The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-08-21

VII Fl''' l'l'I 'III'N'IN'. II II'' h'HfI lfI D
By GEORGE BOWMAN.
During President CieVDiau1.H scr.
ond administration, \ dispute arose
between Venezuela and GtCut Brit.
ain over tho boundary limo between
tho former country ana Brl'ish
Guiana. Very naturally tho United
Statos became involved through the
Monroe doctrine and the matter
wac presented before our congress-
II is recorded that whom this mat
ter was presented before our ma
tional body that ono of our con
greesmcn arose from his seat ana
aRked the question where ts
Venezuela. anyhow 2' one would
hardly expect such u question from
ono OF our national Legislators,
nevertheless such wns the case. n
this congressman knew 80 little
about foreign nations how about tho
average American citizon2
The writer finds from experience
that the average American knows
but very little, n anything, relative
to questions or matters OF this kind.
so possibly a little story about Nonc-
zuela viii be of interest TO the
American public or at least n fair
portion OF II. There ~ a cause tor
the ignorance Of our citizens relh-
too. We have been ~ busy dcvel-
oping our own wonderfully rich re-
sources that we have not had the
time, money nor disposition to
branch out into foreign fields, To "a
largo extent the world war has
made n big change, In that we have
large navy and also a large mcr-
chant marine. The latter must have
cargoca which az time passes must
In. al Ia 4.
failure. The great flnancicrs Of
this country realize this fact and
are taking steps as fnst M condr
tlons allow 10 increase our foreign
trade and thus prevent our NOR
chant marine from falling into the
condition that obtained Just prior
20 the great war.
Where Venezuela Il.
We will answer the question ask Il
by our congressman by saying that
Venezuela is located on the north
ern const of South America, being
bounded on the north by the Carib-
bean sea. east by British Guiana
south by Brazil and Columbia and
on the west by the Republic Of Co
lumbia. Undoubtedly the reader
will be surprised when told that the
meridian passing through New York
city to the south pole will be west OF
Panama canal II almost directly
south OF New York city.
Venezuela is a republic with a
constitution formulated after that
of this country, contains an area of
3s3,976 square miles and has n pop
ulation OF little over 5000, ,OOO
people. This area II equal to that
of France and Germany. combined
which has u population OF more
than 100. 900 people, so You can
see that this little republic In very
sparsely aettied. The general Inn
pressio amongst our people Ia that
the climate In very hot and conse-
quently very unhealthy hut such IL
not the case by any means. one can
find any kind OF climate desired
there by simply finding the proper
elevation above sea level. AZ an IL
lustration, consider the port OF La
Guayra which Is the main sea port
Of the country. That town is atuat'
ed at the base OF "a mountain which
rises up from the sea 10 an eleva-
tion of nearly 500 feet, la Guayrn
is known as hot town while ca
racas which is In a valley on the
other side OF this mountain, very
seldom sees the mercury over SO de,
grees. Caracas has an elevation al
1000 feet Thus by going on up
one can reach the snow level W.
were very agreeably surprised alonl
this line when we made trip from
Caracas to Cuidad Bolivar. viz
steamer and from thence to th'
town OF Tumeremo which In ahou
200 miles east OF ! latter place
This last 200 miles E. - covered In
Ford car and u wonderful trip
was through wonderful country
Al Tumeremo. we watched tn
thermometer and found NAT al
though the elevation above sea leve
was only 500 feet, possibly less, tina
the temperature didn't exceed
degrees; this low temperature IL ac
counted for by reason OF the fac
that a fine breeze comes In from IN
Atlantic ocean and at night a blan
ket was a necessity to comfort.
Coffee biggest Export.
The principal exports from Nene
zuela consist OF the natural product
OF the country, the greatest one hc
ing coffee and then follow Cacat
from which chocolate Is manufac
tured. hides. cattle, fruit sugar, Ia
lata, a gum similar To rubber, gold
asphalt, chicle, valuable timber an
dye wood, pearls, tonka bean, corr
copper. tobacco, etc. In fact. IN
natura! resources Of such a diycrsi
fled country as Venezuela Is, ar
almost unlimited. The imports con
s!st OF manufactured articles large
ly AZ there Is not much manutac
turing going ON. though the indus
tries along this line are gradual
being built up.
The Venezuelan government Il
very deslrous OF establishing clos
commercial relations W n IN
Manufacturers, wholesalers, iuhhor
and business men ut lue .ouutr
and 70 this end is establishing com
msrlcAl agents or else consul In va
rious cities ~ the United states.
Tho principal commercial ugcr
at present is located iu NOW Nor
city. with a view to Iou hing th
manufacturers and business mrn ,
the middle west or more particular
Is, in the Mississippi river basin IN
cluding the Ohio and Missouri uN
ers and Chicago consulate Ia
been located In Saint Louis, Nj
The idea II TO route shipments trol
all points within this territory 81
the new barge line now being cor
structcd by our government uud,
the direction Of Edward T., Goltra
ST. Louis Nr GoltrN told me
short time ago that ho was having
great deal ~ trouble I'm obaiui,