Evening star., 1923-03-04

Against "Pay-ns-You Co."
BY doing this we can have this
system complete within siN years,
whereas. the "pay-aS-you- plan
will take twenty or more years. And
this can be done with our present re-
sources with the one-cent gas tax,
which. according TO the state auditor,
will amount TO SS24,250; our present
one mill tax s1.775.oOO; federal aid,
S97l.21S; special appropriation by
state, $204.100; overhead appropria-
ton by state, S2S5.440, convict labor
at cost, $342.35O. Total resources for
1923, S4.4O2.SlS. which will Increase,
according to the state auditors fig
ures, at least SI5.0o0 per year for
the next five years. According TO
the best neutrality-suspicious. in the sta e.
this can be done without raising
taxes on properly. personal or real.
one cent, ana the interest pad and ,nc
bondS ietlred ou, ~ the apove re-
sources hv l94> and have to tue
rcdiI Of the road iGnd $2i.3Dn,I24 net
for new road construction. Now get
busy aud study ths most Important
question To the state.
Vital Problem for Farmers.
want now to nave few words
with the farmers. being one myself.
l feel that your cause is mine. We
put up about 80 per cent of the
above amount of resources. the cities
and corporations 10 per cent We
certainly get as much or more bene-
1T than they do. Now some of us
will say, This road doesn't come
near me what interest have II" We
cant all have one of these roads
come by our place. 50 take broad
minded view of the matter and say
al ri he
after we get our backbone" and re-
member that most Of us will be
within five miles of one of these
state roads. so if you are going any
distance you get the benefit of these
roads
Just to illustrate: Two years ago
last September | took a little trip
| went 1n5 miles over disjointed roads,
with toll gates 7 was seven hours
going that distance and burnt ten
gallons of gas; | paid in gate and
bridge toll s3.75. I then got on the
Lincoln Highway and ran 200 miles
in six hours. on seven gallons of gas.
had paid s. membership fee 10
he association. at which time | never
expected to see the road. to say
nothing of having the pleasure of
travelling over it. on that one trip
| saved more than my So.
state Aid System.
Now I will speak of the ribs. or
feeders. and my plan for getting them
built as quickly as possible. We will
now take the state aid system as
mapped out in each county to inter
sect with the same system in the
adjoining counties. We each have
our present share of the 100000 set
aside for that purpose. the county to
match it's share. | would then a
little later on ask the Legislature to
levy an extra one-cent gas tax to be
set aside for the specific purpose of
these roads. the counties Cor districts
that il is used inf to match this dol
lar for dollar. and as fast as this
state aid system is completed, under
the supervision of the highway de
partment. either from these resources
or county or district bond issues to
he taken over by the state highway
department and maintained by il. BY
this means we would soon have a
road system that would place this.
the most historical state in the Union.
where she belonGs-in the forefront
Roads Bring wealth.
Just think of the wealth these roads
never come unless we build them.
have read a great deal about what
the bond issues have done for West
Virginia, North Carolina and Mary
land. | will talk about Maryland. as
] know more about the circumstances
there. We will take Montgomery