Show FEDERAL ROAD PLAN IS TOLD Every Town of Five Thou Thou- ThOU ThOU-I Thousand Thousand I sand Or More to Be on Highway System I NEW YORK Jsn Jn J n 2 Every 2 Every J town of ot and many ny I am amler ller ler communities Ito 90 per cent of ot tie tl-o country pop pop- population pop population Ito will b be directlY er owed ened ed b by bythe bythe the federal aid system ot of o high high- highways highways ways now bell I d eloped I d l accord I according Ine I In ing to 10 T n Ir McDonald chief of t the theU theU U ti S B Bureau Buro u of cot Public Roads at t to ho Motor Rodeo dinner of ot th the tha National l Automobile Chamber of ot Commerce In the Hot 1 Plaza last liitt week Mr Air MacDonald Ma Donald brought out the tho fact that the tho rual system In le being planned by state tate late and government officials on an on earning capacity bul basis l Hl hwn are bong being b con con- con of eu u h g c and In such euch uch locations ai as a will render an economic value Tallie equal to or exceed exceed- exceeding exceeding ing the required He H also noted that 40 per pr cent ot of o our r dollar billion ere Apure C Cr r l each ellch year for or roads I In Is Leine devoted to the th major or federal aid system and that 60 0 per cert I li is being paid out for tor local routes The total amount collected l from tooter vehicles vehicle by the federal gov- gov government gov el since t starling of ot ted fed federal fed federal eral oral aid program In 1917 has amounted to 0 1689 while Ih the federal aid road poad od eJ expenditure has been ben Thus Mr MacDonald pointed out as ag tar far as astie the major or t-doial t f aid alii system In- In Including In Including eluding the money ney by the state slates Is la cancel no j th the amount Ink taken from l taxation la Is neg neg- ne negligible and the roads ls are art a per per- permanent permanent per permanent manent asset OMet to ho he community The Tho motor said Mr MacDonald not ot only through itself but through Its potential and II true ue ell is 1 I more mort than sup sup- supporting porting porting the tha highway program The gathering sew 0 the th first pub pub- public pub public lic lie showing howing of o the h vay I film taken under the of o the United S States tes Mu bussu ot of o roads roada the highway education board the Fold Ford Motor company and the National Automobile Chamber of ot Commerce Comerce The occasion of tho the dinner was as asto to supply on the tb th progress rest ress ren In the tha nt of roads and the tha of ot highway taxation regulation and other problems which have devel devel- developed op op-d within the past put year Edit Edit- Editors Editors ors ore of ot I eld tJ 3 and special writers w were ro lYe lie guests BUNta u g-u ats ot of the occasion and there was waa gen gen- general gen general eral discussion on tie tte e points in In- In In d Roy D 0 ChapIn vice Tlc president ot of tho motor organization presided The dinner was under the auspices of the committee ot of which Mr ChapIn Chipin Is and ot of the Iho planning i lannin and safe ate safety safety ty committee of which George M Graham Is ii chairman Mr Gra Gra- Graham Gra- Gra Graham Graham ham announced that the tha chamber chamberIs Is starting a national survey of causes of ot motor to be followed tol- tol fol followed lowed by a campaign to remove th te o causes |