Arizona republican., 1912-12-22

wherever an automobile goes. which backs the play of the highwaymen to the limit California is acting like lot of boys, too strongly curb ed by, a. stern parent and chafing under the restraint This talk of se- cession is like the song and dance Johnny performs for his dad when John, senior has applied the strap, I'm .a-gonna run away That's what I'm a-gonna dol"
 What does daddy generally do at that stage in the game? Why. he prescribes another dose of the leath- ers if he is as fond as most fathers are said to be.
 According to MT. Bullard, no word has been received from Los Angeles about the secession of the Arizona auto clubs, But he expects it every day does the president of the Mari copa Automobile association Los Angeles never yet made ready for a plunge but what she asked some other town to come along and share the fun-and the licking if it hap pened to be discovered they had been in swimming
 ''No," said Bullard, T am not for this revolt. You may quote me as president of the club on this. Los Angeles admits and provides for de- feat before she starts out on this runaway, but that is not the best reason The American Automobile association is the organization that puts ever all the good road matters Federal aid will not be possible without the help of that body. Be- sides, what is the use to fight so powerful d society as that of the motor car dealers of America which is but another name for the A. A. Az We have always stood in we'll with the association. Whenever we pulled off race, and the rules of the association were a little too strict. they have always been most considerably waived for us. Los An geIes does not ask for permission to do things as Arizona does. Those fellows on the coast go ahead and do something they know it not right and then come clustering about it. when anything is said. The motor car fans of California are even now planning to take our Los Angeles to Phoenix road race away and stick it up through California to San Francisco They are going wild over the plan, sending out pathfinders by dozens looking for routes to displace the desert one. It is a plain throw down, and they are going to get away with it if we are not careful"
 But these are not the sentiments of all the Phoenix motorists Dr. H. H. Stone favors joining Los Angeles in the secession. He says, Los Angeles is only planning to get away from the bigger association and form a Western. Motor associat that will to all intents and purposes be the same as the western branch of the A. A A that exists now. The new association will be affiliated with the eastern body From all I have been able to gather, I think it would be best for Arizona to make place soft among the people who. may in a year or so control motoring in the west"
 Is this a split in the motor party? It may not look very serious now, and no blood may be heated through the excitement over the proposed secession. but when the time comes to prepare for next years Los An geles to Phoenix road race. where is Arizona, and more intimately, Maricopa county going to stand on the question? That is what the local association must look out for.
 Some More Testimony
 A L. Moore to the stand
 MT. Moore. what do you think of 1 the proposed split in the western automobile world?
 q am not very familiar with the | facts, but as far as the case affects Arizona, can see clearly enough. 1 Under no circumstances should any | Arizona motoring organization break | with the A A. A If we value our | Los Angeles Phoenix road race, we | must keep on good terms with both | the coast and eastern associations. Ii 1 the people of Los Angeles want to 1 risk the wrath of the A. A. A. by | cutting loose, I don't see any reason why they should not go ahead. form a new Western Automobile associa- | tion and affiliate with the national organization is such a way as to be CO., equal with it. But Arizona is out after good roads, and a section of the national highway from east coast to | west. It would be foolish to take 1 sides in this matter. The A. A. A. 1 is above all, the premier good roads organization of the United States, and it is up to us to keep in good standing"
 c. H.. Warner Speaks
 This week Phoenix was visited by | man whose prominence in the mo- tor world. his connection with the 1 company that makes the official tim- ing apparatus of all sanctioned speed l trials puts his high to the councils of the American Automobile Asso- ciation He is C. H. Warner, seere- | tary treasurer of the Warner lnstru- ment company makers of the speed ometers that go with A. A. A. off1- cial races Here is his stand on the question:
 Eos Angeles is going to make the secession stick 1 esee no reason why the western motorists cannot form a separate body and exist alongside the A. A. A in peace. I believe now they have started, they will put it through. It is true that the association has