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REAL PROGRESS

IN WAR ON TAX

DIVERSION TOLD

Voters in Four States Prepare to Vote on Amendments.

By THOMAS P. HENRY At long last, real progress is being made in the battle against diversion, which, during the last dozen years, has resulted in the misappropriation of more than a billion dollars of motor vehicle tax revenues.

This fall voters in four states— Alabama, California, Indiana and Nevada—are going to the polls to vote on amendments to their state constitutions which may earmark motor vehicle tax revenues for highway expenditures. In addition, many state legislatures which met this year, either materially reduced the amount of their diversion or adopted legislative enactments to curb the practice.

Federal Law a Help

A potent factor in the war against diversion has been the Federal aid act clause, which provides for withholding part of a state's Federal apportionment when the state is found guilty of diversion in violation of the act. Under this law New Jersey already has been penalized $205,000, while Pennsylvania and Maryland escaped only by hastily restoring diverted money to the

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road fund. Warnings also have gone out to several other states, and the | bureau is closely scrutinizing high- | way accounts in other states. | The fight against diversion has | been brought to its present intensity, | not only because of the motorists’ | sense of injustice inherent in such | a practice, but because every dollar | diverted from the road fund holds | up te that extent the program of | building safety into our highways. |

Roads Behind Vehicles |

It is generally recognized that | roads today are far behind the de- | velopment of the vehicle that uses | them, and diversion is postponing to | a tragic degree the possibility of | bringing the road plant up to proper | standards. ‘Meanwhile, lives are being lost daily because of narrow winding roads, inadequate sight distances, and other hazards in the road itself which might be eliminated more rapidly if the entire revenue from motor taxes were spent on improvement. The position of motor transport in | regard to the use of special moter | taxes is simple and eminently sound. namely, that these are special taxes, | levied for a special purpose, and can | | be justified so long as they are] applied for that purpose alone.

CONGESTION DELAYS | TRAFFIC, EXPERT SAYS

Auto Speed Inferior to ‘Horse-and-Buggy,’” Claim.

Moulder,

Another way to provide automobile comfort, Chevrolet finds,

to offer extra large luggage room will have ample foot space.

The

is in the trunk (top) so passengers “syncromatic shift” on Cadillac

and LaSalle models for 1938 (lower) adds a new pleasure to motoring.

| The shift lever is now on the steering column.

TRUCK SALES TOUCH NEW HIGH, REPORT

International Business Is

Ahead of 1936.

“The year most notable in the history of In- | ternational motor. trucks, recording

new high marks in sales, engineer- | said P. V.|

{ing and expansion,” manager, motor truck sales, International Harvester Co. “Establishing gains over the corresponding months of 1936, International registration increased during

1937 has proved the!

PROVING GROUNDS URGED FOR LEARNERS

A proving ground to train automobile drivers has been proposed for use in Washington and other American cities. The plan calls

for one-way streets, traffic signals, safety zones and regulating signs to be installed on that special course.

NEW RECORD SET IN GAR OWNERSHIP

U. S. Registration Accounts

| the first eight months from 48, 147 | For 70 Per Cent of Total.

units in 1936 to 53.657 for the same |

period in 1937. International truck | | in August showed an | increase of 22 per cent over the cor-

Ownership of motor vehicles in

| the United States and in the world

{ responding month last year, exceed- | has advanced to new records, a

| ing any month in the history of the |

| business.

“In heavy-duty sales (two-ton

NEW YORK. Nov. 13.—With auto- land over) International continued |

bil apable of traveling eighty SE hy pd leat did so by an increased margin. | the motor industry during the 12

miles an hour or more, dweller actually is traveling at]

leading the procession in numbers,

{ More than one-third of all the

statistical survey released today by | the Automobile Manufacturers As- | sociation established. The survey, which contains fig- | ures pertaining to the operations of

| months preceding the current auto-

speeds slower than those in the | trucks registered in this class were mobile show period, reveals other

horse-and-buggy days, the American Institute of Steel Construction was told recently by its president, Clyde €. Conley. “The crossing traffic has so far | slowed up traffic in the streets of | New York City today,” Mr. Conley | said, “that high-speed automobiles are compelled to move from one point to another at a speed no greater than was possible in the horse-and-buggy days. “Today, because of this constant stopping and starting, the innumerabl: red stop-lights, automobile traffic will move no more than one mile an hour. Fifteen minutes by automobile to cover one cross town block is not an unknown experience. “Yet history records that old horse-drawn coaches, which once operated on New York streets over more than 200 miles, averaged eleven and a half miles per hour. Today automobile traffic does not average more than fifteen miles per hour. Pu a few more cars on the streets of New York and movement will practically cease.” Leading traffic authorities have been forced to the conclusion, Mr. Conley said, that the only permanent solution of the dual problem of traffic congestion and automobile accidents is the construction of : elevated vehicular highways.

TIP ON CHARGING If a battery seems to require too much water, it is a symptom that the charging rate of the generator is a little high.

| Internationals.” Early last Spring International | | Harvester announced an entirely | | new line of motor trucks ranging in capacity from half-ton, light de- | livery units to the largest six-wheel-ers. These new models include

wheelers with both dual-drive and trailing axles, and cab-over-engine types.

consists of 24 models in 73 wheelbases, with gross vehicle weights

OLDEST, YET MODERN

In Lamar, Colo. the oldest gasoline station in the world exists. The station itself is quite modern, but its building material is estimated to be 175,000,000 years old. It was constructed of petrified wood, gathered from a prehistoric forest south of Lamar.

BRAKE DEFECTS FOUND

Of 5000 automobiles inspected by Toledo police recently, 32 per cent had defective brakes. More than 60 per cent had something else wrong with them.

WORKERS KEPT CLEAN Workers in the Ford Motor Co. plant at Dearborn, Mich, are supplied with 130,000 towels daily. Every towel is sterilized in the plant laundry.

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conventional four-wheel units, six- |

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Tenging H from 4400 to 62,000 pounds. |

| new records have been set. The association estimated motor vehicles registrations in the United | States at 29,000,000, of which 24,.600,000 were classified as passenger | cars and 4,400,000 as commercial vehicles. Registrations in the United States accounted for T0 per cent of the 41,750,000 motor vehicles ; in service | throughout the world. Doinestic use of motor vehicles, as measured by gasoline consumption, set a new record during the 12-month period with 19,300,000,000 gallons of gasoline being consumed in motor vehicles. Eighteen thousand motor busses were produced by the industry during the period, exceeding the output for any previous 12 months.

RELAXATION AIDS DRIVER Gripping the wheel too tightly when driving causes fatigue. You should be relaxed but alert.

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“THE NEWS is out about the 1938 cars. And again—Nash scoops the industry ; : : with ‘Conditioned Air’ for winter driving: :: with the years-ahead ‘Super-Thrift’ Engine ; ; : with startling new sound-proofing, new gear-shifting, marvelous new ride-comfort features.

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BIGGEST IN "37 — NOW BIGGER! New Nashes are still bigger! Quickly turned into a sleeping car with big double-bed!

MORE TORQUE (Wheei-Driving Power)!

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