Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-22


already have begun trickling
across and bid fair to make 1880
motor touring on the North Amer
41can continent reach the highest
point in history.
Canada and Mexico, with their
unlimited appeal to the motor
tourist, for hunting, fishing, sports
and sightseeing, are gaining in
favor by leaps and bounds, with
a consequent return of the favor
by the motor-minded folk of
dpheSe two countries evidenced by
an ever-growing traffic of tourists
across our borders in cars bearing
Canadian and Mexican license
plates.
1t is conservatively estimated by
tourist experts, baSing their fig-
ures on those of the Department
of Commerce for preceding years,
that upward of 5000 900 American
automobiles will bear thrice that
number of persons into the Do
mlnlon of Canada during the
touring months this Spring, Sum-
mer and Fall, there to spend up
ward of 300,000,000 good Ameri-
can dollars.
Canadian Cars Expected.
On those same Department of
Commerce figures it is conServa-
lively estimated that from Can
ada will come this year 100000
machines (moStly American
made) bearing thrice that many
Canadians to return the favor by
spending more than S45 000. 900 in
this country.
This interchange of tourist
travel is regarded as a natural
one, but it has reached a magni-
tude In the past few years that
the motor manufacturers, the
merchants and even the govern
mentS of the two countries have
seen exceed their fondest dreams.
There is a great deal in common
between the United States and
Canada. Speaking the same Ian
guage and living under almost
identical conditions, the Ameri-
can and Canadian are the best of
friends and the closest of bust
ness associates. Hand in hand, in
. a spirit OF cooperation seldom
equaled between two great coun-
tries. the Canadians and Ameri-
cans have come down the years.
Back of the estimated figures
for tourist traffic back and forth
across the Mexican border, how
ever, lies more significance for the
future tourist of this continent.
Down on the Southern border
of the United States there is
opening up a vast territory full
of scenic wonders, paradise for
the huntsman and angler.
1t is not seasonal affair, this
traffic across the Southern border
OF the United States. Year round
the cars go across and a road
program that is gathering mo-
mentum with every month is
stretching reckoning arteries to
link with those of this country.
opening up the gorgeous country
that Cortes discovered for the
Western World.
Mexican Road System Growing.
Across the Mexican border this
year are expected to go more than
5000, 900 persons in motor cars, to
travel over the growing Mexican
road system. These motorists will
leave in Mexico approximately
sac, 100000, portion of which
will be used to further extend the
highway facilities of the country
to the south, these roads to at
tract, as the months go by, an
ever-increasing flow of tourist
traffic into the very heart of Cen
trail America.
To the motor tourist the coun-
tries to the south of us are an un-
plumbed depth, luXuriant in tropic
beauty, balmy of atmosphere, but
almost totally without roads. What
roads there are are good only for
ox-cartS and horse-drawn We
hicles. But as Mexican traffic
arteries reach out, there are indi-
cations that there will come, in
the next few years, arteries up to
the north roads to meet them,
and the much discussed Pan
American Highway is regarded as
development of the not-too-d dis
tant future.
The United States will not be
without it's Mexican tourists,
either 1t is estimated that ap-
proximately 100000 will be
spent in the United States this
year by motor tourists from Mex
leo.
Jersey Plans on Action.
Close on the heels of the rec
concentrations by the National
Conference on Street and High
way Safety, that more care be ex-
erciSed by the States in assuring
the motor traveller that the car he
meets on the road shall be in q
safe condition, the State Of New
Jersey has taken a hand to re-
move from its roads cars that
might be regarded as unsafe.
Harold G.. Hoffman, New Jer-
sey's commissioner of motor We
hicles, declares that his States
decision to remove the mechan-
ically unsafe machine from the
highways is lin line with the
most advanced safety thought OF
the country"
He says: 1T is within the
province of every motor car owner
to become acquainted with the
requirements of mechanical safety
and to see that his car meets the
specifications through intelligent
maintenance. If the car, as a re.
suit of age or use or any othel
condition, cannot be made safe
then it has no place on the high.
ways of New Jersey or any othel
State"
Citing statistics to the effec
that the mechanically unfit ca
figures in approximately Is pc
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