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WILMETTE LIFE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1924 CANADA NEAREST I · · - gu~, UKE THE U S Alike in Blood, Ideas, Civilization lnd M. M. lry ne IU· or- - r-- "Uncle Sam's t;earest neighbor, Canada, is nearest m every sense-in blood, ideas and civilization," declared Dr. Archibald MacMechan, professor of English at Dalhousie college, Halifax, N. S., and visiting professor at Northwestern university this summer. Professor MacMechan's address was broadcasted last Wednesday evening over the Chicago Daily News radio, WMAQ. "Canada extends 3,000 miles along the northern border of the United States. and it has the same system of law, decimal coinage. and religions as State Highways Now the United States." continued Dr. Are Better Than Ever MacMec~an . . "The actual territory of Illinois roads are now, generally Canada IS as large as the United States. It is half a continent staked speaking, in better condition than out for a second grand experiment in ever hefore in the history of the state. popular government. As a political This. at least. is the opinion of moentity, Canada "is only 57 years old. torists who have traveled extensively It is a federal union of nine provinces in recent weeks. Tourists from out stretching from the Atlantic to the of the state comment enthusiastically Pacific. The history of the older prov- on the ~ tate 's highways. Grading and oiling of the earth in ces. Quebec and Nova Scotia covers t hree centuries. One the first ~(July road s have been carried on more ex>7. the four provinces. upper and tcnsivel'v thi s vear than ever before. it is reportel Thi s work is now 0 " ·t:r Canada, New Brunswick and J\"ova Scotia, became the Dominion of nearing completion. giving the state Canada. In the matter of national thousands of mile s of secondary highbirthday Canada and the United States ways to supplement the paved road are close together. Our constitution system . The hard road system is growing is an act of the Imperial Parliment called 'The British North American at the rat e of about 50 miles a week Act.' It define s and limits the rights under the effort of thou . ands of men and privileges of the federal and the and scores of concrete mixers. Th ere provincial governments. The gov- are now about 500 mile s more paveernor-general sent out from Britain, ment com plete in the state than at represe nts the monarch, but the actual thi s time la st year. The_ parts of the stat e highway power is in the hands of the le,ader of the majority in the house of com- sys tem on which paving >v or k has not yet started are being maintained mon s." The Canadian professor continued by the divis ion of highways and are by tracing briefly the growth Qf Can- reported to he in s plendid condition ada, commenting in part as follows : generally. D etours around gradi fl gs "The boom period for Canada was and pavin g work arc also being between 1896 and the opening of the maintained hy the state in th e best Great war. The population poured condition possible under the circuminto the west and as evidence of the stances. rapid growth each day of the year "WAIT! YOU MAY LQ.SE" witnessed the establishment of a new A Houston contributor sugge sts the post office. Law, religion, and education followed the emigrants from the following signs for railroad crossings: "Come ahead. You're unimportant." border to the Arctic and from the '·Try our engines. They sati s fy." Great Lakes to the Rockies. The "Don't stop. Nobody will mi ss you." royal mounted police carried the "Take a chance. You can get hit hy principles of British law throughout the <loo<·ioion. The chu;ches, railwayf a train only once." and CQtnmer.ce . ,onj.ri;\':!ted largely tfl ON FISHING TOUR l1e development and stability of the Harry Schultz of the Schultz and odern west. "Thirty-three thousand men wer.e Nord tailoring establishment, and Carl assembled, clothed, armed, organized, Schwall, together with two young men and on the water six weeks after this from Hammond, Ind., have motored up declaration of war," Dr. MacMechan to the St. Croix river, Wis., for a two declared in speaking of Canada's war weeks' fishing expedition. record. "The Canadians never lost a nor a position they had once consohdated. They were called 'the shock troops of the British army' by a German staff officer. In Canada ~here was unanimous. national backmg-money and supphes never ceased, there was no peace party and no wavering even in the darkest days of the war. Since the war, no nation has provided better for her returned soldiers." · Professor MacMechan discussed Canadian art and literature. particularly the works of l-'arker Basil King, Ralph Connor and Ro ~)e rt Service. "The union of three churchesMethodist, Presbyterian, and Congregational,-which· has just been consumated after twenty years of discussion and negotiations, takes away the reproach of divided Protestantism and points the way to larger unions. This is undoubtedly the greatest religious idea which has come to fruition since the Reformation," concluded Dr. MacMechan. PLAN TO BREAK PAVING RECORD of 2,017 feet in one day lias not been neared by any mixers this year. It was set on an Illinois road last season. The road paving work is giving employment to 10,500 men and 2.950 teams. During the pa'st week 117 paving mixers were pouring concrete on the road projects. NatioDal Kladerprtea _. Elemeatary Collea· Incorporated and Accredited A Non·Proftt Institution State Constructs SO Miles of Roads in Week BIC ADVANCE The annual report of the Illuminating Engineering society, recently issued, chronicles numerous interesting Another fifty miles of pavement facts about developments in lighting was added to the Illinois highway sys- which have wide public interest. tern d';Jring the week ending August Some interesting statements in the 2, engmeers of the state division of report are : highways announce. The week's Sign lighting has made such rapid work brought the year's total con- progress that statistics from eight struction up to 501,87 miles, past the . cities, ranging from 10,000 to 350,000 half-way mark in the year's sched- population, show one sign a.nd 202 ule of 1.000 mile s. . sockets for every 75 persons . As the year's work is more than 70 The largest electric sign in the world miles ahead of the total mileage that is 153 feet long and 75 feet high, and had been constructed at the same is legible for a distance of 8 miles and date last year, the engineers were visible for 30 miles. confident that the 1923 world's pavin g The steamship Leviathan uses 150,record would be broken this year. 000 lamps in its lighting system. A new season's record for daily out Incandescent lamps consumed per put of one mixer was set when a bi~ capita annually in various countries concrete machine working on Route are: United States, 1.83; Switzerland. 2 between Pana and Decatur laid 1,700 1 :62; Germany, 0.88; France, 0.72: feet of standard 18-foot concrete pave- Austria. 0.67; England, 0.45; Italy, ment in one day. The world's record 0.38; Hungary, 0.37. 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