Evening star., 1922-02-12
A WAY OUT
OF HAITIAN MUDDLE
United States Anxious to Withdraw
Marines From Island, But Finds
the. Problem Difficult.

FAR as known. he report is the mos:
complete thing of its kind ever al.
tempted. and special staff at ths
Argentine embassy under the uirec-
ton OF Ambassador lie Breton has
spent the last three months in gath
erlng and translating the informa-
tion it contains.
accompanying the report are two
INNS. with Spanish captions. which
were prepared under the direction
or the Department of Agriculture to
snow how the United States gathers
and distributes its information re-
.Earalng crops and crop estimates
This picture, entitled 1.-The Pulse OF
PRODUCTION. will be shown to Off
ciais of the Argentine government
and studied by its department of
agriculture.
Because of Argentina's great i'm
portance as an agricultural country,
the embassy here for the past sew
era! years has taken great pains to
study the methods of the United
states department of Agriculture in
every phase OF its work. and num-
per or bulletins on various subjects
have been translated and sent to
Argentina. Many of them are re-
printed there and distributed to the
farmers of the Argentine by their
own department of agriculture.
Ambassador lie Breton has taken a
personal interest in this work. and
TOT some time past it has been under
the direction of Senior Carlos A.
vallejo. special agricultural attache.
y X =
The recent resignation of the Chill
can cabinet is in no way connected
with the forthcoming conference in
Washington between Chilean and
Peruvian ENJOYS over the settlement
Of the long-standing Tacna-Arica
dispute. Embassy officials here make
it plain that the change of govern
ment was brought about by a failure
to reach an agreement concerning q
purely national question. Sentiment
in Chile, it is reported. is overwhelm-
ingly in favor of the planned confer
ence here.
DR.. William Curtis Farabee, one of
| the foremost anthropologists of the
world and curator of the museum of
the University of Pennsylvania, sail
ed for Callao. Peru. last week to be-
gin what are considered the most
extensive explorations ever attempted
in South America. He intends to
cover the entire continent. examining
, the ethnology and the archaeology of
the Indian races. He will begin with
the study of the Incas in Peru and
Bolivia, and from there go to Chile
and over into the Argentine. 3his is
! DR.. Farabee's third expedition to
South America. He was in charge of
the De Milhan-Harvard expedition in
1909 and the University of Pennsyl-
| vania expedition in 1876.
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The bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce of the Department of La
| Dor is gathering statistics to show
/ the amount of interest among Ameri-
can business men in the centennial
celebration of Brazil, which opens
with an exposition in Rio de Janeiro.
September of this year. and has re-
Quested all those interested to for
ward their names to the bureau.
| Pending the arrival Of the Ameri-
can commissioners in Rio de Janeiro.
| about two weeks hence, nothing Will
| be known concerning the amount or
I space allowed American exhibitors at
i the exposition, but this information
will be cabled to the bureau within
short time and sent out through the
country to those-interested.
The movies" in Argentina are as
! popular as in the United States. and
| the demand there is as great in pro-
portion to the population as In any
country in the world. So the students
Of the motion picture industry are
studying the Argentine market as a
potential market of great Importance
| for American made films. There is
growing competition in the field. and
while the American film now has the
! inside track because of the great pop
ularity of the American type of act
! ing and the personal popularity in
Argentina of we'll known American
stars. the European films are much
| cheaper and easier to obtain.
Until the war European films ruled
| the Argentine market, according to
a recent report on the subject to the
merce. And the movie-loving popu-
lation of Argentina was raised on the
European brand of film acting. But
I the war brought American products,
which gained immediate popularity.
Now Germany is entering the field
| with films which are said to be nearly
as popular as the American pictures.
| while other European pictures will
| continue to be imported for the sake
| especially because of their compare
! tive cheapness.
Argentina herself has made a stab
at producing motion pictures. but out
! side of the news films" which for
| the most part have been successful.
| the domestic companies have not
shown any particular ability.
| In Buenos Aires today there are
| 1913 moving picture houses, which
average a total 2.250.00o paid admis-
slons a month. Only two shows are
given daily, and from three to four
films constitute a show.