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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1925)
DLEM S Motor Association Discusses Traffic Regulations and Congestion. ' WASHINGTON, D. C. March 14 Enforcement of existing laws and regulations relating to the motor vehicle and provision of adequate man-power to handle trarfle congestion, rather than a quantity of new laws, was urged by the American Automobile asso ciation today as the . first and most important step-in a practical .safety program. . This appeal from. the National headquarters of the A.A.A. was based on an investigation recent ; ly concluded by the legislative board of the association of which : Roy P. Britton. President of the ..Automobile club of Missouri, is - chairman. The Investigation, according to the board, confirmed the position taken by A.A.A. throughout, name ly, that the principal trouble to day is the lack of vigorous enfor cement of existing laws and the deplorable extent to which civic authorities throughout the coun try have failed. to provide suffi cient traffic forces ! to handle the motor vehicle congestion and the many problems tioj which the auio i mobile has given Irjse. j ! "The investigation. ;said Mr, Britton, "leaves j no room for doubt that our: principal trouble , today is the lack of vigorous, con stant and intelligent enforcement of the laws we have. This can- , not he done unless the traffic force at the disposal I of polled officials is adequate to handle the V motor vehicle problem and a large variety of crimes growing out of the automobile which create new difficulties for the police. "What Is true of city conditions is equally true of the country v roads, except . that in the latter instance an additional difficulty presents itself in the very general disposition to regard the automo bile as a fee grabbing opportun ity. . - jf A "In some large cities there has been no increase in. the traffic force in the last five years, these years coinciding with the period of most rapid development in the history of the -motor vehicle. In Borne of the largest cities of the country the Increase in the last ten years is negligible while there are cases where there: has been no increase in the last twenty years. r:j j . ; j . "Take the city pf St. Louis as an example of this' tIast class. Twenty years ago; St. :Louis bad 200 automobiles. ; At that time there were 1500 policemen on a double platoon basis, Which gae 600 men on duty, at j any given time, after making allowance for furloughs and sickness, j Today St. Louis has 120,000 cars and 1750 officers on a three platoon basas which actually gives fewer officers on duty than, there w?ere twenty, 'years ago. j - J ' " : i . "In the last ten years the area covered by Chicago has trebled. It is the center of a highly con gested region. But- today the nam ber of traffic officers ' the second largest -V country is only - 100 on duty jin city of the men ; more than there were on duty ten years ago. t i:: j "New York 30,000 fctreet inter serctions and a force of 1,586 men actually assigned to traffic duty, that is, one officer to every fifteen - intersections.; j- j ' jrj; "Los Angeles has. increased ;its traffic force 200! men; in the last ten years, bringing It; now up:to 284. In the meantime, however, the automobile registration has climbed from ?7;608 in 19151 to (gmJkmiiiim, ivj I LI I I I NX N SAFETY PHD S FOR C D DEBATED $j5$fM DOWN Starts you on the way to owning this fine rebuilt i j Harley-Dayidson : i j Motorcycle ! Youi can then enjoy the great outdoors, ride to land from 'work, and get the most out of life Come in and look over, our complete line 1 give terms you can afford to pay. ! t.:. Th. flvpfA Man" I , n If you can't cbnie in write for THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON Idol 6f DX Fans Finds 1 1 mm Austin! Wiley, Leader Of "Nigritcps'PrefersThe Ethr Lfte Midnight Austin Wiley is the man who plays for the whole "vrorld after his regulajjjob for the day is done. - j I ! 1 1 j - . . : Millions 'pisten in" to him every night or, insome eases, every day, for when he goes on the air at station WAK, Cleveland. Ohio, at midmeht, his farmer auditors on the Wetf coast' are just getting up to begin the I day, and other scattered listeners in Africa, the Orient and fSurope tune in to hear their Jayorfte concert. Along i"Vfroadway, the night lawks ttfnein, too, on the Night taps," as the Wiley orchestra i ailed. ! - ! .j , 1 5 , . 341,122 ait tie present, an increase of 1200 per: cent. ;" . "At present several large cities are demanding as many as 300 more men. j The fact that this number should he needed at any one time indicates that there is no policy of .maintaining & ratio between motor vehicle increase and the raffic force. Our Inves tigation $hqws that wherever the lack of men is acute, there is a greater proportion of fatalities. "In urging vigorous enforce ment of the: laws, and an adequate traffic personnel, the A.A.A. is not putting forward the suggestion as a cure-all. j There is no such thing -least of ail in a multitude of new jfangled laws. Safety is fundamentally interwoven with education - and the adjustment of the population to new conditions on the streets and highways. The problem; today Is to provide every facility forlthe enforcement of the laws weS have." j British Female Offenders Repeat Oftener Than Men i t LONDON, j March 14. The most habitual offenders against the laws of Great Britain are women, according to the report of the commissioners of prisons and the i t -directors of convict prisons for the past year.;1 No fewer than 7,258 -We our free list and catalogue T !' i - 1 ; ' . V MX I E III! Romance In The Air AUSTIN (Because the air is compara tively free in this country at the hours he plays, Wiley has been heard in more countries than any other broadcaster. He has had letters from Japan, London, Mex ico, Scotland and Paris, to men tion only! a few distant points. "There! is a great thrill in play ing for distance," says Mr. Wiley, who in daytime conducts an or chestra tat Cleveland's famoC Golden Pheasant Restaurant. "The romance j of shooting a song into the ether for millions to pick up never fails to get me. i "People all over the world like jazz best. They tell me so in every language. Just now one of their favorite tunes is 'Priuca of Wails.' They like it so mueh that t I have (nicknamed it the radio I lullaby.", out of the 8,801 women received into prison in the year had been convicted before, or 83 percent, compared with 62 percent of the men. More than 1,000 women had been convicted 11 to 20 times more and 2,886 more than 20 times. ; The report also shows that the total number of prisoners received under sentence was 58,216 com pared with 60.832 for the preced ing yeaft a decrease of 2,616. At the convict prisons1 466 , persons were sentenced to penal servitude In 1923-24' as against 495 for the previous year. . . " r ' i i Referring to the general con duct of, prisoners in all establish ments, j - the commissioners say there is no doubt that there is a different tone in the prison popu lation f today, due partly to the fact that the majority of the per sons received ate of a less violent type than formerly, but due also tb a change in the attitude of the authorities towards the prisoners which tends to bring about a bet ter spirit tin the prison commun ities, i. --r !UiiWlii!M(iWi((ii!l,,!!j !-i IP R I C NewtoEn Ghevicolei Co, Opposite City Hall February iWas Biggest Month in Nash Motors Company February, the shortest month of the year, was the biggest month Nash motors has had since the company was establish ed eight years ago last August. The sweeping demand for the Nash Special Six and Advanced Six series is the more significant be cause shipments of the industry as a whole, during the sam month, were- below normal. The "Nash record, established last October was shattered when February, even though shorter by three days outstripped the best previous month in Nash history iby ten per cent. With stocks of cars in deal ers hands on February 28, twenty five per cent below the figure that prevailed on the same day a year ago, Nash shipments eclipsed ship ments for February 1924 by the wide margin of 51 per cent. A big majority of these cars went al most immediately into the hands of retail purchasers, demand in practically all sections of the coun try, being in excess of the dealer's allotment; in fact "immediate deli very" has been the order of the day, regardless of season, ever since the introduction of the new line of Nash special and Advanced Six models on August 1. "The unprecedented demand for Nash cars in the six months that have elapsed since the introduc tion of the new line leaves no doubt as to the manner in which they have been accepted by the public." Says E. 21. McCarty, general sales manager of the Nash Motors company, "In September for instance Nash motors showed an increase of 7 per cent over the same month of the previous year while the industry as a whole showed a decrease of 13 per cent. "Similiar figures for the succed ing months are interesting. The Nash gain in October over the previous year was was 54 per cent. COACHES ARE BUILT Local Dealer Claims That Motoring Public Demand Coaches ' "Hudson-Essex has built more than 200,000 coaches and is rapidly on Us way to the quarter millionth, declares Fred- M. Powell, Hudson-Essex distribu tor. "And today at a time when the motor trade is only fairly active, the big Hudson-Essex plant is running night and day to keep pace with the volume of public demand for these enclosed cars. i "This tidal wave of public de mand for coaches answers com pletely the question, 'Who origin ated the coach.' The answer is: the motoring public. "The motoring public had been waiting for years for this type of car when Hudson-Essex eif? gineers designed and built it. In the industry of course, Hudson Essex was the first company to perceive this demand and to .fill it. As a result Hudson-Essex has built nearly 200,000 mort coaches than anyone else and has made Its name almost synony mous with the coach. But after all the real originator of the coach was the motorist who long had wanted a closed car, not too heavy or elaborate or expensive. "How remarkable it is to real ize that closed cars in volume are only three years old that it is now three years since Hudson Essex introduced the idea of the mjiimiiiiiiiiiliiimimmii.iwiwimii iiiniHHHiamnimHmiOTim'WffliwfflW"'HHUiM i utTiiHii iMini tmiitrimiTtiiinirtmtHiH'Hiliti H1lmiiiMiiiiiltirSi,iHiiffiii"t'" '-" - M . gSreatly reduced E have a few NEW Model F V V Chevrolets which we are of fering at greatly reduced prices. These cars all carry the factory guarantee and are new. History of the industry's decrease being 23 Per cent; in November, the Nash increase was 124.6 per cent with the industry's decrease of 24 per cent; then came December, always a 'low month but again Nash made an increase, the figure this time being 22 per cent while the general industry recorded a de crease of 27 per cent; in January the Nash Increase was 32 per cent as against the industry's decrease of 29 per cent, and, as related above, the February increase of 51 per cent made the month just ended the biggest month in the history of the Nash Motors com pany, regardless of the season and also notwithstanding that it was three days shorter than the best previous month in Nash history, October 1924. "And the significance of this record is a gain emphasized In the fact that the industry as a whole showed a decrease in February, as against the same month a year ago, although the specific percent age figures are not available at this time." ' Demand for the Nash line of Special and Advanced Six series of cars has kept the plants In Ke nosha and Milwaukee busy literal ly night and day, practically ever since the Introduction of the new line and has made necessary fac tory extensions and additional plant equipment which will in crease the production capacity of Nash .Motors by 40 per cent by the opening of the spring season, over the greatest production ever previously attained. The expansion include an addi tional 254,236 square feet of floor space and the installation of $1, 500,000 worth of new plant equip ment. Active work on the build ing programme has been under way for several weeks past, the extensions effecting both the Ke nosha and Milwaukee plants. coach, an enclosed car to sell at a new low standard of price. "It is remarkable to think that up to the time of the coach the automobile industry had made magnificent strides in all phases of volume and standar dized production, except in the manufacture of enclosed bodies. . Closed bodies were still made by slow and costly methods a century or more old. The coach changed j that it was the first enclosed car which could be made under the same system of pro gressive manufacture which had brought wonderful economies el sewhere in the industry and made universal motoring possible." Public Demand Is Running Toward Closed Models Now It Is very gratifying to notice the number of tourists and fo reign cars that are already com ing through iSalem indicating that we are going to enjoy an early tourist trade, said Fred M. Powell the other day. "Our service department has been extremely busy the past week with tourists desiring minor adjustments, washing, and greas ing and I am beginning to won der how we are going to handle this volume of trade when the season is at Its height." It is surprising to note the large number of new Packards coming through and also - the Hudson and Essex coaches which Indicates that the public demand is running to closed cars as we have not noticed a ' new open car in these makes among the cars going through. Our used car department has been very active the past week and a number of sales have been made. - MllllillmlllUlltlWllllB E id i 3 SUNDAY MORNING, 5wim a it It soon will be a temptation to get simplest and easiest basis! Now no out on the road in your own car. ' family need be handicapped for lack Many a time you will wish you had a Ford -a wish almost anyone can make come true through the Ford Week ly Purchase Plan. 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By enrolling now, you can have your car for sum mer use. Have a Ford Dealer explain the Week ly Purchase Plan in de tail or write us direct. Fordor Sm&m $960 Vr.-