Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-02

there something sacred about gasoline interest yet
the applied directly the roads iniquitious
Oregon bond has just adopted thecent gasoline tax
/ am informed by telegram hold in my hand
Arkansas another bond has done the North Caro-
lima and South Dakota bond have thcent gasoline
Also Arizona and South Carolina outside of Virginia Eleven
have gasoline and sixteen onecen tax
In giving onehd of the gasoline the feeder roads
principle has been sacrificed Other do this Pennsylvania
gives oneha gasoline the county roads, Arkansas
half Colorado half Mississippi 6o and South Carolina one
half
BY the average nineteen states gasoline
$52 machine year. Heavy trucks will pay and light
Ford less The gasoline places the burden for road construction
and maintenance directly and popoony those who use the
roads the damage 1t automatically bene
fitting those who because the better the roads the less the
and tear the machines and the less the gasoline consumption per
mile.
1t has charged this legislation No class
the automobiles They owned by all of the people of the
State of class and occupation 1t machines
but the damage such machines do the public roads
The tax only paid proportion the the machines and the
mileage travelled There practically of collection for the
gasoline paid the by the Standard Oil Company
and other wholesalers If be collected large
and the horde of Office holders this should
greatly commend this particular
Roads are important but other functions of the
State While small Virginia attempted
themselves all of the patriotism and all progress
Virginia yield member of the Senate my ardent desire
for road improvement If asked the State functions
the order of their would that chief
duty take of the and unable provide
for themselves second public health third schools (and speak
who has not had the advantage of being school the age
of I4) fourth, roads,
In conclusion up briefly the argument against
oc out of dollar must be paid interest The proposal of
the bond advocates appropriate gasoline the
present mill for indefinite period for the payment of
and sinking fund Therefore, for after the bonds
expended there will be available for roads Will Virginia
then will additional bonds
Any department will be much economical with orderly
receipts than with huge made available time.
g. Today building roads with fifty dollars When
the bonds be paid and normal restored the
bonds must be paid in hundred cent dollars
Roads are still experimental Road agree
that the perfect road has yet to be invented inclined think
order
the road construction methods of nearly hundred years ago The
Valley Turnpike consider be the permanent road in Vir
gnia the only road that has survived hundred years. 1t
built by General Cozet of Napoeons engineers In 1861
Stonea Jackson conveyed locomotives and this road from
Martnsburg to Straburg
If the claims of bond friends true that roads
can be so quickly constructed by bonds the labor do
come from the already undermined farms.
What the attitude of the farmer Virginia towards bond
issue for road The farmers benefited by good roads than
any other class They roads haul their products
the markets. the churches and schools and visit their neigh
bo The city people their necessary The farm
es Virginia Overwhelmingly opposed the bond
dated their representatives in the Senate and House of Dele
ga and by the two great farm organizations Farmers Union
and the Farm Bureau The Farmers Union through its president
has publicly announced unalerabe opposition bond At
the annual meeting of the Farm Bureau when the roll
was called by of the living Vgnan Henry Stuart
president OF this organization responded of which 81 op
posed the bond issue One the county Accomac was tie and
only the county OF Westnoreland for the bond issue
The greatest need in public affairs today efficiency and
economy This best obtained by providing orderly funds
requiring strict accountability rather than dumping huge funds any
department time
Under the law every mile of road in the State system will
be maintained throughout the travbe condition There
an ample fund available for this work from the automobile license
Little can be lost BY giving the go plan trial Much
may be saved You mortgage property time v this
plan and then not successful there resort to bonds
II our figures and submit are the pay as YOU
go plan will complete the Highway System in seven years as COM
pared to hve years under the bond plan.
10 obtain the the tail the system two wears sooner
millions IN interest rental be paid We owe duty TO our
children and do not think right burdens upon
them IN order anticipate for several advantages
snare with Vgnlans everywhere the proud of
glorious past appreciate the responsibility which achievements
OF those who have before have placed upon the shoulders of the
generation OF Which
generation to carry forward undmmed and if possible with
ognter iure the torch of progress handed down to us BY our
- = ~
Because of this pride and duty cannot consent +he r
poa that we must take immediate for ourselves bv pn
up millions OF debt which will burden the energies endnper the
prosperity OF our children and grandchildren We inherited the past
We possess the present. but of the future
FROM the settlement until the Civil War our FORE
atne Were controlled by the noble conception that they must labor
ana sach to the end that unborn generations could live
happiness and conntment saguarded by established liberty
hofe han malt century has elapsed Virginia the
a t OF great and devastating She emerged from thar
conflict defeated and impoverished Not only was her ate.
wealth. destroyed but her social upon the develonment
TWO centuries tell to the ground and instant ruin Over
Tue handicap OF these unexmped catastrophes with no other
so except her inward strength she stands forth odav and l
ieng the admiration mankind because of her e.+ ,nd
progress ~ e M 'elieei'
ne inherited instinct of demands progress bur i de-
an orderly and considered progress progress based unon
established conditions and in accordance with RI. esso, -
enee Ibis is the only real progress because i il ,h. an -
permanent and this be served bv buld;no
~ quickly as the funds be economically extended and nav
o ,nese roads you that uneasred burdens will nor
DC placed upon poserty. ~ WIZ NV