266 THE FISCAL PROBLEM IN MISSOURI

expenditures for highways in 1927, however, showed a total
of about $18.6 million, and on a per capita basis the amount
so expended was equivalent to $5.22. Stated differently,
for every dollar of capital expenditures for all other purposes,
 $18.64 was expended for highway capital outlays.
In 1925 out of per capita capital expenditures of $7.70 only
$0.26 was attributable to purposes other than highways.
In that year the state expended approximately $28.61
on account of outlays for highways for every $1 expended
 for all other purposes. Similar analysis might be
made for 1924, but it would only lend additional support to
the conclusion that highway expenditures have predominated
in the capital outlays of the state, particularly since 1923,
and that insufficient attention has been given to other requirements
 during the time when the highway program was
being carried forward at a rapid rate.

TaBLE 83: ToTaLANDPER CaPiTA STATE EXPENDITURES FOR
CarrraL Purposes, Missouri, 1913, 1918, anp 1923-1928
Source: United States Bureau of the Census, Financial Statistics of States series

Year

a".
218
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
“Ono

Total Capital
Fxpanditrivee

,

3
nn

Hizhwavs

11 730,179
9,144
198,275
<1,605
as8
a 69.613

All Other

$473,745
1,216,189
2,135,822
815,607
923,738
949,097
1,018,570
250,708

Per Capita

Ae
1923
1924
1925
1926

CJ
Lon
5.35
7.70
6.47
r on

$3.64
5.12
felt
=n

n.:
0.02
0.23
0.26
0.77
poe
A

1

In 1913 per capita expenditures of the state government
for capital purposes amounted to $0.14, while in 1918 they
amounted to $0.36. In both years there were no capital
outlays for highways, and these per capita figures are there-