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March 15. 1929 WILMETTE LIFE 47 A. I. A. IN STEP TO GAIN CROSSING PROTECTION National Organization Is Joined by Illinois Club in Filing Brief A definite and defensible program of highway grade cros·.;ing elimination and protection was outlined in a brief filed last week with the Interstate Commerce Commission by the American Motorists Association, in co-operation with The Automobile Club of Illinoi·3. Letters have also been sent to the highway departments of the 48 states. The Association, in its brief, recommends that the Federal and State Governments undertake a comprehensive study of traffic condition·.; at all grade crossings with a view to classifying such crossings in respect to their danger to life and their relation to loss of time to the traveling puhlic. Where it is found impossible to abolish grade cros3ings, the Association recommends that uniform safety appliances be installed. "Railroad companies, autoists and the general public all have a proper interest in preventing loss of life and per3onal injuries at highway grade crossings," says the brief, "and in proportion that each contributes to the danger and that each wilt be benefited by the elimination of such danger, they should share the great cost':~ involved." . Club Advocates Action The Automobile Club of Illinois through its Presid<;nt, Si. Mayer, has consistently advocated the elimination of grade cra.;sing hazards throughout the entire country and has especially ladi stress on many of the deplorable existing situations that face the pedestrian as well a·.; the autoist who dare:.; brave the crossings. "The Association'·.; brief takes into consideration th e progress that has been made in grade crossing elimination and protection. "Notwithstanding thh progress, however, the number of fatalities resulting from grade crossing accidents continues to increase," it states. "For example, during the fir.;t nine months of 1928, 1,745 persons were killed in highway grade crossing accidents, as compared with 1,654 fatalities for the corresponding period of 1927. Tn addition to thi·.;, during the period from January to September, 1928,4,598 persons were injured as a result of such accidents as compared with 4,507 for the same nine months' period of 1927." Four Recommendations After the. necessary data are collected, the Association's brief recommends: · 1. Adoption of a program providing for the gradual elimination of those grade crossing.; that are most dangerous to life and responsible for greatest losses of time to the traveling public. 2. Adoption of a plan for the in'3tallation of standardized modern protective equipment at crossings which cannot be abolished. 3. Formulation of a plan for allocatin2 .costs of elimination and protection of crossings. between railroad companie'3 and the general public. 4. Adherance to a general rule whereby States will not grant authority to railroad companies to create new grade crossings if some other solution can be found. ulf a program of grade crossing elimination and protection i·.; formulated, based upon an economic study of actual conditions and having regard for proper distribution of costs, it will not only meet all present objections, but will greatly speed up the ·3olution of the obviously perplexing grade crossing problem," the brief concludes. been on the market, to around ~· Rewiring Often Helps Car Nash Motor Company . has 2 Shows Big· Quarter; $ Z~~~~<ticated earnings for the first i If- It Fails to Show Power months of the current fiscal y~ar A number of very interesting exProduction Is High si~' wtll be so~tewha~ lower than du~mg periments have recently been made with I On February 28 Nash Motors company_closed one of the most successful first <ntarters in i'ts history, according to 0. E. Spri,tger of Suburban Nas: Sales, Winnetka dealer. Production showed a substantial increase over the correwonding period of 1927-28. While final figures will not be available for several weeks, net earnings conservatively estimated at around $4,000,000, equal to between $1.40 and $1.45 a share on 2,730.000 shares of stock outstanding, would closely approximate and might exceed the previous record first quarter of 1926, when a net of $4,137,508, or $1.~6 a share, \'vas reported. The second quarter of the year has opened at a rate which would indicate a gain of at least 25 per cent in net; as compared with the first quarter, and it would not be surprising if the first six months of the year showed net profits of between $9,000,000 and $10,000,000. This would bring net profits in the twelve months, Junc to J unc, which roughly represents the first year in which the newly-designed 400 series t.he final s1x. m.onths of the prev10us fiscal year, tt should. be remembered that Nash h~s .consistently reporte.d larg~r profits m 1ts ~nat half, and thas years .first half est!mate would co.mpare wtth $5,372,857 m the same penod last year. For instance, net profits of ~15 547 234 in the last six months of t92S ,;ere equal to 75 per cent of the entire year's net of $20 820 085 or· $7.62 a share on the stock. ' ' ' The ~ompany produced and shipped 12,076 cars in February, compared with 9,057 in February, last year, an increase of 33-l/3 per cent. March production is scheduled for 15,000 cars, of which company already has unfilled orders for 10,672. Shipments for first quarter, ended February 28, were 27,627, against 19,049 a year ago, an increase of 45 per cent. 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