The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1928, Page 8

= 9 (vith HDVER in ‘ Latin America’ Editor's Note: This is the fourth article of a series by Rodney Dutcher, NEA Service, Washing- ton correspondent, who is with President-elect Hoover's good-will party in South America. Ce ‘and beans. Despite all the coffee raised, coffee is often regarded as a luxury among these people; crude na- tive cheese is used in place of butter. Costa Rica Excels Costa Rica, with a high percent- age of pure Spanish blood, is highly En Route with Hoover in Latin developed and is perhaps the most America.—Central America, in our for- “civilized” of them, according to our eign policy, has been regarded as more | s important from the standpoint of andards. Salvador is at worst a close second, strategy in connection with the Pan- | with a widespread land ownership, ama Canal than as an outlet for dense popt American exports. They are small republics. Con- ion and intensive agri- cultural cult. ion. Guatemala, which has'a 60 per cent struction of another canal through | Indian population, 2 per cent white Nicaragua—which has been discussed | and the rest mixed Indian-Spanish, is for years—would tend further to de- only fairly well developed. Hoover fine them as special politico-economic did not visit Guatemala owing to poor wards of the United State In spite of or perhaps partially be- cause of these factors, they have been by no means overlooked in the pene- tration of American capital abroad and in our search for markets. Fu- ture expansion of our exports to Cen- tral America will be limited largely by the fact that they are so predomi- nantly agricultural and that their purchasing power hinges from year to Year on crop conditions. U. S. Investments Heavy American investments in these countries are estimated at around $250,000,000. A great part of their steamship and railway systems is under American control and in re cent years a fairly steady demand f American capital has been principal. inspired by a desire for better rail- road and port facilities. Economically and hence psycho- logically, it is interesting to note, the Central American republics have always faced westward toward the Pacific—a fact of interest to our own Pacific ports. A continental road now being completed, however, will actu- ally bring Salvador, Guatemala and even Honduras nearer to the Gulf and the United States. Education of the masses of people, which some of the governments are trying to see to, will play an import- ant part in future development. A great Indian population lives in pov- erty through this section, often in Peonage and subsisting on tortillas anchorage facilities for his battleship. Honduras and N: ua, with their large Indian population, are the leas developed of all. Low price levels are generally prev- alent and progress has come to Cen- tral America mostly at the demand of foreigners. The bulks of Central American armies are still concen- trated at the various capitals; the largest cities rally clustered and except in Salvador huge tracts of land remain uncultivated, unexploited | and comparatively uninhabited. There app ity for more scientifically managed plantations well as for develop- ment of new territory. Import Cotton Goods Cotton fabrics, used for clothing, are the principal items of imports from the United States. The bulk of our exports to all Central American countries come pretty close to the ‘bare nec ies of life not manufac- | tured domestically. The tendency of the American gov- {ernment and of American capital to frown on all revolutions has unques- | tionably helped the Central American |republics to stabilize themselves and thus obtain a firmer foundation for increased prosperity. The outstanding economic fact about the region, however, is that all Jare virtually one-crop countries. | When staple crops are large and bring ‘high prices nearly everyone is pros- | Perous and happy. And vice versa. ° a | IN NEW YORK New York, Dec. 26—The white ex- plorers in darkest Harlem allow the Negroes little opportunity for amus- ing themselves without Nordic in- trusion. Word of a new negro cabaret or theater or dance hall travels fast in- to the mid-town belt, where it passes from one to another and, within a week, the white invasion is on. What started a couple of years ago as a fad among the sophisticates, who went on the trail of Van Vetchen’s atmospheric novels, has become a commonplace. At first even some of the more blase New Yorkers shied at “crossing the color lines” and eye- brows arched as whites and blacks appeared together upon the dance floors. Today only visitors from Texas and way states show the slightest con- cern. only those resorts known as “hot.” These are generally tiny rendezvous under the streets—cellars, to be ex- act—where musty ceilings hang low and a dilapidated piano thumps in the corner. A lean “high yaller” gal perches upon the piano, after the fashion made popular by Helen Mor- gan, jumping down from time to time to gyrate upon the floor to the tThythm of a “vo-do-de-o-do” tune. Here are contrived those dances at which even the most undulating white seems awkward. Only the nimble and agile blacks seem at home when exe- cuting them. And, somehow, they lose something of their vulgarity when danced by the negroes. They become Brotesque, or even comic. One is in- clined to smile, or even laugh, for the movements, however suggestive, have a humorous eccentricity. Unfortunately the white slummers Particularly the women, try to learn these dances, with results that are likely to bring shudders even to the most tolerant. They are venturing on alien soil and lack the vision to realize how completely out of place they are. Within the past year, a dozen or more of these little retreats have come to life and some have made a definite play for white patronage, realizing that after all, the midtown boys and girls have more money to toss away. Meanwhile the pioneer resorts, such ‘as Small’s and Connie's Inn, have out- grown their original quarters and be- come highly prosperous. se 8 Scouts for Broadway productions haunt the Harlem theaters where raw talent is refined into headline mater- fal. Innumerable high-salaried artists have been drawn from the negro the- ater and scarce a season passes with- but a dozen new discoveries. Florence Mills was, of course, the finest artist to be unearthed by the explorers of another day. But her path was not as easy going as it is FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: | Today the Harlem explorers seck |today. Now rival producers bid against each other for the negro talent. This is largely due to the great success of “Blackbirds of 1928,” |which is one of the few Broadway productions to show a huge profit in |a dull season and to attract such crowds that midnight performances jand extra matinees are necessitated. |In this production appeared Bill Rob- |inson, a colored “hoofer,” who could | write his own contract if he wished. | And there's Josephine Baker, who graduated from Harlem to Paris, where she picked herself off a title; there's Honey Brown,*now a star of | the movies, and Johnnie Hudg! the droll comic, and a score of others. GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) | YOUR CHILDREN | 4y Ove Roberts Barton | ©1928 ky NEA Service,Ine. | “I'm not going to have that child ,carrying bundles. Take the car and |go and get that package yourself. | “If you think I'm going to allow |the children to wear patched shoes jyou can think again. When shoes | have to be patched they are ready to | throw away. |; “Viola, who was the little girl you |; Were walking with? Where do they live? What does her father do, do you know?” |" With such a ciet of silly sugges- |tion whose fault will it be if this little girl turns out to be a priggish little snob? ; And yet the world is full of just uch mothers who are setting up be- fore their children absolutely false lideas of living. It doesn’t hurt children to carry bundl If automobiles are giving moth he idea that it is an impo- sition to ask a child to walk two blocks to a store, or carry home a package from the tailor, or 2 loaf of bread from the baker's, yes, with a car sitting right at the curb, too, then \I say we'd better throw out the auto- {mobiles and begin all over again. Detest Street Cars And speakinz of automobiles brings to my mind the fact that I |know more than one young idea who {won't ride in a street car. I heard @ particularly uppity youngster scorn @ bus when it happened that no one in the family would be in town that day to pick her up at school at four o'clock. The bus passed the school door, too! As to shoes! Good, healthy patches used to happen in he best of families. They seem to to be an opportun- | Far FROM HOME ‘HE LONE EAGLE { SPENDS CHRISTMAS DAY IN SAN MARCOS, TEXAS — WHERE |S Yom CARR SPENDING | 9 MIS Day £ AND BESIDES ALL THIS TIE FROM s js) 5 Z y iS} o t have become obsolete, these little |Stop-gaps at the sides and backs of school shoes. And shoes were cheap- er then than they are now. But more than one family discards otherwise good shoes before it will patch them. Why is it that Americans have such an unhealthy dread of being ‘thought poor? After all, saving a pair of shoes is a matter of principle, just as saving butter, or saving light, or saving any- thing. It isn’t the fact that you are able to pay for a new pair. It is the fact that everything should serve un- til its usefulness is ended. These lit- tle lessons of economy are invaluable for children, The department -store daughter says to her chum: “I'm not allowed to go with Elsie. Her father just has @ little shop on Plain Street.” And Elsie confides to her friend: “I’m not THE BISMARCK ‘TRIBUNE TAOSE THINGS I GOT ]UNOW 7 AD ANY TY T'S THE CAT'S, ,CHICK, YOU \\ GRANDMA, AND CAN EXCHANGE) You'RE A WOW TO GIVE IT To “CHRISTMAS! YOU'LL HAVE TO EXPLAIN ALL THESE ELEPHONE CALLS AND WHERE YOUVE BEEN All’s Well! ALL RIGHT, TLL EXPLAIN- JUST STEP’ OUTSIDE WITH ME A MINUTE A_NEW CAR! WHY, IT HAS MY NAME WHOOPS! Ts L-L-LADDER 15 K-K.KINOA A-N-NERVvouS— @-@-AND Sree OO! 5% GOOD NEWS, Sam! NO CHANCE O' HaNIN' “TH _Gwve UF “TW ‘eLiMe Now —We made. PLENTY Ta Cerf COR IT— 3.qu22LEM @NO Co. HAVE GONE OVER TH’ “Top!! \ SusT WENT FER GOSH SAKES, WaT. » OVER TH : [3 pMAePENED? SSSI | ye Na £ f 4 NOTICE TO A. 0. U. W. MEMBERS : _ Right after meeting, Thursday, December 27th. A dance and party will be given by the A. 0. U. W. Lodge at A. 0. U. W. Hall for their members and invited guests. Admission 50c - per couple. if ii l FH B i