Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23

States with less than $500 people
Altogether they constituted 42.013,G00
persons, or 1913 per cent Of the entire
population. These millions lived on
farms and In small communities. In
dustrial life In big way meant little
to them.
But today. thanks to the transmission
of power. factories are springing up in
the smaller cities and the population il
shifting to the smaller places. The
open spaces OF 10 years ago are begin
ming to take on life since the advent
of the automobile. the telephone. the
radio and the electric transmission line.
This fact stands out now--that the
chronological revolution of the last 80
years hos forced the existing layout Of
cities and the distribution of popula
ton out Of plumb with the new cppor-
tunities.
little pamphlet called Americas New
Frontier" issued by The Middle West
Utilities Co. of Chicago. and read the
absorbing story.
You'll be surprised. too.
Brazil is the worlds greatest meat
market. But the recent craze Of cut
| ting down on meat consumption threat
! ems her great industry.
This South American country has
about 100000 square miles of poten-
! tiaI land in Central and Southern
! Brazil. which, at the present time, is
! not being used With an active pOpu-
/ iation. passable roads and few lines
of trunk railroad. this fertile and very
/ rich tertiary would support millions Of
! farmers more than they have today.
! Cattle can be raised best on a large
scale where land Is cheap and plenty
of it is available. This Brazil has in
( abundance
American packing interests entered
| Brazil In a large way about 10 years
/ ago. The Armour interests have built
! huge packing plant, said to have
( cost $40 100000, in Sac Paulo flikewtse
! the coffee center of BRAZIL. This plant
has daily capacity OF 1000 cattle ana
5000 hogs.
/ In recent years neither the cattleman
nor the packer has made money. In
1877 Brazil exported 66000000 kilos,
! in 1920 63.000.G0o kilos and in 1924 but
| 81 600 600 kilos.
why? The British Isles. her chief
market. has cut down on meat con-
sumption. and the vegetarian fad III
/ the United States has also hac us ell
feet ii reducing meat consumption
In Brazil the packers have been at
work stimulating interest i'll pure bred
cattle. The zebu is being abandoned,
and the bringing in OF ptlre-bred ca,tie
has greatly reduced the mortality Que
TO ticks and Texas fever. AS conditions
become more normai--and already a
decade has been spent on the process
Brazil will command all even more I'M
portai,t place than she has in the past.
The Brazilian cowboy is what the
American cowboy was 30 years ago.
He lives, on So. a month aud sub
sists on a diet Of rice, beans. drieo meat
and coffee.
But that kind Of cowboy has long
since gone from the great plains OF
Western United States and Canada.
When J. r. Sartori. president NJ the
Secuyity-First National Bank of Los
Angeles. the dean of the West CoaSs
bankers. returned recently from ms
annual vacation trip TO Europe he MADE
the statement that GERMANY is very
busy in the building trades. because nor
inclination seems 20 he Ito employ sur
plus funds in physical Improvements
rather than 20 deposit them IN BANKS
and invest them in securities.
In this matter Germany is doing what
every other nation under like condl-
tons would probably do. She has been
through the nightmare of debased
money and her people have seen their
securities and bank deposits vanish into
thin air. Naturally Germanv's inciina-
ton would be 70 put her assets into
things her people know cannot be taken