Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-06 | Page 20 | President Harding May Aid Boosters in Getting Better Roads in America

.. - 1 1 President Harding May 1 1 Aid Boosters in Getting 1 1 . Better Roads in America Highway Officials Awaiting the Inaugural Address of the Newly Elected President With Eagerness; Road Congress to Open at Chicago SM Washington Motqristd and ndVo-j 9 carps of pood roads will aval. With n Interest the- rominc Inaugural ad JB dress of PresMent-eleci Harding H which, they hope, will urge upon i mgn iho innetmeni of n broad H program of federal aid- in blghwaj fM construction. The president-elect on jjfl tumorous occasions while a senatoi in congress expressid himself in 1 heart) sympathy with udrral aid ' H i oad-bullding activities. m H Meanwhile t lie American Rotol fl Buildera! asocintion. which is to hold fl a nai Ion-wide Rood roads congress and national good roads show ai fl fl Chicago Feb. 9 to 12, IS setting read fl io present an ambitious program IP fl congress and will ask. the support of fl President elerf Harding in put ring it. fl i hi u. Conpress will be urged by the ?fl soclatlon to exiend tor five years II federal rpad:bullding program jjfl which by law lermlnaios wiih tin- fl i 'owo of the present government isial year on June :tn next hi Congress will be asked by the .i- II soctatipn to provide additional funds ;?fl for expenditure under M.e irrm- l existing legislation at the 61 al fl jj least $100,000,000 for each ol the five H m vears beginning July 1. 1921. In the $ advooacy of this procedure the as H "M -oclatlon will be In hearty accord i m with the attitude expressed by Pecre-; 3 tary of Agrciulture Meredith in his 1 recent annual report. The association includes in its membership officials j H ,,r the national government, states.j i m .(.unties, cities and lownships in the. Jj United States ami Canada, together H ll with highway engineers and -on;rae- a loi-s and manufacturer.; of road build H '1 ing machinery, road materials and '3 highway transportation equipment FIGURES NAMED 1 The enormous apropriations tor H J highway work already made by state fl 9 and municipalities appropriations j thai total more than ?i.ooo.ooo-ooo. .M iordins to Hie most reliable reports COVCrlnp bond Issues and lin ft lev lee for toad building and road main-Li main-Li isnce presage, ii is believed, an unprecedented volume ol toad building build-ing for 1981. The sum of 1271,000.-OOOvoted 1271,000.-OOOvoted In bond Issues or appro-, fil iated l i :chi slate., recently, J added lo Mo bond is in p d b eight other state.- sine 1 I v makes SOit.t already available for road work in sixteen stales. Puhdfl BlTll available thru reder.il aid are placed 1 1 1160 000, bj "i ficlals or the bureau of public roads. In addition funds obtained 1 from direct levies and Other sources ,,i state revenue -nd count Issues ars estimated to amount t 1296.200,-J i The Chicago meeting Will brim; together fiom till parts ol the country coun-try the men who will lupervise the expenditure oi these .i.st appropriations appropria-tions for s thorough discussion oi their rohlems and an accurate '! mate as t the uiture. The conventicu promises to be one 1 of iho greatest in point of attend rice I ami in results ovei held in the history of the good roads movement. Ihe governors of the several states and territories of this countrj and Canada SS well as the mayors of 2.000 American Ameri-can and Canadian cities, have been asked to appoint official delegates to the meeting. in some Instances governors and mayors will bead tht Ir delegations in ; person. Seven thousand road and , itreel contractors and thousands of; army, automotive and chemical en glneers, agriculturists, editors, bank era, motorists and large users 01 trucks, as well as officials of boards ' oi trade, chambers of commerce and other organizations Interested in road and street Improvement have bpen inviled lo attend. The program Will cover every vital subject related io highways and their use.