Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 231, Decatur, Adams County, 29 September 1923 — Page 3

A 1 ’ “ Lead U» Not Into Temptation nir father, kindly point the path, "t we should go astray: th ou our comforter and guide Along life’* P"< rtm way< BriF ht light’ alure on every side.Show us the one true light Shining from from heaven’s portal fair , . Across the world’s dark night,, Slrt et voices call, subtle as sweet,- ‘ Our Father, may we hear They still small voice, more beautiful More tender and more dear. Hands beckon us. pleasures of sense; Our Father hold our hand And lead us past temptation’s power Toard heaven,- our hearts’s homeland. _ -o IVORY AND BLACK. Intricately carved ivory roses, joined. form the girdle of a very lovely frock of black velvet. INVESTIGATE CHIROPRACTIC For Your "A A HEALTH R Phone 628 ever Keller’s 73 Jewelry Store Calla niade da ’ \ o/’ty?alth.y or night CHAKLES & CHARLES, D. C. Lady Attendant. JEFF LIECHTY, AUCTIONEER 18 years experience will get the high dollar. 1 have not increased my commission. Call Berne, phone numbers 46 or 248 at my expense. 211 eod 1 Crystal—Oct. 4-5-6 “Human Wreckage” with Mrs. Wallace Reid ■ FREE! Ticket To The AUTO RACES Will be Given To Any Adult Purchasing $20.00 Worth of Merchandise. Children’s Ticket Can be Secured with a $7.50 Purchase. The list of merchants who will give FREE tickets is as follows: STEPLER BROS. TIRE SHOP ACE BATTERY & TIRE SHOP PEOPLES SHOE STORE DECATUR SERVICE CO. A, W. TANVAS E. F. GASS & SON HOLTHOUSE GARAGE SHANAHAN-CONROY AUTO CO. D. M. HENSLEY & SON YAGER BROS. FURNITURE STORE J, T. MYERS CLOTHING CO. PUMPHREY JEWELRY STORE PORTER 4 BEAVERS BEAVERS 4 FRYBACK FURNITURE STORE BOSTON STORE DURKINS GARAGE CENTRAL GROCERY KELLERS JEWELRY STORE ED ELLSWORTH—CLOVERLEAF GARAGE ELBERSON’S SERVICE STATION GO TO THE RACES Saturday Oct. 13

MUCH MONEY IS (Continued from Page One) Republican* are in power, John D. William*, the director of the highway ha* been, and has the reputation of being absolutely square and honest. And the commissioners themselves, as far as can be ascertained, do not take part in politics as a body. But when the politicians see such vast sums of money in sight, they get busy, and the politics in the commission begins with the laborers employed, and extends up to the technical department. The First Director. The first director, L. H. Wright, was a politician. He was appointed because he had taken part in politics and had delivered the votes for the Republicans. Governor McCray appointed Lawrence Lyons to succeed Mr. Wright, amlj Lawrence Lyons was an active politician, serving as district chairman and later as Republican state chairman. When Lyons retired as director. Governor McCray was determined to appoint Mat Brown of Lake county, another politician, who had been one of Mr. McCray’s campaign managers. Protests were made against th*e appointment of Brown, and finally, the board of highway commissioners called on Governor McCray and informed him that he persisted in the appointment of Brown as director —the law provides that the commission shall appoint the director, and not the Governor—they would resign, and

the Governor reluctantly gave in, and the commission appointed Mr. Williams. And, if the politicians will let Mr. Williams alone, there will be no trouble in the highway commission’s department. Politics will not build roads, and this vast sum of money at the disposal of the highway commission will be more properly handled if the various political organizations who are ’ trying to get other small-bore politicians jobs will keep their hands off. Os the more than $25,000,000 that the highway commission has spent, since it began to operate in 1919, there is a record. This record, taken from the annual reports of the commission and from the books of the , state auditor, show that this money was spent for construction of roads and bridges, for the maintenance and keeping up of roads and bridges, for administration and for transportation and equipment. The latter comes under the head of department of trans--1 portation, which has direct charge of all motor vehicles belonding to the state highway commission, and also all surplus war materials transferred to the state by the national bureau of public roads. The commission also has a garage at 510 West Market street, Indianapolis, for repair of state motor vehicles and for the overhauling of surplus war material. Division of $25,000,000. The manner in which this $25,000,000 was divided between the different departments is shown by the following figures for fiscal year taken from the books and records of the highway commission: Construction, 1920 $1,535,050.65 Construction, 1921 3,439,926,12 Construction. 1922 3.166.455.86 Eleven months, 1923 4,213,752.32 Total construction $12,355,184.95 Maintenance, 1920 $ 541,948.19 Maintenance, 1921 4,377,243.84 Maintenance, 1922 2,398,366.50 Eleven months, 1923 2,549,635.12 Total maintenance $9,867,193.65 Transportation capital equipment, 1920 $ 260,070.57 1921 314,952.75 1922 878,137.08 Eleven months, 1923 954,563.56 Total transportation and capital equipment $2,507,723.98 Administration and miscellaneous expenditures, 1920 $ 171,565.75 1921 33,999.23 1922 - 48,856.50 Eleven months, 1923 . 47,808.08 * Total administration and miscellaneous expenditure) .....$ 302,229.56 Expenditures, 1919 116,020.14 Grand total $25,048,352.26 The source of the money tnat flows through, the state highway commission is a state tax, the automobile lii cense fees, the inheritance tax, the tax on gasoline, and from federal and I county aid. The highway commission spends, for illustration, a certain amount of money and this is matched Iby the federal government, and un'der certain conditions, the county in which the road is built or maintained reimburses the highway commission for the money that is spent in that locality. Federal Highway Act. The government enacted what is known as the federal highway act, July 11, 1916. This act provided for a partnership with the states on a fifty-fifty basis in the construction of

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interstate and Intercounty roads. The Indiana legislature in 1917 enacted a state highway law, which was rewritten and re-enacted in 1919 for the purpose of providing money to obtain Indiana’s apportionment of federal aid under the federal act, ami to provide a state highway system that would accommodate the traffic demands of the state and at the same time develop the entire state. Under the state act of 1919, a system of state highways has been established, which reaches practically every county seat and every town and city of more than 5,000 population. Thia system is connected with the federal aid highways of other states, thus forming a system of Improved national highways. Approximately 4,000 miles of state roads have been designated and added to the state system. The federal government has approved all this mileage, except about 100 miles, and has agreed with the state of Indiana to share one-half the cost of roads and bridges on the approved system. Under the provisions of the national act of 1916, the government appropriated $75,000,000 for roads in the years 1917, 1918,1919. 1920, and 1921, one-half of which was to go to the states, and the maximum participation of the United States would be SIO,OOO a mile, not including the cost of bridges of more than twenty feet in clear span. In other words, the government would pay the states slo,olos a mile toward the cost of building a state road. On February 28, 1919, an amendatory act was approved, in which the following additional amounts were appropriated for the fiscal years as follows: 1919, $50,000,000; 1920, $75,000,000; 1921, $75,000,000, and the limitation of payments by the government was increased from SIO,OOO to $20,000 a mile. This money was made available to the various states only if the conditions outlined in the federal law were complied with. One of these conditions was that the money must be expended through a highway commission. Appropriated to Indiana From these various appropriations, there has been appropriated to Indiana the following amounts: Year Amount 1917 $ 135,747.62 1918 271,495.24 1919 1.756,149.60 1920 2,654,846.88 1921 2,678,053.27 Total $7,415,292.61 November 9, 1821, there was approved another national act in which the congress was authorized to appropriate the following amounts for various succeeding fiscal years ending June 30: Amount Appropriated Year Appropriated. to lindiana. 1922 $75,000,000 $1,958,855.41 1923 50,000,000 1,305,903.61 1924 65,000,000 1,692,437.05 1925 75,000,000 « $4,957,196.07

No money has yet been apportioned by the federal government to cover the authorization for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925. However, if there is appropriated the sum outlined in (he law, it is expected that Indiana’s apportionment will amount to approximately $1,958,855. The total federal aid that has been apportioned to Indiana is $12,372,488.68 and if the amount received for the year 1925 is as expected, Indiana will have received under these laws a total of $14,331,343.68 from the federal government. This money must be spent on the construction of highways and bridges. Before any of this money is actually set aside to the credit of the state, certain provisions which the very carefully outlined in the law, must be complied with. The final part of these provisions is called “an agreement.” The meaning of this agreement is that the state must, in the' letting of conracts, comply wilt certain regulations laid down by the federal government, the state to pay out the money on the roads and the government to reimburse the stale for the money thus expended. Contracts Under The Plan Indiana now has under agreement contracts amounting to $8,027,890,01. and this will increase each month as the various contracts are placed under agreement. The federal law provides that actual money will be paid to the state on completed work only. It is stated, however, that this does not mean that an entire contract must be complete before any money can be.paid on it, but that no money can be received on materials placed on the ground —the material must be actually incorporated in the road before they can be paid for, Indiana has actually received from the United States a total of $4,-404,944.86 up to date. It is expected that almost $750,000 will be received from the government on what are called progress vouchers which will be sent through in a stort time. These progress vouchers represent work that is

progressing and for which the state has advanced the money. If the amount estimated for 1925 is actually apportioned. It la expected that Indiana will receive $9,926,498.82 under the provisions of the two federal laws, In addition to ■ the amount already received. In or- i der to do this. Indiana must place under agreement with the federal government $6,303,453.67 in addition to that already under agreement This means that the Indiana highway commission must make additional contracts amounting to approximately $13,000,000 and that these must be awarded before June 27, 1927. These figures refer only to the amount of money that will be given to the state of Indiana by the federal government under the conditions imposed by the federal law. The same amount of money must be paid by the taxpayers of Indiana in order to get federal aid. Thus, if the government pays the state of Indiana $14,331,343.68 on contracts that must be awarded before June 27, 1927. | the taxpayers of Ibdiana must match ; this with another $14,331,343.68. o— ———— NOTICE To The Donors Os Canned And Fresh Fruits And Vegetables To The Adams County Memorial Hospital As it is impossible for me to thank each one of you personally for your I gifts of fresh and canned fruits, i vegetables, etc. I take this way of I expressing my thanks and aprecia- ■ tion. EMILIE C. CHRIST, Supt. Adams County Memo. Hospital Wed & Sat. —»—o WOODMAN NOTICE All Woodmen assessments are due and must be paid on or before Sept. 30. M. N. SCHMTZ 2303tx s_s—s—WANT AHR EARN—’—s—s s—s—s—WANT AOS EARN—s—s—s

HUDSON ANNOUNCES Sharp Price Reductions FOR 1924 SEASON EFFECTIVE AT ONCE Get These New Low Prices Before Purchase of any Car. Rumors to the Contrary Notwithstanding the only HUDSON we will produce in 1924 will be The Car You Know So Well—the Famous HUDSON Super-Six And More Than Ever It Will Be Known as The World’s Outstanding Motor Car Value Come See Them P. KIRSCH & SON North Second Street Telephone 335

SILVER EMBROIDERY. Silver embroidery is extremely popular both on evening frocks and those for afternoon. $ -$— f WANT a” )S EARN-I$ $— $

No strange weeds 7 in this garden of S beautiful fall shirts B Tlic same Ihinq that keeps weeds out ol a garden also keeps undesirable patterns out of a Shirt slock —WORK. Long hours of travelling, selecting and weeding out are responsible for this slock ol new Fall Shirts the most varied and beautiful we think outside of New -York City. Collars attached —Collars to match—new I * workings with colors and lots of work to keep the prices down to where they are today. Superior Fall Shirts are here u Fall Neckwear—Fall Pajamas Fall Hose New Caps ■fefub-T-Aye-tb Go J BETTER CLOTHES FOR LESS J MONEY - ALWAYS- • DECATUR - INDIANA*

Pile fabric are l» lnr hired in fall fashion display*. Short-length coats of cloth an- frequently mistaken for fur, so cleverly woven is the fabric. - —■ —o ' — $ $ --$ WANT ADS EARN $ s—s

for Dinner wear. A dinner frock of distinction Is made of alternate stripes of gold metal cloth and flame colored georg- ■ ette. —-— * “ — s—.s—s—WANT ADS EARN—I—I-l