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BUTTERSCOTCH Walnut Ice Cream Phone Highland Park 2404 on a layer of Motor Club Reports Tourist Travel This Year Not Diminished Encouraging | statistics just anâ€" nounced by the Chicago Motor club indicate that motor travel has sufâ€" fered no depression this year, The number of requests for touring inâ€" formation during the first six months of this year increased 53.3 per cent over the same period last year. "In the first six months of 1930 our 64 touring bureaus in Illinois and Indiana answered 198,357 reâ€" quests for routings, information on hotels and camping facilities and other touring data, whereas during the first half of 1929 the requests toâ€" taled 129,368," the motor club pointed out in a statement. ‘"The net inâ€" crease this year was 68,989, or 53.3 per cent. "The ‘increase is actually far greater than appears at first glance. Car owners this year are driving more miles per day and taking longer vacations than ever before. . On long trips the daily average milcage of most tourists is in excess of 300. Only three years ago a daily mileage of 200 was considered satisfactory. "Whereas in former years a large number of motorists asked for routâ€" ings covering. not more than two weeks‘ driving, today they are asking for trips that require three and more weeks. __ Formerly, the Wisconsin lakes or Niagara Falls appeared as reasonable objectives to most vacaâ€" tionists, Today they drive to the naâ€" tional parks of the west or the mariâ€" time provinces of Canada, or mauke an extended tour of the ‘Atlantic seaâ€" board." f Real Progress Within a decade, Americans have pushed their side of the Rio Grande at Brownsville, Tex., three centuries ahead ‘ of the Mexican side. â€" The Country Home. Much Legislation in Last Congress; List _ of Important Bills In the week before adjournment the Senate and House passed a new World War Veterans Relief Act which had the approval of the President, passed the second deficiency approâ€" riation bill including $250,000 for the Law Inforcement Commission withâ€" out limiting its scope to the study of prohibition as Senator Glass wished, and passed the bill defining petty ofâ€" fenses under the Jones Act, excluding from the famous "five and ten" penâ€" alty peddlers of a gallon or less of liquor. In its first regular session the 7ist Congress enacted the followâ€" ing: Authorized â€" a $144,000,000 â€" rivers and harbors improvement program, including a "waterless waterway" for Illinois. ~~ 7 _ Declared the "Star Spangled Banâ€" ner" the official national anthem. gram. Created Federal agencies to gather unemployment data. _ _ o oagl Enlarged the Federal highway conâ€" struction program by $50,000,000. _‘Provided a Bureau of Narcotics in the Treasury. es x â€"Transferred prohibition enforceâ€" ment from Treasury to Justice Revised the tariff, making more than 2,000 rate changes. â€" Ratified the French War Debt setâ€" tlement. Sent Gold Star Mothers on free trips to U. S. cemeteries in France and . England. Increased Spanish War pensions. Reduced the 1929 income tax by 1 per cent. femney (evanire Some major legislation that ‘was not completed in this session inâ€" cludes: Regulation of interstate moâ€" tor bus traffic; suspension of railâ€" road mergers until holding companâ€" ies shall be investigated; operation of Muscle Shoals, either by the govâ€" ernment or by private lease; trial of petty Prohibition violators by U. S. commissioners. _ Appropriated four and a half bilâ€" lion dollars to run the government during the fiscal year 1931. . Carlstrom‘s Opinion Given in Fox Lake Dam Case Is Against Dike The $25,000 appropriated by the last general assembly for repair of the present dam and lock at Emâ€" erald Park near the McHenry dam and lock cannot be used for construcâ€" tion of a dike along the Fox river above McHenry dam, Attorney Gen. Oscar E. Carlstrom has advised the department . of . purchases and conâ€" struction. The request for an opinion disâ€" closes there is no dam at Emerald Park and the department wanted to use the appropriation for the dike to improve navigation in the Fox river and to prevent overflow of property when the water is raised to the height required for navigation purâ€" poses in the Chainâ€"ofâ€"Lakes above this point in Lake county. , The attorney general held this money could not be so used but adâ€" vised the department it is available for repair of the McHenry dam and lock. Doubled the public building proâ€" Thursday, July 31, 1930