The Coolidge examiner., 1938-03-17
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON

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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK.-Many years ago,
l ' in South America, this writer
was always hearing somebody NUT
ter "Perros!" (dogs), as he passed
by. 1t expressed
Propaganda dislike of all North
Trick Hurt Americans. Upton
u. S. Trade sinclair,s book (;
THE Jungle"
about the Chicago packing houses,
had been carefully mistranslated, in
widely circulated version, which
made multitudes of South Ameri-
cans believe all North Americans
ate dogs. Even in remote jungle
towns, I found European trade
scouts and statesmen making dill
gent use of the book. 1t was the
neatest trade propaganda trick Of
the century.
The one-sided battle has contin-
ued through the decades. Late re-
ports are that South American ra-
dio stations are betting Uncle Sam
with everything at hand, and, to
the same degree, apostrophizing It.
ally, Germany and Japan.
For this reason, there appears
to be more than meets the eye
In the printed story of our new
airwave rearmament, and the
assignment of new shOrt-wave
channel for broadcasts to South
America.
With Secretary Hull, DR.. L. S.
Rowe, director general of the Pan
American union, pleads for strong
er cultural ties in the first broad
cast. Spanish translations follow
the English version.
While all this is in the name of
peace and goodwill" and official
announcements carry no hint of a
defensive propa-
Radio Aids ganda war, it ap-
in Fighting pears to be the an
~ G Smear swer-perhaps the
only possible re-
ply-to the widespread smearing
campaign against the U. S. A. in
Latin American countries.
The sixty-six-year-old DR.. Rowe
is happy choice to head Ameri-
cas- cultural" if not propaganda,
outreach in this direction. He has
become widely known and decidedly
persona grata in South America in
his 80 years of pleading and prose-
lyting for solidarity, friendship and
understanding in the Americas.
He has fraternized with South
Americans more than any other
nOrtherner, lecturing, writing,
evangelizing and expOunding his
doctrines of friendly cO-Opera-
tiOn-always on the high plane
of cultural and intellectual inter-
course. He has been head of the
Pan-American union since 1920.
succeeding John Barrett.
7 IFE begins at forty for Oracle
IL Fields, English Music Hall &C.
tress, who curtsies to the king and
becomes commander of the Order
of the British En-
Jane Aiger pire. 1t is another
Career of Jane Alger story,
cto c+or this tale of the
Lancashire m II
girl who became the highest-paid
entertainer in the world.
Her earnings from her 5000, 900
gramophone records, and from the
stage and cinema have reached
$750,000 year. Her film, Mr..
Tower of London" ran seven years.
She lives simply with her
mother, who manages her af-
fairs, and never has anything
more than pocket money. Ev-
cry so often she visits ROchdale.
the mill town where she sang
for pennies at the age of seven,
and has a rollicking time, sing
ing for her old friends.
She was a ''haf-tmer" in the
cotton mills, half the day in school
and half at work.
In 1880, she made a brief appear
ance at the Palace theater in New
York. It wasn't
Act Spoiled much of a sue
by Fear of cess. She ex-
Gun-Chewers planned afterward
that she had been
warned in England that entire audi
ences in America chewed gum to-
gether and in time, with dreadful
facial contortions. This frightened
her and spoiled her act, although,
she admitted, there was only one
observable gurn-chewer.
She was glad to land safely in
England, where she is widely be-
loved and known as Good Old Ora
cie."
Just few days before her forti-
eth birthday, she returned home
from a party at four o'clock in the
morning. The milkman, the police
man on the beat and a street
sweeper tremendously handed her
O T1nornipC manor with her name in