Multnomah County OR Archives Photo Person.....Brown, Charles Benjamin 1910
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Source:             The Oregon Daily Journal (Portland, OR) Thur Feb 3, 1910
Name:               Charles Benjamin Brown

Date Of Photograph: 1910
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    DR. BROWN NAMED FOR AUTO MEETING
Will Attend Washington Meeting to Promote
the National Road Laws and Highway.
    Dr. C. B. Brown, treasurer of the Portland
Automobile club and a member of several of the
leading clubs of the city, will leave Monday
morning to attend the national convention of
the automobile clubs of America to be held in
Washington, D. C., February 15, 16 and 17. 
He was appointed by Governor Benson at the request
of the American Automobile association and his
appointment and the appropriating of expense
money were passed upon by the board of directors
at their meeting in the Commercial club last night.
   The convention being called for Washington, D. C.
is for the purpose of recommending to congress the
adoption of a set of national laws for use on 
the highways of the nation. Dr. Brown is to work
in conjunction with Senators Bourne and Chamberlain
as  representatives of this state.
        National Laws Old Idea
   The object of a national law for the use on 
highways is not one of recent inception but is 
one on which the horsemen and bicyclists before
the automobile men came into prominence worked
long and diligently. It is to eliminate confusion
as to road laws and to do away with the practices
indulged in by many small villages as means of
raising revenue that the convention has been
called together. Working in conjunction with the
senator from each state the delegates hope to
accomplish much and to recommend to congress
the passing of such a uniform law.
   People have laughed for many years at the
cartoons and pictures and stories of automobilists
being held up by village constables for fines
before they are allowed to leave town but it is
safe to say that the man who laughs has never
been in the same predicament. It is described
by automobile men as one of the most humiliating
feelings to have to submit to arrest by some
village constable when only the difference
in the laws of villages has caused the arrest.
        Adopt Ridiculous Laws
   Many of these villages have adopted speed 
and horn blowing laws most ridiculous to anyone
knowing automobile practice. The instant one of
these laws is not complied with arrest follows.
The various sets of village laws which exist
especially in the east and middle west make
it a hard matter indeed to remember and avoid
arrest.
   The national convention plans on adopting a 
set of laws which will completely do away with
this evil. They will be recommended for adoption
by congress and owing to the fact that the
senators of each state in the union will have
a voice in the making of the laws it is believed
that they will be readily passed.
   Besided the recommending of these laws, a
movement even greater in scope will, it is
believed, be started. It will cover the building
of a national highway and the expenditure of
several million dollars. The government is to
be asked to start the ball rolling and if 
possible to have the matter taken up by 
this congress.

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