The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1928, Page 10

Editor's Note—This is the fifth of a series of stories by Rodney Dutcher, Washington correspon- qent for The Tribune and NEA Service, who is touring Latin America with President-elect Voover’s party. By RODNEY DUTCHER Amapala, Honduras, (By mail)— ‘Any flapper senorita in Tegucigalpa knows more about politics than many American statesmen,” said an Ameri- can business man from the Hondur- an capital. ‘To understand the things that hap- pen in Central America it is neces- sary to get the significance of that assertion. The factors which permit the peculiar condition of politics in this secion are intimately bound up with Central American development and the growth of Central American trade with the United States. Politics, the soup, meat and des- sert of these republics, is carried on by a very small minority of wealthy, upper class, educated gentlemen who control the destinies of the vast ma- jority of poverty icken people. The Jatter do all the agricultural and oth- er heavy work—and often no work at all. The political class is generally Spanish, though there has been con- siderable intermarriage with Ameri- can and all the European national- ities. The great lower class is gen- erally Indian, with some mixture of Spanish and negro blood. Revolutions and Elections So passionate are the politics that | revolutions have time and again fol- lowed elections, especially in Hon- duras and Nicaragua. Resultant, dis- organization, naturally, has held back the affected countries while more nations have forged ahead. vy tendency, however. is now distinctly on the wane. Asked what appeared to be the most hopeful sign of Honduran development, an American girl from Tegucigalpa re- pli “Well. we've just peaceful election The election result was highly in- teresting from an American point of view. Dr. Vincente Mejia Colindres, the fusion candidate of the Liberal and Republican parties, was elected over the incumbent conservative or National party. Dr. Colindres is a Progressive medical man and an in- tellectual. Recognizing the pressing need for better transportation fa- cilities in Honduras, which are bound up with future national development and foreign trade growth, he ran on @ good roads platform reminiscent of some gubernatorial fights at home. One often hears the cynicism that had our very first the names “liberal” and “conserva- tive” mean nothing at all in Central American politics. But here on the scene one learns differently. The Liberals are not at all radical, but they are the more forward-looking and progressive lot. U. S. Companies Involved In the recent Honduran election, jthe three leading American = fruit eh United, Cuyamel and | Standard, are said to have been in- | volved up to their necks; fruit com- |" |pany operations in this country are iso heavy that it is not surprising. | United Fruit backed the Conserva- ive candidate and lost. Cuyamel and {Standard got behind the Liberal ticket. and won. | Colindres told your correspondent |through an interpreter that he hoped jto complete a fine highway from | Amapala, the Honduran Pacific port, |through Tegucigalpa to the Atlantic. |Like other progressive leaders, he | |realizes the need for American capi- |tal in developing his country. | The contrast between Colindres and |the Tegucigalpans who came with | him to Amapala to meet Hoover and | the natives of the town was almost jappalling. The former were all snap- py dressers, comparatively speaking; | they appeared cultured, sophisticated |Persons and one or two spoke as in- telligible English the average Ameri tter, chocolate | brown, w all shoeless. When a navy seaplane flew into; the harbor the entire populace dashed madly for a better view. No such th as an automobile was any- where to be seen. Those Indian peo- ple will take an immense amount of educating, one gathers, although ed- ucation in Honduras is now compul- sory and 40 per cent of the school age population attended school dur- ing 1927. The north coast, whence 20,000,000 bunches of bananas are exported an- | nually, is the rich section of Hondur- as. Most of the roadbuilding has been done there and there is even regular airplane service between Tegucigalpa and Tela. Bananas are 75 per cent of Honduran exports, which amount to nearly $20,000,000 a year. We buy about $15,000,000 of those exports. American investments in the country Probably amount to $25,000,000 of which about half is United Fruit money. Tegucigalpa the capital, is with- out railroad facilities. A coast to coast railroad has been a Honduran dream for many years, but prospects for it are nebulous as there is not yet any economic justification for it in the eyes of investors. WHERE 1S TOM-CARR ? pr Abe AP ttt a BEWARE, ‘TOM CARR = Your’ LIBERTY SWEET AIR OF FREEDOM WHILE: You MAY = THERE 18 Now No TELLING WHEN YOU WILL MEET THIS DARING DESTROYER OF DISTANCES FACE TO FACE = OSSIE'S GOT HIS AIRPLANE OOT= AOW ILL GET A GOOD Look y ° SE » | INNEW YORK |; ° Ss ap a ret New York, Dec. 27.—Thanks to a sudden rush for the autobiographical confessionals, many interesting side- lights upon Broadway's most color- ful personalities are beginning to reach a wider audience. Eddie Cantor, who rose from an East Side gamin to Manhattan's most lar comic, is already between the jackets of a book which he pleases to call “My Life... Is in Your Hands.” And Gus Edwards is right on his trail with a forthcoming tome, “The Kid's Clever.” owe Both were graduates of the sawdust floor and swinging-door circuit. Edwards was singing for pennies and dimes before he could spell. Few living humans have had a more hec- | | tic and vivid youth. It was one long round of living by the wits, for his parents had no money. He made his first dime as a wee tot singing on the steamer which was bringing his immigrant parents to these shores. He stowed away on picnic steamers to get a chance to sing before crowds. He sneaked into the amateur night Programs and one night, while occu- pying a gallery seat, he decided to assist a damsel who was singing upon the stage. No one had invited him, but he joined in the chorus and made a hit. That was the beginning of the stunt of youngsters singing from the boxes. Today Edwards sits in state in Hollywood, picking talent and figur- ing stunts for the talking picture features. He has the reputation for being the world’s champion discov- erer of latent talent. He has “spotted” everyone from Elsie Janis to Cantor and back. Just before he went to Hollywood Ed- wards was still at it, with a Broad- way vaudeville agency and act manu- facturing plant. ee 8 Edwards never could read music and never wrote a note in his life— but he composed something like a thousand songs. Who doesn’t remem- ber “School Days” for instance? And “Tammany” has never gone out. of fasnion as the national anthem of Hall. It's become all but the symbol of the Democratic party, , for that matter. eee Edwards learned to pick out tunes o the piano of Tin Pan Alley. So |has many another lad. Pianos were, for many a year, free to lads who came in off the streets to “practice.” No one will ever know how many of {our American hits have been com- | posed in this fashion. “ee The name of Will Cobb is, for some Yet it is welded with that of Gus Edwards in | the years of early struggle. Cobb's is | another typical New York story. He had been a bellboy in a mid-town hotel. There Edwards met him. | And it was Cobb, if you please, who rattled off for Anna Held the great- est success song of her career—“I Juset Can't Make My Eyes Behave.” It was scribbled off on torn bits of wrapping paper, while Miss Held waited. Less than 15 minutes were required to write the major part of | | Lillian Russell staked the two lads to their first music publishing shop. | They had grown tired of getting | meager revenues from the hits they |had peddled to the big publishers. They took a $25 advance, for instance, for writing “I Can't Tell Why I Love You But I Do, Do, Do.” Ask mother | how it went. The sawdust floor and swinging- door circuit also graduated Irving | Berlin, Gene and Willie Howard and | many another. The Howard brothers came up from “amateur night” per- |formances and at their first appear- | ance in Miner's old Bowery theater, went over with their first audience. | GILBERT SWAN. | (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) |Photographer Beats Runner to Goal and Calmly Snaps Photo Pittsburgh, Dec. 27—()—There is no such thing as a day of ease for photographers grabbing bits of action about a football field. Yet with all \of their gymnastic stunts to get choice |‘‘shots” it is seldom that they outrun the ball carriers. The story, is told by Pittsburgh play- ers and is seconded by Coach Jock Sutherland. This crafty cameraman was set to snap a Pitt back as he received the ball on the kickoff, but the ball car- jtier broke clear for a touchdown. 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