Arizona republican., 1920-03-07
FIELD MAN FOR N. A. D. A. TELLS
 OF WAR RECORD


 mobile Dealers association was amending the national prohibition bill. The VoIstead bill is the measure to en- force constitutional prohibition after January 16, 1920.
 The National Automobile Dealers association was successful in gettlnS amendments providing, among other things. that wherever an automobile is seized carrying liquor in violation or the prohibition law, if such automopile belongs to a dealer on a conditional bill of sale or was secured by mort gage, he cannot be held responsible unless the dealer has actual knowledge that it is to be used in violation ot the law. It is provided that if an auto mobile has not been fully paid for, the dealers equity is protected. This will permit the dealer to collect the balance of the purchase price of the car or utilize the proceeds of the sale of the canfiscation to apply to the balance or the unpaid purchase price of the auto mobile.
 Motor Truck Sales
 Ono of the very important accom- nlishments of the association during 1919 was the stabilization of the motor truck market.
 As T result of the continued state ments in the press and by rumor that the war department intended to flood the market Nltn NNAi4SiN'" which had been purchased for the army in France and which were no longer needed, few persons were buy ing motor trucks in the open market, all awaiting this great federal auction.
 We definitely established that the war department would distribute these motor vehicles to the department or agriculture. post offlce uepar public health service and other agen- cies and that only those vehicles which were unfit for government use would be sold. This number const1- tutes a very small per cent of the vehicles held by the war department With this information we immediately instituted a campaign to sell motor trucks. This was done by arranging a series of truck tours throughout the United States, wherein the dealers association operated motor truck trains on the road. loaded with mer- chandise, thus making an appeal to double audience: the business men whose goods were being carried, the farmer to whom the goods were being carried. Hundreds of thousands of persons saw these demonstrations.
 Truck tours were held in St. Louis, Buffalo, Des Moines, Detroit, Kansas City, Denver and other cities with the result that within d few months the public knew that there would be no government
 The associa ton is now on record TOT the complete distribution of these trIIcks to the various state hlShWay departments and it is one Of the op- jects of the association in 1S2o 10 sec that this program of dlStrlputloh oI war department trucks Is carried out so that the state highway departments may complete the work or nieh"ds construction Tn this manner the com L<a+ xril he disturbed. the taxpayer will be protected because the trucks will be put to use, ana the highways of the nation will be punt, thus assuring continued and cheaper motor transportation to every city anu county in the nation.
 Ten Service Features
 The association now has in operation ten departments or bureaus with headquarters in St. Louis These de- partments are: Legal, legislative and highway construction. The bureaus are: Employment, war tax informa- tion, speakers, advisory advertising, trade information, commercial vehicle division and the N. A. D. A. Bulletin.
 The legal department is available to all members of the association and with the war tax ruling bureau and the legislative department, has been one of the most successful features Of the association to dealers and affiliat- ed associations.
 Besides it's national activities other than those in congress and with the of the federal govern ment, the association concerned ltseif with legislative activities in a number of states during 1920. In Montana 1t helped the state dealers association to kill a bill which provided that a dealer in ga~'line might not make a profit or more than one cent gallon on all gasolfneS sold, regardless of the cost price of the gasoline
 Tn Missouri and Pennsylvania the assisted the State asso- stations in passing bills requiring reg of the sale of used automo- biles measures designed to protect the owners of automobiles against thieves.
 In Kansas the national association assisted the state association in de feating a bill requiring the licensing of all automobile mechanics.
 Activities for 1920
 Among the activities proposed by the association for 1920 are codifica- ton of the automobile laws of the va rious states, which codifcation would be used to draft d uniform automobile law. which could be offered to the of every state. The situa- ton is very complicated at present and he person obeying the law in one state may easily violate the law when he 1 lrives into another state.
 Another thing that the association | s working on is the preparation of a | state motor vehicle theft bill. which | ,an be adopted in all of those states | which have not yet adopted a motor | -ehicle theft act and which can be | operated in connection with the Ma inal Motor Vehicle Theft act, as ef- | actually showing up the motor vehicle | hief in both domestic and interstate | 
 During 1920 the association looks | onward to the enactment of bill l lnown as the Putnam bill Senate bill | So. , providing for a national regis ration law. This provides that when yer an automobilist has compiled with III the licensing laws of his own state | le shall not be called upon to take out | new license in any other state trough which he may drive his auto mobile The association in conjunc- ion with the other automobile trade l association, is at work upon a measure which will permit drive-aways from l he factory to the various states with ut the necessity of obtaining separate egistration license plates through n H- 1