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Show PLAN TO GET FEDERAL HELP Positive Obligation Should Be Placed Upon States to Give Aid to County Units. That federal aid funds should here-' after be expended only upon roads which are included in an intercounty system of mnin highways, is becoming a fixed policy in many states, despite the fact that the present road act does cot require such use of the money. Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Indi-ana, Illinois, Wyoming and Washington Washing-ton recently have practically decided to confine tlie federal money to roads that count in well-defined state systems. sys-tems. "If the national government is to continue the policy of appropriating federal funds to the 4S states for highway high-way improvement, a positive obligation should be placed upon the states to give aid to their county units," asserts President David Jameson of the American Amer-ican Automobile association, which organization or-ganization devoted its country-wide energies to the passage of the fedenil aid road act and urged such legislation at a time when it was far from popular. popu-lar. "If it is the correct tiling and we believe that it is for the wealthier and more settled states to give assistance as-sistance through the federal treasury to the less populated and undeveloped parts of the country, this national cooperation co-operation carries with it an obligation to the state to function as a commonwealth, common-wealth, in the - form of intercounty roads built and maintained entirely at state expense. "While it has been found neces-.ary in some states to employ automobi'e registration money in floating stat" bond issues, this should not be done except as a last resort, simply because there is need of yearly maintenance funds and these are best supplied by the registration and other taxes collected col-lected from motorcar owners. The total of this money for the whole country coun-try now exceeds $50,000,000." |