The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-24
AUTOMOTIVE ACTIVITIES
 THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

Java has become an important mar ket for motor vehicles.
 Gasoline was first used as liquid for cleaning of clothes.
 Only one person in every $500 in Russia owns an automobile. Great Britain is expendng s140, 00O,- 900 year on highways. Senator Warren G. Harding is member of the Chauffeurs' Union at Washington, D. c.
 Free schools are conducted in New York city for instruction in operation and care of motor trucks.
 In the Algerian Sahara the Arabs are abandoning their famous horses for motor propelled machines. Alabapa, Arkansas. Nevada South Dakota and Oklahoma have one motor vehicle for every mile of road. A new motor company organized in Manitoba, with a capital of s1 o00 900, will build automobiles in Winnipeg. Operators of motor trucks without speedometers or with worn brakes are | subject to fines up to s10o in Milwau 1 kee, Wis.
 l An average of four men were em- l ployed to construct each of the 1850, 900 | passenger automobiles produced last year.
 1 All but nine states in the union have already surpassed the total number of 1 motor vehicles fors the entire year of ] 1919 1 Money invested in the automobile business in the United States has now
 reached the stupendous amount of l $3.166 S34694
 Passenger car and motor truck own CTS in New Jersey are facing an in- crease in tax fees from 20 to nearly 400 1 per cent for 1921. l Motor vehicle shipments from fac- I tories during the month of August were reported to be the heaviest in the hs- | tory of the industry.
 Edward Morris, Is years old, of Phil adelphia, has the distinction of being the youngest motor race driver in the l United States
 A forfeit of $500, 900 a day is made by one of the largest automobile manufac- turers in the United States as result of the new price reduction. Members of the Garage Workers Union in New York city are demanding Il a minimum wage of $7 a day for wash CTS, $6 for polishers. and $50 week
 for foremen.
 In 1899, the first year for which rec
 ords exist in the automobile industry | 37 passenger cars were manufactured l Today the normal production amounts
 to 2.25O,0 900 year.
 The average working life of a horse | IS nlnet years ana l0,UVu lnilcS oi tfdNCi Motor trucks, in many cases. are found to be good after fifteen years of serv- ice after having covered from 100000 to 100000 miles.
 Municipal underground parking sta tions for motor vehicles have been in operation in Europe for more than ten years. They are found in Berlin, Paris and Rome. The average capacity oi the subway garages is 200 cars. Despite the steep and crooked roads through the Yellowstone National Park over which no less than 10000 private 1 ly owned motor cars toured this year ten accidents have been reported. only two of which were of serious nature
 David l.. Day, now SS years old, of
 Cheyenne. Wyo..r recently visited his old home at Paris. Ky. covering the entire distance by automobile. In 1858, MT Day left Paris driving pair Of oxen to a wagon to try his fortune in the far l west.
 Believing that automobiles are ne- icessity in fighting the automobile ban ! bits in Philadelphia. the director oi