Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 6, 1924, Page 11

Che Casper VOLUME 33. Sunday Tribune “ CASPER, WYU., SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 1924 SECOND NEWS SECTION. Editorial $0,000 MILES OF U.S, ROADS OW SURFACED Seventeen States Are Below Wyoming with 46,528 Miles. Including sand-clay and gravel ds, which while good from the tandpoint of the traveler, are not. trictly speaking “hard” roads, the ileage of surfaced roads in this ation is now more than 400,000. Theater News Churches Classified FACTS AND FIGURES ON AUTO | NATIONAL MOTORISTSTOENTER |AEPFA QFWARTAXONAITIS By ALFRED KEEVES, General Manager’ { Sa ES ES National Automobile Chamber of Commerce Ba SO) | Farmers Pay Large Part of Revenue and Burden | Should Be Lifted, Congressman Clancy Of Detroit Says in Statement. Cars and trucks 370,000 Previous record motor vehicle production 1922. 2,609,005 Percentage increase over 1922 Production of closed cars . Per cent closed cars ..... : Total wholesale value of cars .. Total wholesale value of trucks . dessccs 267,500,000 Total wholesale value of cars and trucks ....... $2,510,885,000 Tire production . Bde at sees coe bien oe 45,000,000 Wholesale value of motor vehicle tire business .... Total wholesale value of parts and accessories, exclusive of tires ..- Average retail price of car, “The war excise taxes on automobiles, motor trucks, |accessories and spare parts are so-called luxury taxes, | stigma or nuisance taxes,” said the Hon. Robert H. Clancey member of Congress from the city of Detroit, in an address |broadcasted over WRC—“The Voice of the Capital” for lthe American Automobile association the other niyht $1,310,000,000 $811 A 4 Congressman Clancey has introduced phaving this tax killed. It would de- verage retail price of truck, 1928 ......... $1,080 a bill in congress for the repeal of} crease the cost of their cars by five The “bureau of public roads of F 3 9 toate ta owt ces *; a he aRth cts Anthouliare Purchasing power of automobile dollar (1913-100) - 111 cents the excis2 war tax on motor ve-| per cent. tates that at the close of the year | Number of persons employed in motor vehicle and ho21 the surfaced mileage was ap-| allied lines .......... 2,750,000 oeees ot Ba sieks 2,75) roximate'y 387,000 miles, and 35,000] Special Federal excisc taxes paid to U. S. govern- hicies and accessories. Mr. Clancey recounted the various the auto truck which is an| taxes which are piled on the motor- auxiliary of railroads and relieves| ists. “Farmer legislatures have sing!- les were constructed in 1922. ment by automobile industry in 1923 $155,000,000 the ra‘jroads of the expensive short|ed out the auto and accessories for ‘The 1923 construction will not / “REGISTRATION haul,is still taxed, although the rail. reate fury because often they bi'nd- fall short of the previous years’ rec-| Motor vehicles registered in U. S. (approx.) .... 14,500,000 road war excise tax was killed short-|!y imagined that they were striking ord and by January 1st the surfaced Motor cars ... mileage should be somewhere near} Motor trucks 12/880,000 1,620,000 ly after the war,” sald Mr. Clancey.| at the hated city dweller,” said Mr. “More than a million tons of freight] Clancey. “They do not understand ue allowa’ 7 3 5 1, were moved by motor trucks on|that the auto ts even more of a 430,000 py aria a ands ress World registration of motor vehicles ... 17,000,000 state highways in Connecticut in a| necessity for the rural'te than the for tie sect, tues & Per cent of world registration owned by 85% and 1923 construction consists-of the | period of three months during 1922.| cityite—that {t brings to thelr doors |The auto Truck tax ts absolutely tr the blessings of modern civilization | defensible from any fa'r, sclentific]and makes life on the farm more jtax standpoint. The amount of re-| bearable.” venue raised is small—$10,678.761! In view of the fact that fifty-two for the last fiscal year closing June] million Americans are directly pay. 30, 1923. ng these taxes on the basis of an. “The tax on spare parts hits the| estimate of four members of a fam- farmer hardest for he has the worst! !'y to each automobile, Mr. Clancey roads, is furtherest away from ner.| Urges that every automobile owner vice stations and is the biggest user | use his influence to have these taxes of cars. .It is a penalty on the man|repesled. “The tax fram'ng com- ° who has a breakdown, who breaks| mittees of congress," sald Mr. Clan. Motor vehicle registration on farms 4,250,000 Seabed at oie ueceainenee) Ye22 | Motor ‘ears ,. : 3,890,000 Seventeen states of the Unitea}] Motor trucks feeeeee 360,000 Btates have a smaller mileage of| Miles of improved highway 430,000 rfaced roads than Wyoming,| Total miles of highways in U. 5 2,941,294 hich is credited with 46,528 miles. AUTOMOBILE’S RELATION TO OTHER BUSINESS PAE 3 ea Number of carloads of automobiles, parts, and tires shipped over railroads ..........-........ Per cent of rubber supply used by automobile AIR BIL OLS 401.4050 coh orncishas's phgaiiclnos ~. TO Per cent of plate glass supply used by autom ‘ 750,000 ke 36% j « 5 - 5 — } | an axle o> ruins a tire. It is a nuls | coy, g‘admit these taxes sre of an F Per cent of copper supply used by automobile — ee _ . : i 4 _ | atice tax and should be repealed. unusual nature, that they should be ! f A p andustry. .... tengees 14% |Lett to right: | Col Thad H. Brown, Ohio Secrsury of State; Judge Walter D. Méilx, Presdent No Mj], “The-tex-om automobiles ts pata ene nee eoceh tht | a er ead aluminum supply used by automobile bee nee Coolidge, Fred H. Caley, President 0. 5. A, and Secty. N. M. Richard H. Lee, Vice Pres. RRM FeRTrecely, ands: the wad] aria Or Davina: Chet matter becperte excise tax to the consumers’ pur-| presented to the members of con- . . hands of those who wi'l formally|chase price. There are over 13,00.-| gress by the motorists of the Inclusion of Motoring Plank In Party arate tse convention resolutions. (000 car users who are.tnterested tal country. Per cent of iron and steel supply used by auto- mobile industry ......... WEE Beit ns bie-<.5 to «als Bins « 4% Per cent of upholstery. leather supply used by anto- mobile industry .................68 ateces Gasoline consumed by motor vehicles, 1923 (gals.) _ 6,404,184,000 Platforms Ur, ged; Association ighway Safety Essay bts teeters street railways using motor buses... 107 For the first time in automobile history, automobile WASHINGON, D. C. Jan. 5.—|Number of motor vehicles exported .............. in presenting this subject, following the reception of its a] 90 Oo M iss Teresa M. Lenney, a teacher in| (From U.S. factories and Canadian plants owned delegates and officials recently by President Coolidge at VER [a] FE N E , | LLI a N so.ggi]the White House. At that time) der to you my most hearty co.oper- Number of railroads using motor vehicles on owners of the nation will attempt to have a motoring plank © New Rochelle, New York, public] in U, 8. A.) ; wd the president outlined his personal] tion and support.” S S 37,049 | views regarding the automob'le. In his address to congress, the N. TH LL IN ERVI cE MOTOR BUS AND MOTOR TRUCK Award Is Made by NO re; Lew iiss ve cieses vo eae ie dernetesh tas cleo se 157 | included in the national political platforms. hools, contributed the best practi-} Number of motor cars exported ... Number of motor buses in use . Rees 51,000 Heads Call On President SO Number of consolidated schoole using motor trans- Road Board. EXPORTS The National Motorists association has taken the lead 1 lesson on highway safety enter-} Number of motor trucks exported in the 1922 national contest, ac Number of assemblies abroad of American cars 101,400] “The motor car,” he told the N.|M. A. a’so points out, President ecing oo yi pmsl “Xtore} Value of motor vehicles and parts exported .... $234,129,000|M. A., “has raised the people and|Coolldge voiced his policy on high- e Highway he SEE charges the originators of such plans with a brand of inadvertant hypo- jcrisy that serves to defeat the pur- Delivery Trucks __________------$12.50 Passenger Cars _____-----------$12.50 Dead Storage ______---_--_-----$8.00 competed, Rank of automobiles and parts among all Ufe. ‘0 expenditure of public money + provided with good roads. Since the president’s speech has nses paid’is the reward Miss Len-| Imports of motor vehicles . 890 e 4 tivity have an equitable method of|N. M, A. officials belleve that the b 1914 D d Commerce. Public TABOS asec ecsee ss 50,911 | taxation, and in obtaining these ac-| propusal of a plank on motoring will cem er, 9 oO e garage: ston, D. C., National President, e142 e ‘bott, New York City, editor in motor transportation. It believes million motor vehicles, pibs elauS: Tamecns WSre; CArecitly. ACCIDENTS CALLED FANATICAL Second national honors in the 1922 Boles .wehak esti 'weacheck forla means of preventing automobile|Te? off the street and lighting the The Traffic Planning and Safety White, Briggs school, Portsmouth, | sailed today. by Fred H. Caley, ex- truth were admitted are memoria’s bile Chamber of Commerce consists ird national honors awarded for| most fanatical. safety plan concely.| This statement from the N. M. Geo. H. Pride, A. BC. Hardy, John a tion and dedication of such a mon-} hearts of motorists instead of re- ° . i é ff a memorial monument to sac- If the fatality rate is sd alarming] °% u . overwhel ig b e first chila*and six months rent|the cost of the memorial should be|Tificed child life in St. Louis. Unitmited effort will be expended THE AITO AND STEEL ming tri ute to The automobile chamber has been National Automobile Chamber of f ° |the necessity for preserving the| motorist, and constructively in en-/ try was in a position somewhat com- ation from the authorities and the] amplify this work, and to carry on a_ still exists in steel today and wheth- ° . ° ° ‘To experience its greatest fulfill-| con‘ributes so much to the national Si d ] gs h poe unt ai Aatisk:likesahi ana PE eRRORT iB renh Gth| |. To’ expertence tte grektent:tuit-| . nee delivering their he" a t is destrable, moreover, to see} been widely construed as y will receive, her prizes the gifts MOTOR VEHICLE RET th: } Judges who reviewed the lessons} Service stations and repair shops A 67,802 | tivities and benefits, I want to ten-'! meet friendly consideration at | Brothers have manu- ague of American Pen Women: lef of The Outlook. ‘Their estt- that througi: research and public in terest highway casualties can be con-+ s! ably cer id the reg ade, and a meeting required before siderabty reduced ani : of traffic more effectively manage Over 90% 0 Of all these sson ‘contest were awarded the les.| WASHINGTON. D. ©., Jan. 5—ycauses of fatalitles, educating the n ° ee hundred dollars. Miss Clyde|and pedestrian fatalities was as.|Streets. These monuments, if the Committee of the National Automo- service. rginia, is tHe recipient ofa check ecutive of the National Motorists|t© the stupidity displayed in acci- of: George M. Graham, Chairman, . “1 urd ational honors, awarded for|most_ fanatical wufety pl A. ig belteved to be the reautt of a| Would Curb Road |© tone: secret This striking fact stands Tenants \of a landicrd in Lajument is backsliding on . dccident|™oving the causes of fatalities, cul- ochelle, France, receive a bonus of} prevention work,” . declared _ Cale,|™inating in the recent dedication p the birth of the second. invested in removing the tangiblel The N. M. A,, Caley says, has con-| by the automobile industry to reduce. h * e ~ Jsistently pointed out that the morale | traffic accidents during the comiz the principles and meth- affected through the playing of The traffic Planning and Safety N T FS IN TALK d ibl dirges and the painting of motor|Committee of the National Automo- | ods responsi e for a | clubs throughout the country | stam has been formulated for 1924! Automobile Industries” will be the orth. which promises to reduce highway] topic of Charles M. Schwab, speak- we © pose of accident prevention. active in the safety movement for a Commerce at the Hotel Commodore, “The automobile drivers of the} number of years, particularly in eall-| Tuesday evening, January 8, 1924. |lives of children, or the lives of|couraging safety education in the|parable to that of the automobile 131 East Fifth Phone’ 724 anyone elre,” Caley said. “What | schools. business today. Mr. Schwab will ;Seneral public. And you can't get] comprehensive program which wil.er the faetors which led towards a = that chanting requiem airs, It re-| attack the various causes. of ac-|large degtee of consolidation in that oe 424 West Yellowstone Open Night and Day an 60,000 elementary school teach-| (Including engines and tires) has given them a new outlook on | w: in these words: % wealth as for building good roads trip to Washington w'th all ex-| Per cent of motor vehicles exported 8% first car early in De 2 9 - 1 this great enterprise and ac-jline of his platform for re-election, the National Automobile Chamber/ Total car and truck dealers . : 43,607 re Mrs. Louis N. Gelert. Wash-|Snpply stores“... 65,988 eet made toward the adoption of re- aa pe sateredlth, Hartford, Con a medies. = factured and sold one pmm'‘ssiener of Education for Cot The industry has a deep interest cticut, and Dr. Ernest Hamlin in the safe and efficient operation ot seas ideal henley This program will not attemy : compete with or supersede construc- Re ‘ " lice to stop encouraging motorists ° tive safety work now being under- plan by Miss Henrietta M. Horn-| Erecting monuments to the memory | P0 3 ; : er, a teacher in Pucvlo, Colorado.| of children killed by motor cars as|‘ Burry at crossings, keeping child: ken by various competent agencies. cars are still in active two hundred dollars, a token of Asociation, as representing “the| G¢nt prevention.” National Organization Alvan Macauley Pera ee Sewias: st, “Any city that sanctions the erec-| tendency to instill fear into the mes ag ‘ Fatalities. SPHWAR WILL COMPARE alone—a unique and "ee months’ rent on the birth of of the automobile driver is seriously | ¥e#!- transportation as a death-dealing in-| bile Chamber of Commerce an- A strument. The association, which] nounces that, a8 a result of its meot-| —- product of such enduring embraces more than 350 automobile] ing held in Detroit iast week, a pro-| A Comparison of the Steel and ace’dents in the next twelve months.| ing before the annual dinner of the |country are perfectly well aware of|ing for pun‘shment of the reckless| Twenty years ago the steel indus COLISEUM MOTOR CO. the driver wants is a little cooper-} The present committee aims to) discuss to what degree competition quires better la better traffic] cidents. business ely to be applica mobile field. control, brake care of cars, better genuine police protection for child. The first step of the committee is|!n the autc the planning of a : search t> determine what a . r of Commerce, we ren and pedestrians, cducation major causes. When these are de-j known after dinner speaker, will lik safety.” - ae } | a termined, vicorous eftart, will belswvise be on the program, i “ee a ~—