Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-07
TWO NATIONS Join
RIGHT DRIVE GROUP
Argentina and Panama Fall
in Line on Highway Auto
Regulation.

their driving ways. Highway construc-
ton experts from many nations turned
| their world experience into other chan
nels today and sought further benefits
in the realm of automotive Jransporta-
| ton.
In the first practical step of the sixth
International Road Congress, the two
pan-American republics turned over q
new leaf and joined with Is other
| nations and the United States in agree
! ing that the rule OF the road shall be
| that automobiles shall pass on the right
of the highway.
All the Pan-American nations en-
! tered into a convention late yesterday
and formally agreed to several pro-
visions designed to facilitate the inter-
national movement Of automotive trafflc
England Retains Practice.
Heretofore automobiles in Argentina
and Panama have used the left side OF
! highways as their right of-way and the
convention arrived at yesterday leaves
England the only important nation
holding to the reverse Of the American
practice.
The delegates from about so nations
/ turned their attention this morning to
| technical problems of highway con-
struction and ways and means OF
financing
Commerce of the United States, where
the meetings are being held all this
week, resounded with words of four
languages as men from all over the
world exchanged information.
English was the key language used
at the meetings and an American,
Samuel Eckels, chief engineer of the
Pennsylvania Department of Highways,
presided at the section on construction
and maintenance. The magic of the
interpreters art smoothed over all diff
| ficulties and by the use of an elaborate
! telephone system natives of all coun-
tries followed the proceedings in their
own tongue. AS the reports were read.
before Mr.. Eckels, by Frank T. Sheets
of Illinois. the words were translated
into Spanish, French and German and
throughout the hall speakers of those
tongues heard their own language
through head sets.
Reports Are Read.
Alvan Macauley, president Of the Ma
tional Automobile Chamber of Com
merce, presided over the section which
studied traffic and administration, and
Alvin B. Barber, manager of the trans
portation and communication depart
ment OF the United States Chamber OF
Commerce, reported on the subject with
particular reference to ways and means
OF financing and constructing high
ways. In this section the head sets
were also in use.
Before both groups delegates from
France, Spain, Germany and other lands
read extracts of reports from time to
time and as each rose the men from
other lands reached for their head sets
in order to follow the proceedings.
Reports on such technical matters as
the results obtained in road construc-
ton by the use of cement, bricks and
other materials; the most recent meth
DDS adopted for tar and asphalt; traf-
flc regulations in large cities and SUBJ
urbs, and parking and garaging of We
hicles, we're printed to the number OF
more than half million copies and dis
tributed among the countries several
weeks before the congress. The bust
ness today was to agree upon the re-
ports as submitted, and, finally, on Fri
day, the official representatives of the
various governments will meet in plenary
session and determine what is to be
| their decision on the points raised.
Practical Work Shown.
Col. U. S. Grant, 3D. who supervises
the construction Of streets in the Dis
trtct, probably did not have the con-
8 Coz la AAAhAOg bhD AL oCAl04AAS AA4o AASA-
way engineers to Madison place, which
bounds Lafayette Square on the east
between Pennsylvania avenue and H
street, he afforded the 1000 delegates
and members of the congress a first
hand demonstration of the ingenuity OF
American road builders. Hundreds OF
delegates passed the streets on their
way to the meeting this morning and
many paused to watch giant concrete
mixer laying down bedding of crushed
rock and cement
The delegates were the luncheon
guests Of the American Organizing
Commission for the congress at the
Washington Auditorium today and later
viewed with considerable interest an ex-
hibition of road building machinery
staged in the auditorium by the Ameri-
| can Road Builders Association Many
of the machines and types of equip
ment, which have laid down 3,016,281
miles Of highway in the United States
were on display, along with an arrange
ment OF materials which pictured the
actual construction of roads.
Later in the day, from 5 to 7 o'clock
| the members of the American Organic
! ing Commission, of which Roy D
Chaplin of Detroit, is chairman, and al
the American official Government dele
gates were to attend a reception giver
| by the Ambassador of France In honor
Of the French members Of the congress