The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-30
BELIEVES OUR DESTINY CALLS
 NATION SOUTHWARK
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1 for coming events. The scramble over the raw products of these countries will become more and more acute.
 "Of course those with misconceived notions of Pan-Americanism would howl over such expressed purposes, as ruinous to our ncreas sing trade relations and in
 fluences in South America, and our com
 mercial rivals. especially the Germans,
 would seize the opportunity to fan with
 greater vigor than formerly the flames
 of distrust, hatred and jealousy of us
 throughout Latin-America, but the grave
 difficulties we would likely avoid with
 the great powers later on through con-
 tnual disregard of our duty to Mexico
 and Central America, the incalculable
 benefits that would accrue to us as a
 nation and the manifold blessings we
 would bring to the desperately poor and
 wretched people, in whose welfare we
 should feel the greatest concern, would
 far outweigh any temporary enect sucn
 actions would have on the growth of our
 trade relations with South America.
 Thoughtful people of the decent govern
 ments of South America know full well
 that we have no designs on this territory
 and can be relied upon to aid and de-
 fend them in their separate sovereignties
 and progress in good government That
 every honest foreigner living In Mexico
 and Central America or having interests
 there would welcome decent and stable
 governments in those turbulent countries backed by the strong arm Of Uncle sam requires no argument"
 TRAVELS IN REMOTE PARTS MT. Dangaix talks interestingly of his | long voyage through the countries of | Latin-America in which he visited re- mote sections and scenes rarely under | taken by other globe trotters. such as | the Iguazu Falls which greatly surpass | Niagara in width and height; the wilds | of Paraguay, the entire coast of Pata- gona, the Strait of Magellan CS000 miles | south of us). the frozen water of. South ern Chile, the great nitrate fields and | copper mines of Chile, the silver and tin mines of Bolivia, across Lake Titicaca, | the largest lake in South America, and 1 the highest navigable lake in the world l Q2 800 feet; visit to Cuzco, the old | Inca capital, and the pre-Inca ruins in | Bolivia and Peru; across the dizzy heights of the Andes several times, and | up to great glaciers; extensive travels in | Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela and 1 countries.
 | He gathered a mass of data and in- ! formation on the various countries and l brought back many photographs and post cards Illustrating types of natives and interesting scenes, including the ruins of | Antigua, the former capital of Guate- | mala (when comprising all of Central America), and which when totally de- stroyed by earthquake in 173, was the l Rome and Athens of the new world, and l in size, riches and importance was only exceeded in the western hemisphere by | the City of Mexico.
 His photographs of the 13 obelisks and | other monoliths of Ouirigua. which are | thought to date from the fifth and sixth | centuries, the oldest and most interest l ing prehistoric ruins in Central America, are especially valuable. He said: These
 curious ruins lay hidden for centuries | in an impenetrable tropical jungle and were brought to light by John L. Stevens an American traveller. in 1S3O In 1916 the School of American Archaeology ap- pointed to explore them. excavated the 1 stone walls of temple 29x105 feet, and there are doubtless much more of inter- est in adjoining mounds yet unexplored. | Quirigua, abandoned in the sixth century, was likely one of the centers of the Maya civilization which flourished in Guate- mala. southern Mexico and northern Honduras during the first 15 centuries of the Christian era."