Evening star., 1922-06-11
AUTO CLUBS PLAN TO FORM
NEW NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Charges of Commercialism and Wrongful
Seating of Delegates Lead Many
to Desert A. A. A.

The National Automobile Associa-
tion. nation wide organization of
automobile clubs and associations.
was launched in st. Louis. May 1890,
following the withdrawal from the
convention of the American Auto
mobile Association by clubs and as
. ypciations representing twelve states
and 2f3.000 individual members. The
states represented in the new move
rcnt are Ohio. Indiana. Illinois. Ken
lucky. New York, Minnesota, Texas.
Nebraska. Missouri. Iowa. Dakota
and Wisconsin.
The proceedings which led to the
; inauguration OF this movement were
marked by charges made by Judge
Walter n Meals of Ohio on the floor
ganiZation had been sold out to the
Chic; go Motor Club. the principal
feature of which club is proprietary
insurance department
! Protests were lodged with the com
! mittee on credentials of the old or
ganization against the seating of
srveEty-two delegates from the Chi
! caso Motor club. These protests
We're signed by representatives from
several different states. The pro-
tiors and 3. which read as follows:
Quote Article iii.
"All state associations of clubs or
individual members, or Of clubs and
individual members. which on No
vemher !. 1915. We're affiliated with this
corporation under either form of mem
bership may continue such affiliations
as long as there is compliance with the
+; bylaws OF the corporation and such
state associations has enrolled not less
than tw"-thirds of the motor clubs in
such state with membership of 100
or more
"On and after the date Of the ador-
ton of these amended bylaws no
! Slat" association of clubs or indi-
Nidual members. shall be admitted To-
membership as such in this corpora
ton.
Charges that the constitution and
, bylaws of the y. y. \. had been vio-
: iTtrd Wc!" made by leaders of tho
/ clubs which have withdrawn TO or
canIZc the new association.
IH"St charges. according to orcauiz-
crs OF the new body. were: That IN.
a: \. A. admitted clubs Independently
o STATE association lines: that the
VI. Hayes. who is said to be the per-
| sonal beneficiary of the insurance de-
partment operated by the club. is not
affiliated with the Illinois State Auto
mobile Association. which is regularly
affiliated with the A. A A: tina. Presi-
dent G. c. Diehl permitted the dele
gates from the Chicago club to vote on
their seating at the convention: that
Charles NJ. Hayes admitted that he had
paid $500 to the A. A. A., and that IL
he had not the orga nization would have
gone into bankruptcy. and that it was
denied by the chair that to permit the
Chicago Motor. Club delegates TO vote
on their own protest and admission TO
the convention was in violation Of the
bylaws of the A. A. 4.
Protested Delegates Vote.
''Balotng showed seventy-two pro-
tested delegates from! Chicago voting on
their own case: twenty-five from st.
Louis. and from any and all other Sec
tions supporting them total of twenty
two votes" according to the statement
from the organizers of the new club.
'Eighty-nine votes were cast against
seating the protested delegates Ex-
Guiding the seventy-two votes of the
protested delegates. whom the chair
permitted to vote on their own case,
the result was eighty nine votes against
seating the protested delegates as
against forty-seven votes cast in favor
of seAtng them.
Under the circumstances OF the con-
stitutior and bylaws having been yio-
lated in the admission of a club in dis
regard OF state association lines and in
the permission to vote on their own
case, the withdrawal from the meeting
was affected"
IL the supplementary meeting Of ac-
credited \. 4. a. delegates Fred H.
Galley oe Cleveland was chosen chair
man.