(2 of 5)
But this is not all. "Dyspeptic, diarrehic, goitred and leprous, the Indians had multiplied to 800,000 by 1932." This statement displays not only crass ignorance but is an insult to a progressive people. As in all countries, there are in Paraguay cases of leprosy, but they are few. "Small-fry" Paraguay is as up to date in her treatment of this disease as the U. S. . . .
Your observation that the Chaco war was begun by a rousing pair of national inferiority complexes is as fantastic as your footnote which attributes to "most Latin-Americans" the belief that the U. S. was behind Bolivia and Great Britain behind Paraguay. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
I apologize for the length of this letter, but, in the name of justice as well as of truth, I feel that it should receive publication in your columns in order that your numerous readers may be correctly informed.
ENRIQUE BORDENAVE
Minister of Paraguay Washington, D. C.
All thanks to Minister Bordenave for his readable description of the Paraguay River area of Gran Chaco. Explaining that romantic Author Duguid called the Gran Chaco a "green hell," TIME said: "Actually it is a great variegated basin extending from Northern Argentina to Eastern Bolivia. The disputed section is a liver-shaped area bounded by the Paraguay and Pilcomayo Rivers. At the Paraguayan edge it is grassy and open, the soil sandy and dry. Farther west the jungle swamps and lagoons begin, follow the sluggish, unnavigable Pilcomayo to the South, dot the drowned lands to the North. Still farther west, verging into Bolivia's Andean foothills, the land changes again to open woodland, broken by fertile plains."
Villa Hayes, Puerto Emiliano, Puerto Cooper, Puerto Pinasco, Puerto Casado and Puerto Sastre, listed by Minister Bordenave, are all on the "Paraguayan edge" of the Chaco Boreal, far from the scene of fighting at any stage of the Chaco War. All six are along the Paraguay River.—ED.
G. C.'s Genius
Sirs, HIGHLY COMPLIMENTED TO HAVE NAME OF GARDNER COWLES COUPLED WITH ADVANCE BUT ADVANCE NOT STARTED TILL 16 YEARS AFTER G. C. SOLD INTEREST IN ALGONA REPUBLICAN BACK TO PARTNER IN 1884 AFTER ONE YEAR. YOUR STORY EXCELLENT BUT MAKES TOO MUCH OF BOYS, WHO HAD ONLY TO CARRY ON; NOT ENOUGH OF TRULY GREAT BUSINESS GENIUS OF G. C.; SHAMEFULLY LITTLE OF EQUALLY BRILLIANT CONTRIBUTION OF VETERAN EDITOR HARVEY INGHAM. BOYS WOULD DOUBTLESS BE FIRST TO ENDORSE THIS. WHEN IOWANS BOAST OF REGISTER & TRIBUNE THE NAMES OF G. C. AND INGHAM ARE ALWAYS COUPLED.
W. C. DEWELL
Editor
Kossuth County Advance Algona, Iowa
Masterpiece
Sirs:
To the author of "Iowa Formula" (under "Press" July 1) heartiest commendations for the composition of a literary and journalistic masterpiece.
WM. MAIDMENT JR.
Westfield, N. J.
"Coles"
Sirs:
You devoted seven columns and a front cover to glorifying the Cowles family of Des Moines, but you failed to clear up one point: Do they pronounce their name Coles or Cowles?
JOHX DAWSON
Denver, Colo.
Coles.—ED.
Sic Gloria
Sirs:
Re the No. 1 Iowa Sheet, newsworthy sure, but "Sic Gloria Celebritatis Emptae." Are Parker House Hotelmen next?