Show Interstate Cooperation Ohio by recent action of its Ita legislature becomes the tho eighth state to sot set up permanent machinery machinery machinery ma ma- chinery for tor resolving problems problem of ot otan an interstate character Tho The new commission composed of ot five members of ot the five from the house of representatives and five executive appointees will join representatives representative of ot the New Jersey and Pennsylvania permanent perma nent commissions and the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York legislative committee on interstate in in- in cooperation Twenty-three Twenty states statu have hav durIng during dur dur- ing lug the tho past 12 months a set t up some lame sort Jort of agency on interstate cooper cooperation These Thua agencies maintain a clearing house in the th council of ot state governments of at which Henry W. W Toll ToU of at Chicago Is executive director 0 Of ot the 23 eight are permanent commissions commission and 15 are aro legislative committees committee composed of ot senate and house representative only In Irs commenting on on the creation of ol an Ohio commission Mr Toll said Ohio occupies a central pod poal Ion tion In many ways way the state tat Isa U Is Ua a part of at tho eastern caster seaboard in industrialized industrialized In- In area It Is of course the fulcrum of the lower Great Lakes tales states it U Is definitely tied In with tho middle DIddle western states and I it has contact with a group of called so-called border states Ohio hares shares with Indiana the many problems raised by an extraordinary extraordinary nary amount of vehicle vehicle ve ye- hicle hide traffic Although the mechanIsm of ot Interstate cooperation Is 13 more fully developed in the eastern tat states the new DeW Ohio commission doubtless will find occasion to establish contacts contact with west and south Highway and motor ve vehicle ye- ye hide hicle Jec legislation interstate crimInal criminal crim crim- inal mat law and problems of ot taxation taxa taxa- Lion tion are some lome of the most pressIng pressing pressing press press- ing problems that await the tho consideration con con- of ot the new commission The focal situation of Ohio makes tho the establishment of a commission there of ol extreme importance importance im im- both for tor the stats Itself and fo for foe all aU the tate states |