Milford chronicle., 1927-11-11
WISER USE
OF ROAD MONEY
pOllarS Daily From Motor
Our Into State Treasures

BY E. E. Duffy
is pouring into state treas
m motor license fees anC
at the rate of more thar
a day, or enough to buil(
ately forty miles of good
every twenty-fOur hours
U to $4,000 a mile.
emarkable income for state
ty highway work is COM
bon figures recently an
which show that total re-
rom these two sources
ees and gas, amounted to
US in 1926, or approximate
100000 more than is voted
y the national government
raj Aid.
on the inside profess to see
g in this vast and growing
collected from the motor
rs of the country in that it
With it the responsibility of
at a more rapid pace, types
that will return the money
who pay it. their return to
form of reduced motor We
Grating expense
me time it has been felt in
circles that a point has
ached where it is not so
natter of how and where to
way construction capital as
'oblem of how best to Or
nd use present income. In
pr example, where highway
Ies are being considered,
Ds, if taken, do not mean
x upon the people but rath-
re constructive method of
lg and applying the funds
ing in. Doubt may be ex-
as to the permanency of in
its present volume unless
Used as to make it a profit
for road users who adj
e money to get a greater
of cost reducing roadbeds
cir wheels.
e point that it is not so
problem of where to get
it is how best to use pre-
bme. Texas affords a good
That state, as the records
boys an annual autOmotive
around $20,000,000 a year.
lco1ne were to be applied
b the construction of the
TEN, ten years from now
bid the people in possession
200,000,000 main highway
Eation plant all paid for by |
mobile, and motor car own
iided they are given the |
sdbed, would be out nothing. |
that is the way it has work.
l North Carolina, Illinois
Is states that have taken
'-omotive income in hand
fed it upon a sound bank
,to the redemption of bonds
get the roads now.
ma enjoys an income from
Expected source of public
mounting to nearly $12,-
year. That, too, is a siz-
unit of money and if applied
Instruction of a state system
lily would place the people
ssion, not of a $75,000,000
lnas been suggested but a
BOO plant instead. And ulti-
will take at least a $780,
late highway plant to ade-
serve the needs of Okla
Snsas automotive income
Sc two sources, license fee
tax, is above 100000 a
$50 tightly is it gripped by
ntiment which is against
Ie state a freer hand Onthe
tenn that more than half of
back to counties for local
the main point is that
las highway construction
mounting to 100000 or
ear to work on, and if high
( is not progressing as it
lie trouble does not lie in
apital so much as in lack
Sc of it, which of course
be provided by legislation.
raska the total income, as
out now, does not come up
highway needs when meas
he necessity for replace
gravel surfacing with pave
some heavy traffic route,
me between Omaha and
However, with present in
gmented by a one cent in
gasoline tax, which it ap-
been wisely deferred until
!. session, road construction
, in a fair way of being
sidering the wide expense
led sections where traffic
10 be light for some time.
, main point in this con-
that Nebraska, along with
ties, is the recipient of an !
ID income from the new :
n the highway, which car
it both opportunity and
ility-the opportunity to
the state with capital sup
n this new source of reve-
the responsibility of Civ
r car owners the cost-re-
l