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 pur- 
poses, $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 ex- 
pended 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 re- 
quirements 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-