New Britain herald., 1930-11-07
DUTCH IN GUIANA
 TAKE UP FLYING
Planes May Overcome Handicaps
 to Reach Rich Mines

i. Dutch airplanes may soar over < Dutch Guiana soon. The Dutch gov ernment has dispatched two aviation experts to it's South American col ony to confer with colonial officials 2 regarding aerial routes.
 Dutch Guiana and York state .Fare nearly equal in area, but there the comparison ends,' says q bulle-
 tn from Washington, D. C.~head- quarters of the National Gcogra phic ,Ssociety.
 =.s Five Rivers But Few Boats
 "Paramarlbo, the capital largest city and only port of any conse- aquencc on the colonys 24O mile sea scoast, has 45, ,000 inhabitants, Inl- ~proved roads radiate from the cap ital through the coastal lowlands hut many square miles of the in- terior arc uneXplored.
 One railroad, d single-tracked. S anarrow-gauge line 107 miles long, -'servcs a small segment of the colony. = Five rivers, some nayigable for large boats 100 miles inland, form eXcel- lent transportation arteries, but few
 
 other rich mineral deposits lie un- touched in the mountains. Vast for ests containing valuable woods have not echoed the hack of the lumber lacks axe.
 Dutch and New England Influence
 No one in Dutch GGuiana seems hurried The busiest place in the colony is the Paramaribo waterfront where black, kinky-headed steve dores in Ioin cloths lazily move about under sacks of sugar, coffee, and cases Of balata. three of the Fcolony's principal exports. Nearby other gangs Of negroes are loading the hold of an American ship with bauXitc destined for American fac tories where it is made into alumi- snum automobile pistons, cooking utensils, airplane cockpits, and a host of other aluminium products. "The gabled Dutch houses. num- zerous Dutch flags flying over the city and the presence of Dutch off scials in Paramaribo remind the traveller that he is in Dutch terri tory. But the clapboard dwellings with green shutters 1anking wide streets shaded by rows of trees; the corner grocery stores and here and s fhere a building which the native i guide tells you is built of brick from l Glastonbury. Connecticut, recall a 1 typical street in a New England vll- 1 1age. Connecticut shippers who once l ' piled between their home ports and | $ the Guiana coast promoted the New | :. England effect. Street Parade of Many Races
 stand on d Paramaribo corner i .and watch the crowd, and the Dutch 1 sand New England comparisons fade. i ,r4BlaCk brown, bronze, red, yellow l and white men jostlc one another. 1 Natives in striped jackets and white | ? overalls minglc with Javanese in | gaudy sarongs. Lanky, Hindu men | in turbans, and Hindu women, some | in silks and some in tattcrs trip | along 10 the tune Of jingling ank- | lets, bracelets, armlets, necklaces | and ear lobe ornaments. . sturdy Guiana Indians, Chinese | in pajamas, mustached Assyrians. l unshayen, sharp-eyed Turks, bcard- | ed Jews, Dutch settlers in helmets and a aprinkling of Portuguese French, British and Americans join the international parade.
 Hollywood movies constitute principal amusement in Paramaribo but equally as interesting to the \, trsvcler arc Javanese women shut filing along Paramaribo streets III l Dutch wooden shoes, ebony rahbis I.mjnistering in their focks of black "and brown Jews. and negro glris dressed in Kotto Missies. the volum- inous stiff national costumes or Dutch Guiana women.
 Bush People Fear Cameras "Nearly one half of Dutch Gniana's t25,000 inhabitants are pegroes. These include the bush negroes who are descendants Of slaves who fled to the bush before slavery was abolished in 1863. Fear . ing the jungles, bush negroes live in villages along the colony's five rivers. They neither reverted to African native customs, nor have they accepted the Guiana lndiah .t.ustoms. They think cameras nave evil eyes; their huts are museums ot things that shine and move. shiny oil lamps without oil, sewing ma e chimes without needles or thread, t.pieces Of patent leather and phono- ]. .eraphs without needles are prlzed .rossessiens.
 s "A bush negro's attraction among thc womenfolk depends upon the .numbcr of welts he can raise on ms face by filling deep, new cuts Wlth colored mud and adorning his klnky head with shiny safety pins and blts of metal. The women don many bracelets and anklets; cigarette and tobacco tins dangle from thelr num- erous necklaces,
 Indians live only in the coastal regions and the remote Jungies III Dutch Guiana. Between these re- .sions the negroes have driven them out because the red men allied themselves with the Dutch in thelr futile attempt to conquer the negroes. Treaties between the negroes and Dutch have brought neacc kctveen these races, If the traveler in Paramaribo gets ,limpse of negro in combination sdmiral's and generals unltornl' ac- romnanied by aides in top hats. 1t IS not q Dutch military or naval oiicer ,.fut the Grannaman, potentatc or t.fhe Dutch Guiana negro popula- . tien'