Montgomery County sentinel., 1936-12-24
AS WE SEE TT
By MONTCO

AMID ALL THE HULLABALOO
about police pay raises and the gen.
eral strengthening of the law en-
forcement system in Montgomery
County it is timely for all good citi-
zens to cast few bouquets at the
nolice and the States Attorneys
office. Without attempting to be
facetious, one may compare this
county with Prince Georges and feel
no cause for blushing.
IN MAKING SHORT SHRIFT of
the alleged Matthews murderers,
States Attorney James Pugh and
the county police have earned the
plaudits of every thinking Montgom-
ery Countian. We are indeed lucky
to be living on the high and dry
side of the Nations Capital. And
don't think for moment that the
residents of Washington seeking
homes in Maryland can't appreciate
the situation. E. Brooke Lee had
plenty of foresight when he agitated
SO strongly for police, roads, streets
and schools. He may have been de-
posed as an actual political leader
in Montgomery County but many who
opposed his measures at one time
now see the error of their calcula-
tions.
ATTENTION IS CALLED, in nc
uncertain terms, to the decay OF
Maryland highways by the High
ways Users Conference of Maryland
The Highway Users Conference
organized in 1884 to fight diversion
of motor tax revenues from tn {
highways of the State, announced
that it viii support any Legislative
program that may emanate from the
current Highway Planning Survey
and the deliberations of Governor
Nice's special planning committee.
"We are convinced. said John A
White, of the Society of Automotive
Engineers, who is Executive Secre'
tary of the conference "that only 8
workable program would be intro
duced by such combination. The
Highway Planning Survey is being
conducted by the State Roads Com
mission with Federal funds, and ir
collaboration with the u. S. Bureau
Of Public Roads and the State Plan.
ming Commission. The committee
which will draft the plan is made uI
of both civil and traffic engineers
financial and legal experts, statisti.
clans and leaders in the other lines
And, best of all, it rises above party
politics."
At the same time, Mr.. White an
nounced the conference is still un,
alterably opposed to diversion Of
highway funds, practice charged
with fastening the decay in Mary
lands once-great roads system.
The resolution passed by the con
ference was released by Mr.. White
1t reads as follows:
WHEREAS, the highway system
of Maryland today stands in dire
need of improvement and moderniza-
tion in every section of the State
and
WHEREAS, it will be to the ad
vantage, not only of the motorists
but of the unemployed, who can be
given jobs, and of general business
and industry, which depend Sc
greatly upon the highways, if 9
sound, thorough program OF road
betterments is instituted; and
WHEREAS, Maryland motorists
have contributed heavily every yeal
in license fees and gasoline taxes
without obtaining the adequate high
way benefits which they believe posi-
bic with the amounts paid;
THEREFORE, BE 1T RESOLVED
that the Maryland Highway Users
Conference shall inaugurate immedi'
ately an intensive campaign for 9
sound physical and financial highway
plan in the interest of the future Of
Maryland's highways"