Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1930, Page 50

D. C, AUGUST 3. 1930—PART THREE PLANE OVER BRAZL SHOWS 00D SIGHTS Flight Reveals Many Hidden| and Picturesque Features of | ‘World’s Longest Orchard.’ ‘ *“Almost clipping the nuts off coconut frees with our wing tip, wé circled low | over this undulating pata belt, which | stretches hundreds of miles down the | Brazilian coast, to let gur cameramen | record its odd sights.” Writes Frederick Simpich, National phic - Soclety | ff correspondent with the seaplane | y surveying air routes between ' ‘ashington and Buenos Aires. “Thatched-hut dwellers in this *world's longest orchard,’ broken only now and then by barren spots, towns or | river mouths, seem to live largely on coconuts and fish. | “Sliding swiftly ashore in. the surf, their day's fishing done, is & flest of | ‘jangadas,’ or the queer safllng rafts of spliced logs seen here by the hundreds. | ‘The first I saw, miles from shore, wi its ‘deck’ awash and two men standing | ankledeep in water on it, gave me quite | tart; I thought the men adrift from | hipwreck ! | “At low tide the hard, sandy- beachs | makes the local highway between vil- lages. A thin traffic stream trickles | over it. We see many ox teams, six and eight yokes to a team, hauling the big | country carts, their clumsy wheels one solid piece of wood. One day, ashore, I heard the hideous scream of such a | cart, as its dry axle squeaked under its | heavy load. ‘Why don't you grease it?" | I asked. “The oxen like the racket. They pull better when the cart squeaks.’ Many Hidden Sights. “As auto_tourists roam the States, | getting gas her: and there, and lodging | where night falls, so we are touring by seaplane. Across the West Indian Is- land Bridge, around the Orinoco Delta, | into Amazonia, poking Into odd nooks and coastal crannies and roaming free- | ly over shallow waters behind the reefs, | we visit many strange spots. Landing at little towns, fiying up occasional rivers where no planes are seen, or visiting big plantations, we get | a fresh, intimate close-up of country | life in parts of Brazil where Americans are seldom seen. Stevens and Gayer made air pictures of the great water- falls of Paulo Affonso, which occur in the 1950-mile-long San Prancisco River at a point about 120 miles up- stream from its mouth. No plane ever flew there before. Here an estimated horsepower of 1,200,000 makes a great | roar. The gorges and canyons, through | which the great river drops 250 or 275 | feet in a series of falls, are comparable in grandeur and vivid rock coloration | to sections of the Grand Canyon of th: | Colorado. No landings anywhere; no | Pplace for a motor to ‘konk’! “Life on Brazilian sugar estates re- calls_ante-bellum tales of our own old | South. The owners, usually with French | culture, live an easy, baronial existence. | Servants fairly swarm; cooks, nurses and housemaids must go barefoot, for | silence. Grooms, gardeners, chauffeurs. wood cutters, a body to sweep the yard— every one to" his allotted task—form a | social unit on each plantation. Men | and women in the cane fields at sun- | rise; the tonic smell of fresh-plowed | earth; white-clad overseers on sweating, | fretting ponies, one excited group about & new Yankee tractor. Though in Brazil most farm work is still done with hand tools, the day of the machine is come. From little towns like Maceio new roads split the jungles—as yet mud or dust roads—but & beginning. In the last two years, on these new roads the Yankee-built motor bus has appeared. Out on one such new road, at Leao Utinga, I met & young American from Louisiana, the only one in that region. He was installing more new machines | in what is already one of the world’s model sugar mills. “But the old persists. As when| slaves built Babel, or moved giant| stones into pyramids, T saw 26 men u HOOVER FURTHERS COMMISSION PLA ppointment of New Group Seen as Approval of That Method of Action. | : President Hoover’s announcement of | the appointment of a commission to | study home building and home owner- | ship s generally accepted as meaning | | that he is thoroughly convinced the | commission form of approach to pub- ! lic problems is an effiective one and | { that he is not going to be dissuaded | | by the criticisms_directed against him | MISS RUTH FOSTER, | Daughter of Representative and Mrs. I. M. Foster of Ohio, who will be married | tomorrow to Mr. John Marshall Littlepage. —Underwood Photo. chattering later generation hastens to the town's tawdry movie house. On top this tiny place of amusement is yet another Yankee device—a fire engine’s siren. When the picture is about to be run, the siren screams a warning. Then all the people from the coconut groves come running.” GLASS EYE OF SHERIFF BRINGS PEACE TO JAIL! cross poles to carry a log se huge we in the States could have lifted it only with cranes. And railway track work- ers, not running their little car as our ‘section hands' run a ‘hand ear’ by| pumping, but poling it along with poles as men push boats in shallow water. | “The small farmer struggles against | the myriad ants and other insects that | may devour his garden in a few nights, or against land crabs that dig it up by the roots. But his revenge on the crabs is to trap them, fatten them like chickens, and eat them. His daughters may work. as housemaids, or laun- dresses, at about $1.50 a_month. But | over the hill is a fiying field, and the | prisoners of the Seneca County, Ohio, big hangars of a French air mail com- | jail have taken to muttering among COLUMBUS, Ohlo (N.AN.A).—The | | found that other Presidents had ap- | were not being co-ordinated and whicl | Commerce and which is still continuing | economic questions without regard to | also been at work. In all it has been pany, with upper-class Brazilians go- ing and coming in imported motor cars. Back in the village, in the wet season, | themselves, but neighbors for a good | distance around are agreed that this is [a vast improvement over what had been unpaved streets are so muddy that|pefore. The cause of it all Is a glass motor cars run on the sidewalks, toot- | eye, owned but not worn by Sheriff | ing imperiously at pedestrians who me- | George Burkett. f | chanically step sside Into the mud. |~ while Burkett was watching the “A man on a belled mule peddles|prisoners would behave, but once he coconut milk, Women wear mourning | turned his back on them they made bands on thelr arms, enc carry from | whoopee in a manner that kept the market the jerked beek, black beans | law-abiding citizens awake. So Burkett and mandioca (cassaba) meal which | drilled a long line of small holes com- makes ‘feijoada,’ the national dish. In | pletaly across an outer wall of the jail. open flelds boys kill sluggish doves with | In one of these holes he placed the sticks, for food. Driven here from the | glass eye. Immediately the prisoners north by dry weather, the birds arrive | saw the eve and kept the peace. exhausted, and are easy prey. ‘Arriba| In order to keep up a semblance of coes’ the boys call them, literally reality, Burkett moves the eye from ‘fiyers from distress.’ time to time and the prisoners. though Movies Use Siren. 32‘.1.'5?3;5“ nothing but mumble to “Here ‘is a store that sells small| ;. 00t 1950, by North American News- images of the saints. Before a shelf | paper Alliance.) of painted figures an old woman stands, ' fumbling in the folds of her long black skirt for he coins. Outside, . The Yungas Raflway of Bolivia fs erecting steel telegraph poles. Less Than_ Usual *125 | Hoover has been working on the prob- for appointing numerous boards. Mr. Hcover looked up the record and pointed even more commissions than he has. As a matter of fact, the true purpose of these commissions is to bring about a co-operation between Government agencies and business organizations and associations which is not ordinarily possible in the routine of governmental operations. By ap- pointing commissions, Mr. Hoover is| able to get outstanding men and women to give their time to the study of cur- rent problems. Also he finds it a con- venient way to focus attention on ques- tions which are vital to the economic and social welfare of the country, but which do not always lie within the field of legislative enactment or gov- ernmental regulations. Started When Secretary. Hoover started when he was Secretary of Commerce the plan of | co-operation between governmental bodies and various organizations whlc:, could not be brought together except | by Government initiative. He learned | of the effectiveness of this plan during the war and while not all the commis- sions and boards appointed while Mr. Hoover was Secretary of Commerce achieved what they set out to do, never- theless notable progress was made by most of them. ‘The President’s difficulty has been in getting money appropriated for the ad- ministrative side of these commissions and he has felt that much time would be lost if the consent of Congress had to be obtained for every commission appointed. Also Congress has a way of narrowing the field of study to conform to political ideas. Mr. Hoover's conference on child wel- fare might not be going yet if he waited for congressional approval or appropri- ations. Most of those who serve on the commissions which Mr. Hoover appoints feel a freedom from political restraint. Studies Economy Questions. Thus the committee on recent economic changes which Mr. Hoover presided over when he was Secretary of Mr, its studies now delves deeply into political problems. A committee on soclal changes has estimated that Mr. Hoover has raised approximately two million dcllars for the financing of these various commis- sions and boards. The latest announcement with re- spect to the home building commission | is not any sudden determination. Mr. lem for many years and the Depart- meént of Commerce has been endeavor- ing to work out a plan for a commis- sion to study hcme building. The most | acute phase of it, namely, the first and second mortgage difficulties of the home builder and home owner, has never been satisfactorily handled and now that a business depression has affected the lending habits of the country and its investment tendencies the President feels that survey of real estate finance is "essential to the future not only of the construction industry, but of the problems of city and suburban life, (Copyright. 1930.) Panama may have casino, & $1,000,000 | Fur Prices 0 Beautiful Coats made of the following pelts— Muskrat, Pony, Caracul, *Gallant, Squirrel, *Mar- mink, *Sealine and American Opossum. Rich skins that lend themselves in lovely fashion to the new maode, *Dyed Coney. Others $75 to $145 Every New Style of the 1930 FUR MODE Convenient Budget Payments Every phase of the Silhouettes, flares New c princess style. Paquin collar. Fitch. 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" photographer of the expe- HONGKONG.—In a tiny, shallow | Stevenson, who is directing the trip, Chinese junk four young English- | hopes to collect some scientific data in men have sailed from this port on n South Sea Islands and in out-of-the- globe-circling voyage which they esti-| Way places on the Australian coast. mate will keep them busy for two years.| The ship’s bows have been painted The junk is called Maskee, which | bright red with a great black eye on translates int oEnglish as “All Aight” |each side. She is 42 feet over all, with or “good.” | beam of 11 feet and a depth of 6 feet. The adventurers are L. J. Stevenson, Her two masts carry brown matting a fellow of the Royal Geographical sails with a spread of 900 square feet. Society and a veteran seaman; Stanley | Hard Luck at Start, C. Banks, a_clerk in an electrical sup- | ply shop: John C. Grenham, former| Some hard luck attended 'the start secretary of the Hongkong Y. M. C. 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