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Show STOP RECKLESS T AUTO DRIVING 'Organization Being Formed To Protect Interest Of Auto Owners Roprr;sentati'PM of 243 automobile clubs and over 20u 000 motorists from various states met In Chicago la.it j week to organize a national assoela Hon to protect the Interests of mo-tor mo-tor car owners throughout the country coun-try According to plans, the organization organi-zation expects to check reckless driving, driv-ing, create uniform driving regulations, regula-tions, effe ' uniformity of automobile lealslaUon, obtain more Just taxation. relieve congestion in tho larger c ities and sponsor other movements In which motorists are interested. A committee consisting of representatives represen-tatives from New York. Illinois. Iowa. Colorado, and California was named to effect a permanent organization, organi-zation, select a name, and name tom-pornry tom-pornry officers pending the first convention con-vention of the organization Tho meeting was causa by President George H. Bird of the Illinois State Automobile association. Uniform traffic regulation in cities, the application of automobile license fee. -to highway Improvement, anil a system of nation-wide trunk lino j running eaat and weM and north and (outh. with a connecting system of, feeders were among the matters discussed. dis-cussed. Speed traps, according to do!-1 i pates, will be discouraged, but tho prosecution of reckless drivers will be encouraged by the organization. Delegates Dele-gates also aald that the automobile, ua personal property, was often subjected sub-jected to four or five separate taxes while other property Is subjected to but one tax. and it was decided to prcoent the matter to the state legislatures legis-latures and the national congress with requests for relief. oo |