The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-28

erecting the operation of motor ve- hicles upon the public highways will be proposed and enacted.
 1 It is the opinion of motorists as well as state and municipal officials that every effort should be made to secure greater uniformity in automobile reg l ulatfons, especially concerns the speed limits, so that tourists in pass ing from one state to another will not be met by the town fathers on 1 tbs village streets, hozaae- them up 1 with a red flag in order to derive a 1 source of revenue. As a, general rule 1 the rank and file of autornobilists up- l on entering small communities drive l destrians and other users of the road, carefully observing the local traffic rules.
 l The Touring Club of America has for 1 several years advocated uniformity in l the regulations governing the opera ton of motor vehicles and the success ena actnent of many new state laws and municipal ordinances which, the Club has recommended.
 Lord Montagu. the well known Brit ish authority on motoring affairs, | while guest of the Touring Club of ficia1s on his recent visit to the Unit ditions under which motoring is car
 ried on in this country and in re- view of his observations has the fol- Carr
 'In the United States there is at least one serious inconvenience to mo-
  fore long. Every state (and there are forty-eight of them) makes it's own. laws under which motor-cars may run, issues it's own orders as to speed limits. and has a different sys tenn of regulations, It is as if every l county in England or every depart l lation and administration of motoring l matters. In every state there is a l speed-limit, sometimes the same as, 1 and sometimes differing from, it's 1 nedghbOrin state. Needless to add, 1 everywhere in America, as elsewhere all over the world, these speed-Hnn- they cannot be enforced In New York for instance, eight miles an hour is the maximum speed allowed in the public parks, though motor-cars sel- dom proceed at less than twelve. 9th CT cities have different limits Every where one sees accounts of occasional for exceeding the Iimit-<tspeedfng, as it is calledA-and the offenders are fn- ed pretty heavily, more heavily than they would be fined in most Euro pean countries In Washington there are individual and special speed-linnits of twelve miles an hour in the streets, four miles an hour at corners. These ell-intentioned regulations are, of course, not obeyed, and cannot be uni- enforced, but the public know in a general way that they exist and human-lfke, they are conforted."
 The automobile manufacturers in l of uniformity in motor vehicle regula- lions especially regards speed, pre- ferably prescribed through state Iegis- Eation as reC0rnm ended by the Touring Club of America which would prohib- it cities, towns or villages from enact ing any ordinances not in tconfor- by relieving tourists of their present imminent danger of falling prey to the alert town constable
 Henry Ford, the well known auto mobile nanufact Detroit in commenting the Touring Clubs policy for uniformity in automobile regula- . lions said: IT
 If each state would but enact auto avs regulating the speed at which the cars may be driven and then prohibit any secondary aegdsIaition fby small owns or cities, the problem would be solved.
 "An autoist would then be able to 'amiliarize himself with the law and would be able to meet its requirements f he desired. If he did not, then every owner of a car should be interested | n getting the Violator punished onger possible to harass the autoist \ y unfair laws, and are assured that I leavoring to enforce the laws, then i autoists will no longer drive many l niles to avoid buying anything in the t own, and the town in turn will make z he auto-tOurist welcome" NEW UNIVERSITY DEPARTURE. )
 
 an be gotten from, ,/the State Legisla- v ure. the University will establish this u ear department of instruction in a automobile engineering. d
 This is an absolutely new idea in ed- n curricula and if the plans q it will be the first school f f automobile engineering instruction s n the world. f.
 Stewart Mcdonald, vice-president t nd general managers Of the Moon D Gotor Car Company, is to be the pro- 2 essor in charge of this department. \
 MT. Mcdonald is graduate, in en- = ineering, of Cornell University. and z aobile engineers in the country. He has had lot Of practical ex- erience in automobile construction as | cad of the large Moom factory. ' When the plan was first suggested ( Q the authorities of the University V f Missouri, they wrote Mir. Mcdonald U he plan was feasible one or not. 4 MT. McDona1d's reply was very en- nusiastic and he suggested an out ne for the new course of instruction. The authorities at the University asked MT. Mcdonald to ake charge of the new venture in en- cries of lectures to give to the class 8 in this course
 MT. Mcdonald accepted the offer nd if sufficiently large appropria- a ion can be obtained, the new course i'll be started this year. = This new idea is a testimonial to the rowing importance of the automo iIe industry in the United States, and ;. specially it's growth in the west. Large numbers of the graduates in o agineering of the different universi- <' es of this country take up work in :. le automobile factories after leaving k ehoOl.
 Their general engineering knowledge S' course. win help them very mater o, 1ly with their automobile work but Q:
 they get sufficient instruction in aa-1 automobile manufacturing while at ~ ,hool they will be much better fitted taking up their work in the auto obile factories immediately on grad ating from the University. The University of Missouri also was -- le first school in the world to have