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Show RED TO YELLOW CHANGE FOUGHT Switch of Tail Light Is Opposed Op-posed by Ptlajority of A. A. A. Clubs. Since the adjournment of the second sec-ond national conference on street and highway sai&y, the American Automobile Auto-mobile association has conducted a canvass of sentiment among Its affiliated affili-ated clubs as to the proposal made at the conference to change the tail lights of automobiles from red to yellow. yel-low. It develops, according to A. A. A. ; headquarters, that the motor clubs I already heard from regarding this I proposed Innovation are against It, j and take the position that such a change, applying to 20,000,000 motor I vehicles would cause untold con- ' fusion on the highways and would i inevitably tend to increase the toll of traffic accidents. Rank and File Oppose, j This was practically the one prop- osition on which the A. A. A. took ls- I sue with the recommendations made by the committees of the Hoover con ference and It was at the insistence J of club executives that a decision on the tail light was postponed. All developments de-velopments since the conference indicate, in-dicate, It Is stated, that the rank and file of the motoring public stand by the resolution adopted at the time by the A. A. A. as follows: "That the secretaries of clubs affiliated af-filiated with the American Automobile Automo-bile association in convention assembled as-sembled hereby condemn the proposed pro-posed change as being detrimental to public safety and to the best interest in-terest of 20,000,000 motor vehicle owners." Railways Want It. j Although no mention was made In ! the resolution of the forces urging the change, it was well known that the railroads and the motor clubs were on different sides of the fence on this ; important matter. Notice has been ' served by the A. A. A. that proper ; provision must be made for represen- ! tatlon of the motorists before any com-I com-I mlttee that takes up this question for further study, as provided by the I safety conference, t . |