The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1929, Page 10

By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘Washington, Jan. 28.—Buenos Aires is as European as any city in the old world and no more Americanized, from our point of view, than are the South Sea Jslands. This third largest city in the west- ern hemisphere is willing to accept North American innovations making for more comfort, convenience or efficiency, but that's all. The people have the American brand of progress- iveness, but they hang on proudly to their European habits and culture. Americans assured your correspond- ent that Buenos Aires was becoming “Americanized,” but your correspond- ent couldn't see it. It is true that Argentine business men are adopting our methods of efficiency and that American types of architecture are being copied for big new office build- ings, but that only proves that Argen- tine business men are smart. Everyone drives an American auto- mobile, but this is one South Ameri- can city where traffic keeps to the left instead of to the right as in the United States. And instead of trying to change the local custom, our auto- mobile firms manufacture cars with right hand drives to meet it. Psychologically and sentimentally, Buenos Aires looks across to Madrid, Rome, Paris and even London, rather than to New York and Washington. Some two million Italians are said to have emigrated into this country and tesser armies from other European nations. Your correspondent's excur- sions convinced him that, with all its large foreign colonies, Buenos Aires is far more of a “melting pot” than New York. As colonists, we Yanks are far down on the list numerically. There are no more than 4000 Americans here as compared to between 50,000 ‘and 80,000 British or Anglo-Argen- tines. The British population thus supports two daily newspapers printed ‘n English which are altogether British newspapers, whereas the Americans have only a little weekly. The big British colony and the The rain fell steadily, drearily, until Crystal was in a panic lest the big footprints she had so carefully “planted” should be washed away. There was still much to do before she could allow herself the solace of a “not breakfast. It was not yet broad the shack the night served as a hammer, ‘an up-ended log as a means of reach- not run the risk being asked why she had not locked shack by way of the window. question of how she could lock into the shack worried her sickeningly, until she found on a nail frame of the low kitchen rusty key, which providently the front and the back Holliday, the owner of bia iLL met g i i TRIBUNE'S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES Latin America! 7 _MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 192% THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE _- THE.GUMPS—RAGS AND RICHES : “THERE YOU GO — THERE You GOo=— KICKING AGAIN = onadit Sa a Seaman AND WHO PAID FOR YOUR FU AND ODRS. AND DIDAT. KICK YOURS. A “ABOUT To WHEN 2 {OLD YOU NOT, ae You DONT GET mer PIANO THAT BABY GRAND {> YOUR EYE ON LUCKY GIRL — 1 pee ate ‘Lu COME OUT IN A ane COAT — DRESSED IN THE HEIGNT OF FASUION = COVERED DIAMONDS = WOM IWERIED. CHAUFFEUR — .A TOWN WousE — WELL - MIN- YHE UVTLE LOVE: BIRDS NEXT DOOR WILt SOON SE THROUGH WIYH THEIR BILLING AND COOING — AND START BUILDING YHEIR NEST = V WONDER WHEN THE WEDDING TAKES PLACE— little American colony get along fairly well together and although the for- mer may adopt a supercilious attitude toward us they buy our products as often as they find them cheaper and better than imports from Britain. The British are so numerous as to have divided into four groups which high-hat each other. There's the Hurlingham set, with its Oxford ac- cent, which causes other Britons to say that one has to learn the language to live in that suburb, and the sub- urban groups at Lomas and Belgrano. The fourth group contains the “town English” within the city, who aren't regarded as socially important. The Irish have fraternized with the Argentines more than any other nationalities. They came early and some became rich through ranching or marriage. There are native fam- ilies with Irish surnames who can't speak a word of English. Lacy and Kenney, the polo players, are Argen- tines, and there's a prominent Ar- gentine family named Cavanaugh, for instance, eee The American colony is on the in- crease, but sticks pretty well to- gether now because of its minority. The American club is a social center and there's an American Legion post. British residents accuse the Ameri- cans of trying to high-hat the Argen- tines and Americans accuse the British of the same. In any event, it doesn’t work. The Argentines, they high-hat everybody. This is the largest Spanish-speak- ing city in the world, and an Ameri- can doing business here simply has to know the language. English gets by fairly well in some Latin-Ameri- can countries, but not here. Even Argentines who speak fluent English insist on using Spanish in conversa- tion with British or Americans. Any foreigner is much more at home with @ command of Italian—or French or German, for that matter—than with English, Some American firms are still silly enough to send down wads of adver- tising literature, printed entirely m English. Others use poor translators, sometimes achieving weird effects in booklets or even on the goods offered for sale. One large American cereal company had to revise its package Offered here nearly every month for a@ considerable period before it achieved a correct Argentine version jot what it sought to say. + | gered grotesquely. .|@ cold and hungry Wednesday, for WHY NOT- WHAT'S THE IDEA? DOESN'T YOUR AUNT WANT YOU TO GO . TO SEE THAT KIND OF A PICTURE 9 Wow! THIS IS SOME JAZZY’ WE'D BETTER NOT SAY ANY- PICTURE CHICK=T LIKE THE WAV THE THING IS DONE - SO TRUE TO THING TOMY AUNT ABOUT THAT FILM WHEN WE GET (tp, te It was amazing how quickly the fire ate up the small logs. Horribly E afraid of being seen, Crystal, still clad Ke 2h Ny in the yellow slicker, rain hat and K i Halts ‘ man sized boots, made two more trips , 4 t 4} to the wood pile, bringing such a pa ‘ t/ ati : heavy load each time that she stag- When at last her outside work was done, Crystal set about making a fire. At seven o'clock the almost ex- hausted but curiously elated girl sat down to a breakfast of coffee diluted with evaporated milk, cornmeal mush and jelly. Not a bad breakfast, though Crystal would cheerfully have paid a dollar for half a pound of butter. She could foresee that the lima beans, which she had soaked in water over night, and which were now bubbling in a big pot in the grate, were going to taste woefully flat without butter or bacon grease sea- soning. And there was scarcely enough cornmeal left to make a skil- let-sized Johnny-cake. She must ration herself carefully, both as to food and firewood, if she did not want to face the prospect of passing | (Te MONEN'T GOT. AN EXTRA PARACHUTE, "WONG tae { AURRENT HIS. PARED AVIATOR COIN’ TH’ Loop TH’ Loop pCHUTE OFENED It~ @N' HE'S “TAKEN A FLOP OUTA HIS ~ Plane! wwe? the girl had no intention of again risking detection by leaving the shack. By this time Bob had received her “ransom letter.” If he disobeyed its commands and placed it in the hands of the police, the whole country- side would soon be full of searchers. Shivering with excitement, Crystal locked herself in. NEXT: A shock from an unex- pected source. And when the rules went into effect, there is a booth at the foot of the traffic tower in Broadway, just above 41th street. sat Commissioner Whalen himself, to see that all went well. From 12 other district booths, rank- ing officers phoned in every 10 minutes to report on how the plan was working. As one columnist puts it, the new Now another point may be added to the dispute between Sinclair Lewis Theodore eee fopv green) ‘exported ‘