Evening star., 1927-04-17

There are 864 clubs affiliated with
the American Automobile. Associa-
ton today. The man who is a mem
Der of one is memter of all. The
service extended to the individual
member Of the small town club is
| Just as available to the motorist
from the section of the country most
remote from the community in
which the club has its headquarters.
Thus, the man who travels by motor
car is assured that wherever he may
be the service he needs is waiting
for him.
If he runs out of gasoline on a
mountain peak at midnight a call to
the motor club will bring him the
fuel his car needs. If the ignition
goes wrong he does not have TO
work in the darkness and possibly
make matters worse. The emergency
road service of the motor club,
which this year will be made Nation
wide, will solve his dilemma and soon
have him under way again.
If the car is wrecked, stuck in the
ditch or falls over an embankment,
the motor club is ready to come inn
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Some clubs give this service free. |
All give it at an amazingly low cost |
At the recent conference it was
recommended that a two-dollar
maximum charge be established for
any form of service so extended |
Being pulled out of a ditch on a |
mountain road in the dead of night |
with a Wintry blast bowling about |
is service that many garages would |
refuse to give. Not SO those en-
ployed by the motor club They |
act, and act quickly Such a service |
is practical This kind of service |
only can build up a mighty organiza-
tion of motor car owners, organized |
motordom's leaders believe. That is
why they are adding to it constantly. |
All of the services enumerated, |
and they are but few of the total
available, are, of course, given to the
local motorist as we'll as the tourist.
Is a member of motor club ar
rested unjustly? Then, the club
wastes no time in coming to his de-
fense with excellent legal talent and |
a forceful mede of public opinion. |
Motorists have paid millions of dol
lars in fines for offenses they never
committed. Because they did not
know what to do about it, they paid.
Not so the motor club member. The
club is out to get justice for him, |
and getting it, is serving to aid the |
millions who have not joined its or
ganization.
No unofficial agency is SO active
in reducing the motorists enormous
losses in car thievery. In addition
to getting its vast network of clubs
Immediately busy in the search for
members stolen car, the A. A. A.,
through its local organizations, is
fighting to the finish to see that ade-
quate punishment is meted out to
the automobile thief. Leniency in
dealing with the thief, it is believed.
is one of the factors contributing to
the perpetuation and growth of the
stolen car business and the A. A. A.
is seeking to eliminate this factor.
Club service also includes insur-
ance. Various vital forms of protec-
ton are made optional with the
member.
All of these are services for the
individual. They are concrete ex-
ampleS of what club membership is
worth to him. In larger way, al
though indirectly, the motor Cub is
doing much more in the form of con-
stant efforts to eliminate all the fac
tors that unfairly restrict the scope
of the automobile. 1t demands more
and better roads and works for SIM
pie and sound traffic laws, and is one
of the agencies most active in its
advocacy of the Hoover uniform
traffic code.
Through its manifold forms of
safety work, to be correlated and ex-
panded this year into one of the
greatest highway safety campaigns
eyer instituted, the motor agencies |
are doing great deal to remove the |
stigma that attaches to motordom |
as result of highway mishaps. In |
this connection, it is interesting to |
note that Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover, hailed as the father |
of the highway safety movement in
the United States, addressed the |
conference on its first day in Wash
ington and praised the splendid CO.
operation he has been given in his |
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