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f I ring 1931 Approximately $45,000,000, worth of highway worlc should be com.pleted in 1931, provided the present sources of highway income are not disturbedt Go.Louis L.. Einmerson was in- formed this week by the Division of State Hlighwaysi,. This amfount of construction. would be equivàlent tô 4,5W miles of standard 18-foot pave- ment. Expenditures contemplated for 1931, as outlined by tbe highway depart- ment, are, based upon estimates- of funds that will be available froni federal aid, fromn state motor license fees and -fromn two-thirds of the state's tbree. cent gasoline tax., Under the tentative, inancial set- up presented to Gov. Emmerson the $45,000,000 wôuld be spent1 as follows: 1-43,00000'for new contracts.dur- ing 191; 2-15,000,000 for com- pleting roads placed under contract this year. 0f the $3,000,000 for new contracts, approxiimately $12,375,000 would' bc expended in the Chicago metropolitan area, and $17,665,000 for downstate construction. Th e $15,000,000 of un-j completed projects contracts being carried over froni this year into 1931, include important projects in both downstate and metropolitan areas. 0- -F - - 1 --M &pbu The fact that' children wvho' stop, look and listen before crossing streets will enjoy a merry' Christmas is the lesson, portrayed in the two-color De- cenibee safety poster just issued by the accident prevention departmentý of the :Chicago Motor club to more than 40,000 schoolrooms in this sec-. tion of the inidwest.. The picture graphically.illustrates. the reward that. cornes fromi care and caution. The posters are apart of the motor club's school safety activities, which ':also include the fost ering of the, school boysý' safety patrois andsafety'talks before groups of pupils. Cadillac Distributors Forese:Better Times Reflecting the attitude1 of widely separated sections of. the country: a group 'of Cadillac distributors attend- ing a factory conference recently pre- 'dieted maéaked imrpôvemient in the auto industry during 1931. Gatbering of the Cadillac whole- salers in Detroit inaugurated a series of similar conferences to be held monthly at the factory. The meetings will be conducted by J. C. Chick, general sales manager of the Cadil- lac Motor Car conlpany, in thei interest of still further keepingi Cadillac abreast of, current 'buyers'1 preferences in fine motor cars...- 1 on Inîcrease, Report Pointed indications of a resumptioii of buyîng interest throughôut the nation arec manifest in hundreds of reports on file at the home office of the' Chevrolet Motor 'eompany re- vealing that the reception accorded, the niew 1931 Chevrolet Six duting the early days of the national show-, ing had only one paraillel in tbe his- tory of the ,compa ny. To meet the needs of dealers, the manufacturing orgaffization consisting of twenty do- mestic plants. is working on a tenta- tive porduction. schedule, for the month of 'Novýember of more' than 60,000 cars. Despite the -fact'that this is a high goal for the monôlth, the output of cars bas already fallen con- siderably behind orders already book-. ed, the sales division reported. BIG LABOR -BILL An estimated $26,000,000 of the state of Illinois' -revenue was *p'aid during the cürrent-year to labor en- gaged in the construction of roads and buildings for the state, Gov. Louis L. Eninerson was informed to- day. The figures we!re obtained in a check and an analysis of records 41 the division of highways, the depart- ment of public 'welfare and the divi- s ion' of supervisingarchitect. More than 30,000' men were employed di- rectJy and indirectly as a résuit of the sta 'te's road construction and ini- stitutional building prograni. ,Are Marvels of Scieoc0 IIôw long le an~ inch? A carpenter answers the questio~n with the 'simple statemnt that it is one-twelfth of a foot. Tho uatke- matician instantly 'p.ctures ma theoïetic- ai iviio luspce,., having. only ':one dimension--length. But, put the ques- tion to, officiais of the Skokie Motor CO., local" Ford dealer, and they w ill These gage blocksï, little oblongs of: shining -metal, are the, world's most' sensitive .measuing --instruments-s4o sensitive that the heat from one's bands expands tbem in but five sec- onds. Their use in the plants of the Ford. Motor Conmpany makes pos- sibile the amazing precision with which parts, for the Ford. car are manu- factured in volume production. A ma ster- set of the- gages com-' prises eighty-one blockrs, each of a different size. Promn these eighty- on iecs PICblocks can belcimbie' to measure 120,000 different lengths in consecutive steps of one ten-thou- sandth part of an inch. .A trip through the 'Ford plant will reveal hundreds of the most careful inspections and measurements of parts in production.' Each of the parts must be accurate to within an infinite decimal fraçtion part of an inch, and, to insure that they are, they are tested by various kinds. of gages. An.Ideal Cýhristmas Pres;ent NORTH SH4IE C.HEVROLIET SALIES DIRECTLY OPPOSITE DEPOT 611 Main St., Wilmette Phone Wilmette 4414 PhOÛÇI 4414, It Pleaýes t& Entire Family 611