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Show WOULD HAVE AUTO LICENSEJEIEI Representative Adamson Is j Working for Bill Making License Good Anywhere. "WASHINGTON". D. C, June'17. ' ' If a state ean collect taxes out of its autoists, and out of all the neighboring autoists from other states, that state of course will have more revenue; and every other state that does likewise will similarly have more revenue. But if the people don't pay out that money into all the other states, it seems to me, that money is still in the states and mav be used for other purposes." Thus .Representative William C. Adamson, chairman of the committee on interstate and foreign commerce of. the house of representatives, refers to the automobile taxation situation which limits the crossing and re-c,rossing of state lines by the owners of motor cars. Recently Mr. Adamson 's committee reported re-ported the measure which bears his name and which would make a home state license good in all other states for indefinite periods, and which it is hoped will be passed before the present congress adjourns. Addressing the motorists of the country coun-try at the annual banquet of the A. A. ! A. held in Washington, D. C, Representative Repre-sentative Adamson expressed abelfef; that the measure could be passed if the motor car owners could make their congressmen con-gressmen agree "on the good old American interstate ideas of communication communi-cation contained in the bill." Referring to the early days of the motor car, Representative 1 Adamson said: I was not at all alarmed when the first horseless vehicles began to spurt around through the country. I thought they were great' things. I had read in history that our predecessors pred-ecessors orr this mundane sphere had had some primitive elemental idea of vehicles, but that they had never exactly struck the proper chord to make them available. When they began to come into vogue T foresaw that they were go-ing go-ing to be universally used, that they were going to lead the good roads building, that they were going go-ing to overcome the-prejudices of the country people by carrying the motorists out through the country and raising the prices of everything the country people had to sell and giving to the townspeople the reciprocal recip-rocal benefit of getting those things fresh in return for paying a little higher price for them. It has been genuine progress in the use of the automobile. Now cars are not confined as luxuries to the rich, but are used by the masses of the people, who really need transportation trans-portation ,f facilities, and so self-propelled self-propelled vehicles are being used by the millions. Charles T. Terry, former chairman of the A. A. A. legislative board and now : its general counsel, who had in hand the original federal registration bill, utters this concise summation of the situation: "Good roads amount to nothing unless the laws are such that they may be used freely. If we are really a nation, then the so-called boundaries boun-daries between the states are nothing but imaginary lines. They have no existence ex-istence when a federal question is raised as to the duty of citizens of this country. If war were to be declared it would be asserted without contradiction contradic-tion in any quarter that every citizen owed his particular duty to the protection protec-tion of his country, irrespective of and above any duty he might owe to his state. That federal duty, along with the federal right, must be, if it exists at all, reciprocal between the individual and the nation. Men would bo called upon, because, why? They are citizens or the country. State lines would be obliterated. Why isn't it equally true that when the right is one of the individual indi-vidual 's, state lines also should be obliterated? ob-literated? ' ' |