Show PUBLIC ROADS logan waller page director of the office of public roads of the united states department of agriculture who was named by president roosevelt as head of the american commission to the recent international roads congress at paris returned to washington as few days since firm in the belief that in some of the more scientific branches of highway construction tho the united states has nothing to learn from tho the older nations though he was willing to concede that those countries surpass this to an amazing degree in the percentage of improved road mileage and in the jealous caro care with which their splendid highways are maintained among the many things which especially ally impressed mr air pago page during this european trip were the methods for regulating automobile traffic in franco france and england the belief of a majority of tho the delegates to the roads congress that the automobile running at average speed is not detrimental to highways the splendor of french hospitality pita lity the discovery that many miles of very satisfactory highways in england haye been constructed by mixing limestone and granite after the methods set forth in publications issued through the united states office of public roads and the amusing discussion now novi being carried on by english automobilists against horse traffic in city streets streets and upon suburban highways it is his belief that from the congress itself at least one big result will flow and credit for that must go to america on a suggestion by mr air page it was determined to create an international bureau of roads similar in some respects to the international bureau of navigation |