The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-05-21
STATE AUTO
BODY GIVEN
CIVIC 0. K.
Bismarck Association of Com
merce Endorses North
Dakota Association

The Bismarck Association of
Commerce is heartily in accord with
the work being done by the North
Dakota Automobile Association and
commends it to the people Of Bis
marck and this section of North Da-
kota, according to statement is
sued today by Fred l.. Conkln, pre-
sident Of the Bismarck civic assoc
citation and also director of the
state auto body.
There is place in North Dakota
for the North Dakota Automobile
Association and through it real
service can be rendered to motor
tourists and the state as whole
served through constructive immi-
grafton and development work." Mr..
Conklin declared. 1.-THE Bismarck
Association of Commerce had a hand
in the organization of the auto asso-
citation year ago and we have been
satisfied that the work to date has
been worth while and the personnel
Of the organization is such that we
feel confident that this work will
continue"
Advertise State
The auto association has publish
ed large quantity of North Dakota
Tourists Guide, strip map and 9TH
CIR literature and has started it's ad-
vertising campaign in weekly news
papers in Iowa, Minnesota, Wiscon-
sin and other sections Of the central
states to attract motor tourists to
North Dakota. This series Of ad-
vertisements are the preliminary
part Of the associations development
and immigration work. 1t will be
made more extensive as organization
work progresses. Members of the
Association are given radiator en-
blem and membership card showing
membership in the NDAA as we'll as
the American Automobile Association
with which it is affiliated.
Purposes of NDAA
The aims and purposes of the
North Dakota Automobile Associa-
ton. as announced by Jas. S. Milloy,
its secretary who is in Bismarck
this week in the interest of the or
yanization, is as follows:
To encourage the building and
maintaining of good roads in North
Dakota.
To prosecute an intensive adver-
Using campaign to divert motor
I ourist traffic through North Dakota,
believing that tourists to Yellow
stone and Glacier National Parks,
the Pacific Northwest and Canadian
Northwest can be influenced to cross
North Dakota. if tourists advant-
ages in this state are advertised.
To include in this advertising
campaign sustained effort to at
tract homeseekers to North OAK ota,
realizing that prospective settlers
will travel in large numbers by auto
mobile and can be attracted if the
advantages North Dakota has to Of
fer to new settlers, particularly the
story of this states low priced, pro-
ductive land, are properly placed be-
fore them.
To maintain reliable tourist infor-
nation bureaus in North Dakota,
make available maps and literature
for bureaus in smaller communities
and serve asa general clearing
house for tourist information in
North Dakota.
To encourage the establishment
and proper maintenance of tourist
camps by every community in North
Dakota. realizing that such camps
can offer standard service that will
give the visiting tourist a proper
impression of the state.
To furnish North Dakota tourist
guides, maps and literature to in
formation bureaus and civic organi-
cations in other states, particularly
in eastern. southern and western
states where travel originates.
To coordinate the part North
Dakota must play in developing and
maintaining national trails, ellmn-
ating such trails as exist in name
only and which are apparently or
ganized for the sole purpose of pro-
viding salaries for executive officers.
To cooperate with civic organiza-