LEGISLATURES OF 43 STATES TO STUDY GAS TAX

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS OCTOBER, 1932

could help us materially by seeing that the reports are properly and completely filled in before being accepted by them.

Our Highway Patrolmen and Maintenance Foremen are sending in reports that could not be obtained from any other source.

Regulations Governing Reconstruction Finance Funds For Arizona Relief

(Continued from Page 9) the county be centralized, rather than scattered. In other words, the Arizona R. F. C. Commission does not wish the county committees to make funds available to three or four or more of the existing agencies. If any county committee thinks there are convincing reasons why it would be desirable to designate more than on agency to act as its administrative agent, such county committee should obtain approval from the State Commission before such designation is made.

(8). The Arizona R. F. C. Commission expects county committees to equate relief with need rather than to set up one inflexible budget or ration which all would receive. For example, on a work relief project, the Arizona R. F. C. Commission would expect the county committee to allot a larger number of days' work to a man with six dependent children than to a single man. It is the hope of the Arizona R. F. C. Commission that county committees will seldom find it necessary to allow more than $15.00 per month to a person from the R. F. C. fund, bearing in mind that the relief extended by this commission is only partial relief. The Arizona R. F. C. Commission requires that in no case may either direct relief or work relief to exceed $24.00 be extended to any individual on one calendar month.

(9) Vouchers for materials used on work relief projects or salaries of engineers and other skilled persons needed for the operation of the work relief projects will not be reimbursed by the State Commission. Vouchers for wages paid to unemployed persons in amounts sufficient to afford them relief will be honored. In populous counties where the investigation of need, budgeting of the family, rotation of work relief and administration of direct relief impose an undue burden upon the County Committee, the State Commission will consider requests for employment of an investigator to be employed by the County Committee and paid from funds made available by the State R. F. C. Commis-sion to the County. Any such employee must have specific qualifications for do-ing relief work, and the appointment may be made only after approval of the re-quest and of the qualifications of the pro-posed employee by the State Commission.

Legislators of Forty-Three States To Study Gas Tax

Forty-three state legislatures will hold regularly scheduled sessions in 1933, and it already appears inevitable that in almost every one of them some effort will be launched either to bring about an increased gasoline tax levy or to divert gasoline tax proceeds from the normal and lawful highway uses to which they should be applied. Confounded with an unquestioned need for unemployment reliefand driven to exorbitant tax cover to strengthen their appeals to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for slices of the $300,000,000 for relief loans to states - legislators are tending to turn first to an established avenue of revenue which is broad and easy and has already been subject to flagrant grabbing, an additional levy on the automobilist.

But they are overlooking the fact that the good gasoline tax horse is by way of being ridden to death, and this once abundant source of public money is gradually being dried up to the serious jeopardy of the important automobile industry. Already, before the new sessions get to their work of hiking and diverting, the average gasoline tax rate for the United States exceeds 5 cents for every gallon sold, a price far above the wholesale value of the product, while multiplication of various levies in some sections has run up the totals to a level above retail value. Motorists are beginning to awaken to the(10) The County Advisory committees of the Arizona R. F. C. Commission are hereby instructed to follow the rule of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that no funds shall be used upon the Federal Aid System of Highways. The projects upon which the funds shall be used for work. relief must all be worthwhile. The determination of projects shall be vested in the Advisory Committees of the counties, subject to the approval and inspection of the Arizona R. F. C. Commission.

(Signed) CLEVE W. VANDKYE, Chairman. J. W. STRODE, Secretary. H. A. CLARKE, Member. GRACE M. SPARKES, Member. DAVE W. FOUNTAIN, Member.

many injustices and the incongruous angles of this means of raising revenue and the inequitable methods of distributing the moneys so collected.

Populist doctrine and demagogic attacks upon ownership of the automobile-a veritable business necessity in the average case-have inclined too many citizens and legislators alike to regard the gasoline tax as something outside the pale of regular taxes, something that can successfully escape the unavoidable trend toward exhaustion, a figurative Bay of Portugal without economic bottom. To aid trade revival in the automobile industry and the oil fields it is patent that revision of gasoline tax rates should be downward from their present too-high level. Unemployment relief is vital and must be legislated, but it is manifestly wrong to wring the life out of specific important industries while lavish tax spending for ordinary political purposes goes on unabated.-Chicago Journal of Commerce.

Tests Show Moderate Speed Saves Money

With a federal tax added to the state tax on gasoline, motorists will find much of interest in studies recently made relative to gasoline consumption of cars at different speeds.

According to the findings of carburetor experts a gallon of gasoline which gives 20 miles to a gallon at a speed of 20 miles an hour may deliver only seven miles at 70 miles an hour.

The table prepared on these studies shows that from 20 to 40 miles an hour the decrease in mileage is only two miles, but as the high speeds are reached the loss of mileage increases.

At 50 miles an hour the tests showed a trifle more than 15 miles to the gallon. while at 60 miles an hour only 12.6 miles were attained.

It is pointed out that the fast driver loses other things than gas at increased speeds. Burning tires and worn out brake linings, in addition to a strain on all parts of the car come with high speed, so that in these times of economic stress it would appear that a more moderate pace on the road not only would be more economical, but safer for the average motorist.

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