Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 130, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1927 — Page 4

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| property, as is their Inalienable right p and privilege, bureaucracy is growing by leaps and bounds until It is a menace to our government and and people. Washington, Franklin and other fathers of the republic fore- / saw this danger and warned against t it, while tho people revolt against , those bureaus that dominate the coun try and suck the substance of the people. Congress and legislatures go on > adding to and multiplying these ’ nuisances." ) ) Dollar for dollar, Indiana taxpayers J are getting more for their money than I their Illinois neighbors, in highway construction. Illinois responding to a demand for better roads approved a bond issue of $6(1,000,000, and then with another of $100,000,000, which could not be used until the original $60,000,000 had been exhausted. Reports indicate that about $40,000,000 ! of the $100,000,000 issue has gone to J help carry out the $60,000,000 prol gram. The cost of eighteen-foot con--1 crete roads built in Illinois last year I average $26,630 a mile. This is about > the Indiana average. A road was let recently in Indiana at a rate of $23,000 a mile where there was little gradI ing to do. Illinois and Indiana spend I approximately the same for construction. In Indiana that is all, except a low maintenance cost on hard surfaced highways. Illinois has to pay interest on the bonds for a long term after the road work is finished. At 5 per cent, enough is paid on the two bond issues each year to build over 300 miles of tighteen-foot concrete roads at the rate of $26,000 a mile. Until two years ago Illinois was going ahead with hard surfaced construction more rapidly than Indiana. The Indiana highway commission, weather permitting, will complete about 250 I miles of new concrete roads this year. Illinois will not build much, if any, more. On a considerable portion of the general work, Indiana requires more substantial construction than Illinois. The Indiana standard is seven inches in the center and nineinch shoulders; Illinois specifies a shoulder but a six inch cent- . than 400 miles of such roads . completed last year. Indiana may not have been quite as ambitions as Illinois in the beginning but it will; probably do more and at an outlay of! many millions less. — Indianapolis | News. (

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