The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-09
CAPE HORN TO
CANADA ROAD,
HOOVER HOPE
Scenic Highway Stretching
Length of Continents Is
His Dream.
SCENERY is MARVELLOUS
Mountains, Deserts, Ruins
AgeS-0Id on Proposed
North South Route.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Foreign Editor, Seripps-Howard News
papers.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The
early completion of a 7,000-mile
automobile highway stretching
temptingly from away up in Canada
almost down to Cape Horn is one
of the likely results of Herbert Hoo
ver's visit to Central and South
America.
The highway will be the tourists
delight, the prize scenic route of the
world. Starting from your own front
door you will be able to make your
way over paved roads to the Mexi-
can border and thence on through
an amending garden of wonders.
You will see every variety of
country and pass through every
category of climate, frigid tempera-
ture and torrid. You will cross fiat
plains and wind your way through
some of the highest mountains the
earth affords; past gardens of Eden
and across deserts where mirage
succeeds mirage.
Peru Has Famed Ruins
The civilized raved over the dis
covery of King Tut's tomb. Tour
lists annually flock to Egypt and
the Nile country, to Rome, Greece
and Palestine to view what is left
of dead civilizations.
In Peru, right here in
the So-called new world,
there are ruins every bit as inter
esting in their way as those of the
old world, preserved reminders of
a people who flouriShed long before
Christ was born, but of whom we
Americans, as yet, know next to
nothing.
The great Pan American highway
will reach from your garage to these
ancient ruins and thousands of
miles beyond.
What a chance for a future vaca-
ton! The proposed road-crosSing
Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Hon
ciuraS, Nicaragua. Panama, Column
bia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile
lengthwise, with eaSt-and-
feeders carrying you out into the
jungles or up over the Andes-will
bring the whole Western hemis-
phere within the limits of your own
playground, granted that you can
extend your vacation for a while.
Links Are Important
To promote a real understanding
between the United States and
Latin-America, there is no doubt
that the President-elect's attaches
first Importance to the question of
communications-highways, airways,
steamship lanes and the telegraph,
to facilitate a more complete ex-
change of news and views.
Being an engineer, Hoover sees
the material obstacles in the way
of such a railway. South of Panama
it could not anything like pay ex-
penses, even today. Building rail-
roads in sparsely settled. mountain
Gus country is costly business.
So an automobile highway is ia
vored instead. 1t is more economi-
cal, represents less capital. opens
= up the country better, and permits
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between peoples.
Thousands of miles of paved road
already exists along the route of
the proposed highway, particularly
in Canada. the United States, and,
to less extent, in Mexico. Salvador,
Costa RIGA, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
and Chile.
The other countries willsbe urged
to help close up the gaps, not, how
ever, just to provide. the worlds
erandest and longest scenic boule-
ward for joy-riders. but as bust
ness proposition, which will pay for
itself by aiding in the more rapid
d, veIopment of the countries thus
or med.