To this proposition, the congressman gave an emphatic "No. French said that under no consideration should highway districts assume that the federal government will time reimburse them for moneys they may expend, or that the federal government will at some future time step into the highway districts and build an equal amount of highways.
Mr. French says that neither of these assumptions should be made for the federal government will not do it. He says that the only way in which the federal government will cooperate on a 50-50 basis is upon such projects as are approved and the moneys must be made available by both the federal government and the state or highway districts.
Mr. French said that the members of the Idaho delegation are supporting the proposition of utmost liberality in highway work, and that highway districts will need to await their turn in the matter of actual road construction, so far as the cooperative program is concerned.
"This will mean, I am sorry to say, that some highway districts in Idaho and all over the country will need to hold up on their bond issues, and not sell their bonds until the road building program can catch itself."
At the convention, the American Legion members in the Centralia armistice day parade had halted and were marking time when the first shots were fired into their ranks. 