anaheim-gazette 1908-06-18

A COMING ROAD CONGRESS President Appoints Delegates to Represent Government at International Road Congress at Paris In October [CORRESPONDENCE OF THE GAZETTE] Washington, D. C., June 11.—President Roosevelt has directed that this nation be strongly and officially represented at the good roads international congress to be held at Paris the week beginning October 11 and credentials have been issued naming Logan Waller Page, director of the office of public roads of the U. S. department of agriculture, chairman of the commission. The other members named are Colonel Charles S. Bromwell of the United States corps of engineers, now serving as superintendent of buildings and grounds of the District of Columbia, and Clifford Richardson of New York, an eminent chemist and one of the world's acknowledged authorities on bituminous road building materials. This coming congress, which will be attended by distinguished delegates from every country in the world, is regarded by highway engineers and experts as probably the most important ever summoned for the discussion of an economic question. Its need is the direct outgrowth of the advent of the automobile, for while thousands are ing menting with various dust liquids, France was doing them on an even larger scale. That try, which expends vast sums annually on maintaining the well-perfect system of highways has been building since the days of first Napoleon, made a most complete set of measurements and ed that the automobiles had on the roads of the republic to grade fully forty per cent. decided to summon the skill and intelligence of the world combat a condition which great financial losses and the invitations to the congress were out, the French government really requesting the U. S. government to participate in the con That President Roosevelt personally so deeply interested in coming gathering as to send director of roads and his guished associates to France some be regarded as evident national awakening to the importance good roads are the nation. Invitations have been transf through the office of public state highway commissioners engineers and park commission attend the congress and alr number of delegates have be lected. PRESERVE THE FOR This coming congress, which will be attended by distinguished delegates from every country in the world, is regarded by highway engineers and experts as probably the most important ever summoned for the discussion of an economic question. Its need is the direct outgrowth of the advent of the automobile, for while thousands are ignorant of the fact, the soft tires of the modern motor car are the greatest menace the hard surface thoroughfares of the world have ever been called upon to face. To understand how a pneumatic tire made of rubber could possibly injure a road surfaced with particles of crushed rock, one must have at least a faint understanding of the theories on which first Tresauget of Limoges and then MacAdam of Ayr built that class of highway. They figured that a road composed of crushed stone would not only endure the constant traffic of iron-tired vehicles, but would improve because the metal-bound wheels would be constantly crushing the stones and forming rock dust. That dust would, they argued, not merely sift itself into all cracks and interstices, but would fill all surface inequalities and when wet would be rolled into a smooth, impervious, water-shedding, shell like surface. They reasoned well, built wisely, and for over a century and a quarter the so called macadam road did everything that the famous French and Scotch highway engineers claimed it capable of. It came to be the ideal road for suburban sections, and thousands of miles were built. France to date has spent $660,000,000 on her incomparable system of rock surfaced national routes and the United States has followed to a degree, possessing at the present time approximately 32,000 miles of this class of highway. Prior to the advent of the automobile the roads improved, but the modern speed vehicle had not been France to date has spent $660,000,000 on her incomparable system of rock surfaced national routes and the United States has followed to a degree, possessing at the present time approximately 32,000 miles of this class of highway. Prior to the advent of the automobile the roads improved, but the modern speed vehicle had not been traversing the suburban highways long before a pronounced retrogression of the most generally traveled stretches was very noticeable. Complaints came from farmers and from dwellers along suburban roads that a great dust nuisance had also sprung up and that emerald lawns were taking on the hue of London fog, and that box hedge was dove grey rather than green. Fruit farmers noted their products becoming gritty and prices fell off. Investigation proved at once that the new conditions had been created by the automobile and highway engineers in every civilized land began studying the new condition and seeking for a remedy. In this country, Director Page conducted a series of interesting experiments in which various classes of automobiles were sent at varying rates of speed over selected stretches of road, while expert photographers pictured their progress and produced proof that the tractive force of the rear tires did the damage. While he was watching that work and was experi- with various dust laying race was doing the same larger scale. That counpends vast sums annutaining the well-nigh them of highways it has g since the days of the con, made a most commeasurements and learnautomobiles had caused of the republic to retroforty per cent. It was summon the thought, intelligence of the world to condition which means losses and the official to the congress were sent government formting the U. S. governnicipate in the congress. President Roosevelt is perleeply interested in the hering as to send the roads and his distinciates to France may by regarded as evidence of a skening to the vast imood roads are to the has been transmitted office of public roads to way commissioners, city and park commissioners to congress and already a delegates have been se- E THE FORESTS are Dependent upon Contional Resources—Deforences E floods in Michigan. He expressed his faith that the Caucasian race would find some way to meet conditions which may arise, and declared that he was not "losing sleep." In closing, he thought it "necessary" for lumbermen "to pursue a different policy toward the preservation of your holdings in the forest: that instead of cutting it clean, you should be more careful about the cutting." But added! "You will do it because it is to your interest to do it, and that is greater than anything else. It is greater than law." Between the pessimism of our correspondent and the "optimism" of Speaker Cannon, the reader may take his choice. The chief difference between the two is that the latter is in the place of power. He sees no occasion for anxiety, and no ground for action by the community through its agency called government. For such slight corrections as may be necessary, he relies wholly upon cold-blooded selfinterest and unregulated individual initiative. In so far as this speech is an index, his political economy is that of a hundred years ago, as voiced by David Ricardo: Laissez faire, each for himself, self-interest the grand automatic regulator of our whole industrial mechanism! Is it any wonder the Appalachian bill finds rocks in the channel through which it must travel? "After us the deluge!" "I suppose we ought to freeze now, that fifty years from now they may have something to warm them." The world has not yet forgotten the speech of Louis XV. to Pompadour. Perhaps this speech of Speaker Cannon's may also prove historic. KANSAS FARMERS' INSTITUTE. The Kansas State Agricultural College, at Manhattan, has engaged C. A. Kupfer of the U. S. Forest Service, for several weeks, to talk to farmers' institutes in Western Kansas. This is in addition to the institute work done Get our prices on Supplies before H. H. C. Phones: California F. Conn Center Street Wholesale Best Brands of Bottled Beer Bargains ELECTRIC SHOP THE FORESTS ISM VS. "OPTIMISM." Indent writes: "I do not association or individual toward the protection. They are bound to go, cry, even down to the railroad prop timbers. Assess-high that no one can afford to grow up into timber have no sympathy with the all." Just this should be put by Speaker Cannon national Wholesale Lumber Association in Washington on declared himself to be He ridiculed the ideaests are facing destruction. The notion that special effe-made to conserve our sources. He sneered at "men reputation in public life, in real life, in legislative life. ing the criminal wasteful-g the destruction of the added: "I sometimes talk; I sometimes wonder they know." Used his early pioneer life County, Indiana, when it try to clear the forests to aid for farming; and then Is there a man here * * * about us back to fifty years there was nothing but the land the adventurous pio-ound in that vast domain the Northwest Territory, turn the hands back upon for sixty years ago?" Named sarcastically: "What one of posterity? Oh, the sources are being destroyed! fifty years we are to freeze because there is no more coal will be no more lumber, no burning the candle at have something to warm them." The world has not yet forgotten the speech of Louis XV. to Pompadour. Perhaps this speech of Speaker Cannon's may also prove historic. KANSAS FARMERS' INSTITUTE. The Kansas State Agricultural College, at Manhattan, has engaged C. A. Kupfer of the U. S. Forest Service, for several weeks, to talk to farmers' institutes in Western Kansas. This is in addition to the institute work done by the two professors of horticulture and forestry. The college has recently issued a practical pamphlet on "Tree Culture," sending it to all the rural district teachers of the State and to all members of farmers' institutes. It will be sent free to anyone on application to the Superintendent of Farmers' Institutes, Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas. Another pamphlet of the same sort issued by the college, especially for teachers, is entitled "Bird Life." RECLAIMED FROM LAND THIEF. H. H. Yard, who has operated most extensively in Government lands in Butte and Plumas counties, California, seeking to obtain public domain in those sections, has lost his fight for the possession of about 265,000 acres along the Feather River. The land office at Susanville has rendered a decision and report setting forth that in more than ninety claims there is no evidence of mineral. The lands taken by Yard revert to the Government as timber lands. The decision is causing much excitement in Butte and Plumas counties. where similar large tracts aregered. The outcome of the contest a great victory for State M.L.E.Aubury, who has for ye a bitter fight against individual corporations who took up time under the Mineral and Plant Act. Aubury began this o1901 and took the case direct President of the United States. 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