New Britain herald., 1927-12-03

 toned improvement; the second would require a charter change and therefore cannot be worked until 1929 at the earliest.
 
 Two average individuals were standing on a street car corner the other day when a mutual aCquaint- ance went by in his touring car. honked his horn, waved his hand in greeting and sped past.
 Quoth average individual No. |: "Humph. There goes Doe in his car. Tight, I say. Why couldn't he just as well swung around and taken us home?'
 Replied a. i. No. 2: Well, he lives mp the north end and we go in the other direction"
 "Yes, I know, but, it wouldn't have hurt him to have gone around our way" insisted No. l.
 well, now that we are waiting here for the bus do you see any reason why Doe should come over and give you sit cents to pay your carfare home?"
 No, but
 "Well, I look.at it just that way. You'd be highly indignant if any body presumed 10 slip you your carfare home, yet you are just as indignant when a motorist going the other way doesn't do a right about and go several miles out of his way to drive you home. It costs money to run q car. Experts figure it averages anywhere from six to ten cents and more a mile to operate way to take us home it would mean that he was digging down into his pocket for about 12 cents which there is no reason he should spend on us. Of course, if he was going our way it would be different, but l think q person is unwittingly mak ing himself q 'gold-diggcr' who eX- poets driver to go out of his way for you.',
 Yes, q. 1. No. 9 was q car owner and knew whereof he spoke but a. i. No. 1 was one of the great major ity who simply do not think and as sume that all car owner has to do is steer the machine.
 
 During the summer months the presence on the streets and high ways in and adjacent 10 this city of automobiles bearing out of state li- censc markers always are interest ing to look at and speculate upon. The farther away the home state of the tourist, the more interesting he and his car becomes to the native citizens. A survey by the A. A. A. reveals some interesting facts, among others being that all over Whclming proportion of motor tourists vacationing in the New Eng land states come from the area east Of the Mississippi river and north of the Ohio river. Also. a majority of these tourists visit all the New Eng land states, but Massachusetts leads in motor tourist registration.
 With view to the adoption of q more aggressive program to popu- larl2e the rccrcational assets of New England, the Executive committee of the \. A \. submitted a series Of tabulated charts showing the origin of the motor tourist business, the areas patroni2ed and the seasonal ot the business.
 The figures are based on the registration and service records for 1&3,01G motor tourists handled by \. A. A. clubs in New England dur ing the past season. Here are some of the outstanding facts brought out.
 First, Of the total number of 1S3,- ofG motor tourists handled by mo- tor clubs, 146,26S Of so per cent east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio river, and 1S,GSS or 10 per cent from the region cast of the Mis- siasipri and South of the Ohio.
 Second, Of the total number 1o2,G7S or 5G per cent declared fin registering that they were on 9 "Gencral Tour of New England and had no specific destination.
 Third, in the case of the motor tourists with a specific destination, Massachusetts led all the New Eng land states with 27,4G4 or 15 per cent of the total volume handled through motor club agencies. Maine was a close second with 24,114 or 13 per cent and New Hampshire third with 19,4Gi or II per cent.
 Fourth, large volume Of the motor tourist travel in New England continues through September and even into October. a fact which is declared to demonstrate that the motorists arc actually 1cngthening the New England vacation season.
 A definite figure for the money value of the motor tourist business handled by the clubs vas not given in the tabulations. but ii is estimat- ed 10 have totaled close to seO, ,o00,- 000.
 l.aulO ldllS are NlfluailE nndnl- nous in the conviction that "pirates" those stations that jump their wave lengths, should be given no consid- cration.
 This was revealed in survey made by Ira l.. Grimshaw of the department of commerce. Grimshaw studied 5000 letters and telograms sent by listeners to the federal ra- dio commission, spending several weeks at the task.
 lis digest of fans suggestions, which were made with regularity and unanimity follows:
 Whatever plan is followed, every station must remain exactly on it's assigned wave length. A crys- tai or other control should be re- quircd 10 accomplish this purpose.
 Stations logically should be clas- silled into the big and little or the high-poWcr and low-powcr. the To- co1 and tba national tho ,r,,or,I