Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-13
CALLS SALVADOR LITTLE
GIANT AMONG REPUBLICS
Smallest Country on American
Continent is Prosperous

Salvador, the latest Latin Ameri-
can republic to reach an agreement
with the United States for a sort of
financial umpirage by the latter is
the subject of the following bulletin
from the Washington, D. c., head
quarters of the National Geographic
Society:
lei Salvador, whose name we of
course shorten to Salvador, is the
smallest of the republics of Central
America. More, 1t is the smallest
country, Independent or dependent.
on the mainland of either North or
South America. But it is more dense
~ populated than any other country
on either continent; and measured
by trade balances, it is more pros
porous than any of the other Central
American republics.
Surrounded by neighbors, the
governments of some of which have
not been marked for their stability,
and whose soils have not been nota-
Bile for freedom from war, Salvador
has led a comparatively peaceful ex-
tstence in recent years. This Is one
factor in S~alvador's prosperity.
Thoughtful Salvadoreans also point
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cess is likely to be due more to per
%spiration than to inspiration so 1t
Is with states; and that collectively
Salvador has gone on generating
prosperity through the perspiratlon
of industry from year to year.
Economists can point to other
factors. Salvador is almost unique
in its part of the world in having a
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small farmers who cultivate their
w little farms. Finally Salvador
has welcomed and protected foreign
capital, a fact 20 which 1t owe good
transportation facilities and numer-
Gus thriving industries.
I'm assessing the showing that
Salvador has made it must be kept
In mind that a considerable part of
the republics $4,000 square miles is
broken by mountains and even active
volcanoes. Yet the population It
supports Is so dense that IL the same
rate were applied to the United
States our census figures would show
nearly $50, 900, 900 inhabitants. And
the country not only supports Its
heavy population but has a favorable
trade balance of three dollars for
every inhabitant. This is twice as
great as the favorable per capita
trade balance Of the United States,
as shown by the latest figures.
Little Salvador is tucked away on
the Pacific side of the Central Amer
lean isthmus. 1t is the only country
between the North Pole and South
America that does not touch both
oceans.
Coffee is the most valuable Sal
vadorean product. Not q coffee tree
existed there before 1910. Then a
Brazilian school teacher who had
moved to Salvador brought a tree
from his own country. When this
first tree was planted in the teachers
garden, according to enthusiastic
Salvadoreans, the cornerstone of the
national prosperity was laid. Now
there are 100, 900, 900 trees in the re-
public and berries worth millions OF
dollars are shipped put annually,
most of them to the United States.
1.-THE man on horseback, though a
: peaceful one, still exists in Salvador
and even shapes railroad policy.
Nearly every train has in it an ami
NAL car. The horseman often buys
tickets for both himself and his
mount, is hauled to the end Of his
journey, climbs into his saddle and
rides on his way"