New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1928, Page 11

SIIIJTH AMERICA IS * INPORTANT CENTER . Worldoultlu—llnfln Pofato Is Native Washington, D. C., -Nov, 30.— Present interest in South Am: heightened by the Good tour which President-Elect Hoover 18 making among the nations to the #outh of the United States. A resums of the remarkable con- tributions South America has made to civilization and the unusual geo- graphical features of that conti- nent are contained in & communica- tion to the National Geographic So- ciety~by Dr. John Oljver La Gorce, its vice-president. “In Peru originated the potato, the world’s greatest single crop; Chile contributes the Guano - ferti- lizer which rejuvenates the soil or many lands; the pampas of Argen- tina bestow meats and wool upon millions outside her borders; Brazil " helped make possible the automobile by teaching the use of rubber — to mention only a few of the important economic services of the continent,” Dr. La Gorce writes. They Buy Our Products “The United States and South American countries have always manifested their friendship by their trade. In a recent year Argentina bought three-eighths of her im- ports from our country; Brazil spent in the United States approximately one-half of her expenditure for im- ports, and Chile gave the United States practicaliy the same propor- tion of her foreign purchases. Col- ombia was an equally good customer in proportion to her total importa- tions, while Peru gave the United States nearly two thirds of her total foreign orders. More than two-thirds of Venezuela's foreign business was done by American houses and, in Ecuador, the proportion was 45 per cent. “In our turn we bought more than half of the exports of Chila, Colom- bia, Peru, and Venezuela, nearly half of those of Brazil, and nearly a third of those of Argentina. “To the geographer these figures tell far more than a profitable busi- ness relationship, they betokem a mautual dependency based on mutual needs. It is a happy geographic fact that our two continents, thrown Into close proximity, need each other and, in so many ways, complement each other. Physical Geography Unique “The physical geography of Soutn America is fascinating. It is . dis- tinguished by the absence of clearly defined watersheds between its great river basins From the Orinoco delta to the Rio de la Plata estuary there is almost a centinuous overlapping of these basins. In southern Ven. ezuela, where that country thrusts a political penimsula into northern Brazil, below the town of Esmerat- da, the waters. of the upper Orinoco suddenly decide to part: company, same of thenj. reaching the Amason and the sea through the Brazo Casl- qylare and the others forcing thelr ‘way to the lower Orinoéo over the rapids of the ‘eroded mountain bar- o G. FOX & CO. l Free Telephone Service from New Britain—Call 3500 ! Now In Progress (Clearaway Sale Apparel l‘glulunmmnm ‘Although the between the Amason and the Rie d Ia Plata basins are not so marked as thoss between the Amason and wing, the direction of the wind, the abundance of local rains the forma- tion of a sand-bar, or the alip of a bit of land, may determine the des- tiny of & drop of water, whether it shall flow past Pars or Buenos ings which, in some instances, are just being revealed. “Alrich assst of our eastern sea- board of North America has been its rugged, indented costs line, whicn affords sheltering harbors from Maine to Florids. South America's coast line is more reguls but she has what now is proving an even greater boon, navigable rivers of enormous length — Nature-made canals which offer ready transporta- tion to regions of some of her rich- est products. “Our Mississippi and its tributar. ies have 17,000 miles of navigable waters, the major portion of them exceedingly shallow. The Amazon and its tributaries have twice many miles, and several times a ‘many miles capable of accommedat- ing ocean-going steamers, which. for example, ascend 2,300 miles to Iquitos, wiile vessels of 14-foot draft can ascend nearly 500 miles beyond that point. “South America takes that for granted; but we of the United States marvel when we realize that it is as though one could travel on a ship of 14-foot draft from New York dr- rect to Salt Lake City by way e, Chicago and Cheyenne. A glance at a may of South America reveals that South America has the finest system of inland waterways in the world. Vast Untapped Resources “The map also reveals the wonder tale of South America’s future — | her future of commercial impor- tance, because she holds so much wealth in natural resources which the world needs. “There are delineated the vast ex- tent of the rubber forests of the Amazon basin; the regions whence | Cor- | Argentina, Paraquay, Uruguay, ombia, and4 Venezuela draw their valuable exports of cattle, hides, mutton, and wool; the nitrate lands of Chile and Peru; the rich coffee, sugar, and cacao plantations of Bra- zil, the Guianas, Venezuela and Col- ombia; the silver, copper, gold, iron, and tin deposits of varjous countries. “The Andes are the Alps of South | America—only on a tremendously { large scale. Everything in South A NEW BRITAIN DAILY NIIERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1928, America seems acaled large, espe- cially in coutrast to dl.lfl Ola World standards. “The continent has twice the area of Europe, yet itsa people number only about two-thirds the combined populations of France and Italy. People have plenty of elbowroom tn & continent of Batural wonders, rich resources, and protn-ho govern- ments. “8o towering nd 80 extensive are the Andes Mountains that if all the highlands were plowed down and all the lowlands filled up, the continent would be a platesu 1,313 feet al sea level, and 820 feet of this would be represented by the material which constitutes the Andes.” FLORIDA INDIANS VIGTIMS OF FATE Are Thus Kept From Land Hold- ings of Wealth Tampa, Fla, Nov. 30 (P—A few score Indians who persistently re- fused to migrate from Florida to the old Indian Territory a century ago have descendants today living in poverty and illiteracy, while cousins grow wealthy from oil found under their holdings in Oklahoma. This quirk of fate was decalled here when the sites of an old fort and a military highway built during the Seminole wars of 1823-456 were marked with tableta recently. The markers were placed and unveiled by the Daughtqrs of the American Revolution, one where Fort Brooke was built in 1823 and the other on the military trail run- ning 100 miles northward to Fort King. After formal territorial govern- ment was established by Americans in Florida the legislative council first was convened at St. Augustine in 1523. About this time efforts were begun to induce the Seminole Indians to migrate to the lower | Misstssippt valley. | This movement was resisted by the redmen and was clouds again began to gather over the much dis- puted territory, held at different times by the Spanish, French, Eng- |lish and Americans. Soldier: ere | sent to garrison the frontier in cen- | tral Florida. Skirmish and battle between whites and Indians followed in rapid succession until a treaty was signed in March, 1837, at Camp Dade, near what is now Dade City. But the end was not yet. 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