The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 4, 1929, Page 10

FO EL ICE A ED ETI OTE SEES 842 SO84 RES SAnNS so7se. rus se E EAM ane Hae: Editor’s Note: This is the elev- enth of a series of stories on Latin-American countries by Rodney Dutcher, Washington correspondent for The Tribune and NEA Servicc, who accom- panied President-clect Hoover's good-will party. | ‘ . Guayaquil, Ecuador (By Mail)— Those were happy days for Ecuador when we were sending shiploads of | chocolate bars to soldier boys in France. But after the, war was over her cocoa industry was deflated and, being then a one-crop country, Ecua- dor was in a bad way. Political troubles, too, have held | Ecuador back. As late as 1926 her military junta staged a coup d’etat | oil land and Standard Oil is repre- and a group of two soldiers and four civilians were put in charge. They took four turns, each running the | American investments in Ecuador are | government for a month. The| scheme didn’t work. Meanwhile Ecua- dor hadn't balanced her budget or possessed a surplus for 30 years. Few Railroads | The country had—and still has—| fewer railroads than any other South American republic except Paraguay, | 24 miles per 10,000 inhabitants and | Awakening development is result- fozr per square mile as compared with 21.2 and 84 in the United States. Until a few years ago commercial men regularly passed up Ecuador for fear of disease and Guayaquil was often called “the dirtiest city in the world.” Ecuador, in short, had a bad situa- tion; still has. But there is plenty of evidence that she is now making Progress in an attempt to work out of it. She has only 2,000,000 people in an area larger than New England and New York combined and more than half of them are uncivilized Indians whose development must necessarily be slow. Ecuador seeks to clean up and rid herself of plagues. She is after a $6,000,000 loan for sanitary and street Programs. Her budget has at last been balanced and she has a surplus. has a six-year program providing $600,000 a year for six years for a sanitation project. Begun ‘The Kemmerer financial mission from the United States has reorgan- ized the national finances and the present government is going ahead with its plan of financial and eco- nomic reorganization. New railroads are being planned into the interior. Ecuador is diversifying her crops, exporting an increasing amount of rubber, ivory nuts (used for “ivory” |buttons and carvings in the United | States), coffee, “Panama” hats, ai- grettes—to Europe, pineapples (three times as high as the Hawaiian kind), and bananas to Chile and Peru, and balsa wood, which they say here was used in Lindbergh's plane, being so light. Some oil is now being taken out along the Peruvian border, and there may be a lot more. The American Fuel & Transportation Company has leases on 1,800,000 acres of supposed sented, though Anglo-Ecuadoran does most of the present producing. Total estimated at $25,000,000. The agricultural and mineral sur- faces probably have only been scratched. Coal, sulphur, copper, gold, | iron and silver are said to be extract- able in paying quantities and the | country is rich in medicinal trees. i Imports Increase ing in an increasing demand for American machinery, especially for tractors, plows and implements. Im- ports of electrical machinery have increased 400 per cent in 15 years and of miscellaneous machinery about 300 per cent. Demand for staple American manufactured goods is on the rise and Germany is not likely-to Ecuadoran trade. |. Hoover found an American head- ing the customs of Ecuador, another American the superintendent of banks and another acting as comp- troller general. He left Ecuador favorably im- pressed with President Isidro Ayora, who has been trying to lead his coun- try out of her wilderness. Ayora was brought into the picture for just that Purpose, after a successful career as @ university professor and surgeon, and formed a cabinet of intellectuals —Pprofessors, journalists or diplomats. For nearly three years he has been a dictator, but lately has been en- gaged in restoring constitutional gov- ernment. He probably will be re- elected. American business men here have great confidence in Ayora. oe IN NEW YORK | New York, Jan. 4—Manhattan has grown handier with its wrecking tools than its traditions. It has few songs to sing to the past. Its voice is raised to the future and the transient pres- ent. The few hymns that rise to the city’s 's come from men ‘whose hair is growing thin or has centimental, or something like that. oe 6 ‘The city’s chant is “Tear down and build . . . build and tear down... tear down and build!” So the old mansions and the old landmarks go, and even the Waldorf Astoria, which was considered inviolate, will soon pass. And the Waldorf is to hostel- what petticoats were to grand- ma’s time. But such has been the story ever since those days after the Revolu- tion when New York decided to grow up and become citified. the “thirties” it was the United States Hotel that took the breaths of the natives. Located in the downtown belt, where skyscrapers pierce the clouds, it was called “Holt’s Folly.” The builder was credited with un- heard of audacity in putting up so fancy and extravagant a hostelry. The colony grew into a town and crept slowly up Broadway toward 14th street. It’s first daring spurt was as far up as the site of the present World in Park row, where the for- gotten French Hotel once stood. Then the vanguards of pomp and pretension conceived the Metropolitan Hotel at Broadway and Prince street, of which Irving Cobb once wrote that “it had a dining room only slightly smaller i ‘than the state of Rhode Island.” The courtyards of this hotel became the original historic Niblo’s Garden, first of Manhattan's swanky theater re- If you've never heard of “The Black Crook,” just ask grandpa. He'll tell } all about the fame of that the- atrical enterprise, which still finds its into theatrical memoirs. First burlesques it ‘was, and it was staged in the Niblo Hoffman Broad- something to take the breaths of the hoi-polloi. No one had dreamed that @ hotel might one day rise in an aris- | tocratic residence belt, any more than anyone ever dreamed that the Wal- dorf might one day be doomed to ex- tinction, like all the other landmarks in New York. Meanwhile, the last word in splen- dor attaches to the extravagant new skytouchers that rise everywhere. What with gold revolving doors, gem- studded keys and comforts beyond dreams, they tower in imagination as {in size. Yet such are the changing | times that in this strange day and age | @ gang murder is staged in the room of one of the gilded palaces and a drug runner is found hiding in an- other. Sic transit gloria, etc. GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘ Hampton | By ELIZABETH KOPPY Eugene Bull Bear and son-in-law of near Cannon Ball; Herman Back- haus and sons John and Herman were business callers at the Steve Koppy home Saturday. Miss Ethel Sorenson left for Sidney, Montana, Saturday for a two weeks’ Christmas vacation. Enoch Swift Bird of near Cannon Ball was seen in this vicinity Satur- day afternoon. George Chesrown and Clarence Fet- terley were calling at the Badger ranch Saturday afternoon. Miss Viola Knudtson of Winona is spending the Christmas vacation at the Umber home. John Renskers, who has been in this community for some time, left for Dale Saturday. Miss Esther Klaudt spent the Christmas vacation in Linton. A number of folks from here at- tende dthe funeral of James Bur- bage at Hazelton Monday forenoon. Mr. Burbage lived in the Livona ter- ritory for many years. Frank Chesrown and son Francis were calling among friends and rela- John Joeb, William Fried and son Rheinhold, Mrs. Steve Koppy and sons Math and Steve, were business callers in Linton. Monday. George Chesrown spent Christmas Bre in Linton visiting friends and rel- atives. regain her pre-war domination of | IF OSCAR ENER FEI.L DOWN FROM TMERE HED BREAK HIS JOB ON A MILK CART?, FUL SETTLE THISs BOY OUT OF BED AFTER HE'S CHASED AROUND UNTIL TWO ‘A.M. WITH THIS. AND THAT FLAPPER _ ot HEY, Sam! Hop IN TH’ BLIMP AN’ satL THIS KID OVER TA SCHOOL! HE'S CRYIN’ ‘cause. He's Late! IHE BISMARCK TRIBUNE GEe= TAKE. 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