The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
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 highways in Toronto, Canada. Residents in the Panama canal zone pay s year for tax on motor cars. Indianapolis, Ind, is the largest live stock motor trucking center in the world Among the recent inventions for motot vehicles is the compressed-paper steer ing wheel.
 The first woman to drive an automo. bile in India is Mrs. Deep Narayan Singh of Calcutta.
 The average haul from farm to market is 94 miles, as estimated by the depart ment of agriculture. A new substitute for glass has been in- vented in Germany. It can be cut vita knife or with shears.
 Nearly one-half million auomtobile li- cense tag numbers have been issued in Pennsylvania this year. Automotive vehicles in the United States, it is estimated, cover % billion miles of highways a year. Twenty years ago King Edward of England, then the Prince of Wales drove six-horsepower passenger automobile Convicts are employed on road work in Delaware. Motor trucks for the op- erations also are driven by prisoners.
 Kansas City, Mo, has automobile secret service association for apprehend- ing and prosecuting automobile thieves.
 There are no less than 10000 pieces ot motor fire apparatus in use in the United States for fire protection.
 A survey of the department stores throughout the Unit-l States shows that 1,292 firms are using 5,7SS motor trucks.
 New York, with tha greatest number of motor vehicles erages one car for every twenty-five yards of railroad track in that state.
 American left-hand drive cars are considered unsafe in Great Britain in a decision made by the English ministry of transport
 The automobile antedates the air plano by only about twenty years, while the bicycle preceded the auto mobile by less than half the time.
 Records show that 2,151 motor ve- hicles were stolen in Chicago during the last six months. Of this numer 1928 have been recovered.
 The 1920 automobile salon in New York will be open November fl. Ameri- can and foreign cars of exclusive de- sign will be exhibited.
 Recent statistics show there is one motor car to every 120 persons in Great Britain, or a total of 750,00 mechani- cally propelled vehicles.
 The day scale of government wages in the District of Columbia lists auto mobile drivers al $3 to s3.4o, and motor mechanics from s3.S4 to s4.96.
 The British government is conducting extensive researches to discover a liquid fuel that will combine satisfactorily to take the place of gasoline.
 Excise taxes paid by manufacturers on the sale of motor vehicles, tires, parts and accessories for the fiscal year ending June 30, amounted to $22,S23,7SO.99
 In Philadelphia, approximately 60,00O men are carried from their homes to offices in automobiles between the hours of S:3O and 10 every week day morning.
 Approximately 1000 motorists have been arrested since April by the state troopers in New York state for failing to comply with the headlight law.
 The various engines of war which made success possible in the great con flict were airplanes, passenger auto mobiles, motor trucks. tractors and submarine chasers.
 Cast iron drinking fountains, set up in various parts of the city of York, Pa. were recently sold as junk. Tho fountains have passed into disuse be- cause of the passing of horses as means of transportation.
 William Howard Taft is devoted to motoring. He enjoys the sensation oi great speed, and while President. often led the secret service men assigned tt follow ris car rapid pace.
 Figured on the basis of past year ia. talities in proportion to the number oi vehicles in use, it is estimated tha, 11,oo0 persons in the United States win be killed by automobiles this year Careless. reckless drivers and the care less, reckless persons on foot will be responsible.
 Tests are being made by the bureau of public roads of the department of agriculture on a road composed of forty mine sections-each one of which is built from a different type of ma terial, or with different method of con. struction. The experiments are made for types best suited to heavy traffic
 World Cooperation in Business From the Nations Business
 The business men of the world are about to be brought together in an or ganization that offers unusual oppor- tunity for solving some of the problems that affect international commercial relations The possibilities held forth in the new International Chamber of Commerce. to be created in Paris in June, can hardly be overestimated
 A feature of the proposed organiza- ton that goes quite a considerable dis tance beyond anything previously con- templated is the creation of a per manent international bureau. An of- flee would be established at a central point in Europe, in which each country would be represented by an executive secretary or counsellor, who would have the aid and assistance of a staff of technical experts.
 The central bureau would be a clear ing house continuously in operation as a basis of information of the type business men want, so we would not be dependent on the information gath