Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-10
FOR PROTECTION OF
TOURISTS BY AUTO
Effort Will be Made to NationalIze
and Internationalizc Licenses
for Machines.
BY Frederick J. Haskin.

Washington. ID G., Dec 5.-If yoI live
IN Paducah or Baton Rouge or Rochester
and want 10 ride ont Ia California or down
fo Florida. or tour New England in your
i'lvvrr would il not lc matter of sati~.
faction to You to know that the license ol
vo..r own homo State Is perfectly guod
wherever YOU 90?
OR even II vou ha9 money enough to 60
over to Europe and AIRY Your ear with
vou would ii not hc fine il yod could eN-
change at the port 81 cmharkatI"n' your
State license for oEr winch had y >
fpon II, and which carrIci with II the
privilege OF riding all over Europe, WIN
oct having To do ANYTHING tulth'r ah"''
ll,.tu~cs
Ilcra in Wa~hnutoa several powerful
qc,iel.-, arc working ~ plan To- MAKE
tin a4.tomnhilc license national and inter
rafionI Mach ci}a-t hl~ been I"a'ie 10
l,rin,, 3lrit rec ejpruvlty between ne state
and 1,tinus of the world with relation I"
tie aitonahllc liccuSc iro@rr>S L '"''lE
r,atlr and ii PROMISES soon 70 i1 = i:it'
,t,t fhc tunfori~t with one iccnNr may z"
anvvh.r, ia the civtlinei world
~.natnr Nv Pitman, from l"noPah;
MI, Is a LONG WAY from home. ana
r,..s much m automobiles representa-
tive Burton T. Sweet itvt- a NaNcriN'
Iowa. about hall Way to Nevada. ana nc
also oprrat,s a machine BON ei 'hcih
spend mach tame M Washington " OF IN
I,.tcrycuIn. states and both are disturbed
f., tl,.I,,-~ihllit, of falling into the clutch
- II ra.lrfrv cunstablCN or metropolitan
nIororfyc,c pohcemen Each has intro
da,ed a lIl extending the protection OF
~, home issued license O,t oi these bulls
legislation promises 70 grow he hTst
provides for state rcclprocity III the rccog-
fstton III lIcenscs. and the second not only
r,rall,Ic les Tor universal home privileges hut
..~,, :or the issuance nf tho international
,,rta NmcrIranS gong abroad Thus latter
r.r.rrhancr Is already a reality between
I5,ropcan colnttlr-. hut American tour
~ l.y,, Lr-..taso-, dcpcndcI on Yolun-
tccr courtesy In tins respect
yoR rRAytr WITHOUT HTNDRAHCE.
The contention 81 the friends Of the
proposcd law i that il hut recognizes the
inal!cnahlc right 81 the American, writ
ton INTO the Constitution 10 travel freely
y Uhrrcvcr hc chooses Article four ot the
Constitution states The free Inhabitants
81 each of these States shall he entitled u
I'm the privileges and immunltIco OF free
citizens IN the several states. and the
rcon|p of each State hall have free IN
s-r,.~S and c-rcss to and from every other
state. and shall enjoy therein all of tire
privileges 81 trade and commerce.
When folks who ride III automobiles
got started after thing of thus sort they
give very excellent example al the force
of q gasolIne-drIven purpose lo begin
with. there arc 5000 600 people ~ tins
country who own automobiles. They are
variously represented by such organIza
mons as the American Automobile Asso-
A,.@or@~},tf0 { NO .f
Commerce OF the United states and the
National Automobile Dealers Assocla-
tion. Through these agencies they are
able to make themselves heard
To-Day each State makes the reElllat nns
that govern the standing Of the visiting
automobile on It's roads In many 81 tGt
states the machine carrying the license
tag 81 another state can come a vlu
and can remain practically ndciluit III
california is an example of the type 81
frjerdlv license which is ii itself an invita-
mon. III California tie license 81 any
other state Is good ior SO days. Il the
VISITOR stays longer, lie : regarded as a
Californian and i expected p AXE OFT
hr,n>e There are MANY states winch
allow & stay without 4reIscs :ar 81 days
Then there are q seW - Tie case ot New
Jersey where III. visiting car haS i mar
on az buf l54al. \I-C1ua i on similar
fa,I,. allowing NO VISITS q, q week each
t,et9re q local Irer.~e + REQ ..rea
~, other states 81 \cR ork say TO
vI,.tH.1 motorists NJ VII offer YOU the
.tI, cos.rte>, that tie tate Wi.O,t license
Nua t~ar o-er- - yl-.tnr- so Il your
home ~.att. 81 o,y- 80 .aH- w.thoI, license.
Sol. Iuat stay tilt long il New y Nork Oh
tic same terms
cw oi the states Win regulations
l.mrlne thc usc 81 thrr roads 10 visiting
uotar-t, enforce the regulations with
mach -lrrtuc-> Virginia i unlikely 70
-, ailv - Jectlou - the f4arhuc Of the
-aaa from u-v.vauIa VINO summers IN
ia, Blle Eslg Mountains here Is the
formal tar however and ], Is 10 tins that
fhe fnotori-t objects New Jersey, on the
srtraf1 eniorccS tie l5-dav regulation
IaIte vigorously Tins the friends u the
man v'to tour, hv auto claim, Is as sad
mistake ~ a State oould make since II