Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-17
IN WO new ministers from southern
republics arrived in Washington
last week

1.-TWO new ministers from southern
republics arrived in Washington
last week
DR.. Julio Bianchi of Guate-
mala comes as the first representative
of his republic since the overthrow of
the old regime, under the dictatorship
of Estrada Cabrera, by the unionist
party.
DR.. Bianchi was one of the eight men
who led the unionists in their deposi-
ton of former President Cabrera, and
was recognized as one of the principal
opponents of the new party. He was
nominated for the presidency himself,
los Herrera, who is said to represent
the choice Of 95 per cent of the voters
in the republic.
Senior Emilio Joubert comes to Wash
ington for the third time as minister
we'll known in the capital He left here
IN 1912 and has served his country as
minister of foreign affairs since then.
Mr.. Joubert needs no introduction and
he has been welcomed as a fit success
sor to DR.. Luis Galvan, who died recent
little more than two years
Ideas for Argentina.
DR.. Tomas A. LIE Breton the Argen-
from Chicago, where, with four men,
bers of the embassy staff he attended
the national dairy show. DR.. LIE Breton
will send to his country some Sugges-
tons for the international dairy show
which is to be held in Palermo, Buenos
Aires Argentina, next spring. This ex-
hibition will be one of the largest of
it's kind ever held in South America,
and manufacturers of American dairy
ing machinery are preparing to send
their representatives.
DR.. Carlos Vallejo, agricultural ex-
pert from Argentina, is now in Wichita,
Kan, attending the grain show in prog
tina. which has on exhibition at the
show fifty samples of Argentine wheat
Look to This Country.
await American capital and brains
according to DR.. Bianchi. Guatemala's
new minister to the United States,
and the next few years will witness
unprecedented activity by Americans
in the republic. Relations. which for
years have been only official between
the governments of this country and
mate, he believes. between the peo-
pies of the two republics.
Under the regime of Cabrera, who
occupied the presidency for twenty
three years, little opportunity ,foI
industrial enterprise was afforded in
the republic. Development of the
country's resources by foreign capital
was discouraged, it is stated, while
the people were handicapped in their
own land by recurring political
clashes and disturbances
Under new government made UP
principally of men of independent
means. who can afford to hold office
without compensation and who do so
only through a desire to serve their
countrymen, there is to be new era
of commerce and development of agri-
culture. DR.. Bianchi states.
Guatemala's principal exports con-
sist of coffee, sugar, fruit and cattle
None but the first has received much
attention in the past, it is stated. The
land is admirably adapted to agricul-
ture, possessing q rich, deem soil
which needs practically no artificial
fertilizer. Cotton, which grows to a
height of perhaps three feet in the
United States, reaches the uneblieve.
able height of fifteen feet in Guate-
mala.
Raising OF Cattle.
Cattle raising is an industry which
is receiving considerable attention
now. it is stated, and which is to
be encouraged. Guatemala has sent
three men to the Chicago dairy show,