Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-05-05
EDITORS STUDYING
MOTOR PROBLEMS
Latin American Journalists
Tour of U. S. Seen as Aid
to Nation.
BY WILLIAM ULLMAN.

EN- ROUTE WITH THE LATIN
AMERICAN JOURNALISTS. May 5
Visiting the Oakland, Pontiac and
Fisher body plants this morning, with
Buick and Chevrolet on the list for
this afternoon and the Studebaker
factory at South Bend scheduled Tor
tomorrow morning. Uncle SANS ed
itorial guests from the Southern re-
publics are being given taste of the
high speed tor which this great land
of ours is widely noted.
And, best of all, the Nations friends
and visitors from the Andes. the
Amazon. the Antilles and the land
of the Aztec are enjoying 1t all i'm
menselv,
However. digging down beneath the
surface of this tour OF the American
automotive industry the careful OBJ
server will find a number of highly In
teresting and Significant factors al
work.
May Affect Al Owners.
The trip, cncompassing most of the
large manufactures. has dennte
economic meaning besides being
friendly and hoSpitable gesture IN oe-
half of the visiting journalists from
our sister continent. This Journey
through the country's leading motor
vehicle producing plants. attended by
prominent directors of Latin Amerl.
can thought, in all probability VIII
have such wide effect that every
notential domestic car owner VIII reel
the reaction.
To begin at the very beginning ana
trace some important threads ieaolnS
out Of the central m rs
Latin America is at the start OIL It's
sutomotive development. and its po-
sition in that respect in 1926 CORE,
sponds. roughly, to that OF the Inited
States in 1906.
That means, among other things,
the following:
~, The number of automotive We
hicles H., 4 passenger and commercial,
is relatively limited.
(2). Eoau conditions are poor III
many sections.
Need. Better Transportation.
If there IS any one thing that Latin
America needs above anything else
In order to achieve the economic po-
sition which she is bending every eff
fort to gain 1t is adequate transports
ton facilities.
a nation or a community may nave
the finest factory in the world. ana II
there is no way, no easy. simple ana
cheap way 10 transport It's products
to the market place, that mandatory
il doomed 10 become overgrown with
weeds, its machinery rusted ana 10
have it's productive capacity aborted.
A given spot may grow the most
marvellous wheat or the most succu--
lent vegetables. and if there are no
means at hand to move the crops they
are destined to rot in the fields, serv-
Ing only the wants of neighboring till
ers of the soil. The whore wide world
may need the products OF those fields
may be willing to pay 4 handsome
price in money or commodities. but
unless adequate transportation IL
available nothing can be accomplished.
1t is we'll to bring out the essen
TALLY OF quick, reas enable and re-
liable transportation, because in this
country it's prevalence is SO common
that absence of it in other potentially
great territories is overlooked.
Tour Opens New Vista.
Latin America problem-or at
ieas, one OF it's leading problems--is
that of transportation. Prominent
Latin Americans long have realized
that a secret of this country's great
ness lies IN its manifold means OF
communication. and they have been
particularly enSrosSed in the develop
ment of the automobile as common
carrier of freight and passengers as
well as in it's binding force in private
intercourse.
This tour of inspection will mean,
then, the opening of new transporta-
ton vista for d group OF men VINO
WELD broad public power, who are
capable of forming widespread opinion
along constructive lines. II means
that they will carry back with them
American ideas OF motor transporter
ton. They will go back to their re-