The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-10-25
AUTO ASSOCIATION AND
SOME OF ITS BENEFITS
PROMOTES GOOD ROADS, LEels-
LATioN AND TOURIST TRAVEL
IN IDAHO.

One must turn back but a few years
TO recall unsayory experiences en-
countered in touring in the days when
the lack of proper regulation and
supervision created an ever present
bugaboO to the motorist caused from
overdoses of water in his gasolene or
of low grade fuel or other inferior
products that form the deciding fact
ors between pleasurable touring or
| highway hell. But few tourists today
/ take the necessary backward look 10
cause them to enquire into the marked
change in such affairs. When atten-
ton is called however, the answer is
short and certain-regulation and SUI
pervision.
This regulation and supervision to
a degree is carried out by state legis-
lation and law enforcing bodies Gre
ated for that purpose, but when il
comes to the real service embodying
the smaller points to be reckoned
with by the tourist the State Auto
mobile Association and the American
Automobile Association must be
recognized as factors to be accredited
with a large share of the improved |
conditions. These state bodies have |
been responsible for a goodly bit of |
the legislation passed for the protec- |
tion of the motorist, as we'll as con-
tinually maintaining an organization
to supervise such items.
Thus the official emblem of the Ida
no state Automobile association dis
played before a garage. service sta
ton, tore shop hotel or restaurant, is
assurance TO the tourist that he will
receive a certain standard of service
from such institutions. At least if
he is a member of state automobile
association AFFILIATED with the A. A.
A. he knows that whenever such an
institution fails to deliver him such
service, a complaint of such mistreat-
ment will be Investigated by the state
association, and if found
justifiable. will be corrected, and if
such complaints against any certain
the membership is can Z
This mode OF procedure is not only Z
an insurance to the traveller that he :
will be treated fairly by those dis I
playing the official emblem of the as
ISOLATION, but it assures such insti- !
buttons of the patronage of those who S
respect such insurance. The associa-
lion emblem hung from crossroads :
service station, means to the tourist
hat he will receive fair treatment
md full measure from that station
without attempting to run on into
some city to a larger institution, and
hereby perhaps become stranded on "
he highway and have to send in for {
ias or inconvenience the first passerby 4
" begging enough gas to run in on 3
When those dealing in such COM &
nodities and Accommodations of inter- q
st 10 the tourist, appreciate these I
conditions as the tourist is fast learn q
ng to appreciate them, then there
will be but few institutions but what S
re willing to hang out their creden-
ials of guarantee. Such credentials
re not only a guarantee of service,
ut they declare to the motorist that
live institution is approaching his
TO the extent OF contribut-
lg toward his welfare in making his 81
)uring more convenient while in the n
late in which that merchant operates. OF
l this respect the A. A. A. official is 81
OF only entitled to the patronage OF pi
lie tourist, but to his moral support tn
) those who travel his way. IN