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Show j BETTER j ROADS Back Move :'n Support " of Improved Highways Legislative activities, both state and national, on behalf of good roads and In support of motor vehicle laws which are fair to the individual automobile owner will constitute a prominent part of the American Automobile association's as-sociation's program for the coming year, according to a statement by Thomas P. Henry of Detroit, new president of the A. A. A., at an informal in-formal meeting held at Washington. National problems will be handled by the national organization and local matters affecting the motorist in the various states will be taken up through the state association of clubs of such state which are affiliated with the A. A. A. Highway legislative activities, according ac-cording to Mr. Henry, will include an Intensive program directed toward eliminating in so far as possible the personnel of the various highway boards and commissions from partisan politics. Decision to concentrate on this problem was reached after a study of statistics which show that highway departments of eighteen 6tates have been radically changed during the last few months, "We feel," said Mr. Henry, "that the building and maintenance of highways high-ways is of too great Importance to be Interrupted by a complete change In administration. Adequate highways are a boon to the whole people, and partisan politics should play no part in their construction. We feel that every highway department should be operated on a businesslike basis with the best obtainable personnel in charge, in order that the people who pay for the roads may get the utmost ut-most for their money." Closer co-operation with other national na-tional organizations was also suggested suggest-ed by President Henry as a part of the year's activities for the A. A. A. "Every cause advocated by the Amer-v lean Automobile association," he said, "Is altruistic In purpose, and there is no reason why we should not have the co-operation of every great national na-tional organization in support of the measures we advocate. "Good roads benefit everybody, unfair un-fair taxes on the automobile affect every class of people; measures which give the motorist a square deal are of interest to every national organization. organ-ization. As the activities of the A. A. A. are confined solely to advocating advocat-ing beneficial measures, and as Secretary Sec-retary Wallace so aptly expressed it, 'the A. A. A. has no ax to grind,' there is no reason why we cannot cooperate co-operate with other organizations and receive in turn their co-operation." |