The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1929, Page 10

Eadltor’s Note; Rodney Dutcher, ‘Washington correspondent for the Bismarck Tribune and NEA Ser- vice, accompanied the Hoover party through South America. In this interesting article of his series, he describes Uruguay. eee By RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) Washington, Feb. 1.—If you can't distinguish between Uruguay and Paraguay and aren't sure that there isn’t only one of them, remember that every timerthe Olympic games are held it’s Uruguay who runs away with the world’s soccer champicnship. Last year she licked Argentina in the finals after previously defeating 12 or 15 other nations all larger than herself. Uruguay is the smallest re- public in South America, but one of the most prosperous. A few glimpses of her healthy, strapping younger generation led your correspondent to suspect that she will be holding the soecer championship a long time ‘hence. eee Uruguay resembles a - miniature Argentine, but it always ought to be remembered that in nearly all in- stances the Latin-American countries are markedly and variedly different. Uruguay is one country which has no tropical section. She has no moun~- tain ranges to bar civilization from her far reaches and her railroads and excellent water routes have enabled her to keep the wheéls of progress going throughout the country. But the outstanding fact about Uruguay is that except in Montevideo she is one vast ranch. For every acre devoted to agriculture she has 11 on which graze cattle and sheep. Vir- tually 90 per cent of her exports are animal products. ‘Uruguayan imports and exports are each around $100,000,000 a year. She imports more goods than Peru, which has four times her population. Blessed by a period of post-war demand and good prices for her products, she has imereased her exports to the United States 170 per cent in 15 years and her imports from us have jumped 500 per cent. She buys gasoline, sugar, automobiles, coal, potatoes, fuel oil, lumber, industrial machinery and cotton fabrics. eee North American investments in the country have increased to $75,000,000, placed in packing plants, factories or assembly plants, public utilities and yational and municipal bonds. The British investment in the country is nearly three times ours. Uruguay offers an excellent ex- ample of what foreign capital has done to develop Latin America Pub- Uc improvements, public utilities, rail- With HDVER ing Latin Americal THE BISMAKCK TRIBUNE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY. 1, 1929 _ roads, packing and meat freezing, banking, manufacturing and _ trade have for the most part been financed from abroad. Thus Uruguay has been enabled to capitalize on her natural resources, favorable market conditions and the enterprising nature of her people. Her last big loan was one of $30,- 000,000 floated in the United States in 1926 and designed for public im- provements, including several electric plants and water systems. British in- terests own the railroads. soe An increasing number of automo- biles has created demand for good roads and now this republic, in size a little larger than New England, has 2300 miles of national highways, in- cluding 400 or 500 macadamized. There are about 35,000 automobiles in Uruguay now, but American compan- fes can count on an expanding mar- ket. Since 1924 the United States has led all nations exporting to Monte- video. In the years 1911-15 we sent only five per cent of Montevideo's im- ports; now it’s 30 per cent. Britain has dropped from 24 to 16 per cent and Germany has regained her pre- war share of 12. ‘We lead on foodstuffs, raw mater- cars and construction materials. Great Britain, France and Italy each lead us on textiles. Germany, Britain and Italy all supply Uruguay with more drugs and Germany has more of the musical instrument trade. eee A large area of the land now used for pasturage is tillable, as only five per cent of the land is now cultivated. Industries and mining are slight, but Uruguay is just beginning to produce necessities, such as food and cloth, for herself. Uruguay has made marked progress politically as well as economically. Her people are nearly all white; her immigration has -come largely from Spain and Italy, and she is amply capable of self-government. For years her two political parties fought bloody feuds over nothing whatever, but they are now peaceful. Colorados and Blancos—reds and whites—they call themselves. Manhood suffrage for literates has been in effect for years and freedom of speech appears permitted as in few other countries of Latin America. Revolutions were once appallingly fre- quent, but there hasn’t been one for 20 years or more. Early last year Uruguay passed a double nationality law, which permits immigrants to be citizens both of Uruguay and the land whence they came. The law is in accordance with the Facist theory and the principle has been made an issue more than once elsewhere in Latin America. Crystal Hathaway was a coward. She had never been able to endure the pain of even a minor hurt without whimpering. Twice in her life she had fainted in the dentist’s chair be- fore the lancet had even touched her swollen gum; again at the sight of ‘blood trickling from a cut finger. Feats of physical heroism were abso- lutely incomprehensible to her. And now the girl who could not bear even a little pain with decent fortitude was contemplating, between shudders of horror, an act which would result in excruciating pain, if not in death. As she stood on the table in Peter Holliday’s shack, her trembling body supported by the hanging lamp which she clasped in her arms. Crystal Hathaway's whole life passed in rapid review before her mind’s eye. She saw herself as a morbidly sensitive little girl, desperate for love and un- accountably unpopular. She saw her- self as a college girl, bitterly alone, humiiiatingly a failure until Tony ‘Tarver had taken her up, forced her upon “the crowd.” _ She was no earthly good, she wailed in her heart. A coward, a failure, a criminal! There was only one way to make sure no arrests would low her “rescue’—and she was too cowardly to take that way. .. No, was another way... . She go k to Stanton, confess everything to the police and to Faith and Bob. “No, not that!” Crystal moaned. fol- ; | fayacit to save someone else.” With sudden resolution, which had something exultant and almost divine about it, Crystal turned loose the lamp, shut her eyes and, without giving herself time again to suffer in anticipation the pain she was about to inflict upon herself—dived from the table, straight toward the log of wood. Her body crashed to the floor. She had not miscalculated. Her head struck the sharp, rough end of a log. As a jagged, lightning streak of pain shot through her head, Crystal had time to realize with infinite grati- tude, that the wound she had inflicted upon herself was above her forehead, where the scar would not show. Then came unconsciousness, rather slowly, on heaving waves of nausea. Crystal never knew how long she lay there on the floor of the shack. } When she regained consciousness and dragged her body, dizzily to a sitting position, she saw that the candle had burned itself out and that only a few red embers were left of the fire in the grate. With infinite labor, because of recurring attacks of nausea, the girl mal to roll and push into the fireplace the log upon which she had jcut her head. Exhausted, she lay beside the hearth, her eyes watching dully as the embers ignited the bark of the log. At last she became aware that her face was wet, that some- thing was trickling steadily down her’ cheek. She raised her hand; her fing- ers came away dripping with blood. And then Crystal laughed, weakly but Proudly. She was not afraid of the sight of blood any more! NEXT: Harry Blane hears Lon Edwards’ story. 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