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THE USHAWA LAILY VIMES FRIDAY, SEFTEMBER 28, 1928 + 20 DELEGATES AT RS £3 A TR From Coast to Coast Gather in Regina Regina, Sept. 26--All roads have the capital city of Saskat- led to the capital + how yesult has that Nod, aly interested im [tatives good roads from one end of Canada to the other have gathered here to attend the 15th annual convention of the Canadian Good Roads Asso- ciation, From Prince Edward Island, re- ferred to as the cradle of Confed- eration, to the old colomy of Van- couver Island, Ministers of High- ways, their deputies and chief em gineers have come bearing messag- es of good-will to the Prairie people and bringing rich experiences in road construction for the benefit of the newer provinces of the Middle West, Attending the convention as well as representatives of urban and municipal eouneil to whom in this province is entrusted to a great ex- tent maintenance of main market roads within their areas, and ac- cording to officials of the associa- ' tion last evening, yesterday's épen- ing sessions indicated that the eon- vention of 1928 will take its place {as one of the most educational yet held, Two sessions were held and at one time six Cabinet Ministerg from six different provinces of th® Do- minion were seated on the plat- form of the convention hall. Lieutenant-Governor Newlands K. C., Hon, J, G. Gardiner, Prem- "fer of Saskatchewan, Mayor Colonel James McAra, all gave welcomes te th delegates and a gold key emble- matic of the freedom of Regina was presented to Hon, O, L, McPherson, Minister of Highways for Alberta, veting as chairman of the general tonference, Many ers, Following a morning session of 'wealth tion was forthcoming, Outstanding in the day was the Red Rose Toa Sera are not en- money ime [ROTI 10 80M GXLORL OB The ques: tion of medern practices ia ragard to the comstruction and maintem- ance of gravel roads. J. B. Robert- son, from the former provinee, re- lated ful experiences based unanimous call from all represen joined with British Columbia in ex- pressing the view that Canada needed at this of its develop ment a .dighway stretehing from ocean to ocean, and before the conference concludes it is expected a strongly worded resolution will be presented om this question. Premier Gardiner sounded the keynote on the point when he stat- ed that Canada's most ing need in transportation development at the present time was not federal- aided roads, bat a Federal trans- Canade road, Hon. Geofge Spence supported his chief, stating that the time had come when it should be possible to travel from ome énd of Canada to the other by road with- out having to enter foreizn eoun- try or declare oneself at a foreign port." Of equal interest, especially to the roads of the West, was the ex perience of the State of Mianesota in connection with the treatment of earth and gravel roads with light oils and other dust layers and pre servatives of road surface, as well as the treatment of gumbo before applying gravel, H, G. Nicholson, assistant engineer of the highway commission of the State of Minue- sota, told of the experiments being conducted by his state and submit ted certain conclusions raached by his engineers as a result of this ex- perience, Chief of these were great- er permanency of roads, riddance of dust hasard, economy in construe. tion and up-keep, Views Nova Scotia and Ontario locked mg RY MA] REMEDY J, D, (] i upon the modern of gravel roads, while James Sinton, chief engineer of the Nerthern Develop ment Department of Ontario. was disposed to stay with engineering experiences which he stated differ- ed in many essential respects to modern practices. y H. R. MacKenszfe, chief fleld en- gineer of the Saskatchewan Depart- ment, was the lecturer on the sub- ject of improvements in methods of construction and maintenahee of dirt roads, with special reference to Western Canada and outlined in detail Saskatchewan's experiences. Walter Youngman, maintenance engineer for Manitoba, led the dis cussion and endorsed many of Mr. MacKenzle's remarks, Last night delegates were guests at reception at Government House, and today will attend the annual banquet, at which new offers, no- minated earlier in the same day by ® special committee, Will be an- nounced, C. OF C, MANAGER PRAISES TIMES J, O. Herity of Belleville, Former Editor, Pleased With Big lssue The Times is proud to publish herewith a ward ef eomeratulation frond a forv.er newspapesrman, now Manager of HRelleville Chamber of Commerce, Mr, J. O, Hartiz, Mr, Hovity was frrmerly Edito: of The Relleville Ontarip and was one of the hest kadwt and best liked newspapermen in the Province, just #8 he is now one of the outstanding Chamber of Commrerce executives in Canada, In writing lo The Time es Mr, Herlty says: "I pave just received a copy of the Greater Oshawa edition of The Daily Times, As a former newspap- erman I must eompliment you most singerely upon the enterprise you have shown in publishing so in- elusive and elaborate an fssue, It is surely worthy of a community many times the size of Oshawa. The entire arrangement and quality of the contents Is most commendable. '11 wish to thank you and congratu- Inte you." The youthful graduate is the only person who knows enough to run the nation successfull? HAWAII NO ISLE OF LAZINESS Old Days of "Dolce Far Niente" Gone For Ever London. -- Hawallans were my first tropieal islands, and Robert Louis Stevenson tell us there can be only one first tropical island, writes Lasg. Adams in the London Daily Chronicle. But the chief thing that stfuck me about them was that Honolulu, at any rate, was & bustling, progressive, exquisitely laid-out, gloriously-situated Ameri can town, Nature had given the Garden of Eden into the hands of an excellent group of indoer and eutdoor archi- tects and decorators, aided by skill. ed gardeners, and by a population who, for the last thirty yeare, have turmed themmelves into a col- enly of Burbanks concentrating on the hibiscus, crossing and recross- ing till the number of diffetent var. ities bewilder even the initiated Every road was a triumph of beauty, and the masses of, flower- ing trees, mostly scarlet and or- ange, made one feel as if one were driving along a decorated avenue to a palace, accompanied by the strains of the Marselllalse, played by the Republican band. But on going over a pineapple factory, and later, In listening to those in a position to know, I rea- lized that underneath all this beauty lay the guiding hand of the shrewdest kinds of Americans, peo- ple who wanted their islands to be- come not the languorous love sett ing of a movie story, but a place to put in the map, and to keep there. A Hive of Industry They had serious problems to face--insects and creepers--"'Mis- sionary"s Curse' they called the worst ereeper when ladies were about; there was the irrigation dif- ficulty, and, of course, the labor problem was always there. But the Americans are at their best when facing problems of that kind, and to-day they have conquered the soil, and when it shows any dispositien to "act up" as they themselves would say, they set thelr agricul. tural experts to work and reduce it to order, Long ago they learned over there that running a sugar plantation or a pineapple industry requires a little unskilled labor, and a great deal of highly specialised work, and, in consequence, they pay bly salaries, and expect, and get, the best results. Insect Pests, Take, for instance, the ease of in- sect pests. Entomologisets have settled them for good. Spraying, ex- cept when the sugar cane was tend. er, was impossible, 80 parasites were Imported, and cared for, in such quantities that, the homes grown pests folded up their tenes like the Arabs. ' Of course, thanks to the rigid LONGER rd to tries, the te sugar perts experimented till they found a cane that appeared ta be able to hold its own against the island dis. eases, and it is making great head way. They have a new dream, these experts; they think of getting aero- planes to sall abeve thelr fields, spraying the canes from above; a new version, and a wiser one of ploughing the air, Since my visit to the Hawatlans, I have beem in other tropical fis- lands and as 1 dave looked at the weeds and the drowsily-indifferent state of the fields I have rememb- ered the day when 1 first saw a pine-apple plantation, and when the manager asked me to look for weeds, and for every weed I found he would give me a pinesapple, "Nothin' Ha nothing but orderly rows and acres of rows of absolutely clean soil. And, then there is Lanal, Five years Ado. Lanai was just an island that was given over tO a crater and to cactus and priekly pears. But tractors, and the ambition to make Lanai an fsland to be reckoned with, can do much, and today Lanai has a town, and good roads, and clubs--without which no collection of houses on American soll could amount to anything and good schools, of course, and 20,000 acred of pine-apples. MAKE BUREAU SUCCESS (From the Toronto Globe) The action of Hon, George S. Henry in establishing his "Bureau of Complaints" has met with general || approval throughout the Province. The object sought, which is simply to make the streets and highways of Ontarie safer for all who use them, appeals to the good sense of the gen- eral public. The success of the "Bu- reau" will, of course, depend entirely upon the co-operation of motorists who have at Heart the objects it Strives to attain. One of the worst difficulties in the way will be to over- come the prejudice that exists in the minds of most people against doing | Fil anything that savors of spying or ia- forming. It will be unfortufiate in. deed if such a misconception of a publi¢ duty should be found to be inimical to the successful operation of the Durer Chatham Daily News had a pertinent comment upon this aspect of the sys tem when in a recent issue it said: Two prosecutions were started in Chatham Police Court within the past few days through information laid against eutdn artists by private citizens, No one regards the inform- ers as spies. They are courageous, public-epirited eitizens who have a keen sense of their real duty, not || only to themselves, but also to the general public Highway safety is something that is essential to the happiness and well-being of almost every eitizen of this. Province, This new organiza. as he remarked; u of Complaints. 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