The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
PASSING OF The
OLD time COWBOY
ROMANTIC FIGURE OF WILD
WEST HAS SUCCESSOR
IN ARGENTINA.

Everybody knows that region OF
cattle is wide, free, open, with plen-
ty of room for ranging and solitude
Whether, as on the pampas of the
Argentine, there be grass in album
dance or, as in the deserts of the
western United States, there be only
a few spears around each sagebrush,
cattle need space to roam IN. For
that reason the life of cattle coun-
try has always been picturesque IN
the great sweep of its movement
With the passing of much of the
old-time cowboy life of North Amer
lea into the comparative uniformity
that is encouraged by the automo-
bile and the motion picture, 1t is IN
teresting to see how Imagination Is
turning more to the Argentine for
the romance of cattle raising. Thus
we have the revival of some old
books by w. H. Hudson, which led
to the very successful publication OF
even better new ones of his. Thus,
too. we have the business alertness
of Chicago packers concerning itself
more and more with the cattle Of
Patagonia, until finally they disso-
ciated their interests on the two con-
tinents.
The great travellers to South Amer
lea have given numerous vivid ac-
counts of the herds of the pampas.
Thus Clemenceau tells US: "You see
a dark shadow that rises on the
horizon that might be either vii
lage or a group of haycocks, until
the vague shifting of the mass sug-
gests to your mind the idea of some
form of life. The lines show clearer,
groups break off and stand out,
pointed horns appear, and at last you
find YOU are watching the tranquil
passage of a monstrous herd, whose
outlines are stenciled in black up
on the whiteness of the skyline like
the Chinese shadow pictures | saw
on one occasion at the Chat Noir Tin
Montmartre) when the flocks of the
patriarchs were flung upon the
sheet"
Hiram Bingham and Lord Bryce
also have helped the world to think
of the Argentine as one frontier still
remaining for active adventure. And |
what is it that appeals even to the
small boy who likes to see the wild /
west" on the screen than walking, /.
perhaps roaming, on horseback is +
alone freer in its simplicity. On4
horseback one always has a faithful /
companion; and out among the cattle /
one can rejoice in the magnitude OF
daily perseverance.
The development of cold storage |
and improvements in ocean transpor-
tation have already brought the Ar
gentine frontier much nearer the rest |
of the globe. But with the demands /
of the various leather industries the
resources of South America in this
respect are bound to be conserved |
and utiliged even more, until that
whole phase of industry has served !
its purpose and even the pampas are
made to give to the world other
things than cattle.
1t is very possible that, just as
coal and oil give place to water pow i
err so cattle raising may very large |
ly give place to cultivation of the |
land for other products. The Ar
gentine need not permanently mean |
to the average person merely great
land of cattle, for the requirements
of the world will naturally change
with the better understanding of the
real resources of every region
Meanwhile the Argentine will rejoice
in whatever brings its Astounding ac-
tivity closer in every way to that of
all other nations.-Christian Science
Monitor.