, Pa., October 31, 1913.
MAY REPEAL SPROUL LAW
If Bonds Are Not Voted the Townships
May Again Be Compelled to Main-
tain Roads, Or a Direct Tax
Will Be Necessary.
If the State is not authorized by
the citizens at the coming election to
incur the proposed debt of $50,000,000
to improve the main highways of the
Commonwealth it is very possible
that the next Legislature will repeal
the Sproul bill and throw back on the
townships the 9,000 miles of road
embraced in the present system. The
Sproul law places on the Highway
Commissioner all of the duties and
responsibilities so far as State High-
ways are concerned as existing laws
placed on township supervisors. Un-
der this section of the act the High-
way Commissioner has been indicted
in two counties owing to the danger-
ous condition of the State roads,
which he is powerless to remedy, not
having the necessary funds. If the
people vote down the loan amendment
the repeal is more than likely, as the
State cannot and should not suffer its
officials to be indicted in the local
courts for failure to perform a duty
when such failure is caused solely by
a deficiency in funds necessary to
perform that duty.
If the Sproul law is repealed its
repeal will throw on the townsh’ 8
the maintenance of more than 9,000
miles of the main roads—the roads
which are the most costly to main-
tain by reason of their carrying 86
per cent of the traffic of the State.
The design of the Sproul law which
places the responsibility for the re-
construction and maintenance of these
9,000 miles of main highways on the
State was to secure to every section
of the Commonwealth easy access to
its markets, and as President Wilson
said, “to bind communities together
and to facilitate intercourse so that
it will flow with absolute freedom and
facility.” The President also said,
“The development of a great system
of roads is a task of statesmanship,”
and Pennsylvania's great statesman,
Senator W. C. Sproul of Delaware
county, has been foremost in meeting
that great need. This law has reliev-
ed the townships of the State of the
care of more than 9,000 miles of high-
ways. When it is considered that on
these roads over eighty per cent of
traffic is of non-residents of the town-
ships, who have heretofore paid no
share of the cost of construction or
maintenance to the township which
has been responsible for the upkeep
of the road, it is apparent that under
the old plan an unfair burden was
placed on the taxpayers of all such
townships, By means of the loan the
State can reconstruct these roads
without a burden being placed on any-
one. The motor vehicle fee will meet
the entire bill and our people will be
better off financially, morally and
mentally.
PRESENT ADMINISTRATION WILL
NOT HAVE THE SPENDING OF
ONE DOLLAR OF ROAD LOAN
In his address at the Good Roads
Convention in Harrrisburg, Governor
Tener said: “Should the amendment
.pass it will be incumbent upon the
Legislature of 1915 to consider an
enabling act making provision for the
tenure, the rate of interest and other
‘terms of bonds, as well @#s providing
for their sale, from time to time, in
amounts limited to the necessities of
the Department as work progresses.”
As the people next year must elect
all the Assemblymen and one-half the
Senators who will sit in 1915 and will
at the same time elect the Governor
who, in turn, must appoint the High-
way Commissioner-—the argument of
those persons who are opposing the
loan because they are opposed to the
present administration {is without
weight and not worthy of considera-
tion.
The road loan is not a question
of men, but of principle. Pennsylva-
nia had a State Treasurer at one time
who was accused of dishonesty, but
we did not shut up the treasury and
put the State out of business on that
account. Railroads have had incom-
petent and dishonest officials in the
past, but that did not deter the
stockholders of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company from voting for a loan
of $150,000,000 (three times the
amount sought for road purposes) to
enable that corporation to carry its
lines into New York city—besides the
many hundreds of millions previously
voted for extensions and betterments.
The argument that there is no
necessity for issuing bonds for Road
Billding and saddling on the State
the payment of interest when the
Legislature can each two years ap-
propriate the necessary money out of
current revenues, is a good one in
theory only, for no Legislature has
as yet appropriated sufficient funds
for this purpose.
The income of our State is now
greater than ever before but the 1913
appropriation bill set aside only
$1,000,000.00 for reconstruction and
$1,400,000.00 for the maintenance for
two years of our 9,000 miles of State
Highways.
What progress can be expected
under such conditions?
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RESPONSIBILITY NOT ENDED
Good Roads Organization Will Con
tinue Its Efforts in Behalf of the
People to Secure Proper Ex-
penditure of Money Raised.
Philadelphia, Oct. 20.—If anyone
for a moment supposes that the
Pennsylvania Motor Federation which,
through its Chairman of Good
Roads, has aggressiveiy fought for
better highways in this State for
the past seven years, will take no
interest in the proper expenditure of |
the money after the approval of the |
$50,000,000 loan for good roads they
are greatly mistakea.
“Our responsibility to the citizens
of the Commonwealth will be a very
grave one,” said State Good Roads
ES BT A.
Very Handy.
arts. Herdso-—-But he must be quite
handy with his tools now? Closefist— |
Yes. and the first job he did was to
A Chance.
Husband—My colleague is the most
, Insatiable man I ever saw. He wants
everything he sees. Wife—Can't you
introduce our daughter to him?—Lob-
don Mail.
Real Thing In Settlement.
“What did the old man settle on the
young couple when his daughter mar
ried?”
; “Himself.” —Baltimore American.
Search others for their virtues and
thyself for thy vices.—T. Fuller.
Chairman J. H. Weeks to our cor
respondent.
seven years ago; through our efforts
many pernicious road bills have been
killed in the various sessions of the
legislature and we have had a hand
in the framing and passing of every
truly good roads bill in that time.
The Stuart boulevard bill, which pro-
vided a road with 60 foot width of
“We inaugurated the |
good roads movement in this State
There are some forms of animal life
which are nothing but a stomach. All
| other parts and organs are dwarfed or
. rudimentary; the stomach is the center
of being.
ach plays a vastly more important part
in the life of the highest type of animal
life, man, than is generally recognized.
Starve him and he weakens in brain and
improved surface between Philadel
phia and Pittsburgh, and which we |
alone showed the people of the State
would cost $28,000,000, was so man-
gled through our efforts, and reduced
Medical.
to a 20 foot wide road, Stuart's name
stricken out of the act and the pres- |
sure so strong in every section of the
State due to our campaign against it
that it never became a law.
“With the passage of the loan
amendment our responsibility com-
State and will have in all of them
within a few days. These commit-
tees are largely composed of farmers
who are not motorists, but who have |
joined hands with us in this great
movement for the betterment of every
citizen in the Commonwealth, We |
propose in the event of the success
of the loan, to form all of these
county committees into one big per- |
manent State committee. Each coun- |
ty branch will have imposed upon it
the duty of watching all work done
in their county either by contract |
or by the State Department. It will
be their business to see that the State |
receives 100 cents in value for every
dollar it pays out.
brick or concrete road is necessary
to carry the traffic, that no short-lived |
flimsy road is constructed. Where the |
traflic needs only a macadam that no |
telford or more expensive type be
built. That any advertisement calling
for a construction unsuited to the
needs of their section be promptly
withdrawn and the Department made
aware of the requirements of the par-
ticular locality by the people who live
right on the ground. In other words
we will have a great big vigilance
committee in the State with a power
ful representation in every county
and with influence sufficient to enable
them to enforce their demands and
and we will see to it that every sec-
tion of the State receives its proper
share of construction and mainten-
ance at one time as required by the
Sproul bill. With such an organiza-
tion of farmers, merchants, manu-
facturers, men of all political creeds,
in every walk of life, we will be in a
position to enforce our demands from
any party that might be in power and
they would not dare to oppose such a
representative organization working
solely for the public good. If anyone
fears graft in the expenditure of the
money, they do not know the charac-
ter of the men who propose to watch
the expenditure of every dollar of it
and are ignorant of the completeness
of their organization.”
MORE MONEY FOR DIRT ROADS
With the Passage of Bonds the State
Can Be More Liberal to Aid
the Townships.
When the State is relieved of the
expenditures now made for the
Sproul roads it will be in a po-
sition to extend more liberal
ald to the townships in the
maintenance of the local roads. The
Jones law now in force provides that
the State shall pay to townships an
amount equal to 50 per cent of their
levy for road taxes up to $25 per
mile, but the appropriation by the
last Legislature as cut down by the
Governor equals but $1.76 per mile
and makes of this law a farce. With
the loan in force the Good Reads ad-
vocates of the State will at once turn
their attention to securing from each
Legislature the full 50 per cent or $25
per mile for townships. This will not
only have the effect of at once reduc-
ing road taxes in every township in
the State, but it will insure to each
township good local roads leading to
the main State roads and in fact
everywhere throughout the township.
Real estate pays no State tax, so no
cost of the loan and no part of the
cost of these appropriations to town-
ships will fall on the real estate
owner; but they will actually reduce
his road taxes, increase the value of
his land, make it easier to secure and
keep cempetent help and make life
easier and happier for his wife, his
children and himself.
PATCHWORK ROADS
If we depend on each Legislature
to appropriate from one-twentioth to
one-fortieth the amount necessary to
take care of the
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