Milford chronicle., 1930-08-01
TO MAKE WORLD
DISTRIBUTION OF
ROAD REPOR is
Half A Million Copies Of
Articles By Highway
Writers Are Available.

Beginning the distribution of
more than half million copies OF
reports on world highway problems,
officials in charge enter the final
stage of preparation for the recep-
ton of delegates expected to be IN
attendance at the Sixth Information
al Road Congress to be held in
Washington, October 6 to IL.
The Congress will be held under
the auspices of the Permanent In
ternational Association of Road
Congresses, with headquarters in
Paris, and the immediate direction
of the American Organizing Com
mission, Roy D. Chaplin, president
with offices in Washington. More
than fifty nations have accepted the
invitation of the United States gov
ernment to send delegates.
Seventy-six separate reports
printed in French, German, Spanish
and English, the four official lang
uages of the Congress, will form the
basis for discussion at the sessions
in October. The reports represent
the studied opinions of 40 of the
principal world authorities on the
moot questions of highway construc-
ton, design, material, maintenance
administration, finance and traffic.
More than a year ago the several
topics to be studied at the Congress
we're decided upon and the chief ex-
ponents of the various questions as
signed to write upon them. The re-
suit has been a series of articles ana
papers that represent most that is
known today of the twin sciences oil
highway construction and automo-
tive transportation.
For months the American Organic
ing Commission has had a corps OF
translators engaged in the task OF
preparing four manuscripts, each
identical with the other except as to
language. The English and Spanish
translations have been made III
Washington under the supervision OF
engineers and editors of the United
States Bureau of Public Roads,
while the French and German YER
sions have been made in Paris un-
der the immediate direction OF M. LIE
Gavrian, secretary general of the
association.
With the task of translation and
printing completed, the reports are
being mailed to the far corners OF
the earth, so that delegates coming
to Washington this autumn may for
tify themselves to support or to at
tack the theories and conclusions set
forth in the leaflets. Each member
of the association will receive a col
lection of the reports in that one OF
the four languages with which he Is
most familiar. Membership in the
association is essential to partlcl-
patton in the Congress.
The net result of this distribution
will be an intensive, simultaneous
world study of highway problems
preparatory to the serious discus
sions of the Congress itself. Follow
ing the Congress, the proceedings,
containing the debates, will likewise
be published in the four languages.
Representative from so many
countries will naturally speak Ian
guages other than the four official
tongues of the Congress, but Eng
lish, French, Spanish and German
are so universally understood that it
is believed each delegate will be
able to comprehend the text of the
reports.
Seven general reporters have con-
solidated the individual papers, Civ
ing extensive resumes of the discus
sions on the six major questions on
the agenda