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Show MISTS ML i TOUR ABROAD lirowing lendency to Make Road Trips Told By Eu ropean Expert N K.W TORK Tw o of Buropa t fore-( most motorists. MaJ. Steuson Cooke. 1 secretary, and Charles IfcWhtrtar, ft-' nance chairman of the Automobile association and Motor union, this Week returned home thoroughly convinced that another ear will sep the renewing renew-ing of a growing interchange of road travelfra between Great Itrltiiln and jthe United states. While the visitors were compelled to limit their stav to less than a month, ithcy conferred wttk American Auto-; Auto-; mobile association officials in both New 'urk and Washington and also found time to drop In at A A. A ClUbti 'in a number of the larger citlea, ko- i n tr ,.4 1 n .- iv,.ul ' i I e-. tr r, ll,.. it irir. larj including Detroit. Cleveland and Ruffalo In Pittsburg the noted foreigners for-eigners were taken In hand t l:ivid Jameson, president of the A A A. Thp Canadian Automobile association Iheadqtiartere In Toronto also sa vv the (British Doolittle. the president, and jwho as a good roads worker, began in pioneer cycling days. In coming to America at the height ' of the vacation season. .Major Cooke) and Mi. McWhirter had in mind to, observe at first band the volume of road travel, the methods employed In I i Its acceleration, and to establish more firmly knit reciprocal relations ne-( tween their organization, and the American Automobile association.' While both bodies are members of I ;the recently-formecj International Touring alliance, there are matters of mutual concerq which have special reference to the motorists of the two Bnglish-apea king countries "After what we have seen in the United States in the way of improved highways," said Cooke before s.ill-jniK. s.ill-jniK. "We shall hive no hesitation In recommending to our members an jAmariean road trip. You are fully jawake to presflnt-daj needs In tn 'importation, 'im-portation, and hereaftei we can bor-irow bor-irow not a few pagel from your book 'of experience, ah you need to round jout your progress is a great system of nations toads, and I shall predict that your congress soon will have embarked ypur government on ibis undertaking "On the other side we had the great desirability of highwas impressed on of us for varlOua reasons, one of which 'was again unite forcibly .i settled In the great war franco's roads saved hjei md saved Europe. The speCtac-n),r speCtac-n),r defense of Paris b) Galllenl motor niobillzatton and the later ,. . in. lit .it Verdun told their OWT. H and Motor union, while its home field is thC British isles, has studied out the effective waya.in which the road j we are prepared another yeur to sup-'ply sup-'ply tourists with the most exact in-formatioi in-formatioi Whether tht A merit n H i ..I - ..ii Kngllsb oi conl I neiil .i 1 ii 1 1 ' fl there -.vtil I is staff to fat ll tate his progress, and w shall quickly iii i k . apparent the adv antages of the spci lal membership in the A. A. and M. r.. available tp .v. a. a member?1 tH |