The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-06

Traffic policemen in the city o1 Mexico dress in white uniforms and smoke cigarettes while on duty.
 According to a survey made by the department of agriculture, auto mobiles on farms are used more for business than for pleasure.
 Traffic policemen are employed In Tokyo, Japan, with up-to-date sema phores. The "Stop" and Go" signs are in both Japanese and English. Detroit. Cleveland. Indianapoli. and Chicago are the leading cities In the country in the manufacture o1 automobiles. bodies and parts. An automobile speedway is to be constructed near Arpajon. France, II miles south of Paris. The autodrome will be built on the same lines as that at Indianapolis.
 More than 100000 passenger. au- tomobiles in the United States arc en. and more than 6.000,000 drivers licenses were issued to them dur ing 1923.
 Mrs. John G. Hallenbeck of Garden City. IN. F., was arrested recently driving her car at a speed of 40 miles an hour near Miami, Fla. She Is Ss years old and has nine grandchil. dren.
 Setting the normal life of cal at seven years Statistics show thai 1t Is 6.7 years), automobile manu- featuring concerns find that 2,500.- 900 cars will be needed each year to replace the ones which must be scrapped. if the present law of av- erages holds good.
 If a motorist in Connecticut runs into another car at a curve because he doesnot sound his horn he Is fined $50, and if he tries to escape this penalty by pleading that his horn was not working, he is fined an ad- ditional $50 for operating a car without 8 suitable warning device.
 The Cleveland Automobile club has offered the use of it's touring infor- nation and other services to the G. o. P. convention delegates. The bu- reau will advise regarding the best routes between Cleveland and other cities. or map out tours to points of interest in and around Cleveland.
 The Automobile Club of Southern California, located in Los Angeles. recently celebrated it's twenty-third anniversary. The membership has grown from 46l in 1900 to 93,351 at the present time. The club is quar- tered in a s1.000.oo0 home and has 20 branch offices throughout South ern California. Competition among American mo- tor manufacturers Is keen. Evidence of 1t Is found not. only in what Is under the hood" but in the veritable aggrayation of refinements that may touch the taste of the car buyer. As much as can be given for the price. but not a screw or bolt more, and the price is whittled to the lowest point.
 According to a nationwide survey made by the National Association of Retail Clothiers, the average man no longer has 8 Sunday suit of clothes" but he owns an automobile. or is buying one on the installment plan. A large store in one New York state district put on a campaign which, in other years, had produced sales of 150 suits and overcoats, but the re- suit this year was the sale of 17 suits and overcoats, while across the street on the same day 25 automo piles were sold.
 The automobile division of Penn sylvania is now completing 8 per- manent record for each passenger car and truck owned in the state. These records are cut In zinc. The metal plates are filed numerically, and as long as a car is in use in Pennsylvania It's plate will be on file in the highway department. When the ownership of a machine changes, a new plate is made, the number re- maining the same and an identifica- tion letter being added. The old plate will be blanked and reused.