Weekly journal-miner., 1920-12-01
AUTO DEALERS CLUB
 A MARK OF PROGRESS
(From Wednesdays DaiIy)

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 Returning late Monday evening
 from Tucson, where he attended a committee meeting of the State Auto mobile Dealers association of Ari- zona, Art Gage, local distributor Of the Maxwell car, yesterday told of the purposes of the association, whose Prescott membership so far is two.
 Between six and eight other Ia Sal dealers are expected to join the or ganization shortly.
 "One of the main purposes of the association" Gage said, "is to secure laws to protect the automobile deal CTS and the public. As it stands now, there are no laws to protect the dealer or the garage man who is holding a car for payment of work done on it. If payments on the car are unfinished, it is often impossible to collect for work done or it, the dealer having first call"
 The plan was discussed at the Tucson meeting of securing a law similar to that of California which compels every owner of a car to ap- ply for license within five days of purchasing the machine, and to take out at the same time an identification certificate which is fastened to the car. In accordance with the Cali fornia law this certificate must be signed by the car owner, thus pro tecting the dealer and repair man who can request him to sign orders for work verifying the signature on the identification card. This system also protects the car owner in case of theft, many stolen cars having been picked up and turned over to the po- lice by California garage men.
 The Arizona State Automobile Dealers Association was organized about a year ago, local city dealers having been formed in Tucson. Phoenix and a few other cities previous to that time The state association is a member of the Ma tional Automobile Dealers associa- ton of America, which renders it ser vice in the matter of information on laws enacted and proposed in the affecting dealers. An in stance of this was cited, when, the association fought a law proposed in 1919, to attach tax of $50 on the selling price of automobiles, piece of legislation which would seriously have affected dealers everywhere. The association fought the bill and it was defeated.
 The state association, Gage said, is in camping sites on the outskirts of Arizona cities, calculated to attract summer visitors. The or ganization stands for the betterment of the whole automobile situation both from the standpoint of business and pleasure, the dealer and the user. Signs will be issued to all members of the association, which, like the ia nous insignia of the Southern Cali fornia Automobile club, will come to mean to the public that the dealers them can be relied upon | for fair treatment and a square deal. | It is a part of the associations bene- fits to the public as well as to it's members that any person who feels that he has been overcharged by | member dealer may obtain redress, if he has legitimate cause, through ap- plication to the association secretary in Phoenix.
 Another committee meeting will be held next month, at a place not yet decided upon. The state headquar- ters of the organization are in Phoenix, where F. C. Christy, the only paid officer, is secretary, giving his full time to the association work, and Don Dunbar Hudson and Essex dealer and a member of the Dunbar Spring company, is president.