The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1929, Page 10

tt u tl st a oO el fi hi ni a tg at er ras cc sit an m ta «2 Latin America’ Editor’s Note: Another of the interesting articles on_ South America, by Rodney Dutcher, ‘Washington correspondent for The Tribune and NEA service, is given here. Dutcher was one of the Hoover rey . BY RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘Washington, Feb. 5.—It is almost impossible for anyone to remember anything about Rio de Janeiro ex- sept the beauty of its harbor and its waterfront. Travelers, once away, rave about it for the rest of their ‘ives. Perhaps that is as much on ac- count of the courteous charm of her people, men and women, as because of her scenic grandeur. ‘The really astonishing thing about Rio is that there is so little tourist traffic from the United States. The barrier, of course, is distance. A map of the hemisphere is required to demonstrate the length of the cruise necessitated by the fact that the tip of Brazil juts out so near to Africa. The Munson Line affords excellent steamship service to Rio, but it’s only @ sea trip for anyone who has but a month’s vacation. eee Forty years ago the big city was a pest hole. Its name was almost synonymous with yellow fever. Al- though the Rockefeller Foundation has for years carried on an extensive health and sanitation program else- ‘where in the country, physicians and engineers of Brazil cleaned up Rio. They demolished whole blocks of slumg, put in a modern sewer system, built’ virtually a new port and ex- panded the street system and even- tually cut the death rate 50 per cent. In the last 30 years, Rio has quad- rupled her population. At some stage in the regeneration “of Rio the government laid a re- markable series of mosaic sidewalks, on and running off the Avenida Rio Branco. The extensive black and suggested in any American city, but they are certainly impressive to every visitor. British residents of Rio consider- ably outnumber American inhabli- tants, just as British investments in Brazil are still much larger than ours. In both cases, however, the ratio is changing. Rio is especially hospitable to its American colony and this is one of the two South Ameri- can capitals where the United States has a naval mission. The other is Lima. eee Brazil unquestionably wastes more ciphers than any other ten countries combined. This is the fault of the coin known as the milreis. Eight milreis are worth about a dollar, but every milreis is composed of 1000 reis. You have to have 400 reis be- fore you have a nickel. This causes no great embarrassment, but in ad- vertisements and price tags a mat- ter of $12.50, let's say, becomes 100,- 000, all of which is at first rather confusing to Americans on their first shopping tour in Rio. There are Jim Crow street cars here, but as Brazil legally draws no color line they are merely first and second-class conveyances, priced ac- cordingly. First-class passengers must wear coats and neckties. Pajama coats are legally recognized as coats and sometimes an aspiring native will get into a first-class car instead of second-class by tying a shoe string around his neck. The street cars are all known as “bondys,” the name arising from the bond issue which created the lines years ago. Nine American motion picture companies are represented in Rio, as against only three branch offices for European film concerns. Some hotels along the Rio water- front, notably the Copacabana Palace and the Gloria, are as fine as any others on the North or South Amer- ican continent. The famous “Sugar Loaf at the b 7m white patterns, resembling great | eautiful entrance to the harbor of R au fleurs de lis, could never have been|io de Janeiro, is pictured above. is af eerannacn- numb useless feet—to the cot, man- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE exglucive set }] ive we St will receive one 4 Freckles and His Friends you SAw PRecKLEs BZ YESTERDAY? Z F& TROUGKT HE WAS. WO SICK FOR ANYBODY 70 SEE HIM! MOM’N POP THE GUMPS—O HAPPY DAY . WELL! How Is WE? GEE WE MUST TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES Cyd HOVER in TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1929 / WELL THESE FANCY WEDDINGS CotT= Bur A PARENT'S FIRGT OUTY iS To MIS FAMILY = BUILD THE BEST NEtT YOu CAN — PROVIDE WELL FOR THEM — SEE THAT TH! BROUGNT UP PROPERLY <= AND WHEN. THEY'RE REACY TO FLY— OFF THEY GO AS L WAS GOING WHAT'S THE MATTER. WITH YOU +++ HE'S - BETTER! YOUNG BROOD !3 5 After she had deliberately wounded "MoM, Vou MUST GET ‘gas sberet 3 herself Tuesday evening in an insane | aged somehow to hoist her aching | SOME SLEEP. YOU CAN'T) TOSSING AND MUMBLING. I bars 1S SUPPING tats Cee vO nem effort to riba ae ees ~rou py. high enough to reach it, then | STAY UP ALL NIGHT. _/JUST FEEL THAT SHE'S KNO PANICKY THE, MOTHER-INSTINCT 3 (oh gerard charge of kidnap- Cpe V'S QESTIN ¢ ome, Onyéal had no clear recollec-| Somehow, with heaven only knew ae oane He CALC CCR Ble etd GET WHEN / ‘TO.OROTECT HER u iow she spent the 1 hours | what agony of effort, for Crystal her- : FORGIVE MYSELF IF ANY THI EIR KIDS ARE. SICK YOUNG WHEN THEY of the night. Although she had not |self could not remember, the girl : COULD HinDeN eecme TT : ARE IN GRAVE DANGER eaten sincs her breakfast of corn- | dragged herself sometime during that NEGLECTED THE LITTLE, TOT, OF ANY KIND 1S ABOUT CALL ME. TLL COME AT meal mush, coffee and jelly, she felt | age-long Wednesday to the kitchen. B 100% RIGHT A MOMENT'S. NOTICE. for food. Twice during it seemed an eternity of dark- he girl regained consciousness, herself lying on “he hearth @ fireless grate. After the awakening, she forced her limbs to drag her halfway room toward the cot on e had slept the night before, she fainted her head st the leg of the table, wound, which had stop- fe re-opened. period of consciousness the dizzy, feverish brain 1 that-the horrible: night Because the windows. were up daylight was always twi- eR: light in the shack, but she had the bu feeling that the morning was far ad- veneod. With infinitely painful effort, Crys:al pulled herself to a sitting pos- ition, using the leg of the table for support. Minutes later the waves of | effort was too much for her, and had receded sufficiently for | Crystal sank back upon the bare .| mattress, lost in unconsciousness When she awakened to a brief period of consciousness during the after- noon she found the water bucket be- side her cot, and drank greedily, making sounds like an animal. Lying back, weak but refreshed. Crystal raised a hand to her head again and found to her amazement that she had somehow managed to bandage her wound. Her fingers touched thick folds of jersey silk. She had used one of her dainty undergarments she had brought away with her in the suitcase. Raising “-~self on an elbow, Crys- tal looked with fever-blurred eyes about the room. Maybe someone had come to help her! But the room was empty, silent and very cold. The cold felt good to Crystal's burning cheeks, Her suitcase yawned wide in the middle of the room, her garments scattered in amazing confusion. 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