Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
HIGHWAY CONGRESS.
REPORTERS Named
International Meeting viii
Be Held in Capital
Next October.

Appointment of five of the seven gen.
eral reporters who will present the ques-
lions on the agenda of the sixth Inter-
national Road Congress. to be held here
next October has been announced by
Thomas H. Macdonald, secretary gen.
eral of the American Organizing Com
mission and chief of the United States
Bureau of Public Roads. The agenda
includes six questions, one of which has
been divided and will be presented by
two reporters.
Those so far named and the subjects
which they will present are Frank
T. Sheets, chief highway engineer for
Illinois, results obtained by the use OF
cement; DR.. Roy W. Crum, director,
Highway Research Board recent meth
DDS adopted for the use of tar, bitumen
and asphalt in road construction; E.
w. James, chief, division of highway
economics. United States Bureau OF
Public Roads, the construction of roads
in new countries. such as colonies and
undeveloped regions; DR.. Henry r.
TrumboWer. professor of economics
University of Wisconsin, correlation and
coordination of highway transport with
other methods of transportation, and
DR., Miller McClintock, director, Albert
Russell Erskine Bureau for Street Traf-
1ic Research, Harvard University, traf-
nc regulation. adaptation of roads to
traffic in built-up areas and parking
and garaging of vehicles.
With declarations of participation ar
irving daily from all parts OF the
world, the prospects are that this con-
gress will be more representative than
any previously held, according to Sec
rotary General Macdonald. An espe-
cialIy large representation from the
court tries of South America is expected,
as this is the first congress to be held
since Spanish was one of the official
languages.
Papers to Review Methods.
Under the rules governing the con-
gresS the general reporters must present
the question assigned to them in a
paper of not more than 1000 words
This paper is prepared following receipt
of a number of papers on the subject
In question from delegates to the con-
gress, and is in the nature of review
Of the latest. methods in vogue. A
total of "a papers treating of the vari-
Gus subjects included in the agenda has
been scheduled to be submitted, and
half of these already are being trans
lated into the four languages OF the
congress-German, French, English and
Spanish Following their translation
they will be printed and distributed
to delegates in whichever language
they desire.
The congress is being held in WASH
ington at the invitation of the United
States Government and the American
Organizing Commission, of which Roy
D. Chaplin of the National Automobile
Chamber of Commerce is president, was
appointed by Secretary of State Slim
son. With Mr.. Chaplin and Mr.. Mac
Donald, president and secretary gen.
eral respectively Of the organizing COM
mission, their election to the presidency
and secretary generalship of the sixth
the unbroken precedent of previous
congresses Is followed this year.
One Of the features of the congress
will be an exposition of highway build
ing equipment and material, to be held
under the auspices of the American
Road Builders Association. This was
announced by w. A. Van Duzer, as
sistant chief engineer, Pennsylvania
Department of Highways, president of
engineer-d director of the association.
This exposition will be held in the
Washington Auditorium, while demon
STATIONS of the equipment will take
place in the open air.
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This exposition is expected to attract
not only majority of manufacturers
Of road-building equipment in the
United States, but large number of
manufacturers from other parts of the
world, and it will afford an excellent
opportunity to the visiting delegates to
see the latest type Of machinery used
in building all kinds of roads.
Another feature which Is expected to
interest the delegates will be the in
spection of the Mount Vernon Memorial
Boulevard. Active construction work
on this highway will be under way
when the congress Is in session, and
one day has been set aside for a trip
of inspection of this undertaking and
one or two other projects. On this trip
the delegates will be afforded the OPP
portunity of viewing the building of the
most up-to-date type of highway in all
stages of construction.
It Is expected that delegates from
more than SO nations will be in at
tendance at the sixth congress and ma
terial benefit is expected to result to
road construction programs from the
mutual interchange Of ideas and ex-
periences. The first congress was held
In Paris in 1908 at the invitation Of the
French government. Other congresses
were held in Brussels in 1910, in Lon
don in 1918, In Seville in 1923 and in
Milan in 1926. The meetings in Wash
ington will begin Monday, october 6,