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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1924 21 MOTORISTS HELP MAKE SANE LAWS Urged to Report Traffic Rules Tourists Motor tourists will have a new duty to perform as they travel to and fro across the land from now on if they are willing to aid a plan evolved by the American Automobile association to pro- mote uniformity of traffic regulations and provide better motoring laws gen- erally. It appears that a main difficulty in the way of effective uniformity of traf- fic regulations and motor vehicle laws is the unfamiliarity of one section of the country with conditions prevailing in another, and it is the opinion of A. A. A. officials that uniformity would be several steps nearer a reality if auto- mobilists would familiarize themselves with the conditions under which other. folk operate their cars. According to President Thos. P. Henry, of the A. A. A. heads of traf- fic bureaus in many prominent cities are now studying conditions in other cities with a view to determining whether or not they themselves are on the wrong track. If motor tourists would make a similar effort to study conditions as they find them in various parts of the country and make recommendations for improve- ments accordingly, the main stumbling block to uniformity, Mr. Henry points out, would be eliminated. "With respect to uniformity," says Mr. Henry, "the country is faced with a problem of first eliminating the sort of situation which makes the people of one city ignorant of the motor regu- lations in force in another. When we have removed this feature it should be a simple matter to do away with the unnecessary regulations because every- body in every section of the country will know what regulations are neces- sary. "As matters stand, uniformity is vir- tually blocked by reason of the fact that the motorist from California thinks his regulations are the best that can be provided for him. Likewise the man in New York. Neither may suspect that somewhere in between their respect- ive states there may be methods of regu- lation superior to those in the west or the east. "But how are the bulk of the nation's motorists to know what is going on in other sections of the land unless the tourists themselves who have intimate touch with the subject make their ob- servation known? "Traffic officials are making some im- portant discoveries in their tours of in- vestigation, but the motor tourist could do even more for the nation's motoring. "The motorist is the person who knows whether the laws are working properly, and when he tours he has an unique opportunity to get an entirely new viewpoint on the whole subject. When he returns from a trip on which he has discovered important improve- ments in traffic regulation, he should re- port the facts to his local automobile club immediately. The information would then be tabulated and forwarded to A. A. A. headquarters in Washington. "I am of the opinion that useless or even dangerous laws and regulations ex- ist In many parts of the country without the local public being fully aware of it, and that sane idéas which should be standardized have not been brought to the fore.- "With the opening of the travel sea- son it is hoped that automobile tour- ists will assist the A. A. A. in the work of 'clearing' these facts by studying traf- fic conditions as they find them and by speaking up." GOODYEAR TIRES TO CARRY TOURIST ARMY For the seventh consecutive year Goodyear tires will equip the pas- senger carrying fleet of the Yellow- stone National Park Transportation company, which last year conveyed more than 40,000 people through America's great national playground. Addition of sixty new ten-passenger buses this year brings the Yellow- stone fleet total up to 224 motor vehicles. This included 24 seven-pas- senger cars as well as the ten-pas- senger buses. Introduction of motor buses as a mode of park transportation began in 1917 when the sound of the creak. ing leather springs of the old stage coaches in use up to that time was replaced by the motor's exhaust echo- ing along the rocky roadways of the scenic wonderland. An average total tire mileage for a park season from June to Septem- ber reaches 2,750,000 and because much of the road surfacing is of vol- canic origin composed of rough, sharp substances, tires are put to a severe wearing test. Selection of the Goodyear All- Weather Tread tire is due, park offi- cials say, not only to the tire's wear- ing qualities but to its ability to de- liver positive traction under all road and weather conditions. Goodyear not only supplies the tire needs of the Yellowstone Park fleet, but the buses and cars of two other national parks, Yosemite and Grand Canyon as well. Renewal of the tire contract with Yosemite for the second vear was made this spring, while the ten buses and ninety seven-passenger automobiles of Grand Canyon will 'tart out their fourth year on Good- year equipment. Other nationally known bus fleets using Goodyear tire equipment ex- clusively include the Fifth Avenue Coach company, New York; Detroit Motorbus company, Chicago Motor- bus company and St. Louis Motor- bus company. The first class to study balloon tire repairing has been graduated from the Goodvear Tire Repair school at Akron, 0. This new course was recently ~dded to the list of supjects taught 'nthe school for tire repairmen. One of the oldest of its kind in the country, the Goodyear school has ~raduated several thousand students since it was launched to give dealers an oonortunity to learn practical tire repairing. Students from Sweden, India, Hol- 'and, Africa and the Dutch East In- dies and other parts of the globe have received diplomas from the school. "EXPECT GREAT THINGS" "Expect Great Things," the slogan with which the Cadillac V-63 was an- nounced, has been adopted by leading editors and special writers on business and social conditions as the keynote for 1924. It reflects the attitude both of the automotive industry and of general business as it enters the new year. These Are Persons Who Should Not Drive Cars Persons who should not drive :-- While intoxicated persons and chil- dren under fifteen years of age, (un- less accompanied by the owner of the car or a licensed chauffeur), are prohibited by the law from operating an automobile in Illinois, common sense suggests a number of other classifications of persons who should not attempt to drive a car: 1. Persons whose height does not permit their reaching the controlling pedals easily. 2. Persons who have not sufficient strength to operate control levers easily and positively. 3. Epileptics or others subject to fits or fainting spells. 4. Persons who do not know or understand the traffic laws, ordinary rules of thé road and other safety provisions. 5. Persons with dangerously defec- tive hearing or eyesight. 6. Cripples or persons minus arms or limbs whose defects interfere with their safe control of an automobile. 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