Evening star., 1929-12-01
DR.. Arsueta, Honduran
Envoy. EminentA mone
Nations $ Medical Men
Successor to Senor Boeran
in Diplomatic Corps Also
Is Classed With Republic s
Most Powerful Leaders.

Two Central American republics have
recently sent to Washington as their
ENJOYS men who have won first honors
in the medical professionals. SacaSa
of Nicaragua and the Minister from
Honduras, DR.. ErneSto Argueta. Al
though the new minister, DR.. Argueta,
successor of Senor Luis Bogran, has fol-
lowed his healing art throughout his
career, he Is also reckoned the most
powerful political leader in the republic
Colindres.
A native of Juticalpa, he made his
elementary studies in the schools of
that city, and, selecting medicine as his
life work. he entered the college Of the
University of Guatemala and took his
degree with signal honors in medicine
and surgery, and this before he had
attained his twenty-third year. Among
the honors secured in his scholastic
years the Minister is proud that he was
in his undergraduate term chosen to
represent his class in the third Central
American Student Congress-. held in
Managua in 1908.
Has Held Important Posts
In the Public Service.
In the political field DR.. Argueta has
been called to posts in the public Serv-
| ice which usually mark the gradationS
into the higher realm. After success
| ful practice in surgery, the young med
leo was called to the professorship in
the Central University of Honduras, ir
| Tegucigalpa, the capital. There he
found time to edit the most prominent
medical journal of the country and tC
write articles on modern sanitation and
hygiene which attracted instant atten-
ton and led to public meetings and re-
forms along the lines suggested. Logi-
cally, when the voters of the Honduran
capital sought for mayor the best ex-
ponent of progress they elected DR.
Argueta. From mayor he was made
Minister to Guatemala. AS physician,
served as president of the International
Central American Office, and he has
had experience in diplomacy also as
minister to Guatemala. AS physicians
professor of medicine and practical
politician DR.. Argueta has gathered all
his convictions into the weighty book
"Olancho y su Progreso," considered his
most valuable contribution to contem-
! parary literature. A member of the In
| ternational geographical and historic
| societies Of Paris and of Central Amer
lea, articles from his pen are found in
many publications. He is also a mem
Der Of the Scientific and Literary Acad-
emy OF Honduras and of the Ateneos Of
Honduras, Salvador and Guatemala.
The Minister and his family are
pleasantly domiciled for the Winter al
1922 Rhode Island avenue, and they are
already active in the amenities of Latir
America and in general society.
Sonora Argueta Member
or Prominent Family.
Sonora Argueta has filled many role.
gracefully, and being the wife of {
celebrity in four different fleldS-states
shlp-she has acquired all the accom-
plishments necessary to a successful re-
gime In Washington.
Sne is much younger than her distin
gulshed husband, and the marriage Il
OF comparatively recent date. There i
one child. son, about a year old
Sonora Argueta belongs to we'll estab
ilsned FAMILY of Tegucigalpa, and wa!
before her marriage Senorita Albertins
ArlaZ. OI the two young ladies in tn,
family OF the Honduran Minister
Senorita Rosa Argueta is his sister AMI
Senorita Paca Ariaz is the daughter O
senora's brother. Both will spend tn,
Winter in Washington and mingle &C
lively in the Latin American and il
general society.
The Minister and all his family circle
are keenly interested in music and il
the Pan-American development in par
ticular Senorita Rosa is a student o
instrumental music, specializing in tn
piano. but the entire family play on tn
usual instruments of the South an,
sing. very well besides. They are ais
Hospitality inclined, and have alread
given many large and important func
tions for the officials of the Pan-Amer
ican Union and the Central American
wins,