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•inirSUy, Koremto44rl!M9 •------""a**"** 2: 'ARM adviskk'B COMMENTS -J* y*" -1' - . \ T-rf ^ McHWEY PEAINBEALER fUllliam Tammeus. Parm Artnlsof) * The Chicago Motor Club ia sponsoring a program to* Increase £1® gas tax one cent,-to modern- 4|§>e 3.000 miles of trunk highway leaving rural roads completely oil; of the picture. In the last legis- Iative session, a bill lost where two cents were to be added per gallon and rural _ roads were to get 12V/2 percent. City opponents, including truck owners, defeated the bill chiefly on the basis that rural road administration in the townships is too inefficient t# deserve state money. Here are some facts: Gas tax Tf>w goes--a third to each of state roads, city streets and county roads. Illinois township roads, of which there are 75,000 miles out of the total pf 120,000 miles in the state, get no help from gas tax, but instead are maintained by general local tax. True. $15,000'0<M> was voted in two different years,. b«t this was from the general , state treasurry and sponsored by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Sural roads include 61 percent of le milage on- which 10 percent of the population lives and carries 24 percent of the states ton miles of - traffic. In the last two year? over' twenty states increased their gas . tax. Only one other state has as low a gas tax as Illinois. The rest run up as high as nine cents. In some states, truck operators claim they pay $1,500 per year In total taxes per operating unit. Railroads pay $1,100 per year for JF*ry un*t they roll, including the vaboose, and build and maintain •their own right of way, buck their own snow and everything. In Governor Stevenson's address before the I.A.A. convention last week, he claimed sponsorship of the two cnt gas tax raise for Illinois along with the I.A.A. and stated that he thought farmers were reasonable in their request for 12%% percent of th two cent increase. This statement was made in lig;ht of the fact 24 percent of the ton miles of traffic on all roads In Illinois is on strictly rural roads. They thould get rightfully 24 percent. Chicago newspapers left this out in reuorting his speech. Farm Bureau members have a stake in this thing. If a one cent tax goes through for modernizing trunk highways, we wouldn't stand the chancP of a leaf in g. whirlwind of getting any money later for rural roads. The state's Xfcppulation is 8.000,000 living on forms, counting four to the family. Above 700,000 of the 800,000 are Farm Bureau members and their families. The McHenry County Farm Bureau board, the delegates in the eleventh district represnting" 13,- 000 Farm Bureau members in this area, and the state convention voted solidly against any increase in gas tax unless rural roads received a decent share. ^ Just about every pound of milk, «very grain of com and wheat, and every pound of meat produced in Illinois, along with our children going to school, half of WHfth will , find Jobs in the city, all depend on I our rural roads and make up this' 24 percent of the ton miles of! traffic. With Chicago's present attitude i continuing, of the Chicago Motor j Club proposal is representative, I some day they would be coming j r»ut and stopping their cars along j W>*r nice highways to scrounge | through the bushes for something I to eat. For help in their factories, l thev would have to cptch natives and put shoes on them, teach them to read and write if they > wanted office help; etc. This may sound nuts, but just get out you*- hietory book if your meraory is short and read up on Rome and Oreese and the Dark Ages that followed. At the Woodstock meeting held H jJft' the Chicago Motor Club last | r ^Thursday, Senator Paddock and! Representative Pearson told those j present that they would have none! of their proposal and wiuld vote i tOr no proposal unless it Included i the farmer and his roads. j All facts herein were taken from thp notes of H. R. Kiltz,' Farm Bureau representative from the eleventh I.A.A. district on the recent road study cotamittee whose printed report is now available at the Farm Bureau office }n ^Woodstock. AUXILIARY NOTES >4 Alchemist's Dream Tbe . goal which the alchemist fought in vain has now become a itark reality. The atom bomb, t^ artificially prepared radl*activ< Isotopes, or the atomic fission of today are successful illustrations of the unsuccessful attempts of yesteryear at transmutation tf base -metals into gold. £ • - w -- . . ' v • Y , ;•+' 'Vsr' " - \ V • « ; , ? - : • •• '* • i ' '•» \ •* ; V' • *• •' ' 1-• i - . %n,:' ^ ^ il Not if... You've tried ONE tankful of Marathon "Cat" Gasoline Not if On Nov. 14, the monthly meeting of the V. F. W. Auxiliary waa eld. A report was given by Helen! knight on the Girl Scout troop which is sponsored by the Aux-! Uiary. Mrs. Knight and Charlotte j Mehr are the scout leaders of this i troop. It was gratifying to hear of i j^the many worthwhile activities that the Girl Scouts carry on. One thing in particular was the bake sale proceeds, which were turned over to the polio fund. Delores Aufrecht has been appointed Americanism chairman to work with the high school students on the annual essay contest. On Armistice Day, President Encel Lock, hospital chairman, Lina Kilday and Luella Graham went to Downey hospital to help ^distribute cigarettes and candy to ** the veterans. The monthly rfarty for the veterans was attended by Lina Kilday, Ercel Lock, Betty Houck. Eleanor Peterson, Afleen {fogan. Pauline Pries, Luella Crahaui. Bea Buergler and Flor- ®nce Smith. Appreciation is extended to Dorothy Weber, Who also went and entertained the men with piano selections, both old and new. The "ext meeting to be held on Dec. 12 will be a Christmas party, with a pot-luck supper at 7 p.m. you've felt your car purring along in high at slow-traffic speeds that normally keep you shifting into second or low. you've felt the way your car takes off ... quick and smooth and sure of itself... .when you jam your foot to the floorboard. you've felt the confident way it cruises up the toughest hills ... strong, swift and sure. 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