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the roads. If this law is a good thing, we wish every State in the 

 Union would pass that law, and then we will know what the law 

 is. In our own State of Massachusetts a foreign car can come in, 

 and if it does not stay more than seven days, no license need be 

 taken out. You cannot drive the car, though, unless the chauffeur 

 has taken out a license, which was an unintentional blunder in 

 the law, but that is the way it works out. There certainly is great 

 need, so far as our New England laws are concerned, that we should 

 understand them clearly and that they should be codified and de- 

 fined, so that we may comply with them. 



We have been very much interested in these addresses, and espe- 

 cially Governor Bachelder's address; and I can assure him, for 

 the American Automobile Association, that it is the desire of that 

 body to do everything it can to co-operate with the officers of the 

 law in executing all fair automobile laws and discourage reckless 

 driving wherever it occurs ia any part of the country. Our board 

 of directors at its last meeting passed a resolution discouraging 

 speed runs between different States, and asking the manufacturers 

 of automobiles to have nothing to do with them; also, asking the 

 papeys not to publish accounts of them. I can say for the Bay State 

 Automobile Association, one of our Boston clubs, that they posi- 

 tively refused to have anything to do with a record run from Bos- 

 ton to New York. It was given up and not run, on that accoimt. 

 It is the desire of the national body and the State bodies that all 

 reckless driving in every way shall be discouraged, and that all 

 offenders shall be brought to justice; and they have pledged their 

 aid in that line. 



Mk. Francis Hurtubis, Jr., Boston, Automobile Attorney. 

 I think Governor Bachelder struck the keynote here to-day when 

 he spoke of uniformity of laws on the sane use of automobiles on 

 the highways. I met him at the Algonquin Club last night, and 

 took him to see something that would arouse the spirit of an auto- 

 mobilist. He has been eminently fair in his remarks about the 

 use of the highways by motor vehicles, but they have been gen- 

 erally criticised, and I, as an attorney, come in contact with hun- 

 dreds or thousands of cases where motorists are coming into contact 

 with all kinds of difficulties. I have to come down to the small 

 things which the Governors of the States probably know very 

 little about. In connection with this law we have here in Massa- 

 chusetts practically the forerunner of all the sane speed laws in 



