Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-14

program cost will be approx
mately billion and a half dol
lars, showing that while every one
benefits from highway conStruc-
ton, one class of people-motor
vehicle oWnerS-pay two-thirds of
the cost in special taxes, aside
from their participation in the
balance"
Among Those Present.
The oil group was represented
by Walter c. Teagle, president,
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey;
r. c. Holmes, president, The
Texas Co.; H. F. Sinclair, presi-
dent, Sinclair Co.; Axtell ]. ByleS,
president, TideWater Associated
Oil Co.; w. M. Irish, president,
Atlantic Refining Co.; j. c. Van
Eek, president, Shell Union Oil
Corporation; Henry L. Doherty,
president, Henry L. Doherty &
Co.; ]. Howard Pew, president,
Sun Oil Co.; William r. Boyd, jr.,
executive vice president, Ameri-
can Petroleum Institute.
The following automobile rep
resentatives attended the session:
Roy D. Chaplin, chairman, Hud-
son Motor Car Co.; Alvan Ma
cauley, president, Packard Motor
Car Co. and president, National
Automobile Chamber of Com
merce; Alfred P. Sloan, jr,, presi-
dent, General Motors Corpora
ton; Alfred H. Swayne, vice preSi-
dent, General Motors Corpora
ton; A. ]. BroSSeau, president,
Mack Trucks, Inc; Robert c.
Graham, vice president, Graham
Motor Car Co., and Alfred Reeves,
general manager, National Auto
mobile Chamber of Commerce.
Action of Directors.
Proposals for unemployment
relief which would provide Fed
eral assistance in executing en-
larged road building programs
were supported in a resolution
passed at meeting of the Board
OF Directors of the National Au-
tomobile Chamber of Commerce
in New York.
Temporary loans to such States
as may need funds with which to
meet Federal aid appropriations,
additional appropriations by the
Federal Government for the con-
StructiOn of secondary or farm"
roads, forest roads, and grade
crossing elimination projects are
provided for in the resolution.
H1g way construction and
maintenance as basis for the
prompt economical and efficient
solution of present unemploy-
ment difficulties was upheld by
representatives of the industry.
The resolution also suggested
that the present limitation of
Federal aid participation to
$4,000 per mile be removed tenn
porarily in order that the Score
tary of Agriculture might be per-
mitted to appropriate up to so
per cent OF highway construction
costs.
Expansion of secondary or
farm" road projects and of ma
tional forest road construction
should be under the direct super
vision of the Federal Government.
the resolution specified.
The suggestion that such tenn
porary loans as the Federal Gov
eminent might make to the States
for road building purposes should
not divert the special motor
vehicle tax funds OF respective
States from road construction
and maintenance was also in
cluded in the resolution.
Text of Resolution.
The resolution follows:
Whereas many proposals for
the enlargement of the road
building program are being made
IN this time of unemployment:
and whereas highway construc-
ton and maintenance when I'M
dertaken by existing agencies of
the Government afford a prompt.
economical and efficient means
FOR the employment Of labor. and
whereas at the request of the
Government, States and counties
generally have expedited their
work over the past year to the
point where many Of them are
now temporarily without suffi-
cient funds to carry on a full
program:
BE it resolved, That the Ma
tional Automobile Chamber of |
Commerce gives it's support to a |
national legislative program de-
signed to meet unemployment |
needs and having due regard for !
the requirements Of the Treasury
which will IA provide temporary /,
loans to such States as may need J
funds to meet available Federal
appropriations with the under I
standing that such States are not
10 use these moneys as a substi- !
tute Tor any funds now or here |
after available for highway de-
Velopment, and particularly that |
they shall not divert any special |
motor vehicle taxes from road |
construction and maintenance |
and (b) provide further appro-
pflationS from the Federal Treas
ury under the terms of the pres
ent Federal aid highway act and
under the full supervision of the
tederal and State Governments
for the immediate Improvement
- OF a reasonable mileage of the
more important secondary or
farm roads" now outside of the
Federal system; (2) for the &C
celeration of improvement of the
more important approaches to
cities and grade crossings under
the same conditions. (c) Provide
further appropriations from the
Federal Treasury under the full !
supervision of the Federal Gov /
eminent for the immediate en-
ploYment of labor in the further