The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1929, Page 12

Editor’s Note: Rodney Dutch- Some of his inter- esting observations of Brazil are | contained in this article. j see By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, Jan. 31. — Brazilians and Argentinians, on the basis of thelr ability undeniably great agri- cultural possibilities, each claim that theirs is the coming nation of South America. Each nation looks forward to days of enormous prosperity, be- leving North American food demands will increase greatl. Argentina’s hopes of establishing @ great market for her wheat and meat in the United States seem rather far-fetched, while Brazil has all-important commercial stakes in various staple crops—such as sugar, cocoa, cotton and rubber—and has repeatedly been beaten from her po- sition by competitive production else- where. Coffee is today the keystone of Brazil's economic welfare. It has been giving her some trouble. Nevertheless, Brazil has the most land, the most people and the great- est resources of any nation in South America. Her area is larger than that of the United States and her population is more than that of the rest of the continent. Her nearly 40,000,000 people have created a firm basis for a large domestic trade, es- | pecially in such home-grown products as cattle, cotton and sugar. | arr The path of emergence from her | Present economic dependency on| coffee is not quite clear. Since the | East Indies deprived Brazil of her dominance in rubber, coffee’s share in her exports have grown to more than 70 per cent. Within the last | few years bumper coffee crops have almost threatened to ruin her. The Sao Paulo Coffee Defense Institute has resorted to a policy of restricting shipments from the interior to the port of Santos, the world’s big coffee port, so as to curtail sales and hold up price levels in the face of over- production as exemplified in a crop of 24,000,000 bags for 1927-1928. The end of the problem is not in sight; the more stable prices become assured the more encouragement is given to coffee raisers outside Sao Paulo and even outside Brazil to plant new acreages. Coffee uncer- tainty and low rubber prices are blamed for some degree of business depression now existent. eee Relations between Brazil and the United States have always been friendly. The reception Hoover and his party had in Rio de Janeiro has probably been seldom equaled in modern times. One often hears that our government's policy has been to play Brazil against Argentina; some Americans in both countries seem to look forward to an Argentine-Bra- zilian war sooner or later. At any rate, there is a marked contrast in the attitude of these two big republics toward the United States. We buy and drink most of Brazil’s coffee and are far and away her best cutomer. But Brazil buys less from us, proportionately, than Argentina, whose big customer js Great Britain. Reo Bennett, an American planter in the state of Parana, asked your correspondent to mention Parana, which is south of Sao Paulo. There, says Bennett, is a *2,000,000 invest- ment -in American automobiles and an expenditure of $110,000 for gaso- line and oil each month. Bennett keeps in touch with the United States with his radio set and translates the heavyweight championship fights in- to Portuguese for the natives on his 10,000-acre plantation, When noon came, Crystal found herself too nauseated after her de- bauch of weeping and self-hatred to be able to eat. By three o'clock she was shivering uncontrolably. Her cheeks were scar- Jet, her eyes red, and her hands and feet icy. She was sure she had fever. Perhaps, she told herself, she would sicken and die of pneumonia. By four o'clock it was quite dark in the shack. Her candle supply was running low, since she had been so ; foolish as burn them all night the (ona ghee At last, oan she could Lane RAE. ‘kness no er, Crystal We ~eged her aching, shivering body asi\ “the morris chair, fumbled along ski’. _- Stel till she found a stub of , > stuck in its own grease in a ‘ . lighted it, and was about to 4, wl back into the chair when her a * starting eyes, roving about the room, . / caught sight of an old-fashioned oil lamp hanging by chains from the ceiling directly above the table. Coun- -bred as she was, Crystal was fa- miliar with that type of lamp, knew that it could be pulled down on its double chains. lighted and returned to its position near the ceiling. She | wondered how she had failed to no- . Perhaps it had oil in it. Ad i orm" Bdnne Austin fore she reached up both hands to grasp the bright nickeled bowl of the lamp. It descended as she pulled, the chains running smoothly. But when she shook the bowl there was no answering gurgle. empty! In the girl's fevered brain the cal- amity assumed enormous proportions. Nothing that had yet happened to her seemed so horrible. The stub of her only candle would last not more than an hour, and it was only half Past four now. Crystal was shaking with sheer terror as her icy hands mechanically pushed the lamp to- ward the ceiling. When it was back in place, she took her hands from the bowl, and turned to jump down from the table. As sue turned, however, a dreadful vertigo seized her limbs, swept over her brain. Flinging up her hands wildly, she managed to grasp the bowl of the lamp. As it descended again, she clasped it to her pounding heart, finding the chains strong enough to bear her sagging weight. Crystal never knew how long she stood there on the table, before her brain cleared sufficiently for her to think again. Why, she might have killed herself if she had fallen! Her head could have struck the log! She The lamp was . | might have lain unconscious for hours before help came! . . . But—her mind began to function with terrible clarity—if her rescuers had found her unconscious, she could have told them later that she knew nothing of her “kidnappers” “No, no! I can't! Cry- stal wailed aloud, as the way out of ne A imaamsaid became horribly clear r. NEXT: Crystal takes the only way out. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) 5 5 the dust of two troops of cavalry, a “little ‘great man” in a suit of brown cloth of purple velvet and white satin with white plumes. “At the opening of the inaugural ball in the evening, the band played “Jefferson's March” in honor of the retiring president, who entered the hall with Mr. Coles. He said to a friend: ‘Am I too early? You must tell me how to behave, for it is more than 40 years since I have been to a 2 gag ui ahs Eee aE i int tl lp dl Be i é E TRIBUNE'S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES = + Wt, HODVER ix Latin America! THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THE GUMPS— MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY YOURE OPPOSED YO EVERYTHING TweRs vou @O— Se 5 = 3 3 ee EVERY THING § SUGGEST — 3 : " uate aveanae sage You Rt DEAD SETAGAINSY JY — THE NEXT TIME sry BUROPES re) SAY YES~ Yoo sar NO You CONTRADICT et ee et say NO= > lietdecigentahs a ge go YOU SAY YES > TA GOING TO A CRUISE ON THE MEDITERRANEAN AM L RIGHT? KISS YOU PARTIES = DECORATIONS FOR THE HOME AND CHURCH = Freckles and His Friends NOW SIT UP TO THE TABLE 1 DON'T AND EAT YOUR LUNCH - 1 HOPE YOU AREN'T GOING TO FRET AROUND LIKE YOU OD YESTERDAY, BUT HERE, OFNK OF YOUR MILK LiKE & GOOD GIRL YouRE ALL RIGHT, FRECKLES = YOURE oe Gi (hu UL i| i DB 7 : wl, AN - eine oe met commas wists @ ee OF JENKINS’ FARM, AND Sapp UTA MARKS THE SPOT WHERE Sam (5S suPPOS! cone Bayi DAYS AGO, WHILE. ee, HINGE AN @NLETOR. CHUTE JUMP OVER cies A= SENKING’ CORO Z i — ony