The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-09

Wallace Plans
to Pay Calls on
Latin Neighbors
BY Charles p. Stewart

BY Charles p. Stewart
Vice President Henry A. Wal.
lace. starting on a speaking tour
of Latin America, naturally has
World War conditions most urg-
emily in mind. Wallace cannot get
TO all our southern neighbors'
capitals; home demands on his
time are too imperative. How
ever, he will visit as many as he
can. Wallace is an effective mis-
sionary in that field, too, because
he is personally intensely inter
ested in 1t. having, among other
details, pretty well familiarized
himself with its couple of Ian
guages, Spanish and Portuguese.
He is even sufficiently enlightened
to recognize the not very decided
differences between them which
most amateur linguists do not.
Believe me, these southern folk
q have a daughter who's one of
them by birth) appreciate this
concern in their local affairs by
prominent Yankees. The fact is
that they are flattered by II. Time
was, not so long ago, when they
felt that they were being bossed,
or, at least, patronized by them.
! do not, a san old sojourner in
their midst, forgive Woodrow Will
son for giving them that impress
sion, or Ierbert Hoover, for ne
glecting to improve on it.
The current Washington re-
gime, though, has bumped itself to
win them over, and it has done
II capably. They are 95 per cent
we'll annexed. And, at doing so,
Henry Wallace has done fully his
fair share. Perhaps ii is a duty
to which the vice president has
the leisure to decote a little extra
activity, but Henry has employed
il for all he is worth-which Is a
lot.
1t is true that we still need GER
tain instructive hints.
Industratively, Senator Pat Nc
Carran, who prides himself as the
father of civil aviation, en-
phasizes the necessity OF educat-
ing our western hemispherical
Latins in the science of airman-
ship.
To be sure, our Wright brothers
invented flying. We were ahead
OF everybody else. And we have
the productive capacity to turn
out planes at a rate that the non
industrial Latin Americas can not
touch.
However, in the detail OF actual
air navigation, the Latins beat us,
and most of the rest of the world,
by miles.
II is easy to see why.
In the United States and in
Europe there were terrestrial
travel and transportation facili-
ties when aviation came in. The
Latins did not have them. They
had boats along their coasts and
some up-and-down movements on
their big rivers, but no rail lines
to speak Of
There was movement up-and-
down their coasts and the Anna
zon and Rio de la Plata, but no.
thing much inland.
1t took flying to develop the in
terror.
Consequently aviation immedi-
stely took" down there with a
bang.
From the Rio Grande to north
ern Patagonia air transport was
about the only passenger and
small-freight vehicle OF long-dist-
ance transport long after we
northern and European folk con-
tinued to rely chiefly upon choo-
choo cars and autos.
Those Latin Americans were
air-minded at least a decade ahead
Of US.
Africa and Asia were skinny
on surface facilities also, but they
did not need them as urgently as
Latin America did.
Latin America hustled accord
fngly. To be sure, it has not our
total volume OF aviation, but it
has more than our proportion OF
1t in actual civil operation. It
might be more in military opera
ton also, IL recalled on to utilize
It militarily.
Senator McCarran, though, dis
cusses the proposition civilianly.
He is discussing our status af-
ter the war.
The senator's complaint Is that
the two issues are being mixed to-
gether.
postwar is what he Is talk.
ing about.
Britain, he says. Is mindful al
ready OF postwar aerial prospects,
and we are neglectful OF future
calculations.
Internationalism Is involved in
II, on an aerial scale.
Senator McCarran sees II west.
ern hemispherically versus else
where.
So, apparently, dies Vice Presi.
dent Wallace. The vice president