Milford chronicle., 1927-06-17
$40 CLUBS IN AMERICA A. A. A.

Washington, D. c., May 90
The $40 motor clubs affiliated with
the American Automobile Association
will hold their annual convention in
in Philadelphia, June 16, and II,
according to an announcement from
A. A. A. National Headuarters here
to day.
Due to the increase in membership
and the number of new clubs organ
lied as units of the national motor
ing body during the last twelve
months, A. A. A. officials here pre-
dicted that the Philadelphia Conven-
ton will break all records for at
tendance. Every section of the coun-
try will be represented by local de-
legates to this, the greatest annual
get-together of American motordom,
and it is anticipated that when the
roll is called, as many as 400 de-
legates will be on hand.
While the sessions of the conven-
ton will be held in the Ritz-Carlton
Hotel, four A. A. A. clubs operation
in the "City of Brotherly Love" will
act as host to thegathering. These
units are: The Automobile Club of
Philadelphia, the Knights of Colum-
bus Automobile Club, Pelham Auto
mobile Club and the Philadelphia
Auto Trade Association.
Philadelphia secured the A. A. A.
Annual convention in the face of hot
bidding from score of cities. The
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was extended by Robert P. Hooper,
president of the Pennsylvania Motor
Federation. Mr.. Hooper is also
member of the A. A. A. executive
committee and one, of its former
national presidents.
The major part of the sessions of
the two-day convention will be de-
voted as usual to the discussion of
motoring and car-owner problems
and to development of a program be-
hind which A. A. A. clubs in every
state of the Union from Maine to
California will mobilize their forces
in the months Immediately ahead.
At the moment, however, it is
said, big interests centers round the
filling of the important offices in the
association, which under it's demo-
cratic constitution, become vacant
each year. Among the offices to be
filled are the following: That of the
National President: six vice-presi-
dents; secretary. an executive COM
mittee and twenty-five new members
of the board of directors. The latter
consists of eighty-five members,
|seventy-five of them representing
automobile clubs and ten the Bus
Division of the A. A. A. which meets
in Philadelphia concurrently with
the annual convention.
Thomas P. Henry, of Detroit Mich,
has held the office of president for
three successive years and to his
leadership, prominent, A. A. A. Of
tlclals ascr1be a considerable part of
the credit not for the great increase
in the membership, but also its solid
rlty, the nationwide character of its
standardized service, its activities in
the larger matter of public relations
and the unity of purpose which in
sp1red its campaign in behalf of
motoring progress.
While the agenda of the convention
are still incomplete, many of the out
standing problems confronting mo-
ttordom are scheduled for a thorough
airing. Foremost among these is
that pertaining to street and high
way safety, motor clubs in their
character of semi-public utilities
having already assumed the leader
ship in this important field.
The association is already COM
mitted to a vigorous compaign for
the elimination at the earliest DOS
sible moment of the remaining por-
tion of the War Exercise Tax on
motor vehicles and steps will be
taken to assure consideration for
the claims for the owners in the
respect when the ways and means
Committee of the House of Repre-
sentatives meets late in the summer
to take up the next National
Revenue Bill.
The Delaware Motor Club with
offices in the Dupont-Biltmore Ho-
tel, Wilmington, Delaware, are the
only members of the "a. A. A. " in
Delaware. No other motor Club in
Delaware can give it's members
"A A. A" reciprocal service.