White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-11-10

Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washington D. C.-WNU Service
~ 10 DE JANEIRO, which recent
~ ly has been disturbed by polit
ical strife involving several
Brazilian states, basks on the
golden sands almost astride the Tropic
of Capricorn.
To enter this great world port you
walk down the gangplank and straight
out into formal garden with big
bronze fountain. This leads off into
Fifth-avenuelike boulevard, which in
turn flows into a wide, world-famous
beach drive, past embassies, clubs, and
palms and geometric gardens Dingy
docks, pawn shops, pool halls, quick
and-dirty cafes, cheap rooming houses,
runners, dirt, smells-all the trash
and claptrap Of many other water
fronts are missing here.
Out in the bay, the startling profiles
of singular peaks rise in their bulk
like elephants sitting in grotesque
pose. They include the much-photo-
graphed Sugar Loaf, and the oddly
shaped Corcovado or Hunchback.
Rising fully 1000 feet and almost
straight out of the sea, Sugar Loaf is
easily Rios outstanding landmark.
Incoming air pilots, if half lost in fog
Or rain, hail it's familiar outlines with
grunts of relief. In queer aerial
trolley-a dizzy trip which is a SUI
preme triumph for the nervous-yOu
can reach it's top in two laps. The
first stage carries you to the top of
Urea; there, If still conscious, you
ride on up to the crest of Sugar Loaf
for a balloonlike view Of the bay and
city.
Look at this spectacular city from
Sugar Loaf Hunchback, or any high
angle, and you see how smoothly in
mass, form, and color it harmonizes
with the shape and shades of it's ter
restrial environment.
You observe that it is cohesive, one
work Of art; yet it is not solid city,
with a checkerboard pattern of blocks
and squares squeezed into rigid "city
limits" like Leipzig or Indianapolis.
Something easy, loose, and fluent in
It's multicolored distribution makes you
feel that Rio is simply flowing down
the mountains about it in graceful
architectural streams, then coming to
rest in quiet valleys and on sandy
beaches.
Seen From the Air.
Fly over it and it's marvels only null
tiply; it has so many parts, sections,
and suburbs; and in it's pattern, from
the sky, it looks like great paint
spotted easel of blue water, yellow
sand, green trees, red roofs, pink and
blue walls. Think Of all these col
ored parts turning round and round
like the odd-formed. bits of colored
glass in an old-fashined kaleidoscope
Then you can imagine exactly how Rio
turns, a mile above it, on a bright
clear day.
Back to earth, on the famous Ave
nida Rio Branco, the Inter den Lin
> den or Fifth avenue of Rio de Janeiro
you meet the city at it's best; also, ia
, miliar big-town sights, sounds, ant
:, smells make you feel normal here ant
much at home.
New York papers, any popular Nortl
. American magazine, chewing gum from
Chicago, your own favorite brand O
safety razor, cigarettes, fountain pen
writing or talking machine sport road
, ster, ice-box, or cupboard motorboat-
: all are here, with all their fanilia
show-window placards that greet yo1
on Main street anywhere from Syria
cuse to Seattle. Likewise, radio sets
grooming to crowds the latest Broad
way "hits"; displays of North Amer
lean cameras; enlarged snaps of loca
bathing beauties having Brazilian cit"
groups Of soccer players; the dar
horse that paid 20 to l at last Sur
/ days races and his popular jockey
r pictured peeping through a big horse
p shoe of flowers.
n And Rio, window-shopping here
looks In on Paris perfumes, soap!
chapeaux, gowns and lingerie; Germa
n etchings, water colors, oils, and shelve
v of drugs and surgical instruments an
hardware English rackets, balls. cricl
ct sets, saddles, socks, hats and pipes
- and, most significant of all, the stead
4 march of Brazils own manufacturing
revealed in huge stocks of textile
, leather, shirts, clothing, dishes, DIR,
:. goods, toys, shoes. and packaged foo
:" all made in Brazil |"
This wide, resplendent avenue, or
:. and an eighth miles long, lined wit
beautiful trees, and piercing the Gil
from the Beira Mar to the piers, W.
boldly opened only two decades as
in the ambitious plan for better cit