The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
AUTOMOTIvE ACTIVITIES
 THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

Argentine haS mure than oo,vW aulonio- i piles.
 i Automobile garages number sS,55S l throughout the United States. 1 The first road markers in the United States were blazed on trees by Indians. {, Illinois constructed nearly sO miles of
 durable highways during the 1920 sea l son.
 l Experiments are being made in Paris
 with a roadside gasoline tank and pump system.
 The President of the United States
 never rides on the left hand side of his automobile.
 1 Approximately s2. 10000 automobile 1 tires were manufactured in the United 1 States last year.
 1 Automobile thieves drove off with 591
 cars, valued at s70o,00o in Baltimore, Md, during 1920.
 l Tn Alaska a motor-sledge, capable of a speed of over 30 miles an hour, is used
 on the snowy plains
 1 Motor trucks are fast replacing bullock carts and other primitive means of | transportation in Calcutta. India. 1 Outside of New York city. the only l qualification in the state to operate an automobile Is the age of IS years. l A regular motor freight service Is now l operating between Danzig, Bromberg. l Thorn, Warsaw and Cracow, in Poland. l half hours ride in a taxicab in Pet rograd costs 1000 rubles, which is equiv l alent of nearly $l,000 in American money. 1 It is claimed that the modern motor truck has proved the greatest boon to civilization. and is as indispensable as the telephone. l Various states In the union have passed laws to prohibit the erection of advertis- ing signs for commercial purposes along highways.
 The average wholesale price of pas senger automobiles produced in this country last year was sS79. motor trucks averaged $1, ,N3.
 At the third salon del Automovl" re-
 gently held in Buenos Aires, s. A., no \ fewer than 43 makes of cars were on
 show in the automobile section Tn practically every city in the United States the fire department has at least one motorized engine and chiefs car, either publicly or privately owned Despite the increasing popularity nf the automobile, horse stealing still oc- cupies an important place in criminal records in the state of Pennsylvania Representative of moro than 20 na- | tional organizations are attending the national conference on highway traffic regulations at Washington, called tc draw up a uniform code of laws. Maryland is forming state motor ' 1 cycle constabulary. The new organiza- i. tion will be trained by one of the .ret
 coats' of the internationally famous Royal Northwestern Mounted Police O. Canada.
 With the passing of the horse -drawr vehicles and mud roads. and the grow ling popularity of the automobile ant | the modern highway the range O travel has increased from 10 to 15 miles per day.
 The Prince of Wales Is rated as tn, most popular man in England, and be cause of the fact that he Is marvelousl, quick at operating his automobile, he | 1 able to fill the numerous engagement of the day.
 The New Castle-Laggan highway
 connecting the prairie provinces o Canada and northern United States with the Lake Louise region. one O.
 the picturesque regions in the Rockies
 was recently opened to motorists.
 Every police automobile in Cleveland
 Ohio it is suggested, should b equipped with toxic gas grenades. use;
 to prevent the escape of prisoners dur
 ing the war with Germany, as
 weapon in the fight against banditr,
 and crime in that city. or the many odd requests for moto licenses received in Wisconsin. core spending to street addresses, telephon numbers, age of the owner. etc. K Tausend of Madison specified his de sire for license No. 1000 because sounded like his name. One of the principal subjects consid l. cred by the American Good Roads con II gress for it's session in Chicago Febru
 ary 9 is d proposal to use the billiol \ dollars in funds now available for roa, building In 1921, as partial remed II for unemployment conditions through out the country.
 III Because an automobile plant in De Itroit closed for month request wa | made by the idle employees for permis II sion to use the factory to make car for Themselves and families. The work ters agreed to pay for all raw materia II used. and to maintain all existing de | partments. and. in general to retur | the plant in even better condition. M 4 campaign against mud splashin ' by automobiles Is bringing good result
 in Paris. Motor cars supplied wit ' anti splash devices are ordered to driv past a long whitewashed board fenc
 about six feet high along stretch c
 exceptionally muddy road. It is foun
 that the most successful prevention
 strip of rubber around the edge c
 the wheel.
 The California State Automobile as
 sociation. incorporated September IN 1907, Is the second largest motorin
 organization in the world with head quarters in San Francisco. the al II sociation maintains eight office
 throurhout the state to serve its 25
 900 members with up-to-date tourin road maps insurance II cost and to promote Gaod roads an 1.a- Ti,a ae4orfafi0n n0arafsan !