Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-06-01

DAMAGING EFFECT OF AUTOMOBILES.
,esver crushed stone highway would
grind dust particles from the stones,
asfsat those particles would fill in all
*Emterstices and that wettings and roll
4&tDgs would not only give hard,
smooth surface but that the highway
vxould improve as the years pass.
a7or century and quarter the wis
Aanl of the Scotch road builder was
-asssriied Every country that lays
eE-1aain to civilization adopted it. and
rea9ouB1nds of miles of road were laid
- Inually in France, Germany, England.
iFsssiland and the United States.
Then came the automobile, and a
INV years after its arrival the road
eas1@3rseers began to notice the deteriora-
sshtn of these highways. Broad and
tseu2l stretches became strewn with
asszTface stones, ruts became frequent.
nNxd dust clouds were constantly set
Ming on the adjacent property. The
v.-rsube was quickly traced to the au-
sssmobile
These machines through the tractive
&lnz3d centrifugal forces eXerted by their
>4apidly turning wheels were pulling
-G5ae rock dust from the roads and
s5=syvirling it away in binding clouds.
Aahile every iron bound wagon tire
77Nss doing its own small percentage Of
x-ssreil crushing, dust making, road
sasxnoothing and rock tamping, every
4rrobber automobile tire was undoing
r'-T5at work by taking the dust away.
Tresauget and Macadam knew that
-g1,e effect of wagon traffic would be
beneficial to rock surface roads. but
Key never suspected that in future
years chugging machines, guided by
Fs1egogglcd, speed mad enthusiasts,
would rush frantically across the face
II nature or that the wheels of the
odd vehicles in which they iourneyed
would be bound by air stuffed rubber.
The antidote lies in the discovery Of
IA method which will benefit both the
road and the car. Study to overcome
existing conditions by creating better
conditions is now going forward, and it
rs practically certain that when the
international congress meets there
will be a solution of the road problem
and the evil effects of the automobile
viii be turned to a benefit
Director Page of the office of public
~-.-oads of the United States department
~ef agriculture, who recently received
through the French ambassador, Nj.
.susserand, an in aviation to attend the
congress at Paris in the fall, was ask
ed recently If the life of the highways
was 50 seriously menaced as to justify
a condemnation of the motor car and
10 warrant an international congress
10 discuss it.
"Nobody who has made a study Of
CGhe hard surface roads Of this or any
other country would attempt to deny
that the motor car is constantly short
cening the life of such thoroughfares,"
said the director, but that is no rea-
son for the condemnation of the auto
mobile. The arrival of this machine
has created a new and unlocked for
condition. That means that the new
condition must be studied and the
problems which have arisen must be
solved. 1t does not mean that because
The roads suffer through the arrival
of the motor car the motor car shall
pass In the interest Of road preserva-
ztion
~ regard the automobile as an i'm
r.portant factor in the upbuilding Of
civilization. and it has come to stay.
1t has created conditions demanding
the best thought of the highway en-
gineers Of the world. see in the so-
luton nothing short of ideal dustless
Iroads"