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J :ly 5, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE 41 MOTOR NEWS INCREASE 'IN GAS TAXES I A Week-End Tour- To ·s pringfield BRINGS LUSTY PROTEST ------------------------------------------~ Proposed $145,000,000 Boost Figures 47 Percent More Than Motorists Paid in 1928 Oppos it.ion to the propose d in crea se (If ~-- I-+5,000,000 in gas oline tax e:-; " ·hi ch a ut oists o i the country will be call ed UJ HH l to pay thi s year is hcht g Yoicc d h_ \· the Alllerican ~l o tori s t s A ssoc iati on, in coop erati o n \\"ith The Autom obile Cluh n f Illin ois, in a prote . t again st f urthcr ga soline .tax incr eases being flied \\·ith me~nber s . of lcgi:-;lature s in I thl· states \\"l11 ch wtll me et in regular . . I scss 1on tht s Year. I The increa se in ga solin e taxe s which fac es the aut oists thi s year, compared ' \\"ith la st y ear, is approx(matcly 47 perce nt m·er the 1928 gasoline taxes, \\·hich aggregated $305,000,000. The es- ~ tima tc d ga : ()line tax for 1929 will ap proximate $750,000,000, according to fi g ure s comptled hy th_ e As sociation. "Autoist s at the pre sent time are p a ~:ing an ayerage gasoline tax of 3.65 c.c nt s per gallon. \Vith the excep tiOn of fi ~e state s, viz: Alabama Kcntt~C~\. Louisiana, ~1 ississippi and V i·glllta,. the states legislatures meet this year 111 regular session, and in ' most sta.t cs th<;re ~\· ill be an attempt to increase ga so ~me taxes," declares Si M aye.r, prestdent of The Automobile. Club of Illinois and Vice-President ot the A. M. A. Tax Must be Reasonable "A reasonable ·gasoline tCI,x will not he opposed by th.e majority of autoists,. hut the tax mu st he reasonable and in no s_tate should he for mor~ than is r~qUJred for current i_ mprovements of htgh\Yays of general motor use. In manv stat~s the surplus gasoline tax funds are diverted to other uses which ~s a vio.lation of the principl~ of .;pectal taxatJO_n, and is unfair to the au~oists," the Association's statement pomts out. "Due largely to the ease with which gasolin_e taxe s arc increased, legislatures 111 many states have alreadv placed an unreasonable burden on the motoring public. In South Carolina as an example. the tax · is now six cent~ per gallon. The tax becomes. a part of the purchase price of the gasoline and the autoist pays same with little or no thought of the tax burden," VicePresident Mayer declares. Motorists Carele~s Spends "If an autoist would but visualize gasoline taxes as toll gates along the highway he travels, he v.ould quickly recognize wh<;n the tax becomes a11 unreasonable burden. Unfortunately, however, few autoists think of gasoline ·taxes as taxes at all and seldom a a toll tax. "A two-cent tax, however, names a one-cent toll every 6 miles, assumins.; an autoist gets 12 miles to ~ gallon of gasoline; a three-cent taxe means a toll of one . cent every 4 miles: a fourcent tax. a toll of one cent eyerv .1 miles; a five-cent tax, a toll of one cent every 2.4 miles, and a six-cent tax means a toll of one-half cent for each mile," it is pointed out by the Association, which is voicing its opposition through The Automobile Club of lllinois and its other affiliated clubs in states ·where gasoline taxes are an unreasonable burden upon autoists. ·, Jordan Announces Line of New Models; 2 Eights Edward S. Jordan, president of the Jordan ~f otor Car Company, has announced a complete new line of cars, con sisting of two eights and one sixcylinder model and offering a choice of cle\·en body types. The t\\·o ne\\· eights include the Great Line Kinety, in seven body types and the Standard Line Eighty in a fivepa ssenger sedan and a three-passenger coupe. The six-cylinder line, offered also in a fi,·e-pa sscnger sedan and three-passe nger coupe. ~f odels in the Great ~inety line include. in addition to the Playboy and Speedboy models, an entirely new sport sedan, a new de luxe seven-passenger sedan on a 131-inch wheelbase, a sevenpassenger touring in new body design vdtich is offered for export a s well CIS domestic trade, a seven-passenger limou sine and a collapsible coupe. Gilman Ashkum Clifton Chebanse Kankakee (Ko. 17) Uomence ( Ko. 1) Grant Park Beecher Steger , Chicago Height Harvev Blue I sland CHICAGO 335.0 343.8 347.7 352.6 363.1 376.4 382.7 390.1 398.8 401.3 409.7 414.0 432.7 'I'OUIUNG BUREAU The Automobile Club eiUDaela CHICAGO ILL. /0 ...... CHICAGO TO SPRINGFIELD, ILL. Jackson Bh·d. & Michigan avenue south on Illinois K o. 4. ~J fLES TO\VKS 0.0 CHICACO ( Tll. ~ - 4"l 11.0 L\-on s 39.9 Joliet 46.9 Elw ood 58.9 Hraichro od 76.2 Dwight 8~ . 3 Odell 95.0 Pontiac 105.8 Chenoa 113.5 Lexinl:!t on 132.2 Rloon{ington 14o.o ~1 cLean 151.1 Atlanta lfil.7 Lincoln 173.2 Elkhart 179.1 \\' i 11 ia m ~ ,-i 11 e 192.2 SPRT.\"GFTELD RETURN TRIP 19?. 2 S f'R TKG FIELD (Ill. ~n. 10.) 199.4 Riverton 20o.9 Ru fTalo 215.9 Tlliopnli:' 231.8 neratur ~47.0 Cerre Gordo ~57.2 R<>ment ~()4.3 MontirP11n ~70.6 '\'hite Heath c:,,. lll0t1t' HIS~O~ICAL points are many in Illmots, but they must be seen to be . app:cciated. \Vithout leaYing the m~m. highways, the Capital ·Tour of Illmo~s, suggested as this week's circle trip by The Automobile Club of Illinois, in cooperation \Yith this newspaper, takes one through mam· oi the nistorical and cenic points .. of the State. ~ . The milca~e covered o.n this trip totals avproxunately 433 nules and can e~s.ily o.e CO\'ered in two.-days driving. }. hts \nil allov,· ample tnne for visitlllg the various interesting points along the route. After leaving Chicago, the first point ?f hist?rical interest is Joliet, the rallymg po111t of the ~arly Illinois Indians " ·hich was visited by Louis Joliet, th~ French ,C anadian explorer in 1673. The state penitcutiary is also located here. Further on is Lincoln, the first city to be named after the Great Emancipator. It was in this town that Lincoin _ practiced law from 1840 to 1848. The Odd Fellows' Orphan home, one of the outstanding institutions of its kind in the country, is located here. S~ringfield, the state capital and the hom.c of , Lincoln from 1837 to the time of his election as President, has many builditfgs of historical interest. There is the State arsenal and armory which was dedicated by Theodore Roosevelt on June 4, 1905, as well as the state house,. the supr~me court building, the executive mansiOn and the State MuI seum of Natural H~story. I The log of the trtt) follows: Ollly lV g you servj ~~~ Uop ill ay lVe L ce ·s aJ. __ . · you our d . ave of · .uuut the r_ esJre t ·.rnpres · o f -.eepj o halldl 811Jg on llg your car in ~~he. tire elld ('IJ,k ~hhlJg lriQJ. .1uhllso, ~l.E like tf Givi11 to oave )' L .. .Frant SuPer-S !fJo;; Central S .Johnson . treet eJ-\rlce Sta · (.,..,_, · hon ._ , rntr, ('oruer t ·Jllrt·rslt J L· STREET Jo:~to., cl Wndale Evansto . o, Ill. ?7~.~ 1· rhana ( fll. ~0 25) Champaig-n ?R~ . 7 2R7.7 Thoma:;horo lhntoul T 11dlow Paxton T.oda Onarga ?.96.9 301.9 307.3 :~12 7 316.8 331.0