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is SO popular with the Germans that
they have settled there by the hundreds
of thousands. The country has become
known as West Deutschland, and it has
German cities and towns. while regular
steamers from Germany call at the
ports.
You might think that the white man
could not live as far down as the Strait
of Magellan. That strait is a thousand
miles farther south than Cape Town. in
Africa. 1t is away down on the globe.
below Australia and New Zealand, and
nevertheless its climate is so mild that
cattle and sheep can feed out of doors
there all the year round. The great
Island of Terra del Fuego is now de-
voted to sheep. and the whole country
the lands of central Alaska. AS to that
part of South America. I speak from per-
soaaE experience. 1 have been at the
Strait of Magellan in the heart of mid
winter. and have tramped around in the
mud. the weather being SO warm that
there was no frost in the ground. 1 do
not mean to say that this is SO all the
time. but the winters are mild.
Speaking of the sheep at the strait
brings to the investigations l hope to
make as to whether South America can
not cut down the cost of our legs of
mutton and our tenderloin roasts. There
is no doubt that frozen meats can be
shipped from there to our country ana
be served just as fresh as though they
came from the farm. 1 have seen them
loading ships with frozen mutton in New
Zealand for London. The distance between
the two countries is far greater than that
between New York and the South Amerl-
can ports Nevertheless. the meat sells
readily in the markets of Europe. and the
same is true of the beef which goes TO
London from the Argentine pampas
There is no reason why the vast sheep
and cattle ranches OF southern South
America should not aid in the supply OF
our American markets and still less rea-
son why We should not get cattle from
the selvas of Venezuela and Colombia. l
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am told that Bolivia has so many wild
cattle that beeves sell in parts of the
plateau for So or s. a piece and that
some of the cattle are killed for their
hides and the meat thrown away.
Paraguay has fine pasture lands. which
are now sold by the square league and
some of which are being exploited by
American capital, and the same is true of
interior Brazil.
The bread possibilities of South America
are almost equal to those of the meats.
Argentina has potential wheat lands as
great as those of the United States and
Canada combined, and it now exports
thousands of tons of grain every year to
the countries of Europe. Uruguay is
shipping grain. southern Brazil raises
wheat and Chile has vast estanc;as de-
voted to the cereals There is probably
a great future for the highlands of the
Andes as to the harder varieties of such
products, and our Agricultural Depart
ment has sent down experts to investi-
gate what can be done. They are also
going into the meat countries to. report
to the government on the cattle and
sheep and upon other foods which may be
sent to the United States. l expect to
make Investigations along the same lines.
as well as to report upon what they
have found.
Another part of my mission is to de-
scribe how farming is done in the various
countries and to report upon new grains
and fruits which may possibly be used in
our country. The Andes mountains are
the home of the potato and upon the
plateau of Bolivia there are many va
rietieS which are unknown in North
America. Some of these date back to
prehistoric. days The common people
ruled by the Incas We're raising "spuds''
long before Ireland was thought of and
every tuber of the potato variety We eat
has a genealogical tree whose roots are
buried in the heights of the Andes
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than Mount Blanc, and I shall now be
able to cross the Andes by rail In several
other places, and make my way for
some distance down their east slopes.
Americans have recently built a railroad
in Ecuador that will bring me close to
the volcanoes of Cotopaxi and Chin
borazo. and on the highlands of Bolivia
l shall visit Sorata and Illimani, whose
snowy peaks are nearer the sky than
any in North America outside Alaska.
A great part of the Andes is volcanic.
and l shall likely be able to describe
volcano in action.
An interesting part of this journey will
be in the footsteps of the 1ncas. / shall
see their old highway in Ecuador i'll
Quito, and shall travel over it later in
Cuzco near the City of the Sun. That
road was built long before there was a
paved highway in any part OF the North
American continent. and / am told that
parts of it are in good condition today
Just before 1 left Washington, in a chat
with Mr.. Logan Waller Page of the bu-
reau of pubu!ic roads, he asked me to
get him pieces of the road metal and
ship them to him in order that they may
be tested with view to new aseoSeries
as to road material for our United States
highways.
II was at Cuzco that the Incas had
their capital and there they worshlped
the sun in a temple which was roo!ed
with gold plate. 1t was from that region
that Pizarro and the Spaniards got their
ship loads of gold and silver. and 1t is
believed that vast quantities were secret
ed by the Incas and buried in lakes and
other out of the way places. | am told
that there are many traditions as to
where these lost treasures he shaii
report upon these through my lndian
interpreter, and 1 hope to give some IDEA
of the possible localities.
!: !:
l shall also write about the actual live
treasure vaults of the highlands. I shall
go through the mining regions and show
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Der of the famous Taft party .of that
year. Casting about for well equipped
officer to hold down the job at the head
of the bureau during his absence he fell
upon Gen. Mcintyre. then major.
Mcintyre measured up to specifications
In he went as. assistant chief and he has
been in the bureau ever since.
THE duties of the bureau" said Gen.
Mcintyre recently in discussing them.
I'm Its relation TO the affairs of the
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-, eA PAW. me prominence OF mo
-. s III ooth eAPolts ana IN,
a,ar;, .a, 10 r., ''itu
If al ;,,eo, III ~ ,.s,, V per telii
exnorts fa,,nd ~ ,,,oie -, % al
N OH "a" MA net
Al the beginning of the collections
under the convention the Dominican
government issued sonun.oe or hands
oaut of his ,,,i,,, i, h,,,d., ma - -
cant il, cash ,,.a h,,.i,,o ,I,a,, ~ g.
ooo uo in hand fy.,ni COLLECTIONS ,,nd.;.
the modus vivendi Rather less thap
half of tbis se nap ono was maid Ia tb.
Dominican government for its own uses,
anu rather mort lii'ill Itt'A Nei't 70 tile
TO-, .rS;nh 49, .,ieh,rs.I ~ ~.
claimants
OF the $2o.oJo,"" bond issue. thea, IL
iias zen iee'sas' y, $50. iHau' oii'S f"iie
,iiiis NOR uiiah Fl''''''o' ieaNIIs g.
1891 uiii ~, ,,,.,,,, NO..
,;,an ~, t'5r, ;t'.n ne So, az, -,
G 9n,, Gu ~ l1i...,;, .'e sl7.t.ss,
!, IN n,h a,,d onaNhaif ~ ~ ,ot,J 49,
-, aot ai,a s,i +, ns e. 200 an,
for ~ ,,,,rraSa AZ na,,iner in+araSt a.,
,,.a,,;ain int;nr f,,na q. rat;r ~.
baaas "
..,Th., ,,o.ss =, ,.o,1aotio,., h.,.o,,,, ,,.,,,
T bars msntionad is Md to ~. Domini-
can eoyarnment for exnenditure on such
puhlie improvements as may he author
lied bv our own Department of State.
Hence this bureau is concerned with
watching the income and the disburse
ments for the bond account while the
Department of Stale has to watch the
Dominican expenditures.
= =
"uitb o,,r .ross collections of more than
49,, ~ 80 -,
%f'ooo'ooo ias' year 9'' "iii
have explained. that we had ABOUT man
a million dollars to turn into the fiscal
..apcv account for the bonds last wear in
-. &c ~, exoa n.,,m.,t of 500 600 n
eNeess VI ''e ~"
month.
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Philippines is to make purchases in this
country of supplies for the Philippine
government. to supervise the appoint
ment of persons in this country entering
the civil service of that government, to
handle the financial affairs In this eoun
try of that government, to assemble and
publish. statistics of Philippine trade
commerce and immigration, and to pc
the means Of Communication between the
War Departent and the government OF
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EVERYBODY knows
that in the War
Department of the
United States there
is a bureau of In
S u | d r affairs.
Everybody d o e $
not know, how
ever. just " II a t
this bureau is and
what it does.
"Oh. il has some
thing 10 do with
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A Bird's-eye View of
the Southern Half of
Our Hemisphere-The
immensely of the Coun-
tries and Their Magnifi-
cent Distances = Big
Things in South Amer
lea = Travels in the
Highlands of the Andes
and on the Deserts and
the Pampas-How to
Fill Uncle Sans Bread
Basket-The Sheep of
the Strait of Magellan
and the Wild Cattle on
the Highlands of Be-
livla.
copyrighted. 1918. by Frank g. { ,rprnier.'
KINGSTON. Jamaica
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handling the Philippines" says the aver
age citizen.
Right so far: but the bureau is not
confined i'll its activities TO the Philip
pines 1t has other and grave response
}IlirieS aud il is ALI exceedingly active
body.
Furthermore. Il is a handy sort OF an
institution fos dong the new things that
the growth and expansion of the l nited
states have made ii necessary 10 90
,iebt off the bat without waiting for con-
,.ressiof,al enacrments and Supreme Court
f,,arnre+atfons of those enactments-
For example. when. in 1895, your Uncle
sam found il eXpedient to create sol
of a receivership over the customs ie
,eipts of the Dominican Repuoilc, ne Dol :
YoWed the machinery OF the bureau "
,rsrtIar affairs to do the Work. Inc pu-
,eau hv the way. is still acting as re-
teiver. :.i.,
THE sudden expansion of the territorial
limits Vi the United States, following the
SDanJ sh- American war. brought the bu'
,eau of insular affairs into being, tfst as
:. division of the War Department ana
Later as a full bureau Only TWO men IN
lis history have been at its head. Inc
first OF these was Brig. Gen. tlar
edwards. who won distinction in the oil
ice hut who. year ago. was sent pach
20 command troops under the provisions
Of new LEGISLATION. and Brig. Gen FRANK
Mcintyre. the present chief OF the pu-
resu who was Gen. Edwards assistant
for many wears
The selection of Gen. MCINTYRE to sue
c,.d his former chief was natural. 1t is
doubtful if there Is another man IN tht
government who has such a comprehen
siNe and intimate acquaintance with the
affairs of the island possessions of the
United States as Gen. Mcintyre possesses
1t is noticeable that whenever the Philip
pines or Porto Rico step into the lime
light the authoritative voice in this coun
try regarding the particular thing at is
sac Is Gen. Mcintyre.
At present his bureau has three dis
tinct activities--first. il is the interme
diary through which the Secretary o.
War deals with the Philippines, and. also
il is the agent. fiscal and otherwise. o
the Philippine government in the United
States: second. il bears the same rela
tionship 20 Porto Rico. and, third. /
superViSes the collection of customs in tn
Dominican Republic.
II has nothing to do with Alaska. Ha
wall and Guam. also territorial posses
sions of the United States, but separates
geographically from the body of thi
Rico are separated. This is because TIL
United States, unlike Great Britain an
other powers, has never devised a com
prehensive and consolidated system c
administering its extra territorial posses
sions.
that eacl, 0f three of the executive de
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1t would take more than a letter To even
mention the natural wonders of the South
American continent. There is no noun
tain system except the Himalayas which
compares in grandeur with the mighty
Andes, and there is no river which is
equal in volume and in its vast number
of narigable tributaries to the Amazon.
South America has the highest lakes in
the world. Take Titicaca. which lies be-
tween Peru and Bolivia. That lake is two
miles straight up in the air above the
level of the sea, and it is big as Lake
Erie. 1t has snow-capped mountains
about it. and its islands are filed with
the ruins of unknown civilizations. The
falls of the Parana In eastern Brazil are
said to surpass the Niagara in their Won
derful features and the branches of the
Amazon have mighty cascades almost
unknown.
| am sailing tomorrow for the Isthmus
of Panama to the canal as il looks AT
its completion. | saw il first more than
seventeen years ago. Then the French
We're in charge. and they had 5000 ne
sroes at work. | visited it again when
Uncle Sam began to organize his force
under Engineer Wallace. and | have beelt
on the ground from time to time while
the greatest army of laborers the world
has ever known. under Col Goethals has
been plowinS down the mountains and
damming the streams. The great ditch
has now separated the continents, but at
the same time 1t has tied their peoples
and the countries more closely together,
and it will for the future be the great
gateway from one to the other. My next
letter will describe it as ii looks today and
as it will look when the ships go through
FRANK @. CARPENTER.
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HAVE. stopped off
at Kingston. on the
Island of Jamaica,
on my way to South
America. | am nols
in the center of the
Caribbean sea. Two
days later / shall
be at Panama. and
within a month ]
shall be amid the
volc a II oe S and
SHOWS on the top
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Peru or Ecuador were the Caras, another
warlke tribe which had n high ciyiliza-
ton. Today the descendants of these In
dams are mostly in servitude. l shah see
some of them in the plateau of Bolivia.
in the Aymaras who llamas as their
beasts of burden and who raise the al
pacas from which we get the fine wool
of that name In Paraguay shall see
the Guaranis, who have mixed with the
whites and become largely civilized and
who now own farms and ranches, and in
Patagonia | may come into contact with
the Tehuelches. the tallest of the red
men, many of whom are over six feet
and of mighty proportions,
-
In addition TO these there savage
tribes in the Paraguay and Amazon ba-
sins. many Of whom go almost naked ami
some of whom are head hunters. | have
had chances to buy heads cured by these
Indians several times before on my trav-
els. and ] am told that one can get
human head. shrunk to the size of a fist.
in some parts of interior Ecuador for
500
When | travelled over South America
fifteen years ago the biggest town on the
continent was not larger than the Balti-
more of today. Since then many of the
cities have been increasing more rapidly
now there are two cities OF over mil
lion. The largest Latin city of the world
is Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina
and there are few places in the world
which compare with il in richness and
beauty. AT the last census IL was larger
than Philadelphia. and it is now est
mated to contain more than l.Slp.hm. At
its present rate OF growth il will soon
surpass Chicago. and il promises 10 be
one of the most beautiful cities of this
hemisphere. Within the past few years
tens of millions of dollars have been
spent upon city improvements. The con
gested business sections have been cut
through to make wide avenues and mag
nificent public buildings have been erect
ed The city has one newspaper building
which is said to have cost $ooUo.o10. and
it has fine residences and palaces galore
Rio de Janeiro has now more than q
million population, and it has within
very few years spent more than SlOO,NN.-
900 on municipal improvements. 1t has
taken advantage of our health work at
Panama. and has wiped out every vestige
of yellow fever, so that it is now as safe
for the traveller as any town of the world.
Santiago de Chile is growing, and its
famous public park. situated on little
table mountain in the heart of the city.
is one of the wonders of landscape gar
dening. Montevideo is a gem. and there
are other cities which can give points to
lis in modern civic improvements and in
municipal government
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tour of 5000 miles through our great
sister continent. to write series of let
ters for this paper. l expect to visit the
principal countries of South America, go
ing down the west coast from Panama to
Patagonia. travelling for months in the
Andes, investigating the possibilities of
the South American desert and writing
OF all the countries which face the Pa
cific. Later in the year / shall go around
through the Strait of Magellan, or over
the mountains to the great republics
which lie on their eastern slopes. travers-
ing the mighty plains and travelling up
and down the principal rivers.
During this journey l shall describe the
countries as they are today, and the
mighty changes now going in their
civilization and industrial development. I
expect to travel over all the new rail-
roads, to describe the new factories and
mills. to go down into the mines and to
show the wonderful increase and the
enormous possibilities of South American
trade.
The new South America. The words
make my blood Jingle when ! think of its
future. South America is the great I'M
developed world of the nineteenth CEN
fury. II is the treasure vault of the uni
verse and the mighty coming bread
basket of the human race. Argentina
alone could supply enough wheat to feed
all mankind The plateaus of Bolivia
and Brazil added TO Uruguay and the
argentine may in the future be our chief
sources of meats, and the minerals of
the Andes-silver. gold. copper. and TIN
are practically inexhaustible. AS to cult
vable land, South America far surpasses
our own great continent which lies at
the north. North America has the more
square miles. but vast part of it is all
snow and ice. South America is good
all the way through from Caracas In
Venezuela to Punta Arenas on the Strait
of Magellan The distance is 800 miles,
or as far as from San Francisco to
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copyrighted. 1918. by Frank g. Z ,rprnier.'
KINGSTON. Jamaica
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1914-05-20
Kentuckians of Today
He, of the Clan of McCregor

Tn Kentucky, politics l. serious occupation.
not mere distraction. In fact the three in
born qualities OF native kcnuckian are
chlNalry, oratory and politics In the tall OF
1911 there was holly contested campaign on
for state officers, and IT happened that on
number of occasions the nominees OF the two
predominant parties met in the same town and
counties TO I'LL speaking engagements The two
candidates for attorney general were men that
rescmblcd each other very much, and they wore
the same type OF clothes and hats. ON one OF
these occasions in the eastern section of Ken
lucky strapping, big individual, IN typical
farmer mountanccr attire approached one OF
these candidates for attorney general, and said
My name i Williams I'm from Boyd County.
I'm usually on the other side OF the fence. and
a great many OF the boys up our way are for
McGrcgor. but ! am going to Jump IN and see
II ! can't help you out
so you don't like McCrcgor'" qucricd the
candidate What's the matter, personal or pol
tics"
at amt politics as | got a sort OF bending
his way myself It's special reasons. You see
when he was in the attorney generals office
had some folks down in Central Kentucky that
got in trouble with the state and he beat them
Maybe it was because he was a better lawyer
than the one you had" said the candidate
Maybe so. They tell me he, cracking good
lawyer. but I'm agin him"
At this point mutual friend OF the two stepped
up and said. Tom, | am glad to see you and
Williams are evidently getting matters straight
encd out. ! have heard that Williams was against
you"
No" said Williams Il amt again,, Mr. Gar
nett. | am for him"
The candidate turned to his friend and said
Tim. Mr.. Williams evidently thinks he Is talk
my to NJ Garrett. so | want you to introduce
Us. and ! am going to try to show HIM that II
he could make mistake in this way perhaps
he is ais" mistaken about that case
And " illiams went back To Boyd county swear
ing allegiance to McGrcgor
The Blue Grass state has the faculty of turn
ing out big at an early age. Most OF her
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1914-05-20

able men have arrived at
bigncss, both mentally and
physically early in life.
Tom McGregor is no cx-
crption to this general
rule. He has been in pol
tiles ever since he could
spell the word, and he was
an orator before that He
has never held public OF
nee for the simple reason
that he is a Republican,
and unfortunately the few
times that he has been
candidate was not on
those rare occasions when
his party was successful
in Kentucky. lie was born
near Benton. Marshall
County. September IA,
1881. and a consideration
OF this date will convince
one that he has arrived at
his present state OF use
fulness and high trust at
an usually early age. He
bears his ancestral deriv-
alton self-evident in his
name and he is indeed
descended from the cele-
brated Highland Clan
MacGregor." which hg-
ures so prominently in
Scottish history and ro-
nance. Rob Roy Mac
Cregor, being well known
through the writings Of
Sir Walter Scott.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1914-05-20

strongest Republican cam
paign speakers OF Ken
lucky.
In 1905 he was his
party's ON inee for
county attorney of Mar
shall county and in 1907
made the race on the Re-
publican ticket for repre-
sentative in the legisla-
ture from the Sixth dis
trict, reducing a Dem
ocratic majority of more
than twelve hundred to
sixty-two votes. He was
appointed assistant attor-
ney general by Attorney
General James Breathiti
in 1908, and in this official
capacity. conducted in
little over two years. two
hundred and forty-hve
cases for the state before
the court OF appeals, with
gratifying result. He be-
came nominee OF the Re-
publican party for Attor-
ney General at its state
convention in Louisville
in July. 1911. Being an
advocate of good roads,
better schools and better
conditions for the farmers,
from which class he
sprang, Mr.. McGregor, as
assistant attorney, had
charge of the department
of schools and agriculture
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