Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1929, Page 11

FEW U. 5. VESSELS IN SOUTHERN TRADE Hoover Finds Most of South America Traffic Borne in European Holds. BY REX COLLIER. Btaft Correspondent of The Star on the Hoover South American Good Will Trip. President-elect Hoover must have sighed with disappointment on noting the scarcity of merchant ships flying the flag of his own country in the busy | harbors of South America. There were British and French and German vessels of all sizes and descrip- tions, but few indeed were the ships that were American owned. These few were glimpsed almost exclusively on the west coast of the southern continent, and were owned mostly by one line. In other words, most of South Amer- ¥ &rports and exports are borne on wessc's flying European flags—a condi-~ e that augurs not so well for our own merchant marine and, withal, for our sea rade to the south. European ships have a decided monopoly on the passenger trafic to and from the east coast ports of Souti America. They are handsome shins— commodious and luxuriously appointed for the comfort of their passengers. ‘Their service across the Atlantic and to the United States is fast and de- pendable. The competition they afford American-owned vessels is of a type hard to approximate, much less eclipse. Small Tourist Trade. Moreover, the amount of tourist travel supporting the various lines is so limited that competition becomes irom profitable, from a passenger-car- rying standpoint. The tourist ships in the South American service probably carry less than 75,000 or 100,000 pas- sengers yearly, so that the tourist trade cannot be compared with the trans- Atlantic service between North America and Europe. Consequently the induce- ments for American liners to enter the South American service are not what one could term encouraging. On the west coast, however, a dif- ferent situation obtains. The Pacific side presents marked trade potentiali- ties for consideration by ~American shipping interests. Down that coast are vast supplies of raw materials needed by American manufacturers and farmers. ~Chile has her seemingly in- exhaustible deposits of natural nitrates ready to revitalize America’s farming acreages, and she has copper, iron and lumber available: for shipment ‘north- ward. Central America has her bananas and coffee and lumber. All the other western lands have valuable raw products ready for export. Latin America; furthermore, is call- ing out louder and louder for American- made factory products. She is eager to ‘ exchange her raw products for auto- mobiles and ‘safély razors and farm machinery and shoes and other manu- factures. She is learning to prefer articles made in the U. S. A. to those made in Europe, for she has found s them to be cheaper, as a rule, and usually better in quality. Perhaps that + is why 98 per cent of all automobiles in South America bear the familiar \name plates of leading American car jmanufacturers. Henry Ford and Gen- eral Motors, of course, lead the field. European Houses. With the exception of the automobile fleld and several other classes of more important manufactures, the American goods are distributed by Bflth}; store- Te are a lerance of them down therhwo\?]r;p;nmr sell English goods than American any old tln.;gfiennd they can’t be blamed for that. remedy plain. American manufacturers should follow their prod- uctsul;.h{,mh 1o the cultolluer fllglldthzy! are & progressive or their mmum‘z:m in South America. There is an acute need for American ‘wholesale houses there, and for Ameri- can distributing methods and sales “engineering.” ~ American wholesalers could exert great influence in stimu- goods would naturally ensue a demand for American ships in which to carry them. Incidentally, Mr. Hoover found that one of the drastic foreign trade ideas he introduced while serving as Sec- retary of Commerce is working out to perfection in South America. ‘There | for our merchant marine, growing out THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1929. Chicagoan to Seek Re-Election After 37 Years in Office By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 15.—John J. (Bathhouse) Coughlin, finish- ing his thirty-seventh year as an alderman, announced his candi- dacy for re-election yesterday. “Just & formality,” he sald. “My ward (the first) has taken it for granted I would go on serving. Early in life I dedicated myself to the people and, though my hair has turned gray in pub- lic service, I shall continue to be at their call.” “Bathhouse John” is one of the best known and most picturesque figures of Chicago political life. He is 66 years old. held to the contention that “adapta- tion” would solve the problem. Advocates Education. Secretary Hoover not only agreed with the manufacturers on this point, but reversed the department’s con- tentions and advocated instead an in- tensive movement to edueate South America to the advantages of stand- ardized manufactured goods. That this educational drive has proved its worth is best attested to by the fact that America’s South American trade, featuring almost exclusively articles of mass production, expanded 60 per cent in the last decade. ‘The campaign of education in South America is being carried on by busi- ness men of the United States repre- senting not only the manufacturers but banking, shipping and other interests concerned in the expansion of our foreign trade. American chambers of Commerce are are active in most of the principad ports and capitals. America’s President-elect foresees a brightening horizon in South America of these activities in furtherance of American-made products. It is a ques- tion with South America of “Yes, we have bananas, and you have automo- biles and machinery—let’s swap!” By popularizing this swapping practice America is building up a profitable trade that will support ‘an enlargea fleet of merchant ships plying in wa- ters between here and Central and South America. e BOY FARMER’S RECORD. Clears $1,091 in. Single Year on Small Acreage. CONWAY, Ark. (P —Carldon Pat-; U} DEPOSED AFGHAN RULERS HOMELESS Amanullah and Souriya, Unsafe in Own Country, Likely to Seek Refuge in Europe. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, January 15.— Amanullah and Souriya, fallen rulers of Afghanis- R ARttt AR R LR R R R R Rt tR AR th ththththththth i ton of Wooster, who holds the “best ;J T} boy farmer” title in Faulkner County, has $1,091.96 to show that farming, as he does it, will pay. Some of Patton’s yields included 1,206 pounds of lint cotton on three acres, four tons of oats and five tons of les- pedeza hay on acres and 104 bushels of corn on three acres. 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