The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 18, 1929, Page 12

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE TRIBUNE'S. By RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) Lima, Peru (By Mail)—Customs and culture may differ in the Amer- icas, but human nature seems to be the same the world over. é When the Hoover party visited Li- m: the correspondents on the trip were treated to a large luncheon at che Zoological Gardens. It was typi- al of the luncheons served through- rut Latin America and a most start- ing departure from the urban Amer- ican custom of grabbing a sandwich and a malted milk at the nearest soda fountain. Watermelon and Manhattan cock- tails began the orgy, followed by conchitas, a species of shellfish called senoritas presumably because they're so hot. Then a fish chowder with floating baby lobsters, sweet potatoes and other material. White wine was served with the subsequent fish course and red wine subsequently. After the fish fresh corn with enor- mous kernels, size unheard of in our own corn belt, was served on the cob with cheese. The next course was of fowl stuffed with pistachios, Brazil nuts’and raisins. Then a filet mignon with plaintains—and so on through champagne, dessert, coffee and pisco, a liquor. No right thinking American could have eaten the half of it. Aha! The Dancers The human nature angle entered when some Peruvian dances were in- troduced on the stage. The whoops grew louder as the skirts rose higher, Peruvian whoops and American whoops alike. H A good show like this one can be put on in Lima, but it is necessary to remember that Peru has an immense illiterate population. About 15 per cent of the Peruvians are white; nearly all the rest have Indian blood: 60 per cent Indian blood alone. Il- literacy is estimated at 80 per cent and no more than 5 per cent of the school age population is enrolled in government schools. Naturally, al- though the aristocracy contains many Peruvians of broad culture, this situa- tion is an enormous handicap for Peru. Incidentally, it means that the vast majority of her population is o {ae | IN NEW YORK | -——— New York, Jan. 18—Community ovens are maintained in scores of bakeries on the East Side for’ the convenience of tenement dwellers with limited kitchen accommoda- tions. At certain hours of the day and night oven space is rented out to the housewives for a few cents. They arrive in droves, carrying their tins of bread and buns. While waiting for their loaves, the women folk en- gage in friendly chatter, as small town neighbors stand over the back fence and gossip while hanging out the laundry. In some districts, par- ticularly on cold, blizzardy days, the bakery kitchen becomes a sort of neighborhood club. Late Friday afternoon, a parade typical of the East Side may be seen. Preparing for the Jewish observa- tion of the Sabbath, on Saturday, made up of non-customers for Ameri- can goods. While American-owned textile mils turn out cloth to cover the more ad- vanced Peruvians, thousands of In- dian women are working their little hand looms in the mountains. The Indians of the montana take to the hills in large numbers when ‘!€ cen- sus taker comes—the are so afraid of the white man that they don’t want it known they are alive. This is a heritage from Spanish atrocities of Pizarro’s time, for Pizarro taught the natives that the white man was treacherous. The tradition was almost brought up to date by the atrocities perpetrated by the Peruvian Amazon Co., Ltd., while collecting rubber shortly before the war. Ninety per cent of Peru’s purchas- ing power is concentrated in the thickly populated coastal valleys, but even in the cities of this section are many thousands of the lowest class worker, mixed Indian, Chinese and negro, whose incomes run between 40 and 60 cents a day. Before this econ- omic restriction as with the Indians in the mountains, America’s business enterprise and her effcient consular | and commerce department service are | powcrless. Wherever the standard of literacy is highest in Latin America the demand for foreign goods is raised proportionately. Literate Chile, for instance, imports four times as much per capita as does Peru. Productive Industries Most of Peru's sugar is produced by Peons on a few large plantations. Cot- ton is similarly raised by peon labor, though there are thousands of small cotton farmers. Peru is so large and so climatically divided, however, that she has numerous other agri- culturai industries. Her wild rubber can only be shipped down the Ama- zon to the Atlantic from Iquitos. In temperate southern Peru the farmers go in for wool, cotton and hides. American aviation has done a re- markable job in bringing Peru cl ser to herself. Iquitos was once one day from Lima by rail, one day by auto- mobile, eight days by mule, ‘wo by canoe and 10 by launch—just over two weeks. Now it is seven hous away by air. standing, barbers were the most ac- tive of practitioners. “Bleeding” or “cupping” a patient were as famil- iar to them as shaving. When the British Royal Medical Society was first formed, the barber pole was conceived as a means of distinguish- ing between the charlatans and the newer, more scientific order. A skull was perched upon a red and white striped pole—and the pole has lived to this day as an insignia of the barber trade. At any rate, cupping does not seem to have gone out of vogue in this great city, and I am told there are; many hundreds of bewhiskered old men from European lands who de- mand this old vacuum treatment as a means of increasing blood circula- tion in various sections of the body. Nor do I know of any other place where tiny, 10 by 20 graveyards can be found in some of the city’s busi- est sections. There are at least three such in New York. GILBERT SWAN. they arrive with tins filled with “kuchen.” Generally these cakes have been made at home, but there is no way of keeping them warm. So they are taken to the bakeries and placed in the oven, to be called for later. “ee In the kitchenet belts of New York, where young housewives are called upon to cook in tiny holes in the wall or in six-by-eight closets, the neighborhood delicatessen _ stores come to the rescue. My own Christmas turkey was cooked by a motherly German wo- man, whose order spindle was » jammed with other orders. The cus- tomer is presumed to furnish his own meat and “trimmings.” At a certain prescribed hour the food is delivered at your door, steaming hot, and ready for the table. The charge for this service is but $1.50—a sum which most housewives will tell you is quite well worth spending to avoid the work of turning out a turkey or duck, + * There are any number of things which are typically of “New York.” I know of no other place where one will encounter in the streets the pa- rades of little four-wheeled vehicles, filled with dresses for the suit and cloak belt. They are trundled about by office boys, who seem to have no fear of fic, and go where even jay-walkers fear to tread. The carts are equipped vith hangars and cov- ered protections, and roll about on wheels that seem to have been taken from roller skates. They are used in taki dress models to the huge -suit belt which has sprung up in mid-town. 2 © Nor have I elsewhere come upon barber shops . which in the primitive medical art of “cupping.” ‘ ancient “cups,” used in the days when the barber surgeons ‘seen in the many bar- r shops (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) ¢ a | PEOPLE’S FORUM | —-———— THE LEAGUE IS STRONG Bismarck, N. D. Editor Tribune: The Isaak Walton League ir big enough, strong enough, with enough intrinsic potentiality to attract those who would mount by it to eminence or destroy it root and branch, be- cause its creed and activities are hostile to schemes they want to put over and which run contrary to the Public good to which the League is consecrated. Such activities are al- ready manifest. You bear the distinction of attract- EAT FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1929 URES PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND F fa | Freckles and His Friends GEE! 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By the worthiness of our cause and the support it will derive from all good and patriotic people, we do not fear the final outcome. The League's mi:sion is high. Its achievements have been gratifying, but its past is bu. small in compari- son with the greatness that the fu- ture offers to it if it shall be loyal to its aims. It is enough to chailenge the courage of our greatest enthusi- asts. We as y>t but stand on the threshold of our activities. A FELLOW SPORTSMAN. At the Movies . q@ CAPITOL THEATRE A real live outdoor motion picture that is packed with thrills from the opening flash to the last flicker is Promised by est First National western feature, “The Glorious Trail,” which is sched- uled for the “apitol theatre tonight. Ken has built an enviable reputa- tion for daring and ability in his pre- pictures, but from advance re- ue Glorious Trail” out-struts of the lower downtown