The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-02-24
What's Going On
In The World
Weeks Chief Events
Briefly Told
BY Charles p. Stewart

Inc state UepartmentS quoted
now as doubling if the Pan-Ameri-
can Congress in March will induce
the Uruguayan president, DR.. Bruins
plan for League of American Ma
tions.
If North Americans had the slight
est idea how South Americans feel,
they never would have considered
such thing remotely possible.
The theory here seems to be that
although Americans are North and
South, yet they're all Americans and
can agree, at any rate, on some sort
of joint attitude toward the rest
of the world.
The fact is that South Americans
are mostly unassimilated Europeans.
They're a thousand miles nearer to
Europe in sentiment, sympathy and
comprehension than they are to the
United States.
Not only are they Europeans but
they're predominantly Spanish, and
while the North American has pretty
we'll forgotten his war with Spain,
the Spaniard hasn't.
About the only feeling that the
South American, as South Ameri-
can, has toward the American of the
north is that the latter's strong
dangerous .neighbor, and that the
less the American of the south has
to do with him. the safer he'll be.
TIE TOO LATE NOW
The United States had one chance.
indeed, to win South American ia
vor. but she botched the job.
During the war South America
needed her. If she'd merely been
too busy to heed this call it wouldn't
have been SO bad. The allies, how
ever, had various things they want
ed done there that they didn't care
to do themselves, because they knew
the South Americans wouldn't like
it, which would hurt their standing
later on. So they invited the United
States to attend to these matters for
them, and she did. The thanks she
received was to have the allies make
capital out of it against her every
chance they got.
North Americans shortcomings
after the conflict were mainly trade
mistakes of ignorance, like forget
ting, for instance, that DEFENDERS
midsummer and July mid-wintcr
south of the Equator, and shipping
winter goods in the spring and sum-
mer supplies in the fall.
Commercial rivals made the 4 bst
of these errors, too.
Then there's the United States
persistence in trying to get Latin
America into patent and trade
mark league with her, which. as a
Venezuelan "Yellow Book" re-
marked, "would obligate US, at great
expense, to organize bureau to
record all patents and trade marks
registered in any of the signatory
countries" thing Venezuela isn't
enthusiastic over, considering that
the United States registers about
as many day as she does in a
month.
These are just illustrations.
South Americans are half irri-
tated, half contemptuous at North
Americans failure to understand
such things.
Of course there are individuals
prQ-North Americans. President
Brum of Uruguay's one--for inter
ested reasons. He isn't representa-
tive.
NO SOLUTION YET
10 the Ruhr puzzle no solution has
been found.
france hasn't made particle of
progress in the direction of collect
ing any war damages, and as the
Kuhr enterprise As very expensive.
naturally she's. getting worse and
worse off financially every day she
continues the occupation.
On the other hand. Germanv.s