Evening star., 1921-07-23
ADMINISTRATION :.
WILL WIDEN SCOPE
Added Advantages for Motor
= lists Under Newly Adopted
! Policy.

The scope of the American Automo-
bile Associations activities will be
considerably widened, according to an
announcement made following a
meeting of the executive committee
yesterday.
III the past the A. A. AS efforts
fave been centered chiefly In promot-
ing or combating national legislation
affecting the interests of car owners,
directly or indirectly. The principal
direct service has been the compila-
tion of road maps and IN providing
touring information. In the future
all of these direct and indirect serv-
ices of the past will be continued
but in an enlarged form. New boards
are to be formed and new committees
appointed. and every phase of pas
senger car motoring is. to be given
direct and close attention
Maps for Entire U. 8.
The A. A. AS strip map service. de-
veloped largely by Manager A. G.
Seller of the Washington bureau. and
which has been confined mainly to
the eastern states. is to be enlarged
to encompass the entire country. The
matter of costly automobile insur-
ance has been placed in the hands of
a committee of men who are to for
mulate plans for producing cheaper
insurance for A. A. A. members. Re
ltHtlOH regal COunStl IdHlllldr with
automobile law and plans to provide
free legal advice to members are new
features also to be taken up and car
ried out.
New and special methods of pro-
tecting members cars from auto
mobile thieves are to be put into
effect in the very near future! This
feature will be initiated in WASH
tngton within the next thirty days.
For Reciprocity Bills.
OF particular interest to Washing
tonians is the organizations deter
mination to secure the passage of
the national motoring reciprocity
cess of the reciprocity measure al
ready introduced in both the House
and Senate will mean the eliminat tion
of the Maryland license tag from
District automobiles. From the Ma
tional Capital headquarters of the
A. A. A.. Maryland's attitude toward
the District will be explained to the
people of the entire country, and
nationwide support sought in elimi-
mating the lack of reciprocity.
service to motorists was the keynote
of the executive board meeting. with
prompt action as the watchword.
Membership Campaign.
Also it was decided that a nation
wide campaign to increase the A. A.
A. membership should be inaugurated
without delay. Every motor car
owner in the United States is to be
solicited to become member of the
A. A. \. and to contribute to the
support of the organization in it's
work for motorists generally. Here
tofore the association has sought
memberships only through the mail
and in a limited measure. The pro-
gresSive and aggressive plans just
adopted call for the employment of
large number of local and field rep
resentatives to present the aims and
objects of the A. y. a. to motorists
and to supply personal service. That
is. these men will not only take mem
bership applications in the city and
in the field. but they will form
contact between "A. A. a. headquart-
ers and the man who is very busy
prior to going on his vacation and
who will be enabled to get his tour
ing information and order his maps
in his own Office instead of going to
motor headquarters as in the past.
The personal service plan went into
effect today with eight men operating
in the District of Columbia.