Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-24
Practical NeishborIiness

of the pfacuCal need
IS 1t1 ff3F- 04 ~ THE NEM WORLD SOURCES OF
SUPPLY OF CRITICAL AND SCARCE MATERIALS.
INToUCH with the realities the businessmen who direct
i the United Fruit Company showing more states
manship than public officials.
mainly due 10 this companys efforts and enter
prise that the Latin American banana plantations
developed and then saved from destruction by unpredct
sbe plant diseases.
Looking at the fundamentals Of today and tomorrow,
this company has disclosed plan to help neighbors
TO the south develop other products which hitherto
imported largely from the Far East under wartime
blockade
Among these products for which new AMERICAN
SOURCES are to be developed rubber manila hemp,
ounine palm oil and other items in which shortages
threatened since the Japanese advance into the
southern Pacific and Australasia.
If this wise policy be perpetuated and extended
after the war then the Hull policy of generazed tariff
policies to all countries will have to be revised voded
If infant industries in Latin America to be
encouraged preferential tariff arrangements with Latin
America will be in order.
II EAL neighboriness with Latin America will hinge on
encouraging the people to the south of to produce
materials which need and will buy.
For unless a basis of equality of exchange be
established, there be permanently satisfactory
economic relationships between North and South America
Grasping this truth, the United Fruit Company
revealed;
lit and VIII continue TO be lundaInental OF
this company to utilize its organization and its tropical
assist native population in growing such
products without expectation of profit TO the company
other than good will from friendly neighbors
If the policy succeeds the company will no doubt
benefit through it's shipping service to Latin America and
through its vast investment in the present banana
growing
This constructive program indicates that the logic of
events Will stress the need for national at least
hemisphere self-containment
WHILE the late Francis P Garvan head of the Chem
w cal Foundation Inc. preaching this doctrine of
enlightened economic natonalism since the first
world war domestic nternationaists including Henry
A Wallace were fighting him at every turn.
In his book New Frontiers" written in 1884 Mr..
Wallace from the internatonalist viewpoint, OPPOSED
suggestions of making the United States independent and
self-sufficient in the matter of rubber production
In a recent magazine article Mr.. Wallace has revised
himself.
He predicts that within IS years "al the rubber
production in the British and Dutch East Indies WILL
BE NEEDED, BY ASIA ~
Mr. Wallace continues:
I'VE should prepare for the day of greatest increased
rbber consumption by pushing the production of rubber
from the hyieldng strains of rubber trees from
TROPICAL AMERICA.
THE scientists know that this job can be done.
"The problem is to get far-visoned cooperation"
THE United Fruit Company is doing exactly as Mr..
Wallace Delatedy advises and was well started on the
operation long before Mr. Wallace the necessity it.
Producing crude rubber for ourselves in Central and
South America will not only give to the United States
adjacent and safe supply of natural rubber-by the
normal processes of international trade which is simply
exchange Of merchandise it will provide permanently
expanding markets for the products Of American factories
and American farms and American labor.
The fact, further, that the United Fruit plan
braces such additional materials vegetable oils and
quinine has farreaching significance for national
health and national security, well for
mercia stability
THIS country is face to face with wartime shortage
l Of glycerne, prime military necessary. DUE TO
THE LOSS OF FAR EASTERN SOURCES OF SUPPLY
Palm oil produced in large quantities in Central and
South America would of this critical
shortage.
Quinine, like rubber originated in Latin America, yet
due to our negligence and preoccupaton the past
became dependent upon the Orient for qunne and the
battles Of Baaan and Corregdor lost large part
because 4 LACK OF OT+ININF made orr defenders of