The Washington herald., 1916-07-03
SEEN AND HEARD
BY GEORGE MINER


now IN the process of being organized to put
grain elevators in the Argentine. 1t seems
strange, but 1t is nevertheless true that with the
enormous development of grain production in the
Argentine there have been no. elevators put up
| to amount to anything
Mr.. William Ward has been up in New York
for the last few weeks helping along the propo-
siton. He sailed for Buer1os Ayres last Satur-
day hugely pleased with the way things are
going. 1t seems that the French and English
capitalists down there naturally wanted this ele-
vator need to be supplied by their own country
men and there has been quite little intriguing
| as to what country would get the contract. The
United States is, of course the logical place to
have them built as we have reached the last word
and the highest development in grain handling
devices Mr.. Ward is now confident that this
fat contract will be landed here
This $25,oooooo that the Argentine govern
| ment is ready to spend for elevators is only
the beginning of what will have to be spent
before the project is carried to completion" said
Mr.. Ward when he was explaining the deal to
me few hours before he sailed. Thousands
! OF cars to carry the grain in bulk instead Of
bags will have to be built Then there will be
big insurance operations and banking organiza-
tons to advance money to the farmers on their
~'NPS' - VIII "OIk INTO dn enormous money
manipulation before it's we'll under way"
Mr.. Ward says that the Argentine is fairly
reeking with prosperity and that the banks are
loaded down with gold. Also that their gold re-
serve for paper money redemption is greater than
that of any European country.
Any American, he declares, with only fair
stock OF common sense and about the same
amount OF money 60 down there now and
begin at once to accumulate comfortable for.
tune. They like Americans and are more than
willing to play, but they want us to play fair
They have had enough of the other kind.
Col Roosevelt had the X-ray put on his ribs,
during his recent indisposition to see how that
broken rib was behaving. The result was salts
factory informative. Just think how much more
satisfactory and informative it would have been
had COL Roosevelt allowed the X-ray to be di-
rected on his brain during the week of the Chi
cago convention. A lot of people were very
anxious to know just then how that was working.
Speaking of photographs, X-ray or any other
knd-although photo of Col. Roosevelt's brain
should perhaps be referred to as a work of art
brings to mind what Oscar APPEL told me today.
Mr.. APPEL is a motion picture director With
that name of course he would be- He is now
putting on film for William Fox in which
there is eating scene. He says the only yav
to get the extras" in a motion picture play to
eat naturally, registering hunger" is to have
them do the scene when they are nearly starved
and then place square meal in front of them
The cafe scenes in the new play, after half a
dozen failures, were turned into a triumph of
realism by keeping the extras" without food
all day and then setting them down to lot
of tempting viands
That crowd looks so hungry in the cafe
scene that it is positive delight to see them
devour the food" said Mr. APPEL, "and I guess
the average extra is real star when it comes
to eating"
young New York millionaire, fresh from
college, and the other things fresh about him
he had not graduated from, was introduced to
Mary Pickford in the Biltmore at tea the other
afternoon. He became very much impressed
with Mary and spent half an hour advising her
to take up moving picture work. He vas sure
she would make hit. Mary promised to think
it over