Evening star., 1930-10-30
FLYING TAKEN UP
BY DUTCH GUIANA
Government Sends Experts
to Colony for Conferences
on Plane Routes.

Dutch airplanss soon may soar over
Dutch Guiana. The Dutch govern
ment has dispatched two aviation ex-
perts to its South American colony to
confer with colonial cf1icials regard
ing aerial routes,
"Dutch Guiana and New York State
are nearly equal in area, but there the
comparison ends" says a, bulletin from
the National Geographic Society.
"Paramaribo, the capital. largest city
and only port of any consequence on
the colony's 240-mile sea coast, has
radiate from the capital through the
coastal lowlands. but many square
miles of the interior are unexplored.
"One railroad, a single-tracked. mar
row-gauge line 107 miles long, serves
a small segment of the colony. Five
rivers, some navigable for large boats
100 miles inland form excellent trans
portation arteries. but few vessels plv
the streams. Gold and other rich
mineral deposits lie untouched in the
mountains. Vast forests containing
valuable woods have not echoed the
hack of the lumberjack's ak.
Dutch and New England Influence.
mo one in Dutch Guiana seems hur-.
ried. The busiest place in the colony
Is the Paramaribo water front where
black. kinky-haired stevedores In loin
cloths lazily move about under sacks
of sugar, coffee and cases OF balata,
three of the colony's principal exports.
Nearby other gangs of workers are
loading the hold of an American ship
with bauxite destined for American
factories where 1t is made into alumni
mum automobile pistons, cooking uten-
sis. airplane cockpits. and a host Of
other aluminium products.
"The gabied Dutch houses, numerous
Dutch flags flying over the city. and
the presence of Dutch oficials in
Paramaribo remind the traveller that
he is in Dutch territory. But the
clapboard dwellings with green shut
ters flanking wide streets shaded by
rows of trees; the corner grocery stores
and here and there building which
the native guide tells you is built Of
brick from Glastonbury, Conn.,, recall
a typical street in q New England VII
lage. Connecticut shippers who once
piled between their home ports and the
Guiana coast promoted the New Eng
land effect.
Street Parade Of Many Races.
"Stand on a Paramaribo corner and
watch the crowd, and the Dutch and
New England comparisons fade. Black.
brown. bronze, red yellow and white
men jostle one another. Natives in
striped jackets and white overalls
mingle with Javanese in gaudy 6arongs.
Lanky Hindu men in turbans, and
Hindu women some In silks and some
in tatters trip along to the tune OF
jingling anklets, bracelets. armlets.
necklaces and ear-lobe ornaments.
sturdy Guiana Indians, Chinese in
pajamas, mustached Assyrians, un-
.shaven. sharp-eyed Turks; bearded
Jews. Dutch settlers in helmets and a
sprinkling Of Portuguese, French,
British and Americans join the inter-
national parade.
Hollywood movies constitute q
principal amusement in Paramaribo.
but equally as interesting to the
traveller are Javanese women shuffiing
along Paramaribo streets In Dutch
wooden shoes. ebony rabbis ministering
to their focks of black and brown
Jews, and colored girls dressed In
Kotto Missiles, the voluminous stin ma
tional costumes Of Dutch Guiana
women.
~ Bush People Fear Cameras.
Nearly one-half of Dutch Guiana's
125.0e0 inhabitants are Negroes These
descendants Of slaves who fed to the
bush before slavery was abolished in
1853. Fearing the jungles. bush
Negroes live in villages along the
colony's five rivers They neither re-
verted to African native customs, nor
have they accepted the Guiana Indian
customs They think cameras have
evil eyes: their huts are museums Of
things that shine and move. Shiny
oil lamps without oil. sewing machines
without needles or thread, pieces Of
patent leather and Photographs with
out needles are prixed possessions.
"a bush Negro's attraction among
the womenfolk depends upon the num-
ber of welts he can raise on his face
by filling deep. new cuts with colored
mud and adorning his kinky head
with safety pins and bits of metal.
The women don many bracelets and
anklets; cigarette and tobacco tins
dangle from their numerous necklaces:
Indians live only in the coastal
regions and the remote jungles in
Dutch Guiana Between these regions
the Negroes have driven them out be-
cause the red men allied themselves
with the Dutch in their futile attempt
to conquer the Negroes Treaties be-
tween the Negroes and Dutch have
brought peace between these races. II.
the traveller In Paramaribo gets q