Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-14
i. S.-N|CARAGUA
POLICY CRITICIZED
Speakers at Virginia Insti-
tute See Need for More
Sympathetic Program.
BY THOMAS Z. HENRY.
STAFF CORRESPONDENT of The Star.

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, August
i4-Advocacy of a more sympathetic
Nicaraguan policy characterized the
special session Of the Institute of Public
Affairs here yesterday devoted to
American relations with that Central
American republic.
There is little prospect Of withdraw
ing the Marines so long as the govern
ment continues its policy Of protecting
its right TO the Nicaragua canal route
by supporting one of the political fac
tions as president said Prof. ]. T. Cox
OF Northwestern University
For IS years, he said, I'VE have
pursued certain policy, President
Roosevelt said he wanted to see the
dirt fiy iii Nicaragua He started a lot
of dirt he didn't know about If we
are going 10 continue that policy. as a
one- sided United States policy. We have
60. 10 keep our troops in Nicaragua we
have got 10 support one Of the forces
I'm that country"
The situation Is complicated, said
Prof Roscoe HUI. member Of the Mica
racuan high commission, by the fact
that there is intense bitterness between
the two main political factions in Mica
rscBa which dates from two original
groups in colonial times,
Sacasa Man Speaks.
II vill cost Nicaragua. he said, be-
tween s60o0.00 and $1,000 900 TO pay
for her -and-a-half years OF revolu-
ton. besides S2.5o00o0 which the peo-
pie already have paid
A different note was sounded by Or.
7 Sevdel Vaca. representative of the
SacaSa faction in the United States.
Tots
had not been justified in intervention
Three reasons are given. DR. Vaca said
These are protection of American lives
and property. support of the Monroe
Doctrine and the Nicaraguan canal
issue. "Au are false" he declared
There has been no threat to American
property IN Nicaragua. he said until
recent months, when SANDING has de-
stToyed some American property in
retaliation.
The canal" he said. pops up every
time there is some political disturbance
IN Nicaragua. I doubt whether they
will build any canal at all because there
are natural disadvantages in volcanic
erupti0ns and also 1t is very hard. on
business basis. TO have two canals
doubling expense and military defense
AS for the supposed corollary to the
Monroe Doctrine. Nicaragua had only
q very small foreign debt, amounting to
six or seven million dollars. very small
indeed for the resources and income Of
the country. After II years Of Ameri-
can Intervention it is about the same
Bankers Built Nothing.
Nicaragua. in spite Of all its short
comings. was a country that was get
ting along fairly well On the road to
progress building up schools. railroads,
telegraphs and telephone lines out of
It's own resources. Tf1sfe is nothing in
Nicaragua today that has been built
by the bankers Of American interven-
ton. All the railroads in Nicaragua
have been built by the people Of the
so far as the actual situation in
Nicaragua is concerned" said Arthur
Ruhl OF the New York Herald Tribune,
there is nothing to do but go ahead
and give the Nicaraguars fair and
free election. promised them when Col
Stimson made his peace agreement with
Gen. Moncada year ago This was
solemn promise and must be fulfilled
whatever embarrasments-Sa for
1nstarce-nay arise meanwhile"
The population Of the United States
probably will become stationary at ap-
225 900, 900 people, which,
at the present rate Of increase, will be
some time in the twenty-flrst
century DR. Lewis c. Gray of the Blu
reau Of Agricultural Economics of the
Of Agriculture predicted at
the round table discussion Of farm con-
citlonE
On the German scale Of living, he
SAID. 9 total population Of about $780,
O00, 900 could be supported, and on the
japanese scale approximately l.00o,-
600 600. He predicted, however. that the
high scale Of living which has become
customary TO Americans would prevent
them from allowing the population TO
increase where a lower standard would
be necessary.
Meanwhile, Or. Gray said, the utiliza-
tton Of the land for food crops in Amer
lea has run ahead of the population,
largely due to earlier efforts Of the Gov
eminent 10 extend cultivation into all
parts Of the country by giving away the
pubic Lands 10 those vino would agree
70 farm them and bring waste land into
fertility by irrigation and drainage.
South Coming Back.
Agricultural production, on the whole.
vas IL per cent greater in 1927 than
the average for the 1925 period. al
though the population had increased
only 8 per cent.
DR.. Gus A. Dyer of Vanderbilt Uni
versity said that the agricultural prob
lem Of the South was being met by
a new industrial revolution, which is
taking industry, centralized in the cities
By the first industrial revolution, and
cecentral1zing it." He pointed out that
under this condition North Carolina re-
gently had increased in wealth faster
than any State IN the Union because
OF Dew factories. yet 't1ere is not a
single large city IN North Carolina" The
biggest printing establishment in the
United States. he said. recently had
been established in q little town in the
Tennessee Mountains, the Dupont in
tereSts are building rayon factories
through small towns in Virginia and
that the condition Of one Of the most
poYerty-stricken counties IN Virginia
had been completely changed by a sue
ceSsion Of furniture Ssctories
This decentralization Of industry. !"
Or. Dyer said. no. only provides the
farmer with local market for his
products, but enables him 10 get a Job
III the factory nearest his home and
make agriculture only part~time job"
thus reducing his production and cut
ting down the surplus He saw eventual
~ Southern population where factories
would be 50 interspersed with farms that
the population would be about half in
c2Gtrlai and half agricultural
All the speakers agreed that refOTegfa~