Accounting for Highway Expenditures

Arizona Automobile Association, Inc. ROAD SIGNING IN ENGLAND

Affiliated with American Automobile Association The Automobile Association of Great Britain, with which the A. A. A. is affiliated, is one of the best organized and most effective associations in the world. This is conceded by the large and financially strong motor clubs of America. They absolutely refuse to do anything for a motorist who is not a member, and their service has been developed to such an extent that a membership card is almost necessary for one to tour the British Isles.

Like the Utah State Automobile Association, the A. A. of Great Britain spends considerable money in erecting road signs, only they do it differently. Instead of giving running directions, the names of adjacent towns, distances, as we do in Utah, each sign is designated by a key number. To the average motorist this key number means nothing, but members are furnished with a strip map explaining the different key numbers in full. The member can therefore travel about with perfect confidence, but the non-member is compelled to stop and ask questions or guess where he is traveling.

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If the Utah State Automobile Association and other American Auto clubs had adopted this system years ago there would be fewer motorists enjoying road signs paid for by auto club members.Scenic Motorist.

"MOVE ON"

There is a nation-wide tendency on the part of the States to liberalize speed limits and to judge the recklessness of the driver on the facts in the case, rather than on the mere question of overstepping a speed limit at the time of an accident.

NOTICE

This statement was issued by the American Automobile Association based on a survey of speed limits in each of the 48 states and the District of Columbia, which shows that within the past three years a total of 23 states have eliminated obsolete speed limits.

Kalispell, Montana, holds felony warrant for Frank Davis, 5 feet 10 or 11, dark complexioned, 175 pounds, about 38 years, has wife and three children with him. Left Kalispell about August 10th in Nash Sedan, blue, disc wheels, four wheel brakes, right rear fender bent, two holes in body on left side for spot light, 1925 model, Montana license 41-849, Engine No. 57-738, purchased from Main Street Motors, trading in a car that he did not own. Davis is supposed to be tool dresser and may be found around oil fields or road camps; formerly worked for State Highway Department. Arrest, hold and wire collect Sheriff, Kalispell, Mon-tana.

"Move on" seems to be the watchword on the highways in the country, and this, together with the campaign to eliminate speed traps and roadside courts, has done much to facilitate the movement of the ever-increasing number of automobiles.

The A. A. A. says it has been conclusively shown that the states having speed laws that allow the motorist to "move on" have contributed less to the accident list than those with obsolete regulations.

"A total of 23 states have increased the speed laws within the past three years," according to the A. A. A., "and highway authorities in all of these commonwealths have been pleased with the results attained in moving traffic with safety."

THOSE CHILD DRIVERS

There is an Arizona law which provides that no person shall drive a motor vehicle who is under sixteen years of age, unless such minor be accompanied by an adult. Look out in the street most any time and you will see some youngsters anywhere from ten to fifteen driving cars, and usually driving them very carelessly. Why not stop it? An automobile even in the hands of competent, mature men and women, is a possible "engine of destruction,' and in the hands of a child it is much more so. And no person under sixteen, and rarely until he has reached maturity, is anything but a child when it comes to clear and quick thinking and good judgment in pinches.

The A. A. A. survey shows that the speed limit was increased by specific legislative action during the 1927 sessions of the State Legislatures in at least ten states, and that it will be considered in numerous others at approaching sessions of the legislative bodies.