Evening star., 1921-12-04
BRAZIL'S EXPOSITION
TO BE A BIG AFFAIR
Though Nine Months OF, Plans Already
Under Way for American Partici-
patton on Elaborate Scale.

charge of procuring additional funds.
Secretary Hughes is one of those who
have indorsed the project.
A site has been offered by the city
of Rio de Janeiro for the monument.
located on the Avienda Presidente
Wilson, overlooking the harbor OF
Rio, considered the most beautiful ID
the world.
The statue is being made by Charles
keck of New York. noted sculptor.
The design consists of figure in
bronze. symbolic Of friendship. sup
ported on an imposing pedestal of
stone. At the base are four figures.
George Washington and Abraham
Lincoln, representing the United
States; Jose Bonifacio and Rio Bran
CO, representing Brazil. The lower
part of the pedestal has three bas-
reliefs, one depicting the signing of
the Declaration of Independence; an
other showing Dom Pedro I. declaring
Brazil's independence of Portugal at
the Ypiranga river. and another an al
legorical scene of the lasting friend
ship OF the two countries.
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Paul G. Standley of the United
States National Museum will leave
Washington early this month for A
botanical collecting trip in Central
America. under the auspices of the
National Museum. Harvard Univer
sity and the New York Botanical
Garden.
He will spend four or FIVE months
in Guatemala and Salvador. collect
ing specimens of plants and making
notes upon their uses. The data so
obtained will be used in the prepara-
! tion of a descriptive and illustrated
account of the flora of Central
published by the United States Ma
tiOnal Museum
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Another scientific expedition to
South America. composed of five
American and three British scientists,
has reached its destination in Lima,
Peru, preparatory to beginning the
first studies ever made to determine
the physiological changes which en-
able people to live in high attitudes:
This investigation is being financed
by the Royal Society of London. the
Carnegie Fundation of Edinburgh.
the Rockefeller Institute, Harvard
Medical School and other American
| institutions.
dispatch from Panama which has
reached Washington tells of the pro-
posal of Jose Santos Chocano, poet
, laureate of Peru, who in recent ad-
dress advocated a Bolivian fedora
ton" to be composed Of Panama.
Venezuela. Colombia. Peru. Bolivia
and Ecuador. He prophesied that
with the natural resources at their
disposal the group would become in
! dependent in all respects. He ex-
planned that he chose the name "Bo-
| livian Federation" because all the
countries were liberated by Gen.
| Bolivar.
While official confirmation is lack
| ing in Washington, it is reliably re-
! ported that the city of Buenos Aires
! is seeking a s50,000.000 loan in New
| York, which would be separate ana
distinct from the recent loan of $50
100000 to Argentina and the addi-
tional loan of the same figure which
has been discussed recently. Fifty
| million dollars being considered
large loan to a republic of Argentina
size and resource, it is considered
negotiations for 100000 900 to the city
of Buenos Aires would go through.
| 1t has come to be something ak
to habit on the part of many to
| knock" our exporters and traders In
| South America to such an extent that
| the credit due those who6ave sue
ceeded against odds is forgotten.
This lack of appreciation, the Ma
| tlOn BUSINESS poiuts Out. 10 sHo"h IL
not SO much to the men of our own
day as to the pioneers of the past.
who are so far forgotten that it is
| frequently stated that the United
States has just entered the field of
| foreign trade.
| Citizens of the United States, how
ever. were doing business in Mon
tevideo as far back as 1899. and in
Buenos Aires at least as early as 1902.
Our furniture exports to Argentina
began in 1910, and a carriage of
North American make" was rolling
along the streets of Buenos Aires in
1910: and ever since 1906 the United
States colony there has celebrated
the Fourth of July with a dinner
United States citizens were active in
Chile as early as 1908. and by 1910
there were enough of them in Rio de
Janeire for two of the 'estimable
young people" to be married.