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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Thanksgiving and Christmas several thousand miles from
home, in a land of foreign speech and customs. Can you
imagine that? True it is that many thousands of Americans
in the military service, all the branches—army, air, navy
and diplomatic, have been in foreign lands during our great
holidays, but they were with other Americans.
How would you like to be the only American in a remote
foreign land? That was my experience.
It might refresh you to set aside our ordinary cares,
along with political shenanigan and clap trap.
I’m going to give you a glimpse of my early days in South
America.
I had a political job, one might say, though I was an ap
pointed official and not subject to popular whims. However
no one can hold any position capably who is not understand
ing and sympathetic. The Spaniard usually says of some
one who impresses him favorably “muy simpatico M or “Una
persona tan simpatica,” meaning a pleasing, gracious per
son, just a wee bit different from our word sympathetic.
So, even though one may not court public favor he will be
wise to try to deserve the goodwill of the public.
I sailed on a Grace boat from New York, going North of
Cuba, coming close to Haiti and Jamaica, stopping overnight
at Christobal, the eastern port at the Panama Canal. The
adjoining city is Colon, the two meaning Christopher Co
lumbus, in Spanish.
At break of day we entered the Canal, being lifted and
lowered and then riding the Gatun Lake for six hours. We
then tied up at Balboa the western port of the Canal. It,
too, has a city adjoining—Panama.
Christobal and Balboa are American cities, while Colon
and Panama are Panamanian.
On every cruise there is someone who knows everybody
and everything. We had a lady aboard who pointed out to
an Admiral all the points of the Canal. The ship’s comment
was “Grandma is giving the old boy the low-down.”
In time we dropped anchor at Callao, the principal port of
Peru. Ships do not tie up to the docks there; they anchor
a mile or two out in the deep and the passengers go ashore
in’launches, the passengers sometimes doing a bit of jump
ing as the ship rolls and the waves run high. I’ve seen
women caught by sturdy Indian flateros as the jump was
not promising.
I spent some weeks in Lima and then set out for Cajam-
arca.
Do you like sea trips? Well, what about mountain trav
el? All in good time. The Government had appointed me
Director of the Northern Region (Director Regional del
Norte). My'territory extended from Lima clear up to
Ecuador and Colombia on the North; and across to Brazil
on the Ea3t. Of course the Pacific Ocean was the western
boundary. The equator runs through Ecuador, hence the
name. Ecuador is Spanish for equator.
In my territory were hundreds of miles of the mighty
Amazon River with its great river port 2700 miles up the
river from the Atlantic Ocean. So deep is that river that
great ships used to come from Liverpool, England, direct
to Iquitos, for rubber.
i Thousands of square miles of my territory are vast un
inhabited regions.
I sailed from Callao, forty eight hours to the port of
Pacasmayo. There I sent my eight assistants on various
errands, one to make hotel arrangements. When I came
ashore they met me, accounting for their several missions,
and they said “WE naturally reserved the best room for
you, Senor Director.” I went to see it. If mine happened
to be the best what had they reserved for themselves ? They
were right; I had the best! My, My! A room without win
dows, and but a solid door. As I insisted on sleeping with my
door open a soldier lay across the threshold all night, right
there within clear view of the ocean.
* When we started by rail for Chilete, the end of the rail
road, three thousand feet in the Andes, I did not know that
a reception had been prepared for me at Tembladero, a
lunch stop. A committee came aboard with all the genuflex
ions of a Spaniard and escorted us to a room in a nearby
adobe house where almuerzo (lunch) was ready. All were
Indians, though virtually all had attended high school. The
almuerzo consisted of rice and beans, rice and eggs, rice
and meat etc. — 6 plates with rice on each one. They knew
nothing about gravy, V so the eggs, for example, covered the
rice. And much lard!
Fd spent the night in hovels in Chilete and my military
escort waa ready to accompany me to Cajamarca.
There were no roads, except mere bridle paths up, and
over and down the Andes Mountains.
Each of us had a horse to ride and a horse to carry his
baggage.
We started early in the morning and climbed the narrow
paths cut in the rock, the great chasms just below us.
v Along the path we met burrows carrying boxes strapped
aeross their backs. They carried the freight. One notable
[On was that a rich man imported a piano for his
WELCOME CHEER FROM OUR SPACE SMP
daughters and it was carried by twenty Indians over the
mountains, about a hundred miles. As long as an Indian
has a coca leaf under his tongue he works without food or
drink, yet without fatigue. Those young ladies often play
ed Protestant hymns for me from a hymnal given to me
by the Scottish missionaries in Lima.
We travelled till night and stopped at a place called
Namas, a hotel that made the place in Pacasmayo shine
with grandeur by comparison.
In my room was a single cot. I shared it with a delight
ed gentleman from Scotland, a missionary whose complete
devotion and dedication earned my lasting esteem and affec
tion. The fleas almost devoured him, but my acid blood re
pelled them from me. And then on crossing the Cumbre
(summit) of the Andes at 13,000 feet and dropping to 8,-
000 feet. And that was Cajamarca.
Cajamarca!
This old town, once known as Caxamalca, was reache3
from Callao after two days at sea, one day on the ferrocar-
rill (Rail Road) and two days horseback, climbing and de
scending the' narrow mountain-edge trail. Coming down
you just trust your horse not to slip.
On one of my trips from Cajamarca to Lima I chartered
an auto-carrill—a Hudson car with flanged wheels and it
was a “special” which the rail road had for the emergen
cies between Chilete and Pacasmayo. My esteemed friend,
B. M. Edwards, who is also a great rail road man, as well
as a great banker, should have a Cadillac with flanged
wheels for his travels over the Seaboard.
In that auto carrill I travelled round the curves and
gorges, looking down the cavernous peaks, but just as
we reached the sandy levels near the ocean the auto carrill
jumped the track. It might so easily have landed me in
the foamy river a mile below! I must have been spared for
something.
Cajamarca, eight thousand feet above the sea, was a re
sort or resting place of El Inca (the emperor) and here was
Atahualpha, El Inca, taking the baths when Pizarro and
his small company arrived. We may condemn those Span
iards for strangling Atahualpa but we must admire the
intrepid spirit and hardihood that drove the Spaniards
hundreds of miles along a route nobody would take even
now!
The Spaniards seized Atahualpa, his followers thinking
the Spaniards were gods, as they regarded El Inca as a god.
In other words, the higher gods seized their god. The Span
iards offered Atahualpa a choice between being burned to
death, or strangled, if he accepted Christianity. Atahualpa
accepted Christianity and so was mercifully (?) strangled.
What crimes have been committed in the name of the
lowly Jesus!
I meant to tell you about Thanksgiving and Christmas,
far away, with no carols, no music, no gifts and giving, no
observance of Bethlehem, as you and I know it.
Now for Thanksgiving: I began in October to wonder
about a mince pie. A pie! No one had ever seen a pie!!
First the mince meat. No one knew about mince meat. I
told my friend and Secretary, Fausto Santolalla, about a
pie. As usual he tried to draw one. First about the mince
meat: in one of my exploratory trips I found a crock of Eng
lish mince meat in a tienda (store) in the City of Chiclayo.
I asked no questions about age or previous condition or
whether it could walk or not. Santolalla and I tried to tell
a Senora Garcia about mince pie. Neither Santolalla nor
the Senora Garcia had ever seen or heard of a pie. The
Senora made a sort of sweet cracker, a tea biscuit, I sup
pose, quoting my English friends. We talked and gestured
but the pie did not dawn on the senora. I was left without
hope; I should have for Thanksgiving two of the Senora’s
tea biscuits as a sort of mince sandwich. But the day was
PRINCE AND PEASANT . . . Italian woman and her dog go
about business as King Gustav VI and Queen Louise of Sweden
go on sightseeing tour In Naples.
T HE Now Year thst is now only
• matter of days away, barring
some drastic development, will
dawn upon an era which history
books shaU record as a time of
oomparaUve peace- No global
wars are in progress, at least, no
shooting global wars. But shall
history faithfully record out times?
No wars, and yet our world is
certainly in a state of turmoil. A
mighty struggle for power is tak
ing place. Individuals, and nations
as a whole, are filled with appre
hension as to what may Ue wait
ing in the days ahead. Shall we
see the advent of a devasting
"push-button" war or may the
world yet be won through a "war
of ideas"? Will mankind realise
the dream of conquest of outer
space? Can two great powers such
as the United States and Russia
exist in peace upon the same
planet when their political ideolo
gies are poles apart?
Our peace, if the history books
shall call it such, is an uneasy one.
Within many hearts is the same
dire apprehension which appears
whenever the tide of events brings
the world to the brink of war and
all the terrors that it suggests.
Smugness and complacency have
given way to a state of contem
plation. We wonder more, and are
more concerned about, what the
future holds in store for us.
We Americans, particularly, so
proud of our history and progress,
our standard of living, and our
modern conveniences, are dis
turbed by the fact that we have
been "bested" scientifically by a
nation we considered second-rate
We wonder, too. if the turn of
events has cast us into a "scien
tific war" ... a war which haa
vast, unimaginable potentialities
... a war that we must win at any
cost or sacrifice.
For those who take but a moment
to dwell upon the tremendous and
once unbelieveable things man
kind has accomplished during the
last ten, twenty or fifty years
there Is the realisation that more
"impossible" things are to be re
corded In the days ahead. We real
ise what we had forgotten: that
man’s accomplishments probably
began in a barren cave when
sticks were rubbed together to pro
duce fire. New things remind us
of old things we had forgotten
. . . and history has a way of mak
ing us remember.
It is history, both modern and
ancient, which outlines the shape
of things to come. History sug
gests that two powerful nations,
like two pugnacious boys, must
sooner or later test the mettle of
the opponent. History suggests
that Communism and Democracy
will continue to each seek the title
of supreme world leader, by what
ever name it may be called.
Since the Russian revolution of
40 years ago. the Communists
have said capitalism and com
munism cannot live peaceably in
the same world. Many Americans
never believed this, as attested by
the fact that many, many Ameri
cans don’t know a thing about
communism, except that it 'is an
ugly word.
But we are beginning to wonder
now, and rightfully so, if it really
does pose a dangerous threat to
our chosen way of life.
vot/g
I. Hie capital of Ecuador la (a) San Cristobal; (b) Quito; (c)
Santa Crus.
Z. "Qui Transtulit Sustinet" la the motto of (a) Colorado; (b)
Utah; (c) Connecticut.
S. The Gourde la the monetary unit of (a) Hungary; (b) Chill;
(c) Haiti.
ANSWERS
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PUZZUE N«. 479
. . ACROSS
1 Inform
against
iW
14 Hindu queen
18 Tune
16 Hearty i
17 A kiln
18 Dikes
20 Continent
21 To walk
23 To free of
24 Doctrine
26 Symbol for
actinium
27 Spoken
29 Entire
30 Tree
31 F.reshets
34 American
Ep«t
38 Dawn
f oddess
mall
39 Mongol
42 Irish Gaelic
44 Satisfies
46 Arabian
, Jasmine
'47 Pa
»art of ,
plant (pi.)
49 Large fruit:
vine
grown
01 Prefix: not
82 Flowers
84 Disembarked
86 Footlike
part
88 Bitter vetch
89 Child for
father
60 Preposition >
61 Jlma
62 Dry
63 Prod
67 Tidy
69 Dins
72 Mimic
73 Domesti
cated
74 Preposition
75 Equine
animal
77 Eskers
78 County in
!! lch J* an
79 Chariot of
ancient
Briton
DOWN
1 Paid
athletes
2 A direction
3 Poker stake
4 Symbol for
cerium
6 Norse
goddess
6 Find fault
without
reason
7 Angered
8 Cravat
9 Without
difficulty
10 Pretense
11 Dance step
12 Pseudonym
13 Extend
19 Rubs out
22 Cooking
vessel
28 Lath
28 Corded cloth
29 Russian
at
31 Observes
32 Kind of wine
33 Items of
Pfopeity
34 Chews
38 Apprehend
38 Pounds down
40 Succulent
S lant
. African
„ gold coin
43 Ostrichlike
bird
48 Comfort
48 Killed
50 Short sleep
53 SaUric
65 To henpeck
57 Trojax
59 Mexic;
coin (]
61 Romai
62 Occupi
a seat
64 Rowini
Implen
68 Part o
church
68 Accom
ment
68 Candle
tree
70 Tierra
Fuego
Indian
71 Pronou
76 Bone
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Answer te Passle Ne. 476
saved, by a fortunate circumstance; the mail boat from the
United States arrived, bringing to me and my office sev
eral sacks of mail, including English and American maga
zines. As I glanced casually through a magazine I saw
an advertisemtent of mince meat. Behold the appealing pic
ture of a pie, with a slab cut out. Santolalla and I made
haste (like Zaccheus) and carried the picture of the pie to
the Senora. She made a really fine pie—or so it seemed to
me.
My experience with a layer cake and fruitcake were
equally amazing. I’ll tell you about the cakes next time.
ib
tMma o«ptbl« of filling multi-mil
lion dollar stadia that would haw
impmsad tha Caaaara.
And what haa all thia to do with
Soviat acianUAe aohiavamania
Sputnik aymbolisaa?
Tha Portland _
aarvaa thatSputolk’a dabut
in an "orgy” of racrimingtiQP),*’
with Damocrata Warning tha &*»;
publican Administration and tha
Rapublican Administration blam
ing tha Damocratic Congrats and
•o on.
Than tha papar ccatinuat
is thara not a widar
ty? ' ■
Tha Axaarican paopla. than*
salvaa, haws to fact willad
stata of aftalrs that mada
bla this Russian triumph
gats tha highar salary on tha
lags faeulty ... tha haad o|,H|d ^:^.
physios dapartmant or tha ath<*tig.,' ;J :| v
dirsetor?" v |jg||
Tha question carries a butit-tn
answer. _
The top coaches gat salaries al^^g
emoluments on • scale that mus| -
make physicists and other idaitV..
tists of the first caliber blidk jha# @
•yes to astonishment.
And what Is true xi
needless to say is %tii qf ; o(tihf #
callings, notably tha ehtertainam
who gat flva-figuras teas tor stag
ing a song or two.
•V JOHN m»4 SAN* STMCKtANO
TODAY'S PROBLEM)
Child Tratatag.
«r>EFORE our first child
D came,'* says Mrs. Emfly
Grenauer, Victoria vine, Quebec,
Canada, "we made up our minds
on several points regarding bis
(or her} training. The mod im
portant at the time seemed to be
’instant obedience.*
"We were not going to rear a
Juvenile delinquent; wa ware not
going to nourish, a neurotic
through over-indulgence and too
much sympathy. New ware we
going to develop a smart-Aleck.
We had other ideas, but these wQl
suffice.
"We kept to cur thaortee until
school days began. Wa bad good
reports from their teacher*, but
it was soon obvious tq ms that 'our
children looked ^
masten
friends.
cause obedience bad basss drilled
into them; they were modest and
courageous to tha point of being
self-effacing, well trained in let
ting the world, as well as their
parents, boss teem around.
"That was not what we had
Ipoked forward to; something had
to be done about ft Most impor-
tA&t mt
Ofldf -aSL
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saw me wayv
wo oaiiao mem. m
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bad bean so
xnen we expjameu mas
bad coma tejr them to in
in moat
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what they wanted #
world
two
MR
takas. Wa ftffi
training is the
life pattern for
though perhaps we wesaH
It 'would be interesting to
what your other reedert
this subject, and to leatsi
v s v*
RARE GAZELLES . . . Newly arrived at Chicago’s Lincoln Pack
too, these Spekes gazelles are believed to be the only pair of tilts
species in captivity.
i
This An* That
tost^lTcwttti one tie)
1966-5? seasons,
year te hfts heme stata a#
nTfhe highest paid ooach In the
history of fcotbsll at the Halve*-
stty of Kansas. Be*ti get gttA#*.
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CHAMPIONS BOTH . . .
trainer of
Jim Fitzsimmons, S3,
with his aowest
Wheatley Stablo’s Bold
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wtfli a m-2 average;
elm with a TO average and
p«r play with 6.1. Opponents
United to an average of US yardo
and U potato . .
see of the world
waakee Bravos
league's biggest
ertal Award a
When sea trout fail to pay
any attention to your live
shrimp, place a small pearl spin
ner ahead of thtf hook and re
trieve your bait with an eratte
action of the rod tip. —- Sports
Afield
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teafkatt player at IBB
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