must be
placed under the direct control of the
state highway department. The type
of surface constructed must be ade.
quate for the traffic anticipated, with
reasonable grades, curves and other
features. States must obligate .hem-
selves to maintain all federal.aid
roads constructed, and in case this is
not done any federal funds available
for new projects may be withheld
until the roads are put into satisfac-
tory condition.
State Systems co-ordinated.
Plans for the proposed system have
been received by the bureau of public
reads from all but eight states, and
the state systems are being co
ordinated so that when joined together
they will serve the best interests of
the whole country. In the meantime
only projects certain to be in the pro-
posed system are being approved.
The new appropriation CONES at a
time when several states are nearing
the limit Of funds available. The
authorization of funds for three years
in advance will be of great benefit to
eli SldltS III Lndl IL Will DeItIlt I0cIU
to lay their plans for some time ahead.
Uncertainty as to future federal aid
is removed and provision can be made
at once for raising state funds to
match II.
Wrong Time to Raise Prices.
Men influential in the admins
tration are raising their voices against
the tendency to push up prices
again. "The present is a good time to
sound a warning against any general
effort to put up the prices of those
things the mass of consumers must
buy" says the comptroller of the cur
rency, d. r. Crissinger. "Such a move
ment, l feel, would just at this juno
ture be likely to prove untimely, and
TO bring unfortunate consequences. l
am familiar with the fact that in gen
eral the tendency is to buy on a rising
market and to sell on a filling market.
But that doesn't by any means assure
that business is bound to get good
when prices are getting higher, or get
worse when prices are getting lower.
$50 | want to warn against any ten