Who Speaks for Me? I have just received my new
copy of the Auto- mobile Association handbook. It has been sub- jected to certain austerity measures, I see. For one thing, it will have to last for two years in stead of one as hitherto. And the information about hotels is reduced. Rising costs, as usual, are blamed—in more ways than one. Not only has the expense of producing the handbook gone up: hotel prices are said to change so often that they are not now thought worth printing. All this is undeistandable. I would find this diminution more acceptable, nevertheless, if the AA did not expend so much energy on debatable public relations activities. How many. motorists. I wonder, feel on joining the Association that they are thereby authorising the hierarchy to speak for them on public issues? I believe they usually join for purely practical purposes. For instance, in the annual report I read that the AA 'promptly repudiated' the Hall Committee's pro- posal for a congestion tax in big cities. There are more than three million AA members. How many were consulted? I wasn't.
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