The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-08-08
srhe New WorId Of the South Temper:
ate Zone.

the snarrows strip of Chill. which eN-
tends between the Andes and the Pa
acific to the south OF the tropic of Cap
sricorn, the Argentine Republic is now
the only republic Of the temperate
zone OF the southern hemisphere.
IN the map OF Missouri, which is
opSsof the features of the book illus
rating the greatness of Missouri in
Its Worlds Fair year, there is marked
4off the regions of the State which
once belonged to the Arctic and "ere
then covered with ice. If the north
pole has shifted since that tine, rs
come suppose, it did SO in way
which, made q very unfair division be-
cen north and south. The greater
part OF the continental woriti was
sthrown north of the equator, viii, t,ie
greater part Of the land moss 'lesir-
able for living on and working Oh,
north Of cur own Tropic of Cancer, so
that the United States exists at pres
ent by courtesy of that arrangement
and the Worlds Fair also, as we GER
; tainly would not be holding Worlds
Fair if the greater part Of. Missouri
were still covered with It's; ancient
ice.
In that shift,%or some other, The 1sart
BSof South America now occupied by
the Argentine Republic was thrown
South of the Tropic of Cancer, with
the comparative small part of the
southern extremity OF Africa once
held 1T by the Boer republics. AS
this is practically all the continental
land of the south temperate zone, and
81 Ito,
lis in the temperate zone OF the south,
+ the Argentine delegation is now sup
porting practically the whole weight
iapf Republican Institutions in the
/ world south Of the Tropic of Capri
corn. Unless the pole shifts again and
brings more land from the bottom of
the sea, they are likely to remain at
least territorially secure in their pres
cent position as the only American re-
Spublic which lies as fully out of the
tropics on the south as the United
{ States does on the north
The civilization they bring with
hem belongs to the linotype machine
stograph the interior of daily news
paper in Buenos Ayres, and show the
photographs with the rest of their eX-
hibits at the Worlds Fair, it is as
modern'' as the interior of a daily
newspaper Office in ST. Louis OF Chi
cage or New York, and more mod
s.ern than the best which would show
IN photographs OF the same kind
taken in Rome or Madrid.
The results they show for cduca-
4tion in4public schools, normal schools
and colleges are more El.dern than
those of Europe, with only two GER
tain and three possible exceptions
s among European countries. The
breadstuffs they are seadirg to I:u-
rope every year show thai they know
50 the meaning Of modern agriculture.
and IN everything which belongs to
steam and electricity they are ait
4 tempting now not merely to follow
he foremost, but to lead.
IN the Massachusetts building there
SIS a spirited picture OF the beginnings
81 of all this. It shows the firing of the
shot heard around the world at Lex
ington. This in the eighteenth cen,
turyS made Argentina a country OF
S American institutions in the nine
teenth, and American institutions in
81 the. nineteenth made it what it is at
IS the beginning OF the twentieth, with
an active people, full Of energy fol-
M the present and confidence in the
future.
sss:gs In the Agricultural building anc
3 elsewhere there is much to suggest
81 how great the changes may be before
IS. the twentieth century grows old. The
exhibits made in Germany. England
I'M and other countries for Africa belong
Ito an4Africa which already has raj:
2s roads, steam oats and telegraph lines
81. with routes on the map extendin.
81 from Cape Town to Cairo for the rail
2 roads of the future. Buenos Ayre$
s3s IN the Southern hemisphere is clos 81
ito Cape&Town than New York is tc
Sss London. It's relations to ll:a Australia
of the future in the Pacific are scarce
if at all, less favored by the stu
Ss q ton than those of California 10 ia
pan: When it has increased, it mus
Et ins$the natural order of things. from
ls I, 900, 000Eto more than 10000. 900 neo