Show Highway Y Funds Exhausted liE federal bureau of at public roads has cornI com com- THE JL I a survey showing that federal emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency funds made available for Utah since January Jahu Janu ary arI J 1 1934 have b been n all aU but exhausted being already spent or obligated This state has received re the staggering amount of f for br r highway work This does not include an additional additional additional addi addi- coming to the state as the governments government's gov goy eminent's share of ot federal aid highway ay projects in Utah for the regular 1937 1936 program Matching sums were required from the in inthis inthis this instance but not in the relief allocations If the public in the various sections of the state will take the time to consider what highway highway high high- way improvement has hu been accomplished by the expenditure of this and arid then to realS reali realize real real- i S ire ize the vast ast amount of work that must be done donet t to bring vital highways in Utah up to recognized i standards it will be possible to calculate I the disastrous consequences which would follow fol bol I low the diversion of the state gasoline tax for t purposes not in mind when the legislation imposing im un- un posing it was enacted Pressure has been exerted and it will continue to be exerted to accomplish this diversion by l 1 legislative amendment to the existing law Sponsors Sponsors Sponsors Spon Spon- sors for such proposals must either be ignorant of the dire results which would follow or so 10 selfishly group-conscious group that they havo have no concern concern con can cern with what it would mean to the state highway highway highway high high- way system as a whole Utah is far lar from having the highways it needs and farther from front having them of the standards which must be reached if it is lJ to keep abreast abreut of ot other progressive states We cannot afford to imperil a program which I alms alias to meet these needs When there is no more federal emergency money to be spent on the states state's roads sole re reliance reliance re- re liance will be bo upon the federal grants grant and the states state's matching funds which must come out of the gasoline tax This will mean instead of having haying hav hay ing and more to spend there will be bein bein bein in an average year perhaps only or little more All AU who have the welfare of ot the state at heart will wUl oppose any diversion program Others must be made to see aee the shortsightedness of ot their attitude with respect to defeating the purposes for which the tax was levied |