Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1932, Page 13

TWO CITIES MAKE IDEA OF AMERICA California-Trained Resident‘ of Buenos Aires Gives Conception of U. S. By the Assoclated Press. | BUENOS AIRES, February 20.—Here is the Argentine credo about the United States as summed up by Margaret Crooke de Lopez, graduate cf the Ur versity of California and resident of Buenos Aires: That all American girls are tall, beau- tiful and without restraint; that tk rule their husbands and their cou but_support thems That in the United States o get a divorce quickly, anywhere any reason | That Americans are conceited, patr otic and intolerant o but are democratic and That the inhabitants talk business and sport. Only Two Cities. | “Many an Argentine,” writes Senora de Lopez in La Nacion, “has a general | idea that the United es _consists of two important cities, Hollywood, with a gr between which is trav bootleggers in armored escaping in ain She attribute: derstanding the best exam only of have touched its lit “Most American_fict Bpanish is decidedly seccr aside from a few cinemat t reviews, there are few translations ir the rich field of American magazines. Lurid Romances First. “Lurid romances have come ahead of | the thoughtful books of Dreiser, Lewis, Sinclair and others, though one should beware of accepting too literally the picture which even these paint of con- temporary America and of mistaking critical literature for ‘the truth about the United States.’ “One sometimes hears that Argentina is being Americanized by the talking pictures, but perhaps Americans are equally the victims of presentation of their men and women as consisting | largely of handsome moron drunkards, criminals and clo WOULD LIMIT BISHOPS African Methodists Consider Plan at Cleveland Convention. By the Associated Press CLEVELAND, May 5—A proposal to limit the number of bishops of the African Methodist Episco C 14 was studied today b the church’s Twenty-ninth Quadrien~ nia! Convention here. The limitation was proposed by the present 14 bishops, but several laymen and ministers expressed doubt of its advisability, fearing approval would limit the church's growth Many subjects were discussed by the bishops in their Episcopal address reading of which required 5! yesterday. They urged that marriage be upheid as a sacred rite, denounced companionate marriage, opposed com: mon-law marriage and said the human race could not remain strong if birth control were allowed. Parachute Jumper Killed. ATLANTA. Ga., May 5 (#).—Bonnie Rowe, 37, a parachute Jum killed here yesterday wh feet from & plane on which he was practicing stunts. | Clearance of $2,000 Worth of Women’s and Misses’ SPORTSWEAR Skirts Blouses Swea Along Washington’s Path Mount Vernon’s Wide Untiring and Scientific Efforts of Nation’s Only Dirt Farmer President. MOUNT VERNON, March 24 (N.A.| N.A).—This was but a plain and mod- | est farmhouse of only eight rooms and | an unfurnished attic when Washington brought to it in 1759 “an agreeable partner for life.” He had yet to enlarge it into the mansion now more familiar than any other home in the land, and to plant the trees and gardens that n & memorial to us of his sense of beauty ur first President rem farmer No oth he ever have ex veying. Yet he the wealtkiest men in the ¢ A "0 be sure, he had to be more than a farm to gvin that success He had to be also a wanufacturer of much that he grew. Moreover, to profit in & mar- ket 3,000 miles away he needed to be as a a business man as there was in the counting rooms of Philadelpbia, w York and Boston. tarting out landless in a world of landed aristocracy, all his days he cov- | ins the only presidential ment did od sur- one of For Loose Powder! ever told! sold for $7.50 to $15! 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By close study of his lean earth and of all the books | he could import from England, he made | farming was a science with agricultural | colleges to teach it. Only by hard work—usually getting This GIANT VANITY is 5 Inches Across! 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Often his patience with the human | clement in slavery was tested and| proved in a patriarchal consideration of | the welfare of “my people.” But he| showed no compunction in shipping off | awey," with the hope that if he was to do the driving and watching, but he “kept clean and trimmed up a little |had to drive and watch them. when offered for sale” he would sell Anticipating the Taylor system of | for enough to bring in exchange “one | Stop-watch efficiency by more than | hogshead of molasses, one ditto of best (& century and a half, he sat down on rum, one barrel of limes, one pot of |8 log one day and timed to a minute tamarinds, two small ditto of mixed | the motions of a crew of slaves in fell- sweetmeats and the residue in good old | ing a tree, cutting off its branches, | spirits.” hewing away its bark and turning it With no reward for special merit, the | into a beam. slaves had to be driven, and with no| He originated also s cost-accounting opportunity to own anything, they had | system, when his flelds, fisherles and to be watched lest they take whatever | his whole village of workshops were quantities of cereals an@ potatoes and flax, 89,000 pounds of tobacco, 815 yards of linen, 365,0f woolen cloth, 144 of linsey and 40 yards of cotton cloth. In one certain ht 50,000 herring | were caught in Mount Vernon's waters. | As England tightened her monopoly on the tobacco trade, he stopped growing any more tobacco than was needed for consumption on the place, but he him- self consumed none of it, and he abominated its smell and taste. No; John Adams' envy blinded him besides large ' when he demanded: “Would Washing- %% A—1 |ton have been commandes in €hief of | the Revolutionary Army €r Presiden | of the United States. it he had n | married the rich widow Custis?" | The indomitable spirit of the yot | militia colonel had caused his neme to ine afar t the Colonies before he ever saw Vi abilities he success of Mour out for precisel play when the curtain should rise on | a greater stage | (copyrisnt. 1932 Newspan by the North American Alliance, Inc.) to the West Indles “a rogue and a run- they wanted. 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