Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1929, Page 7

"WHE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY' 9, 1929. PAN-AMERIGAN RAI PROJECT IS DIMMED Plane and Car Are Seen as Answer to Problems of Transportation. BY REX COLLIER, The Star on the G R KimériCan Good Wit Fhip! The enlarging shadows of the air- plane and the automobile have fallen across the long-advocated pan-Ameri- | can rallway project In such a way as| to give rise to the doubt that the pro- rail line between North and South | America ever will reach fulfillment. This is the impression gained by members of the Hoover good will mis- sion during their long swing below the Equator. It is not unlikely the im- pression is shared by the President- elect himself, for he has indicated his belief that South America’s transpor- tation problems will be solved by air- ways and highways. Project Arose in 1890. ‘The railway project came into being at the first Pan-American Conference, held in 1890. Each succeeding confer-| ence voiced its approval of the plan.| The proposition called for laying of a continuous rail system from the United States to Patagonia. The pro- posal was inspired not by thoughts of trade advantages, but of neighborly in- tercourse between the peoples of the northern and southern continents of the Western World. The aspirations behind the railway project still flourish, but apparently | they are due to seck expression through | other channels. It has become increas- ingly plain to those who have studied th problem that the railway plan is impracticable from a business stand- point, and that it will be superseded by the great pan-American highway roposal. " ral and South America have been lamentably slow in highway develop- . ment. Only in the past four or five years has any appreciable progress been made in construction of roads suitable for automobile travel. But the progress already made is enough to convince even the more skeptical that improved roads and the automobile will bring & new era of development of the Latin American nations. Question of Pay Brought Up. Railroads are expensive. They require | & much initial outlay of funds, and a defi- nite amount of freight and passenger traffic to make them profitable, once they are established. The Pan-American Railway was to be a north-and-south line, extending along either the east or west coast of South America. The east- ern route has been declared impracti- cable by engineers, however, leaving the west coast route for consideration. Would such a railroad pay? Those who have looked into the matter care- fully say it is extremely improbable. It would have to depend a great deal on tourist traffic from the United States and domestic traffic from Latin America. In this traffic, the raflroad would be competing with already established ship lines down the western coast of the Americas. The rail line would not answer the purpose of the inhabitants of the west coast. Their difficulty now is not in getting from one western city to another, but in reaching the interior from the coast. The amount of trafic that would use such an interior rail line might not at first warrant the expense involved in overcoming engineering problems involved in building the in- terior spurs, but in a few years they would find their traffic npldl{ increas- ing with the inevitable era of develop- ment. Modern highways undoubtedly are on the railways in the fleld Even the mails are Scenic Grandeur Is Point. President-elect Hoover is understood to feel that a north-and-south highway line in scenic grandeur. The road sys- tem undoubtedly would become one of the tourist’s wonders of the world. By following the old Inca highways, for ex- ample, the motorist would find himself in a fairyland of natural wonders. It is said a motor highway from Cuzco, capital of the ancient Inca empire, northward through Peru and Ecuador to Quito would provide a taurist route of unrivaled scenic and historic interest. Latin America has been slow to re- spond to the world-wide good roads movement. Mexico has virtually no road program. With the exception of Costa Rica, Central America has been most backward in this respect. Guate- mala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama have no definite program of highway construction. In South America, Colombia has ‘begun the building of improved motor roads, Ecuador has made moderate progress,. Peru is_undertaking a fair- sized program, Chile recognizes the need for road improvement and is launching definite steps to meet that need, Uruguay and Venezuela have made a little progress and Brazil inaugurated an agendum. The sole exceptions in South America are the templated, and Paraguay and Bolivia, where nothing to speak of has been accomplished. Rail Propagands Blamed. ‘There are those who say that Argen- tina’s persistent indifference to highway inprovement and construction is due to advegse propaganda sponsored by raflway interests. It is said that much of the opposition voiced in the past to highway projects in Argentina has been traceable to railroad circles. Most of the rail lines are owned and operated by European concerns. There are not more than 400 miles of im- proved highway in all of Argentina. Yet no country on the Southern Conti- nent has greater need for motor trans- portation, for Argentina is essentially an agricultural domain, with a wide field for trucking development. While in the Argentine the road apathy is not due to any lack of money with which to launch a highway pro- | gram, insufficient funds may be ascribed | as the reason for the deplorable state of the roads in many of the smaller countries. Most of what progress South America had made in highway work to date can be attributed to the seeds of activity sown at the first Pan-American High- ay Conference in this country five years ago, held under auspices of the Department of Commerce. At that time 150 Latin American engineers and "public works officials were taken on an extensive tour of the United States and given a first-hand instruction course in | American methods of road-building. The lessons, which were learned then are reflected now in the road work com- pleted or started since that time. Mr. Hoover and his party saw numerous evidences of North American engineer- ing methods in use on the Southern Continent. The Pan-American Highway Conference is meeting this year, by the way, in Buenos Aires. As is well known, the next President is a road enthusiast. Without a doubt he was pleased to find that South America is beginning to give serious at- tention to highway construction. He believes highways have impo:tant roles to play aside from the primary one of providing an economical means of flex- ible transportation. - Briefly, he thinks that with a com- prehensive system of modern highways, a nation has gone far toward attaining a unity among its nationals that makes for an orderly, stabilized government. It is significant that most of the past dis- orders in Southern republics have had their origin in districts remote from the center of recognized government and out of reach of Federal authority, Link those outlying sections closer to the hub of government, it is reasoned, and the misunderstandings and politi- cal unrest will be ameliorated. “American” (LAW HALTS REWARD WON B POLCEHAN $100 Offered for Capture of Hit-Run Driver Needs Of- ficial Sanction. It will be necessary for W. A. Shotter, a Washington policeman, to receive the permission of the District Commis- sioners before he may accept the $100 reward offered by the American Auto- mobile Association to any person who supplies information leading to the ar- rest and conviction of a hit-and-run driver. Policeman Shotter pursued and cap- tured Robert D. Dixon as he fled after his car had struck and killed John Francis Luitich last Friday. He was chasing the machine when the accident occured. According to the terms of the reward, which provides for the payment of $100 to any person who supplies in- formation leading to the arrest and conviction of a hit-and-run driver, pro- viding serious injury or death results, Shotter is entitled to accept. In his letter to the Commissioners Mr. Smith said “I believe this pursuit and capture of Dixon by Officer Shot- ’ter to be one of the most daring and outstanding pleces of police work that has ever been done in the District of Columbia, and the American Automo- bile Association wishes to reward him by pa; him $100.” Tgne%culty in determining whether Shotter may accept is caused by con- | flicting sections of the iaw pert,almngl ;to the acceptance of rewards by police. Although one section forbids a member | of the police force from receiving such a reward, the law further provides that | “the Commissioners for meritorious and extraordinary service rendered by any member of the police force in the due discharge of his duty may permit said member to retain for his own benefit any reward or present tendered him therefor.” . Many Lines Show Gains. 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