The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1929, Page 10

Eaiter’s Note: This is one of Rodney interesting By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) Washington, Jan. 21.—Although the atmosphere of Santiago with its 600,- 000 inhabitants seems to a great ex- tent European, it is becoming mod- erinized in the American sense per- haps more rapidly than any other South American city. American investment, however, has been poured into the copper fields of Chile rather than into Santiago it- self. And Santiago remains a Chilean city, for the Chileans are a race unto _ themselves, without any large popula- tion of mixed blood, and their capi- tal is no melting pot. Landing by air in Santiago is much like landing at Le Bourget in France. self again in southern California. i, There's an aroma of Mexico City entering the city itself, but there are ‘The business side of Santiago has father an American tinge because of the extensive advertising of American Products, although if it were not for our automobile machinery and oil, But the visitor looking for Ameri- can impressions from Santiago can find plenty in well paved streets and automobiles, electric signs and the like. Santiago is the biggest and best city on the west coast. Up-to-date newspapers like La Nacion and Mercurio have their own Tadio stations. Mercurio, broadcast- ing on @ wavelength of 395 meters, . | probably the most literate population opens up at 7 p. m. with a half dozen jazz phonograph records and follows through with news and weather re- Ports, correct time, and piano, vocal and jazz band selections. Santiago has 40 movie houses— nearly all American films, of course, with an occasional German or British Offering. No talking movies yet, but there is talk of installing them. The telephone system here is operated by Americans and it was a pleasure to use it after experiments in some of the other Latin-American countries— and other parts of Chile. The emphasis which Chile is put- ting on education is especially visible in Santiago. About 80 per cent of the population of scholastic age is! enrolled. English is said to be coin- pulsory in Chilean schools. When your correspondent landed in a field some 200 kilometers from Santiago. where the pilot wanted some informa- ; tion, he had some extensive conversa- | tion in English with a 14-year-old | schoolboy who came dashing with | many other persons from the sur-/ rounding countryside. Chile has} among the South American republics. Your correspondent did not get to the $12,000,000 Santiago race track, which Chileans say is the finest in the world, but he was impressed with the layout at the military aviation school. Chile has a geographical de- , | mand for aerial preparedness and has met that demand. The training school is six miles ot of Santiago, with a large and per- fectly manicured landing field. About 200 officers have been trained ‘n fly- ing to date and there are now 50 at the school. The 30 planes of the army are divided into three groups, one quartered at Iquiqui in the north, another in Southern Chile and the third at Santiago. The planes are both British and American. The British had an avia- tion mission here in 1920 and the aviators’ uniforms are British type, but the instructors are now all Chileans and the last batch of planes bought by the government consisted of five new Curtis Falcons. The gov- ernment also partly subsidizes the the Chilean Aero Club, with 60 mem- bers, most of them civilians. _[_INNEw York ‘| At the Movies ' ilk E : —$$_________, ELTINGE THEATRE . Three complete casts of players in a single picture is the departure from ordinary film dramas in “Diamond Handcuffs,” gripping drama of love, diamonds and the underworld, which tings | is featured at the Eltinge for today and Tuesday. The picture is literally three complete plays in one, each epi- sode having @ separate cast and a separate story, all of which blond to- gether through the connecting link of @ great diamond. The adventures of a great diamond are told, from the time it is discovered in the African mine, its theft for the . | love of a woman, its reappearance in New York society, and finally, through theft, in the underworld. stone is found and when a native miner, lured by a pretty half-caste "| girl, steals it, sacrificing his life for if i Z i i it ete i i E Ea ge 58: HE ie her. 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