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Show u laws eor ' TRAFFICJEQUIRED Official of American Automobile Auto-mobile Association Points Out Necessity. W'ASiil N'OTOX, Sept. 23. Uniform trallic laws in all parts of the country have become imperative, and it is said to be up to the American Automobile i association to assume the burden of the task in harmonizing the conflicting statutes of the several states, with particular par-ticular reference to the eity regulations. Tlirouch its legislative board the national na-tional liodv of motor car owners is giving giv-ing renewed attention to the subject, and the problem and the policies to be pursued are thus set forth by Chairman Osborne 1. Vellott: Each vear the manufacturers are turning 'out a proportionately greater number of motor vehicles. Kach year these motor vehicles are .becoming mechanically more and more perfect, and therefore more used and useful. Each year thousands thou-sands of miles of improved roads arc being added to the improved road system of our country. Each year our cities are adding miles of "smooth paved streets. Each month sees our business houses adding to their equipment of motor trucks, or substituting them for the horses previously used. Each week sees traffic on our roade and streets grow heavier and heavier. Each dav sees hundred of inexperienced - persons in every large city added to the already large list of those authorized to' operate motor vehicles ve-hicles on our public highways. The slow crawi of street trattic of twenty years ago has given place to the mad rush of traffic to-today. to-today. That traffic is daily becoming becom-ing "more and more fraught with danger danger not only to the pedestrian on the streets, but as well to those who themselves form a part of such vehicular traffic. These conditions imperatively demand de-mand that those whose duty it is to do the thinking for the users of our highway, bend every effort toward to-ward a satisfactory solution of the traffic problems which have arisen with the growth of the automobile as a vehicle of commerce. "Much thinking has already been done on this subject; the results are to be found on the statute .books of our states and larger cities. But the diversity of rules adopted and in force in different sections of the country shows how far the problem is from being really real-ly solved. As chairman of the A. A. A. legislative hoard it shall be my principal task to gather from all available sources suggestions looking to the framing of a set of uniform traffic regulations which will embody the best thought of the country on this most difficult subject, aiid present same to the members of the association as a step at least in the direction of a solution of the traffic problem. |