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INDUSTRY IN U. S. A.
THE NEXT STEP..
SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1927.
BURIED CITIES.
RIDDLE OF CENTRAL
AMERICA..
ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS.
1
"Primitive Tribes and Vast Buried Citles" was the subject of a lecture by Mr. F. A. MEChofl-{ Hedges, F.Z.S., FR.G.S., In the Usher Hall, Edinburgh. The loc ture was under the auspices of the Royal Scottish Georgraphical. So- Viscount Novar presided over an audience that filled tha apacious hall, and the lecturers' narrative of his remarkable dis- coveries in Central America, some.. times picturesquely graphic, some- timea humorously laconic, gripped the attention of the large audience for more than an hour and half. Striking lautern slides enhanced the interest of the narrative.
Before introducing his audience
In East Panama, his experiences among the primitive San Blas and Chucunaque Indian tribes, and the ruins of a great Mays city in Bri- tlah Honduras,
A still convalescing Europe, its ears tingling with the recont warn ing of the Preparatory Committee of the proposed World Economic Conference that the Hab of the world's trade is gradually moving from the Atlantic to the Pacific, may well fura envious eyes on the United States says the Manchester Chiardian. For last year, as Mr. Hoover, the Secretary of Com-ciety. merce, claims with a good deal of hearty pride, in his annual report, was a year of exceptional pro- aperity in Amerles and the material condition of the people rose to an unparalleled level" Unemployment during the your was practically non-existent, and output exceeded even the level of 1925, itself a prosperous year. There were some flies in the pint-to some of the wonders of fishing ment: the textile and bituminous. coal trades did not share complet ly in the general prosperity, and the prices of certain agricultural products were out of step with prices in general. But, on the whole, there was no big cloud in the sky. Thero is a good deal of interest, therefore, in Mr. Hoover's survestiona for the future. The maintenance of the present" high standard of living, he says, de- pends now on the elimination of waste-not in individual pro-plorers were the vanguard of the cesses, but by co-operative reforms traders. Mr. Mitchell-Hedges went on to describe fishing adventures of the economic organisation of
in East Panama. Their shing the country as a whole.
hooks weighed 14 lbs., and he re- marked, they would realise the size of fish they expected to catch. If they went home and had the worst night-mare they ever had not by the greatest stretch of imagination could they conjure up anything worse than there was in the sea. They caught many grotesque. crea-
One tures.
mighty swordfish weighed 5,700 16. Knowing what fishers at home were, they had brought specimens of vertebrae back with them (Laughter.)
are
Mr. Mitchell- Hedges anid that exploration meant far more than, getting spe- cimens for museums. It was the spirit that counted. They, owed the great British Empire of which they were all so proud en- tirely to the men who went out. Trade. and commerce were the pulse of the Empire, and the ox-
A Legendary Tribe.
Mr. Hoover's campaign against waste is to be organised from a platform often planks-solid en- ough, but even in Europe, not en- tirely familiar. Waste in in- adequate railway transportation is to be attacked by improved equipment and methods. Water resources are to be developed to heapen the transport of bulk commodities and to produce cheap power. Fuel and labour'nre to be saved by extensive electrification schemes. The booms and slumps of the "business cycle," with From Panama the scene shifted cast to the San Blas islands, and "their intermittent waves of un employment and bankruptcy are then into the inerior, where the explorers came upon a hitherto to be reduced. Variations in em-
the seasonal indus indians. He said they were in the legendary tribe the Chucunaque ployment in trics
to be compensated most awful state of disease and Standards of quality, simplifica degenerney, and related some of tion of grades, and the elimination their extraordinary experichces of unnecessary varieties of manu- among this primitive people. There factures, together with uniform was yely humour in the lec- spec:Scations, bills of lading, and turer's description of the trategy other business documents are to employed to get into the good graces of the tribe. As a result they were reduce waste in production an
able to bring home 1600 different distribution. There is to be in-
pieces of their picture writing on creased expenditure on research cloth, over 3,000 barbaric necklaces, with the view of developing many ethnological specimens, and genuine labour-saving devices and
over 100 of their gods. These spe- improved processes. Co-operative cimens were handed over to the marking and better terminal British Museum, where it was dis- facilities are to reduce the costvered that no other museum in af selling agricultural produce. The world had specimens like them." The development of commercial Mr. Mitchell-edges went on to arbitration is to eliminate the describe the excavations of the wastes of litigation. Finally, Maya city, the "Place of Falling "the waste arising from industrial Stones," in the interior of British Lantern slides Mus strife between employers. and Honduras,
trated the "character of the jungle employees" is to be reduced.
Perhaps in Great Britain there through which the explorers had to pass. The growth was so thick, ho is little hope of carrying out an said a building the size of St. Paul's exactly similar programme. There Cathedral would not be seen at six- la no unparalleled prosperity in ty yards. In this ruined Maya city which an optimism vigorous cn- they found a building constructed ough to face such an extensive and of massive blocks of stone, and cov- neres. There all-embracing scheme of reformering, about 10 may thrive. Some progress along were an amphitheatre that could accommodate over 10,000. people,' similar lines, though on a mora modest scale, has, however, been sunken courtyards, tiers, stone stair ways, and, more remarkable still, at. possible. The British Enginear the top of a precipitous hill they ing Star dards Association, as was found terraces made of blocks of handsomely acknowledged by the stone, hardly any of which weigh- Imperial Conference, has done use-ed less than 20 tons each, hewn from ful work in industrial standardisa- an unknown quarry, carried over unknown distances, and raised in tion. though in many British pro- ducts there are limits to simplifi- an unknown manner to the top of that precipitous hill. He ventured cation so long as production con-
to suggest that with all our know centrates on the finer goods with
ledge to-day, mechanical and other- their individual appeal. In the wise, we could not do it. They anw development of arbitration the
in the great Maya civilisation the Manchester Chamber of Commerce highest aboriginal civillantion the has taken a leading part. An world had ever known. The more ambitious scheme of electrification that was known about this civilisa should shortly be adopted. But tion, he predicted, the more it would in the ritempt to control the larger transcend in importance the ancient fluctations of the "trade cycle" civilisation of Egypt. It might be Mr. Hoover will find few disciples that the scientific conception of the in this country. The trade cycle, 48 we understand it, is still ton vague conception upon which base a trade polley. If it existsTM
in rentity attempts in this country
culture of man would have to be
changed. It might be that in Cen- tral America lay the answer to that riddle..
Considerable interest was created" when the lecturer had the lights 40 forecast te course have been raised, and produced from a box less fortunate than those in Ameri-heads from members of certain ca: indeed, there are few who tribes in Ecuador, reduced in size, would venture to say whether in but still retaining perfect features. this country trade is now, on the The process he explained, was upward or the downward swing scientific marvel. The hair was of a "cycle," In this aphere, at reduced in the same proportion to
the features. any rate, industry must be content. for the present, to go in blinkers.
Villa del Rosario, Argentina.- When Bertrand Russell was con- While digging in the cloistergarth templating staying in Peking a good here recently, Friar Ireneo came deal longer than in the end he did, upon a well-preserved fossil skole- hie Chinese friends, finding it.Im- ton of the glyptodon, Torerunner possible to pronounce the name of of the armadillocs, and some "Russell," had got another one twelve feet. long. He announced ready for him, to wit, Lo Su." subsequently that the creature Presumably Lo Su is the nearest had lived before the Flood and to Russell that the Chinese tongue was, therefore, as old as 4,000 can manage.
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