The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-11
MOTOR DIGEST
Auto Activities Throughout
 the World

California has the distinction of leading all other states In roadside tree planting.
 Throughout the United States there are approximately 100000 profess sional chauffeurs and truck drivers. Cleveland. Boston and Los Angeles have aerial photographic maps of their cities, showing the conditions of traffic on the streets at certain hours.
 The selling price of many American automobiles are less at their factories than British motor manufacturers are paying for material, for similar sized cars.
 Since the New Jersey state polios were established, 14 months ago, ap- proximately s14,ooo worth of stolen automobiles has been recovered In the state.
 While the United States has five sixths of all the motor vehicles in the world, only 210,0oo. or one-fifth of the worlds motorcycles, are reg istered In this country.
 For the convenience of passengers. one enterprising taxicab company,
 
 the latest edition of the daily news- paper placed on rack in every ve- hicle.
 No motor vehicle, which has po- tential speed of more than 30 ---iles an hour. may be operated in Ne- braska after July 1, 1924. Cars must be shorn of any device that would permit speeding up."
 To discourage the stealing of spare tires from automobiles a device has been invented in Germany which brands indelibly the name of tho owner and other necessary info-m tion in the side wall of the tire.
 A small lever has been designed. placed on the steering wheel of one of the standard American passenger automobiles, which sets the gear shift at any desired speed. When the clutch is pushed in releasing the gears, the shift Is made automati- cally.
 Approximately 100 citizens of In- dianapolls. Ind, have organized a citizen police force for rounding up automobile speeders and others vio- lating the traffic laws. The identity of the members is unknown even to the members of the regular traf- fic department.
 More than 7S.00o passenger auto mobiles and motor trucks were ex- ported from the United States last year. This Is twice as many as were shipped abroad in 1921. Australia. Canada and Mexico purchased the most automobiles. and Belgium was the best customer for trucks.
 For the pleasure of tourists in France large steamship company is establishing an automobile service for passengers landing at Cherbourg en route to Paris. The tour cov- CTS 230 miles, with stops for meals at places of interest through Nor mandy, making the trip in 10 hours. Automobiles from all other states are permitted to have free use of the highways of Washington, D. C., only for three days. After they ar rive in the city motorists must first procure three-day tag. but after the expiration of the time they are instructed to take out a District of Columbia license.
 Police officers in Cleveland, Ohio, are conducting series of lectures in the public schools on Being Care full in Traffic." Careful instructions
 
 playing in the streets, carelessly crossing highways on the way to and from school and attempting to steal rides on the rear of street cars and automobiles.
 Policemen in Petersburg, Va, op- crate runabouts over their patrols. The officers are ordered to drive through every street and alley on their beats at least 10 times in 24 hours. It Is said that the "cops" can whisk their prisoners into the small cars and haul them to the nearest precinct station in much quicker time than they could get patrol wagon. new scale of motor vehicle li- cense fees has been adopted by the province of Saskatchewan in Canada. It is calculated on wheel-base length, rather than horsepower. Motor ve- hicles not exceeding 100 inches wheel base will pay a registration fee of Sl5. On those having longer wheel base, an additional fee of s2.5O will be levied for every five inches,