The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-15
FRANK c. CARPENTER
TO SOUTH AMERICA
Notable Series Of Articles
Will Appear in Age-Her-
aid During the Year

The Age-Herald Is glad to announce
series of letters on South America
to be written during 1914 by Frank G.
Carpenter.
Mr.. Carpenter started on his trip
| from New York some weeks ago, and
he is now on the South American con-
| tinent. where he will be travelling for
some months to come.
His first Investigations will be on
the Isthmus of Panama, where he Will
describe the Completed Canal, or How
Our Great Ditch Looks As the Ships
Go Through"
From Panama Mr.. Carpenter viii
make his way down the west coast
of the continent, going inland from
port to port and climbing in many
places upon those cold highlands, ira i.
versing the Andean system through
out its whole length, and describing
the strange features of life and In
dustry there. He will also go over the
| South American desert, which runs for
more than 1000 miles along the west
coast and will give us some letters
about the Strait of Magellan and the
wilds of Patagonia.
| In eastern South America Mr..
Carpenter Will take up the new de-
velopments now going on in Argen-
/ tina, and Uruguay, and the strange
| features of life and work in the coffee
| lands and rubber lands of Brazil. He
VIII make more explorations in Para
| quay and the Parana Valley, and Will
go into the Gran Chaco. between tho
| Paraguay river and Bolivia, ending his
/ travels In some of the countries of
northern South America along the Car
| ibean sea.
! This tour will be more than one of
mere travel and description. 1t will
| consist of investigatinos along the
line of news, and regarding movements
and measures which affect the busi-
| ness and cost of living of every United
States citizen
The opening of the Panama Canal
has landed South America right at
the beginning of Uncle Sans front
door yard. 1t has made 1t the 'front.' er
of the United States, the Ell Dorado
| of the young American, and one O
| the chief fields for the Investment
American capital. 1t is also to be {.
great field for American trade. It's
| exports already amount to upwards
of a thousand million dollars a year,
and its 50000,000 people have wants
that our factories and other indus
| tries can supply.
| ment of Commerce. has asked Congress
to give him 100000 to send expedi-
| tions to South America. to look inro
| these trade possibilities. This fund
is not large but The Birmingham Age
Herald will add to it by the investi-
| cations of Mr.. Carpenter, witch
through his trained powers of obser-
vation cannot but be of enormous value
| to every business man.
Another field of inVestlgat' on which
| win be taken up during this tour will
be the possibilities of the various
South American countries in the redue.
| tion of the high prices of food stuff:
in the United States markets. Argen-
tina and Uruguay are now shippir
frozen beef and mutton to the great eli
les of Europe, and London lives largely
on frozen meat from Australia an,
New Zealand. Hundreds of thousand
of, American dollars are being investe,
in the meat industries of South Ameri
ca and 1t is said that the bread pos
sibilities may be equally great. Argen
tina alone has wheat lands big enough
to feed the world.
Mr.. Carpenter also thinks that ther,
should be a reduction in the price o
the coffee we drink, as well as o
other staple articles. which come from