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astio promoters of q visit to the Falls
Unless they are overcrowded, the
hotels patronized on the way to and
from the Falls impose no serious dis
comforts. The Hotel Colon, in Con-
cordia; the Palace, in -Posadas, and
the Grand Hoteh del Paraguay (Con-
| cha), in Asuncion, are far better than
rumor and ones forebodings have
pictured them. At the Concordia ho-
tel reserve one of the few rooms with
private bath. At the Posadas hotel
put in your order promptly If you
wish a hot bath, for while the pipes
are in evidence which are to convey
water to the hotel, they were this
summer not yet in use, and the water
for your bath, when it has been
hauled to the hotel and heated, is
precious and scanty and the supply
is soon exhausted. At the Asuncion
hotel there are no private bathrooms,
but ample and conveniently situated
public baths and toilet facilities, and
the meals are surprisingly good
Where we had expected the least we
received the most.
If the hotels Of the interior are
second class, and at their best only
comparatively good, some of those OF
the big coast cities, like Rio, Buenos
Aires and Montevideo, are unsurpassed.
Mosquitoes, Fleas and other Pests.
WE were warned against mos
quitoes, fieas and other insect
pests. The hotel beds, and even the
steamer, berths and beds, are equipped
with mosquito netting, SO, that as
saults in force by mosquito hosts are
foreseen and guarded against. But in
July only a few stray mosquitoes
wandered into the hotel, and our pre-
cautionary citronella was almost SUI
perhuous.
In our trips through the Argentine
and Brazilian woods gloveless hands
were attacked and painfully swollen,
suggesting similar experiences with
summer trout fishing in the White
Mountains.
Our preparations to meet the as
sault of the South American flea were
rendered unnecessary by the failure
of the enemy to put in an appearance
in the comparatively cold, dry month
Of July.
Too Much Water I'm the Air.
Many visits to the Falls have been
spoiled by excessive rainfall. Too
much water In the air has interfered
with enjoyment Of the spectacle OF
the waters of the descending. river.
Lecturer Newman and others voice
this complaint in the hotel guest book
Early visitors to the Iguazu often
betray in their printed descriptions
the extent to which excessive mois-
ture in the air has. interfered with
their reasonable hopes and .expecta-
tons of Falls enjoyment. They give
breezy, interesting and detailed de-
scriptions of what they saw in get
ting 10 the Falls, but concerning the
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New stu1e yerbA mate dr4I4ls factof4 at Nunez
Esta1cid>, near Po S a-das.

Hotel, and must wait for three hours
for the return Of the motors.
The overcrowding of the steam r
and the service on it of meals for an
additional day affect unfavorably the
quantity and quality of the food sup
plies and render the passengers dis
contented; and the cutting down
OF the time at the Falls to little over
one day pushes dissatisfaction to its
climax. For even the promised two
days, with fine weather, are barely
adequate for satisfactory inspection
Of the Falls from the best accessible
viewpoints, including those on the
Brazilian side. I stayed at the Falls
for a week, and with clear weather
every day, except for a few hours,
found that 1 had no more time than
was necessary or highly desirable.
The effect OF this transportation
schedule is that ii oyercrowds the
hotel with disconnected guests for one
or two days in the week and leaves 1t
almost empty for the rest of the time.
Suggestions of Improvement.
The hotel ought TO be enlarged and
be kept comfortably filled every day
in the week during the season.
Steamers should run from Posadas
during the season not merely once q
week, but twice a week or every
other day. And there should be addi-
tional trains from Buenos Aires in
close connection. There should be
enough automobiles at Puerto Aguirre
to carry all of the Cuyaba's passen-
gers to the hotel in a single trip The
hotel should have a launch to convey
tourists from Puerto Aguirre to Fog
Iguazu, so that the Brazilian side of
the river may be visited, even when
the Iguazu Is in flood.
The railroad does not want to bring
more people to Posadas than the small
steamers can carry to Puerto Aguirre.
The steamers and railroad do not
want to take more people to the hotel
than can be comfortably accommo-
dated there. The hotel hesitates to
enlarge its accommodations when ex-
listing transportation facilities, rail
and steamer, fill it only two days in
the week.
Each waits upon the other. and all
are at a standstiil. g.
. The owner of the hotel, Mr.. Ayarra-
garay, may beaexpected to take the
initiative IL the other. factors OF the
transportation problem will cooper
ate. 1t Is reported that Lamport and
Holt. the British line operating steam
ers between, New York and Buenos
Aires and AFFILIATED with the Royal
Mail system, has acquired a controls
ing interest in the Mihanovitch Com
pany, which owns nearly all the river
steamers on La Plata and the Parana,
Uruguay and Paraguay Rivers.
A Three-Cornered Conference.
Mr.. Ayarragaray and Gen. Harris
son, manager of the Northeast Argen-
tine Railroad and the representative
of the Mihanovitch line Of steamers,
ought to get together ana correct the
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first time from mate gourd through
a bombilla, a silver tube. spoon shaped
at the base, is apt to assume the
pleased-pained facial expression OF
one who unexpectedly combines the
smile Of appreciation and courtesy
with the scowl of a protesting palate
The use OF mate is increasing rap
idly in Europe; more slowly in this
country. At any moment, however
mate drinking may become the fad OF
our tickle public, and for popular
Christmas gifts we may see gold
mounted mate gourds and diamond
studded bombilla..
Mission Ruins of San Ignaci0.
An interesting visit is made to the
mission ruins of San Ignacio. One
may go by launch to a landing place
on the upper Parana a few miles from
the ruins and there take automobile.
Or one may go and return by auto
mobile. The river route is longer
moro uncertain, less expensive. We
chose the automobile drive, and
though the trip was long and the
road rough IN spots, we found 1t on
the whole enjoyable. We traversed
the fertile Argentine territory Of
Misiones, rich in yerba, sugar cane
and tobacco. BY primitive ferry we
crossed two rivers. We lunched at
the ruins, and returned late IN the
afternoon to Posadas.
In 1892 there were 80 prosperous
villages In this region, housing over
10000 families, created and domi-
mated by the Jesuits. In .176S the
Jesuits were expelled, and by 1917 the
Indians of these settlements had
scattered, and the conversion OF the
great structures of the Jesuits into
ruins was well under way.
The remains of the fine church OF
San Ignacio. and especially Of the
facade, are the most striking and Inn
pressive of the ruins. Enough still
stands of the interior, as well as the
exterior, of the structure to enable
the Imagination to reconstruct the
building in accordance with the early
descriptions of 1t by Spanish chron-
iclers.
The extensive recreation plaza OF
San 1gnacio village in front of the
church was fringed on all sides by
community buildings, now more COM
pletely wrecked and demolished by
nature than the church itself.
Masonry-wrecking Trees.
THE wrecking work of the trees al
San Ignacio is only less interest.
ing than the ruins themselves. The
tropical jungle in India quickly de-
molishes and buries out of sight its
deserted villages. The ancient cities
of Central Ameria and all the works
Of man connected with them have
been destroyed or buried and lost in
tropical vegetation.
San Ignacio Is not quite within thu
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is grown. but the real treasure OF this
region, according to tho authorities.
is in the hard wood forests.
Movie Film Of Timber Camp and Falls.
At Buenos Aires, after my return
from the Falls, I saw an interesting
moving picture film of the Ayarra-
garay timber camps in connection
with views OF the Falls, which Mr..
Ayarragaray's enterprise had secured.
In time, doubtless, this film will find
it's place in the educational, industry
picturing films, which have become
recognized feature of the varied bill
OF fare Of the Am erican movies.
Scenes on a Yerba Mate Farm.
TN going to the Falls the .once-a-
week through train from Buenos
Aires to Asuncion makes close con-
nection at Posadas with the, steamer
Cuyaba, and there is no time to see
the Posadas sights. But on the re-
turn trip one can and should arrange
to stay a day or two in Posadas In
order to visit the NuneZ yerba mate
estancia and the Jesuit Mission ruins
at San Ignacio. >.
The yerba mate estancia is quickly
reached by motor from Posadas One
may inspect there every stage OF the
process of preparing the Paraguayan
tea for market. We saw native men
and women loading carts with leaves
and branches stripped from the yerba
trees. One large cart, pulled by
small donkey, was so overloaded that
Il tipped over backward and lifted
the donkey from its feet, to the keen
qualification, uproariously demon
strated, of the other yerba gatherers.
Then we saw the beating of the
branches of the yerba in order to
separate the leaves from the twigs.
Next the leaves were conveyed in
bags to tho main factory to be dried,
either by the old open-air process of
smoking them over hot wood fire in
an openwork receptacle or by a re-
cent modern invention which dries
the leaves more quickly by passing
them over a series of furnaces. The
dried leaves are then packed tightly
in bags and stored for six months
| before transportation to the river
port, the yerba chute and the steamer
bound for Buenes Aires.
Gun That Cheers but Not Inebriates.
No fewer virtues are attributed to
the powdered mate than by its pub
licity agent to the latest patent medi-
cine 1t Is a sustaining food, a. re-
freshing beverage, a gentle, harmless
| stimulant. It is credited with cor
recting many stomach, kidney and
liver disorders and as being a laxa-
tive, a blood purifier, a meat diges-
tive, q cure of many ills, from alco-
holism to diabetes.
Mate Is recognized as one. Of the
cups which cheer and invigorate. but
not inebriate. Love Of II is, however,
an acquired taste. The lady from
North America sucking il for the
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tropics. The wreoking work OF the
trees Is done here more deliberately
than in the tropical jungle, and with
sufficient slowness so that man can
witness and enjoy this extraordinary
assault.
A species of palm and certain lau-
rels and cedars are the leaders in the
wrecking campaign. They distort
themselves serpent-like to pierce be-
tween>walls, to overturn them, to en-
Velop them, and in a strangle hold
to drag them down. One tree has
grown about and Embedded in itself
a large rock, called heart of stone"
as II a tree trunk, transformed into
a snake, had swallowed a hard lump
of something permanently indigesti-
BILE. Another snakish tree trunk, a
vast python OF living wood, crawls
and stretches itself horizontally for
many feet along the top of a high
stone wall.
Discomforts of the Iguaxu Trip.
THERE are discomforts incident to
the Iguazu Falls trip which are
to be remedisd, minimized Or avoided.
Tho journey to Busnos Aires from
anywhere can be made in comfort.
and, If desired, IN luxury. From
Buenos Aires to Posadas one can
travel by railroad or by steamer or by
com bination of the two without any
serious discomfort. The weak spot in
the transportation system conveying
one to the Falls is in the link between
Posadas and Puerto Aguirre.
The passengers brought by the rail-
road and the river steamers to Posa-
das come together on the little
steamer Cuyaba. which makes close
connection with the once-a-week
through train between Buenos Aires
and Asuncion, and which leaves
Posadas every Saturday morning for
Puerto Aguirre.
The Cuyaba's itinerary gives about
two days for tho upstream trip, al
lows something over 48 hours for the
Falls, and promises to return to
Posadas in q run not to exceed SO
hours. My own experience and OBJ
servation in respect to two trips and
hearsay in respect to others establish
that delays through fog, mist and
darkness cause the up-trip to take
three days instead of two, and that
the time actually available for the
BALLS approximates one day more
closely than two.
0vercrowding the Cuyaba.
The Cuyaba, generahzing, from the
same experience and observation,
runs in the season overcrowded, as
| many as IL passengers on one of its
trips being without berths and COM
PEELED TO sleep in corridors on the
floor. The hours to be enjoyed at
the Falls are still further reduced
for the fraction OF the passengers
who are unable to get seats on the
auto bus or automobiles in the first
run from Puerto Aguirre to the Falls
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readily remedied evils Of present
transportation conditions.
Some day, of course, Gen. Harris
sons Argentine railroad will be ex-
tended from Posadas to the Falls,
conveying the tourist by rail from
Buencs Aires to the Falls In two
days and a half. Some day a branch
line, already begun, from the Para
guayan railroad station, Borja, may
convey tourists either from Buenos
Aires or Asuncion to the Paraguayan
bank Of the Alto Parana, opposite the
| mouth of the IguaZu. And some day
through railroad connection between
| Rio and the Brazilian bank of the
Iguazu will be perfected. In the
| meantime the suggested cooperative
| method of living and prospecting
might well be adopted by the parties
in interest.
South American Hotels.
Reasonable apprehensions concern
ing what he will get to eat and
whether he will be able to sleep are
even greater deterrents of prospective
visitors to the interior OF South
America than the discomforts of
transportation.
Neither the Cuzco-Lake Titicaca
plateau HOT tho 1SudZu ais HdIh-
quay region is equipped with hotels
to accommodate comfortably a host of
American tourists. CuZco and Juliaca,
the night stopping place on the way
from Arequipa to Cuzco, are not pre-
pared to entertain properly even a
small number OF visitors. Arequipa
is blessed with the Quinta Bates, a
first class, well managed. boarding
house in a suburban, semi-tropical
garden. Mrs. Bates is an American,
| and numbers among her friends most
Of those whom she has entertained.
When CuZco has a large, modern
hotel and comfortable sleeping cars
run through to 1t from Arequipa the
tourist world can be invited to come
in swarms to Incaland, ibut not till
then.
fguaxu Falls Hotel.
p EAsoNABLE warnings concerning
discomforts to be suffered have
until recently checked Iguazu Falls
visitors. Today small groups of ex-
cursionists, including women folk,
can with safety be invited. The
hotel accommodation at the Falls
ure of this trip. Until 1922 the
so-called hotel accommodat at
the Falls were crude and repellant.
In 1922 Mr.. Ayarra garay, owner of
the section of Argentina adjacent to
the Falls, opened a new bungalow
hotel, containing 40 bedrooms, each
with hot and cold running water, and
boasting many bathrooms distributed
conveniently and actually disable. Ex-
cept when the hotel is overcrowded
from an overloaded Cuyaba, Mr.. Oscar
Adam, the genial manager, has the
kitchen. dining room and bedroom
equipment to entertain comfortably
hts guests anA 60 make them enthusf-
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Aires to Narrow F Rivera hardwood Tmhn Camp md Its
Mate Farm How yT BGM Marketed From GondTr ghaB Ruins
Jest NN Two Ago S gT Disco Ri qusO dsenmrE
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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-02-08

A deep student of practical politics
and great enemy of the liquor traffic
is the Hon. M. H. Cleary of Gelena,
formerly a member of the Illinois state
senate. He will speak on the inn
portance OF voting at the primaries on
April 9Th, during the afternoon session
on Thursday.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY Legislative Day)
GAS m. Convention called to order by the Hon.
nett president of the Ani-Saloon League
Open meeting of AntiSaloon League board.
History An-Saoon League Illinois, by W. A. Smith,
D. D, Springfield
Conference the legislative campaign.
1890 Executive session of the board of the
Saloon League of Illinois.
1:3o p M Conference o Women, conducted by Mrs G. NJ
Mathes superintendent of Womans Department. Anti-Saoon
League
p. m Hon George H. Wilson presiding
Report the legislative situation by F. Scott Mcbride,
superintendent Of the Anti-Saloon League
Addresses by
Senator IS Cuthbercn, Bunker HILL "Cooperation Among
Citizens Who Favor Law Enforcement
Senator M H. Cleay, Galcna The Importance of Voting
the Primaries
Hon. Homer Te Grcenview, Representative in the general
assembly distc Getting Ready for the
Springfield
Holman ON Dcwner's Grove, Representative
general assembly dstric), What Women
Do To Protect Prohibition Laws"
Alfred Johnson G. E. S. Illinois o. C. T.. How Tenn
perance Organizations Can Help Win April 81
Miss Gordon national president of the w c. T. IT, Every
Woman's Work in the Eight Asanss Nulihcaton,'
Miss Helen Hood president of the W. c. T. IT, Co-opera-
ton in the Legislative Campaign.
Debate Can the Law Be represented by
o. G. Chpistgau and ]. w. Langley.
$50 p. m. TWENTYF H ANNIVERSARY BANQUET
Toastmaster Bishop Thomas Nicholson president AnSaoon
League of America.
Invocation by Rev M. P Boynton Woodlawn Baptist
church.
Addresses by
Dr. Howard Russell, of the An-saloon League "a
Little Journey To Face the Facts
DIR Ernest Chrngton, secretary World League Against Aco
hosm THE World Flung Battle Line"
DR. Ben Spence secretary cf Dominion Alliance, Toronto
Canada I the Chicago Tribune Telling the Truth About Canada
Continued on Page p
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New Year night some of his enemies
fired a number OF shots into his home
i'll an attempt to assassnatc him.
Judge Black not only knows all about
the ins and outs cf the fight against
liquor law breakers, but is also gifted
with the power 20 speak effectively
and fuently. He has the reputation
of being one OF the best campaign
orators in central Illinois.
All Speakers Eminent Authorities
Every speaker on the program de
serves special comment for his or her
special fitness for A place on the state
convention program. Space, however,
does not permit more than brief ref
erencc to the few who have been
named. The great program promised
assures a convention of extraordinary
interest and helpfulness in the cam
paign against the lawless liquor
forces. The League state convention
will be one of the greatest occasions
in the glorious history of the struggle
against the liquor traffic in Illinois.
Delegates are invited from all
churches and all temperance and law
enforcement organizations.
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ANILSAL00N LEAGUE STATE CONVENTION
Auditorium Hotel Chicago Thursday Feb Friday
Mass Meeting Hall O'Clock Friday

standing contributions to the banquet
program.
Famous Prosecutor to Speak
On the afternoon program of the
second day Judge Jesse Black Jr, OF
-Pekin, Illinois, will tell of the battle
to uphold the Constitution where whis-
ky formerly dominated Pckin,, sit
nated near Peoria, had almost as many
distilleries. After prohibition boot
lcggers and rum runners gradually
built up big criminal machine to
cvade prohibition Within the past
few months Judge Black, as special
prosecutor, has been active in the work
of breaking up this machine. On
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-02-08
Duty of States Attorneys

The great danger is that the voters
will renominatc candidates not quite
wet enough to be defeated but not
quite dry enough to enforce the law
The Illinois prohibition act sets forth
the duty OF states attorneys as follows;
III shall be the duty OF the states
attorney OF every county diligently 10
prosecute any and all persons violating
any OF the provisions OF this act in his
county, and he shall be responsible for
the proper enforcement OF this act, and
whenever he shall have any reason to
believe that any of the provisions of
this act are being violated in his coun-
ty, he shall use every legitimate means
at his command to secure the necessary
and proper evidence of such violation
and shall vigorously prosecute"
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DR.. Spence Coming to Answer
Tribune
EXPERTS WILL SPEAK
AT EVERY SESSION
Russell and Cherrington Will be at
the Banquet
MANY DELEGATES ENROLLED

Everything is ready for the great
law enforcement convention on
Thursday, February 9TH and Friday,
February 9Th. The program is
practically complete as printed in this
number of the Issue.
Advance reports OF delegates select
cd indicate that great crowd will be
present. All arrangements have been
made at the Auditorium Hotel to COM
fortably care for all sessions of the
convention. The large ball room on
the tenth floor will be arranged as a
convention hall with seating capacity
OF ono thousand. Large dining rooms
in the Auditorium Hotel have been re-
served for the Business Mems Lunch
con and the executive meeting OF the
state board.
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Legislative Battle Already in
Full Swing
STATES ATTORNEYS
WILL BE NOMINATED
Dry Law Gives Them Great Power
to Enforce
DRYS MUST ORGANIZE TO WIN

The coming primary election cam
paign will be the most intense in the
history Of the fight for prohibition en-
forcement. The two great questions
to be settled on April are-wil states
attorneys be nominated who can be
relied upon TO enforce prohibition and
will enough dry candidates be nomin-
ated TO make possible the election OF a
dry legislature. There is no doubt
about dry sentiment but there is seri-
ous doubt about whether the dry vot-
ers will act unitedly and intelligcntly
enough to assure victory at the pri-
marics. Many drys do not under
stand the powers OF states attorneys
under the Illinois prohibition act
Accordingly officials in this office who
are candidates for reelection find it
easy to make dry voters believe that
they are doing all they can when in
reality they may be failing TO cnforsc
the law.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-02-08
COLORADO COURTS GIVE
VIOLATORS BIG SENTENCES

In Colorado l76 violators OF fed
eral dry laws were convicted and given
fines aggregating SIS, ,28S19 and Jail
sentences amounting to Is years, s
months and p days during ten
months period from January to Oc-
tober 81, according to John F. Vivian,
federal prohibition director for Colo
RADIO
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-02-08

: Known and loved throughout the
world is Miss Anna Gordon, national
and world president OF the Women's
Christian Temperance Union. Illinois
has the distinction of being the home
not only of the president of the Anti
Saloon League but also the home Of
Miss Gordon, who lives in Evanston.
Every Woman's Work in the Fight
Against Notification" is Miss Cor
don's convention topic.
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Canadian Authority Coming

J An important aud very timely addi-
ton to the program will be the adj
-dressesllto- be deiivered--hy Dr.-sBnn
Spense, general secretary of the
Dominion Alliance who will come from
Toronto, Canada, to the Illinois
League state convention. DR.. Spense
will speak at the 25th 'anniyerary
banquet on Thursday evening and also
at the Business Mems Luncheon on
Friday noon. At the banquet the
Canadian dry leader will answer the
propaganda OF the Chicago Tribune
relative to beer and wine and govern
mcnt liquor control in Montreal and
other parts OF Canada. No one is
more familiar with the real situation
relative TO crime and drunkenness
under government control than Dr.
Ben Spence. Coming at a time when
the Chicago Tribune through its news
and editorial columns is advocating the
liquor control system in effect in
Montreal as against the enforcement
OF prohibition it is expected that the
addresses OF DR.. Spence will be of
sensational interest.