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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
BAD ROADS CALLED
COSTLY TO AUTOISTS
Money Spent on Highways Esti-
mated Only Tenth Of Motor
ing Costs.

When the motorist taxpayer reads
that his State is spending millions Of
dollars for road Improvements he may
feel that the expenditure is ample, ac-
cording TO E. E. Duffey. highway educa-
tional writer. However, the money that
Is actually devoted to road betterment
Is but small percentage Of the total
motoring cost.
Taking figures compiled for Mime
sofa, requirements of parts, fuel, lubri-
cants, accessories, financing, new cars
and trucks, insurance, and so on. this
year cost Minnesota motorists S372,-
100000. 1t is estimated by the State
highway department that In 1880
Minnesota will spend $38 100000 for
roads. 1t is prophesied that the total
motoring bill for 1880 will be $500, O00,-
600. Consequently, the license and
gasoline tax moneys which 90 into the
trunk highway fund will be less than S
per cent of the total motoring bill.
c. M. Bahcock, Minnesota's commits
sioner of highways, recently declared:
although our total motor bill is in
creasing, the cost per vehicle mile is de-
creasing. This Is partly due to i'm
provements In the. cars, but mostly due
to improved highways. With further
Improvements in our highway system,
we can still further reduce the cost
per car mile. Every dollar spent for
better roads will save several dollars
for gasoline, tires and repairs"
With automobile registrations in
creasing rapidly and with a steady in
crease in the mileage covered by the
individual motorist, most States would
not be violating any economic rule by
devoting more money to flrst-class
pavement construction. Quite to the
be aTIeA "a
money for smooth pavementS would
bring proportionate reduction in car
operating costs. The invisible charge
collected by inferior roads is far greater
than the motorist realizes-fronl / TO
2 cents mile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
In Half Year in u. S.
Gas Tax Collected
Totals $175,14O,l4O

Not counting refunds made. the
total amount of the gasoline tax
collected by ~ Of the States and the
District Of Columbia in the first six
months Of 1929 amounted to $175,-
140,140, says the Bureau of Public
Roads, United States Department of
Agriculture, on the basis Of figures
reported to the bureau. In New York
the tax became effective May /, and
the Illinois law did not become ef-
fective until August /. A total Of
5,693, 872,552 gallons was taxed in
the AZ States and the District of Co
lumbia. The average tax paid per
gallon was 3.07 cents.
In 1928, gasoline tax paid in the
first six months of the year in IS
States, the District of Columbia, and
In Illinois for one month of the Pc
Rod, was $140,6S5,398. The tax in
Illinois was collected for January
and discontinued in February. Mas
sachusetts and New York had no
gasoline tax in 1928. The total num-
Der of gallons taxed in the first six
months of 1923 was 4,652, 1893, 1886,
and the average tax paid was 800
cents per gallon. All the States now
collect gasoline tax.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
AUTOMOTIVE BRIEFS

Edwin H. Newmeyer, president Of the
Neumeyer Motor Co., Inc, announces
today the appointment of his hrm to the
distrtbutorship for Marmon automobiles
in Washington and vicinity. Neumeye4
is very well known in Washington, hav-
ing been in the automobile business hera
since 1917. The present slowrooms AZ
1874 Connecticut avenue will be moved
to more suitable quarters at 1917 Con-
nectieut avenue and q large used car
and Service station will be maintained
at 102l seventeenth street northwest.
Thornton J. Camneld, well known in
washington automotive circles, an
nounced last week that after January
his garage and service station will be
moved from the present location at 1915
Q street to new and larger quarters at
1875 l. street. Camheld was formerly
manager of the B. @. r. Motors, Inc,
and has been active In the automobile
business here for many years.
1t has been announced by the Wash
ington branch of the Olds Motor Works,
1918 Fourteenth street northwest, that
r. @. Middaugh, formerly city sales
manager for Chevrolet in Boston, has
has been appointed city sales manager
for Oldsmobile and Viking in Washing
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
Coupe Is Equipped
With Special Racks
To Haul Explosives

Two Of the most conservative
drivers in the history Of motoring
are j. H. Williams and H. r. Car
rett Of Dupo, Ill.
They never try to beat the light"
They are most courteous in giving
way to approaching drivers and they
always stick out their hands when
making turn.
Williams and Garrett exercise this
extreme care because q trafdic acct
dent to them would mean more than
a dented fender. A collision prob
ably would mean that the car, It's
occupants and q good portion Of the
surrounding country would sud-
denly disappear, leaving only q
blasted, smoking crater for the city
editors to mark with the custom
airy tx"
The two men are soup experts"
employed by the American Giycerine
Co. to shoot" oil wells in the rough
oil country surrounding Dupo. They
have intrusted their lives and their
dangerous supplies of nitroglycerhn
to a coupe equipped with special
racks for carrying the Temperament
tai explosive which Is eight times
more powerful than gunpowder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05

mystery observed in q small town IN
New York State where q sign beneath
the trAfic signal reads: stop on red"
Here are just q few 1880 resolutions
made by one woman who reads these
weekly remarks. May she have the
power to carry them outi
Resolved; that nothing helps my
driving like continuing to know more
about my car.
THAT will not drive away from the
curb unless certain that the engine is
warm enough not to stall the minute
get into traf1e. @ SO
That I will warm up the brakes a
little each day when starting out before
I have to use them suddenly and find
them grabbing.
THAT my motto viii be safety
through teamwork and cooperation
with other users Of the streets and
highways.
THAT when I am walking will cross
streets as intelligently as would when
at the wheel.
That win not try to drive with the
horn.
And finally, that when things are
not going right will remember and
practice the rule that there's magic in
Q smile"
(copyrisht, 1880, by the Russell serv!esJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
Don't Neglect Snare.

When filling your tires with air and
testing them, don't neglect the spare
II you keep 1t at the right pressure, you
don't have TO pump 1t up when you
need 1t at some lonely place in tbs
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
State Expenditures,

State authorities expend 81 per cent
OF the total highway funds, counties
expend 30 per cent, according to the
District of Columbia Division Of the
American Automobile Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
Less Than ~ Cents.

Less than IL cents out of each State
and local general tax dollar goes to
highways, according to the District of
Columbia Division of the American
Automobile Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
Too Merry!

From the Wheel.
I'd like to take q billiard cue
And bush the nervy mug
Who parks by pushing back my car
Beside fire plug.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05

An observer tells Of having stood on
suburban street crossing and seeing
three woman drivers within IS minutes
proceed to take the right of way when
the red light was set against them.
In each instance there were no other
cars in sight.
This may shed some light on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-21
INTENSITY RECRUITING OF
MEMBERS

plants and in the basic industries. The Politi-
cal Secretarat of the Communist International
correctly called the attention of our member
ship for more orientaton towards these basic
factors in our drive. And there should be
more serious start than hitherto towards re-
naming on this path.
Did we do everything possible in attaining
this?
Far from it!
Let us take our street nuclei. In many street
nuclei we have individual comrades working
in large enterprises and, if take our re-
cruiting drive as an example, they discuss the
recruiting drive in the unit in a general way.
If they get one, or two new party members,
they get them from a language club, or the
neighborhood. Certainly this is generally so.
But this should be only the exception. Many
comrades working in the language fractions
did excellent work through the fractions. But
they did not get new party members from the
factory in which they are working. We must
see in this that there is quite difference in
the quality of new member if he is taken
into the Party from sick benefit society or
from the shop First of all, if they are taken
into the party directly from the shop, mine,
factory, ETC., from the field of the class strug-
gle, they approach our Party problems more
correctly from the start. Secondly, if they
are taken into the Party from the place of
their work, their main work will be in the
factory. Many of those who come into the
Party from fraternal organizations remain for
long while almost exclusively in the Ian
guage movement.
The membership drive must 60 on through
language fractions, too. But our main task
is to concentrate our efforts to get new men,
bers from the shops, factories, mines, espe-
cially from the basic industries and large
enterprises.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-21

the unions, shop committees, auxiliary organ
izations, clubs, fraternal, ETC., to respond and
participate in the demonstration. We must
always work for, if time permits, the en-
dorsing of the demonstration, by unions, the
T.U.U.L., relief and defense organizations,
clubs, etc.
The calling of mass demonstrations does not
mean that the Party has not got to prepare
we'll in advance. On the contrary, the Party
must plan the entire demonstration. First, the
location is of Importance. This varies accord
ing to situations. Sometimes open squares, or
government buildings may be vantage points,
but much more must we organize our mass
demonstrations in working class sections of the
cities.
Adequate study of the location, approach,
defense, the question of retreat or advance as
we'll as the time of dispersal, must be given
by the leading Party Committee. Turnout the
demonstration the Party members must form
the backbone of the demonstration. Dealing
with this question, the Comintern at its Third
Congress, in its Organizational Resolution,
states, "The backbone of the demonstration
must be formed by well instructed and ex-
perienced group of dilgent active Party men,
bers, mingling among the masses from the
moment of departure from the factories, up
to the time of dispersal OF the demonstration.
In all circumstances, the demonstration must
not end our campaign and activity. The mass
demonstration must be the means of broadening
and deepening our campaigns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-21
Marx On Religion

THE religious world is but the reflex of the
real world. And for a society based upon
the production of commodities, in which the
producers in general enter into social relations
with one another by treating their products
as commodities and values, whereby they re-
duce their individual private labor to the stand
ard of homogeneous human labor-for such a
society, Christianity with its cuttus of abstract
man, more especially in its bourgeois develop
ments, Professionalism, Deism, etc, is the most
fitting form of religion. In the ancient Asiatic
and other ancient modes of production, we find
that the conversion of products into commodi-
ties, and therefore the conversion of men into
producers of commodities, hold subordinate
place, which, however, increases in Importance
as the primitive communities approach nearer
and nearer to their dissolution. Trading ma
tions properly so called, exist in the ancient
world only in its interstices, like gods of Epic
urus4 in the Intermundia,*+ or like the Jews
in the pores of Polish society. Those ancient
organisms of production are as compared with
bourgeois society, extremely simple and trans
parent. But they are founded either on the
immature developments Of man individually, who
has not yet severed the umbilical cord that
units him with his fellow men in primitive
tribal community, or upon direct relations OF
subsection. They can arise and exist only
when the development of the productive power
of labor has not risen beyond low stage and
when, therefore, the social relations within
the sphere of material life, between man and
man, and between man and nature, are cor
respondingly narrow. This narrowness is re-
Elected in the ancient worship of nature, and in
the other elements of the popular religions
The religious reflex of the real world can,
in any case, only then finally vanish, when the
practical relations of everyday life offer to
man none but the perfectly ineligible and
reasonable relations with regard to his fellow
men and to nature.
The life-process of society, Whieh is based
on the process of material prodSl 8 does not
strip off it's mystical veil until II is treated
as production by freely associated men, and is
consciously regulated by them in accordance
with settled plan. This, however, demands
for society certain material groundwork or
set of conditions of existence which in their
turn are the spontaneous product of long
and painful process of development.
En'n"rrs was a Greek philosopher who lived
from 341 -270 b. G. He the founder of the
i1picurean philosophy according to which happi-
ness is the chief end in life. But real happiness
Epicurus maintained, could only be had in self
restraint.-Ed.
n@Spaces situated between worlds.-Ed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-21
BY LOUIS KOVESS.

THE first day is today and five more are
left for an extremely intensified drive for
new members.
Why do we have to intensity our recruiting
work in spite of the fact that we filled w
per cent of our quota? Because since the es-
Establishment of this quota, the crisis OF Amerl-
can capitalism and of the world capitalism,
as a whole, developed swiftly, one might say,
almost more rapidly, than it was foreseen by
the Tenth Plenum of the Comintern and
the October Plenum of our Party. At the time,
when the apostles of the "primacy of the outer
contradictions" honor with banquet the COM
ing Victorian Era of American capitalism
with the help of the police toastmasters) the
American unemployed are stormlng the City
Halls Imperialist America is going deeper
into the crisis. Our revolutionary program Is
more and more becoming the point of attrac-
lions for the workers. The quota which seemed
to be a quite high estimation of our capacity
to fulfill it, is not high enough today. We must
surpass it.
The same reasons which urge US to lnten-
sify our membership drive in the remaining
last few days, at the same time enable us to
find the correct direction of our work. The
deepening economic crisis, which necessarily
will be followed by changes in the superstruc-
ture will shake to its roots the old capitalist
parties, driving the working class towards the
Communist Party The petty bourgeolsle and
some highly skilled workers will move towards
social fascism and will hasten even to
greater degree than today unification of the
oppressive forces theological differentiation
on class lines will follow The crisis will bring
into motion tremendous massea for economic
political struggles. 1t is of decisive impor-
lance to gain strength in the great industrial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-21
Some Flashes From the Recruit
ing Drive

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, the center Of the steel
industry, which had quota Of Is in the
Recruiting Drive has already trippled this and
have recruited As new members, Of whom the
majority are steel workers.
=
Nile, Ohio, another steel center, where there
was no Party in existence has aready estab-
lished Party unit with Is members, while
Warren, Ohio, has already gone over the top
Of it's quota.
The coal miners in the Party in the Ohio
District are determined that the steel district
shall not defeat them, and have therefore isl
sued challenge in the spirit Of revolutionary
competition to the Party members in and
around Youngstown. Youngstown, Niles, War
rem, ETC., all maintain that the coal miners are
dreaming if they expect to get ahead Of the
steel workers in the Drive, but the coal miners
have shown by their past and their struggles
that they have real determination and will 60
through with anything they start.
Another steel city, Canton, Ohio has already
recruited ii new members and in Masselion,
Ohio, there has been organized Party nucleus
also.
Yorkville, o. one of the mining centers has
already begun to pick up the challenge to the
steel section and starts with four new mem
bers, and promises to organize two shop nuclei
within the next week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-21
STARVE OR FIGHT!
A Challenge to the Unemployed

tentions to interfere along similar lines ~
warning Brooklyn employers against ag-es-
ments with the Independent Shoe Workers
Union, left wing organization.
This is the meaning of the Senate Commit
tees report on unemployment. This is the
reason why the fight for national and state
unemployment insurance becomes the para
mount issue in real workers program for the
relief of the unemployed.
ITO Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-21

Fight the Right Danger. A
Hundred Pr0letarians for
Every Petty Bourgeois Rene
gade!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-21
The Relation of the Workers
Party to Religion

NOTE-This is the second inStallment Of
Lenin's article on Mdr1isn, and religion. AT
i time Uhen the imperidlists are seeking to
split the lUorking class along religious lines,
achen they are using religion for an ideolog-
zeal campaign preparatory to an armed at
tack against the first avorkers and peasants
republic, it is especially important to make
the position of the Communist Party clear
to every aUorker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-21

BeloaO aOe give the first of short series
of "Questions and Answers" on the ,oorld
crisis, unemployment and the tasks of the
revolutionary trade unions, issued BY the Red
International of Labor Unions.-Editor).
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-01

Seward: from there by steamship to Valdez, and thence over the Richardson Highway and Edgerton Cutoff to Willow Creek, on the Highway.
 At WhiJe;lorse and Dawson, ? said Major Elliott, T conferred with Canadian officials with respect to the proposed International Pacific Yukon Highway. They are very much interested in the project and desire it's early contamination.
 Seme Roaus Available
 There are roads in northern British Columbia and in Yukon Territory that may fit in the gen. eral scheme of the proposed high way. They include short sections al Atlin, the Whitehorse-C -Carmack and Whitelacrse-Kluane roads, the road from Dawson up the Klondika River, and the road from Dawson toward Chicken Creek, Alaska
 "The Steese- Highway from Cir cle City to Fairbanks is carrying considerably more traffic this year than it did last. It is destined to become an important route, espec- ially for tourist travel Mining de- velopment in the Deadwood area, the Nome Creek area and in the Fairbanks and Chatanika districts,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-01

1 are adequately served by the Steese Highway. M
 The Mckinley Park road is rnak- ing splendid progress and is in ex- cellent shape to East Fork River, which is 43 miles in, from the Park entrance. Considerable open ing up work has been done west of the East Fork and a bridge across this stream is, under con- structfon.
 Objective Is Mount Eieison
 "The present objective of the Mckinley Park road is Mount Eiel- son, but ultimately it is expected to reach the Kantishna country
 ''Thc Richardson Highway is in very good condition, except at a place 13 miles north of Valdez where a short piece was washed away. Here traffic Is accommodated ihy a temporary, bridge. a ' 1. Tourist travel over Alaska roads has been less this year than 1t was last, except in Mckinley Park where the number of visitors up to the end of June shows no decrease from the figures fer the same period last year The value of this iseason's tourist business in McKin- ley Park exceeds last seasons, for most visitors spend two days there instead of one day as formerly. Rivers and Hafbors
 Alaska continued Major Elliott, twill benefit from the Rivers and Harbors bill passed by the recent Congress. The measure authorizes improvement. at Port Alexander, Ketchikan 11arbor and Refuge liar bor at Seward. The enactment car ries no appropriations for pro- jects, merely authorizes work when funds are available. As yet, I have not been advised as to when the Engineering Department of the 1, United States Army will be able to allot funds for these projects. '.The Rivers and Harbors Dill also authorizes and directs that prelirni- nary examinations and surveys be made with view to dredging chan nels at the following places:
 "Egegik River, Rake Harbor, Sti- kline River, Petersburg, K kee Straits, Kodiak Harbor, Tanana River, at or near it's confluence with the Yukon; Wrangell Har- bor, Craig Harbor, the isthmus south of Wedge Cape and Nagai Island.
 Gastineau Channel Project :,
 No further action has been talk en with reference to the Gastineau Channel project. This is held in abeyance, and probably will receive new consideration, when definite in formation is available as to the de- velopment of the. paper pulp h. dustry in this vicinity"
 1 Major Elliott will remain here until next week. He plans to take the steamship .Aleutian on her next voyage to the Westward from here. His contemplated trip will re- quire about a month. Gk
 Major L. E. Atkins, chief engi-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-01
Naples Holds Leads in
 Italian Cities Census

v | NAPLES, Italy, Aug. 1.-While the United States is fascinated by the study of the growth of her cities in the, light of the present census returns, similar kind of interest in Italy is centered on the Trace of the two largest cities, Naples and Milan.
 Figures just given out, as of
 May l, show that Naples leads,
 with 980,338 inhabitants, while Mi
 Ian is just 8,16l behind, with 972,- TIT. Rome has 931,2l6.
 Tn the last six months Milan has
 been gradually drawing up on her rival. On December 3l the difference between her and Naples was 12,243
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-01
ALASKA ROADS
 FOUND TO BE IN
 GOOD CONDITION
Major Malcolm Elliott Re turns from Inspec-
 ton of Highways

XVI l.i .7 .t ! g
 On a trip that occupied month and that covered many of the prin- cipal parts Of the Territory, Major Malcolm Elliott, President of the Alaska Road Commission, found highway conditions generally satis- factory, he declayed in his office here today. His itinerary took him from Skagway. over the White Pass and Yukon Railroad, to White horse, thence by steamer down the Yukon River to Dawson and Circle City; from there on the Steesc Highway to Fairbanks; then by The Alaska Railroad to Mckinley Park, Wasilla, Matanuska, Anchorage, and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-01

neer of the Alaska Road Commis- sion is in Fairbanks. He intends, said Major Elliott, to leave there for Nome by airplane as soon as weather permits. Major Atkins will return to Juneau about September
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-01

Commencing August observations made shortly before time
 pressure low Alaska Central high in the northeastern the coast from Southeastern Alaska to Northern California Light fallen Territory followed by Valley Temperatures the Aeutan Islands and fallen ir the Interior.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-01
Weather Conditions As Recorded by the U. 5.

Forecast for yureas and vicinity, bcS-uins today, Rain tonight and Saturday gentle variabls winds