Evening star., 1932-07-31
In the Motor World
BY G. ADAMS HOWARD.

relief funds for street work, and the
fact that the relief funds do not have
to be matched with local money assures
! considerable municipal highway work:
Restrictions as to the amount OF Federal
participation per mile also have been
/ removed
Employment benefits will not be con-
fined to the workers on the roads
directly. but will extend to those work.
ing in factories. plants and mines pro-
ducing road equipment and materials
and also on transportation lines convey
ing them to the construction sites.
Because no part of the emergency
highway funds must be matched by an
equal amount from the States, regular
State funds are released for new
projects. The emergency Federal aid
money will be used in lieu Of State
money to match regular Federal aid in
a number of States. Additional new
work will be created through the re-
leasing of Federal aid allctments in
States that lack the necessary State
funds to cover regular Federal aid
promptly"
Uniformity Of Rules.
On the basis OF an analysis Of motor
vehicle laws of the States, the American
Automobile Association declared re-
Gently that substantial progress is being
made toward uniformity in the basic
regulations governing the movement Of
the Nations 22,000,000 passenger cars.
The A. A. A. statement was issued
simultaneously with the publication of
the 1882 edition of its Summary of
Motor Vehicle Regulations, United States
and Canada" prepared by its legal and
research department with the CO.
operation Of the Albert Russell Erskine
bureau for street traffic research.
Harvard University.
Familiarity on the part CT car owners
with the major regulations in the States
in which they intend to travel" said
Thomas p. Henry of Detroit, Mich,
president of the national motoring body,
will do much to eliminate confusion,
cne of the principal causes Of accidents.
While the individual motorist can hardly
be expected to know every provision OF
these varying regulations, all motorists
should be familiar with the most i'm
portant, such as those covering acci-
dents, registration and drivers license
| requirements, speed limits, right Of way,
overtaking on hills, passing street cars,
dimming of headlights use OF SpotlightS
and stopping at grade crossings"
Foreign Touring Aided.
The American Automobile Touring
Alliance, a newly formed national ssso-
citation Ct automobile clubs, with head
quarters in Philadelphia, Los Angeles
and Washington, has been admitted to
active membership In the Alliance Inter
rationale de Tourisme of Europe one
of the most influential and largest
organized group of automobile clubs in
the world.
Through this affiliation complete
foreign service of customs passes and
circulation papers for automobile is at
once available to members of American
clubs forming the American Automobile
| Touring Alliance The founder mem
bers of the alliance are the Automobile
Club of Southern California, Keystone
Automobile Club, Pittsburgh Motor
Club, Delaware Automobile Association
and Long Island Aut- mobile Club
At the general assembly in Copen-
hagen Of the Alliance Internationale de
Tourisme, or the A. I. T., as 1t is familiarly
known, the American Automobile Tour
ing Alliance was represented by its gen.
eral secretary, j. Maxwell Smith, who
Is also secretary and general manager
of the Keystone Automobile Club. Dur
ing the sessions Mr. Smith was able to
make preliminary arrangements with
the leading officials of motoring in
Europe for members of the American
alliance who will tour abroad this Sum-
mer in all European countries, parts of
Africa, Arabia and India.