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Show FEDERAL I FOR IADS DISCUSSED Proposition Opposed Unless Change Is MaHe in Present Programme. P TVD3PJIIA, Dec. 3. Federal aid for highways throughout the United States unless planned upon some comprehensive com-prehensive system, wan not favored by thoso who addressed today tho tenth annual an-nual convention of the American Road Builders association, In session here. Several speakers declared the numerous bills now before congress providing for federal aid for good roads wero designed to open "pork barrels" rather than to glvo the Btaton good, permanent highways. S. Percy Hooker, state superintendent of highways of New Hampshire, snld ho did not favor federal aid under present proposed achomes. If federal aid is to come, ho said, thero should bo a federal department of roads, and each Btato should havo a similar department. He outlined how these departments should work together. Nel3on P. Lewis, chief engineer of tho board of estimate of New York City, said ho was ngalnst government aid If federal money was to ho poured Into the states to let the states build aa they please or If tho national government stepped In and built roads as It desired. Former Chairman of tho Massachusetts highway commission, Harold Parker, also declared that any federal legislation at this time would "00 wrong because there is, no present prospect of an agreement on the form federal aid shall take. Among other speakers today was -Governor Tenor, who said that roads should not bo built upon tho word of Idealists or theorists, but should bo constructed by practical men. That monuments or other suitable markers should be built on tho main highway of each state touching the Canadian Ca-nadian boundary line In commemoration of tho 100 years of peace between tho United States and Great Britain was tho suggestion made by Samuel Hill of Seattle, Seat-tle, "Wash., president of tho association, ,Mr. Hill tald ho hod conferred with Secretary Sec-retary of State Bryan and that tho secretary secre-tary was heartily In favor of tho suggestion sugges-tion and would do what ho could to further fur-ther tho movement. |