Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1923, Page 52

OTORS and S Keeping Good Roads in Repair |[pown THE RoAD. : | \Gas Tax Still an Experiment, Pressing Problem for Amerwa\ T Auto Association Declares T o o7 70 & YOoU RECOMMENDED SO HIGHLY HAS : Care Used in Building, Proper Curing|| unoercone A COMBIOERABLE ‘CHANGE Will Fight Federal Adoption Until States and Constant Watchfulness Found ff’wi‘is;’-m{(npsxi! . , 7 Have Proved That Measure Is to Be Splendid Investments. : Fair and Practical. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 28, 1023—PART 3. BY WILLIAM ULLMAN, |a road by the- bouncing of truck ; : ‘With thirty-six states taxing mo-|torist. This trend will doubtiess re- . A heels over a rough surface m Keeping the natidn's good roads f} torists f; sult In the elimination of the poli ping & ?| This rapid process of disintesra- b2 DTN from 3 £ 3 cents & gmlian | B Lo S e tarss i the wias &00d 18 now recognized as the real is now recognized to be un- | for gasoline. fear is expressed that whno buys a hetter car and will be problem before évery one intervested in . Experiments show that if £ > .the Sixty-elghth session of Congress | fairer to the man who does not use the cxpansion of the country through | hiY 8¢ per cent of the syrface ir- . g will Yeveal numerous proposals for his car extensively. but it assumen e ondotn GE TR e oRANas R i - ) > 2 a federal sales tax on gas. Rumors | that the gas tax is equitable and that integrating road through the sim I/ o[ point has not been demonstrated, ac- Motoriste—and not & few highway ; Pleat form of repairs the life of the 3 5 5 of this are already reaching the |cording to reports from & number of experts—are noting the rapld de.|lemaining surtace and of all the S Z A\W o Washington headquarters of the Na- | states. terforation of new roads with quite| 1The cor iy g e AR S - ' ’ tional Motorists’ Association, and The gas tax as developed at pre The conclusion now being reached . |ent does not take into consideration some alarm, and definite steps are'by on'm-a{t of New York state lead q 3 ), = 2 plans are already being lald by the the variation in gas mileage of cars, being taken to prolong the life nl,lt_g.dl:‘:. hg‘h! ’l.h-t many rnl}‘u of 277 . S AL . assoclation to protect the Interests|nor the fact that mileage does not roads so that the funds available for | ygoeg Tnroush iBnorance of the Taet < 4 AT % s d of the nation’s motorists. road work will actually go toward, that money can.be saved by catch- | = ), y Never before have 80 many Dpro-|year In Virginia pays $15 In gas tax building, and not rebutlding. II"Yx -mre:l“d' c"alth&aov&?&un. e | / = posals for mulcting car owners been | while the man. with & car that uses Many interesting points are coming . 1.4 peen pursued with respect to the | |/, — offered, the national association’s st twice as much pays $30 fo- to Jight, features of highways build- | roads which needed repalfing rather 3 = y officlals polnt out. and it ls apparent, | \oentically the same use of the ing and maintenance which involve | than rebuliding . g 3 7 they say, that the adoption of the| “There are a number of instances 1o technical matters whatsover. | SRR T br.ln.d‘i o " B\ = = == i g gasoline tax by seventeen additional | Where cars of equal welght are giv- Tor instance, there Is the growing J A — / states In 1923 wlill encoyrage an ;;ux wide variation in gas mileage. realization that much of the rapld epidemic of federal tax proposals. |Even a variation of only three miles e mands 1a dne to fhe The desire for good roads, and the ‘ \ 3 k ] The activity among state legisla- | Per gallon on an annual basis means raising of the funds, represent but 7= Sy > & tares this pring. It 18 651, was due |0 0E S n to e w0 Scomomical 3 - ‘ g largely o the fact that it was ‘lagis. | d0es not happen to be %0 economica Question of Shade. a part of the ktory. Mere laying of z y e > y s lation” year generally; the coming |from the gas standpoint. Almost invariably when a new!concrete, macadam, brick or asphalt S < season will find most of the activity Cellection Difficult. read s built there Is no approprif-|py the most approved methods will ; b = 3 centered in Washington. “Furthermore, the state of C: not alone suffice. It is the use the Z ’ ‘:" “l'; “;z":'x‘“ nectéeut, which has had considerab! road recelves upon completion which ) = . According to Fred H. Caley. secre- | expartance with the gas tax, raporis Jonging the life of the road surface | Aetermines whether it can ; e o Aty Aty | much aiMeulty in checking up the ! ly be made to serve the moto = sociation, the gas tax idea In its PY Ahicidiug dbdrom the seslug Tavs a genuinaly good road. 4 \ present form is merely an experi- | Statements of gasollne dealers, re- of the sun uprooted and de-{ 3 n ch e o N stroyed during the construction work, | . In one instance whare a million- | o ment and should not be further en- :‘;“r::xgrn}ndr«;‘l‘lln?n(:Feln:x ;Tcda‘;?;: lox: The result is, of course, 8 wonderful ; 401IAr stretch of highway was bullt | gutspedy nathiS nRNiibeenEproY e Florlda, wh s i rond of smooth surface, but one that |amid great cheers no conslderation | [ 5 S 1 rable. v .n Florida, where the tax wes In- Te Abvolutaly "t the ‘merey of the | WAn made for the shoulders of the | . > K Our investigation shows that the | G133 ent of the tax 1s divided equal elements and therefore due for|road. This feature of the job wan | i ~ > : increase In the number: of states | [0 CERt 0L tNC NN OO 0o ot shorter life. jattended to “by degrees.” hut a hard ! /i e adopting the gas tax is not the re- >_¢“:on é a 'fl;un es of o e u' Doubtless the driver who travels| Winter intervened and disturbed the | [ = = = = 2 !né!‘ ntl' a demnnduior a more‘»q;n. with no definition as to the use o these new r s and suffers = - s - Zubie forim ARSI at bbbt L B ] off 3 o atrain from the constant glare can |9rove over the new o = among states.” Mr. Caley maid. “it|, Qlath Sert ts Deing Tale omi e joture the damage to the road sur-|SPTing. only to find the surface| |I . y 2 s Was a foregone conclusion that when | g% road bullding and mainte ace by reason of its exposure e e o b 9 — » G e T e Sme . | mance. but even with assurance of the i A | ucks, e over- 3 e e - o i = ¢ the hottest rays of the sun. As A T K e Y amyner | e : | | TnE e it "its boundary Ver. | this, the motorist is in the position h 2 i the high epartment de to . % achusetts would get on the ban: d e S M metica has boen toe busy bulld- | cense builaing ood roads™ for a | b yagon. But the oxeranxious IeRis-| o takes the stand that the auts- ing roads to know how to build them ! few days until the dlsintegrating ) 3 lators In Massachusetts made & m so that ther will have a chance to|road had ben repaired. | [ ¢ take in trylng o put one over on |TObUS hAs BeCh B CXUENCS e deliver real service, But a certain | BUt then It was tooulate. The holes & kv gonn cticut with a 2-cent tax: the (SNOUBH to encourage definite ldeas Rumber of errors are becoming ob- K Weré patched up. but unless the mo- ate motorists themselves raised | In_regard to its regulation, rather on to welght. The Tons of gas per than experimentation. Tha whole vious, and progressive highway offi- | torist traveled the road in -mmm-:gI an immediate objection, and through | (100 FXRECRERSUGT 208, Migng \ but the cream of cars he was not the efforts of the Massachusetts SR e e RealoviNEMD o0k At D) State Automobile Association, afii- | SNOUER to determine whether it i situation. likely to belleve he was traveling |is under construction. It was calcu- | & h O ks Of the Now York state]OVer & “new” road. Tneed S oo faniance. tnat "tars ‘proc- [NAMED TRUCK SECRETARY |HAULING BY TRUCK PAYS.| AUTO TRADE IN CHINA. |stea with“the National Matorists' | 01 (e, FIERE track, EXpermeniation highway department. for instance, A number of Tighway engincers ng out 26 per ecent| R, : o e | o Assoclation, subjected the 1aw 10| qr ‘gwner, should not be tolerated the Vintos Which ‘nables them o | being bullt are mot properly “cured 5 3 ;|- F. Loomis Honored by U. S.|Profits in Lower Trausportation |Progress in Motor Transportation|, “This will lead to a clearer deini- | &0 18,5 £300 o' ivantanen of keep track of the true surface condi- | At least. traffic is permitted to pass| meant that the motorist was tion of the principles involved in the !y, gag tax—to the motorist—that the i | over them before they have actually for What he Auto Commerce Chamber. Cost of Potato Trade. | There S8hown. process of taxing motorists for the | ihe & 3 tions of its main highways. If a road | o e rnount of fuel they use. and will | National Motorists’ Association i | Eoatanly Shaws tob Beoct un incetaes| e invested In good road | Baward F. Loomls of Springfield.| Lower transportatl P tends discouraging any such propo- AR e ; | E D on costs may be rogress in motor transportation|encourage the blocking-of proposals | t¢nds discouraging any e in surface irregularition through the |, f "UMONT SLuait type, ars vire: |, There are many instances where |Mass. has been appointed mecretary [obtained by hauling potatoes by mo- |in China Is forecast in an sconomic | f0F & federal tax on gu P |aiadin, Conmreun let's met onsthin ppite of the Motor Truck Committee of | tor truck, according to the following | survey of China published by the i z tmmediately. {ally spoiled within a week after they | SUPPUSS, TR0 O o O Cout. 1€ a very . are laid, either through sudden ex- peton, the Natfonal Automobile Chamber of | item in the Dairymen's League: | e e o Hhe ey el DOInts Fe. | osure to the clements or too much | Sould be possible to do the haullng | Commerce to succeed F. /W. Fenn.| <F.O.Simeson of the famous Aroos- | SOTMIssion on commerce and marine | exponents would have us bell LIFTING PEDESTRIANS ho economy in postponing the recon- | traffic. o’} u‘.' :o-' and then only after ?r‘-, who has entered the truck bu: took potato-growing section of Malne, | ©f the American Bankers Associa-|the publicity which the National 2 ditloning of @ road that has been | There 18 no question that the lack of has been miven some ateention | Mr. Loomis was graduated from Am- | has 160 acres devoted & Motorists' Assoclation Intends giving| There are hundreds of opportun - EEa herst in 1917, and after service wn here is probably no fleld in which | this fact will doubtless encourage |ties for giving tired pedestriane o' e ! curing concrete s has been greatly | atlowed to becoms rSus i responaibie for the bad condition of a | 50 that its deterioration does not e | o™ gpringfieid Republican became | ket, producing 34,000 barrels of pota- | American _msnufacturers have a!the idea of blocking any federal tax |suburbanties whose only mode af con Deviee Telln Story. | number of these roads built but a few | COUrage further damag msna; 9 o ging editor of the New London | toes & year. and found it impossible | stronger relative position In China proposals until more light is shed | veyance is thelr legs or a streat car The usual attitude is that if the | years ago, and that too much haste in |, KeePing the good roads sood is the | 0y ""'The committee which guldes|to deliver the potatoes In seasoi than in the supply of motor cars,”|on what the states are doing in this |a Iift every week. Simply keep yo ay. road is in bad condition better let | rushing them Into service is a principal | DiE task of the day, otherwise the|ihe motor truck activities of the| “On account of the road grade be- |8ays the report. “Apparently 80 per | connection. eyes open and when you s it g0 10 pleces before spending money | cause of sudden and regrettable dete- | 000 TofRCe boom Wil lsava the o Y in b Fance” “utch, re! 8! chamber consists of: Windsor T.| tween farm and railroad, one team of | Cent of the motor cars now in use California and Maryland are al-|chance push out the clutch on'it, but the Vialog test shows that | rioration. = e inheritance of new BUl|White (White). chairman: C. H.|horses oould only haul 30 barrels of |in China are of American make. The ready taking steps to reduce or wipe | to the curb and pick them up. the more surface irregularities there A point which has been particu- | {0 0f the roads—the motorist— Browning (International Harvester),! potatoes at a trip. It would have good-roads movement s spread! & | out entire'y the conventiona] regis- | will bring people’s blessings on your are per mile the greater the rate of | larly noticeable fs the illogical plan | the user bf the FoRforrine MOTOrSIC | b, C. Fenner (Mack), David 8. Lud- | taken 1200 working days with one and the next few years will doubtiess | tration fecs In the bellef that the own head, will increase the i » depreciation will be. | of dispatching over the old and new | 0 e e e lly leawe | lum * (Autocar), Robert- O. Patten|team—just a little more than three |see a great extenslon in c is not only ample for all in the world and at the For (he person ‘who wants proof |portions of a road trecks heavily | ETCRt, WOV J2 (Pierce-Arrow), M. L. Pulcher (Fed- | years—to haul the potato crog to|of road: roadbullding and otherwise, 5 of this it {s only necessary to ob-|loaded with materials and supplies | 3 eral) and E. A. Willlams, jr. 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