Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-23
Brazil Is No Mean Ally
South American Republic Has Gross Insults to Avenge
Army Doubled and Warships Placed at Dis
posal of Entente; Resources Valuable.

Red Cross and her organizations
corresponding TO Y. NJ. G. A. They
have their hutments and camps be-
hindS the fighting front.
The Bitter Bit.
Forty-three Teuton steamships
were seized by Brazil and their
| crews placed in lnternmeut camps
Just as in the United States, Ger
man efficiency had a day off and
the ships failed to destroy them
selves. Thirty OF them have been
chartered TO France, some have been
turned over to the Brazilian Lloyd
and are bringing supplies to our
ports, and the remainder-well, the
sest are being usefully employed
Apparently the war wiped out
Gerrnanism forever within Brazirs
ample borders. Up to 1914 the kali
ser.s policy Of peaceful penetration
mad made great progress In Brazil.
and she was, already feeling Germa.
nys economic grip. or course, the
beginning of the struggle In France
loosened that. But German ,,pro-
paganda was not well organizedY and
IN October of last year all such crea-
lures as Count Won Luxburg, the
German charge in Argentina, were
promptly and "spurlos versenkt"
1t Is true there are half a million
Germans in Brazil, chiefly in the
states OF Santa Caterina. Rio Grande
del Sui and parana. There were
whispers OF German reservists" and
dark forebodings of German upris-
ings. The reservists failed to mate
rlalize. But the uprisings occurred.
only they were Brazilian uprisings
against the mere thought of contact
with Germans. The government had
10 march troops into the affected
districts and give the frightened
hyphenates military protection.
Perhaps this shows the temper of
mad clean through and are prepared
to give all they have, troops If the
allies can move them; labor, IL 1t can
be transported; anything the entente
union calls for.
The Power of the Tropics.
But 1t is the resources of the coun-
try natural and Industrial, that rep
resent Brazils greatest contribution
toward victory. In a very vivid sense
Brazil is a green smear on the map
of South America. just as the old
Biographies indicated-a living. fer
tile green. Under the stimulus of
the war, both before she entered it
and enormously so after her entry
Brazil has become a great food pro.
ducing and exporting nation. And II
food will win the war. as Mr.. Hoover
tells us, Brazil's vast tropical hot
house will surely help.
In 1914 Brazil exported just one
ton OF meat. The following year she
exported 10000 tons, and the figures
have leaped from year to year.
Beans, rice and coffee, OF which she
is the worlds largest producer, all
some to the United States in huge
quantities. Cocoa and sugar are
speeding to France and Italy Bra
lillian rubber. the Para fina" with
out which no rubber industry can ex-
list, is exported by the shipload. De-
fective gas masks betray many a
Hun for the lack OF it, MANGANESE
like rubber. can not be eaten-not
even chewed-but 1t is highly impor-
tant in the manufacture of ordnance
ana Brazil sends out about $4,000
tons of AZ per cent ore.
She is finding new Industries. too
Brazilian shoes, of excellent leather
are making their appearance in the
markets. Brazil is also building
ships, wooden ones to be sure, but