Show I FEDERAL RAL AID AW 1 APPEAL m MADE Senator Sterling Gives 1 Views Regarding Build Build- Building jug ing of Roads We Ve have ourselves Ith ith the motor vehicle tock at SL a cost of roan man billions of dollars and lie ao e mut now pro Ide the tracks upon which to tl operate it II said the Hon ion Thomas Thomaa Sterling United d States senator from South Dakota and chairman of o th the sen- sen senate ate en-ate ate committee on and post roads In making a plea for forthe forthe forthe the continuation of o federal aid ald In Inan inan Inan an addre-a addre addre from RC The The voice of the capital for the American Automobile association After outlining the need ned of a 1 fed fed- fed federal crab eral appropriation of a ear for ten ears and a like Uke ap- ap appropriation ap appropriation from the states If It the system of ot miles mUes of federal aid highways Is to bo be completed a ten lears ears Senator Sterling stated that ho he could not say MY just Juat Ju what congress would oud do But But when hen It I Is known that the whole whole- wholesale wholesale sale ale lalu alu of ot automobiles and trucks manufactured lat last la t ear amounted d to over t two tao 0 and a half billIon dollars and that the wholesale whole ahole- hole hole- sale value luo of o tires manufactured amounted to en se hundred and sixty million dollars and that e ae spent over a n billion dollars for tor nu- nu au automobile parts and accessories ex- ex ex exclusive p of tires s said Senator Ster Ster- Sterling Ster- Ster Sterling t ling It does doea not sound abl able to propose propos that we should hould spend at leat one hundred million I dollars a year from the federal and an l eju amount bythe by bythe the tho states In order to complete our f federal av within a reasonable length ot of time We 0 must not forget torget that the good roads built under this system s serve oven overt a higher r use than that of the tho tourist or of the visItor or of o those on pleasure bent We must think ot of the commercial and anI con Om Ie advantages advantAge of a system of good roads roada of what they mean man to the tanner farmer r who on euch such roads rOLda and bv by means of ot the tho motor truck fInds it easy and a great saving ot of time and expense to transport not only his hili grain but his hia hogs and sheep or cattle to marKet Another consideration I In Is the enhanced val val- valno val value ue no ot of his hla land due to the good goodroad goodroad goodroad road at his bl very door or runnIng nearby One of ot our great eco eco oco- and commercial problems Is 1 I that of ot brInging the market and nd the producer closer together I do not believe that there thoro should be the tho least hesitation about going forward with the program The policy polley of federal aid to high high- highways highways ways waye baa has proven Itself to be thor thor- thoroughly thoroughly sound and workable Bev- Bev Beven Sev Seven en ear ears of ot achievement each year yar showing a greater result than the precedIng has haj hA removed the possibility of any doubt as to the tho wis- wis wisdom wis wisdom dom of federal aid Senator Sterling stated that ho had served on the aUl sub committee sun of the senate enate committee on tices and post poat roads when the first federal aid all bill Mil was Introduced and passed In Hit 1516 1 n He lIe had sd the operation of or fed federal ral aid In hi ls own tate state of ot South Dakota lIe Ite had been beeD Impressed with the WIs- WIs WIsdom wl dom dom doin of o the tho people of ot his hiji Own state In providing a r state highway department with Wilh auf suf- mt- mt powers and righta sigMa to lay tT layOut I out and construct federal oderal fodera I aid high high- highways highways highways ways and bridges It must h he remembered that the powers and duties conferred on the state hIgh hIgh- highway high highway way waT authorities a In the location ot of road an and bridges must Dot not be perverted from their true truo tru and original purpose or be used to pro pro- promote pro promote mot mote the political success ss of any IndIvIdual hut but must he be used u ed with an eye eya to public welfare v ty |