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PAGE SIX MEDFORD M.UL TRIRUNT3, MKDFORD. OREOON'. SrN'D.UT jfifTI liFJi .TO. 1928. Brazil Immense, It is difficult fur ltu average .,..,.. ..i Lniicu jilutcn, with Ita vust trancoiitineiilul . sweep of mountains anil prairies from the 10 Mie 1'ociric, extending I Sailing northward along t lie north anil Vulh from iliti (ircut I niui of I ii-iikII rroni Itlo do,, lanlc Lakes tu III.; Hl0 (Irande, to ph- j re, Mr. Jloover will pass by I'or turo a land of greater pi-upm-tiuns. nuiiiburo anil I'aranyba, t tic- eusl- Accusiomcd as wo have ln.cn tu gain ideas or thu proportionate tilxos of other nations by comparl mins, wo have somewhat- vaguely uuiancca sonic or our hirgcsl state ilKaliiHt the leading n na of Kur- a reef, which gave the i lly the lpo und let It iso at that. If pressed ; name by which It sou 0lmvs Is t" name tho tamest nations in Hie known-Jli l ire, or reef. The reef world in regard to area we might ! extends like a wall across the hav. name Kusahl, the British Umpire j sliucilnit out the rolling waves of iiud the United States, possibly In Hie Allantle. The illy is the eapl tlmt order and possibly In some ! tal of the state of Hie same name, other. And yet. almost at our i a slate Milnewliat larger than New door, is a land which overshadows Vor!: and the center of H null's the United Slates In area, a land colton and sugar proiluclloli. with a i-IVer mightier Ihan our At ('earn, sllll fn, thei- m,n I. Mi- greai outlier of Wulcra. a land With a single stuto greater than that geographic und economic om plru which wo call Texas. Stale Ijngir Than Tonus Brazil, or rather the Republic of the United Htatcs of Uruzll, to give It Hh official name, m such b land. Braall, u host of llorhcrt Hoover In his good will too,. ..( u i. Amerle surpasses the United oi.ait in size by moro thun 2O0.UOII Vttixru miles. Its stale of (loyuit w turgor than Texas; nine slates lie size of Kansas, could he placed in Its Btuto of Aninznnas; tho Mis sissippi hows to tho Amazon. In population I ho United Slates Is far oliead.. Against our lan million. Brazil can muster only some 40 lnUllon; yet this In Itself Is surpris ing, that una nation to the south of Us hfls a population about our.- third the size of ours. In a land I ut such Immensity, of course, Air. lloover will-seo only a small part, ifo will be received at the capital, Rio do Janeiro, and his transport, the battleship Utah, may stop at ', the great trading pin t at tho mouth of the Amazon. This last, however, Is uncertain. Ho will not uavc opportunity to visit Santos, in southern II1-117.il, the world s greatest coffee port, nor will he have time to sail up tho Amazon liver any extent of its 8100 miles. Geographically, Ilrazil Is divided Into two groat sections the pla teau country In tho oast, which In clude nearly one-third of Us ter ritory, and the great Interior tropi cal plains, drained by tho Amazon system and In a smaller dogreo by tho Rio do la Plata, tributaries. The country lies almost entirely In tho torrid zone. In general it Is a , tropical country, with sub-tropical and tenipcralo areas In the" south 11101 111 1110 central plateau region, ( Tho forest covered lowluml valley of the Amazon Is a region of high temperatures which vary little j inruuKiiour. tno year. Tliore Is no appreciable change of season ex cept In Ihu viirlatloii of rainfall. The. coastal plains lying-between the' plateaus and thu sea am sub join to high tumpeniturcs and hu midity as far south as Santos. . ; A l-'llio, Cattle IllHtriil It it chiefly In thu tomperatu plateau regions and in southern Brazil that coffin is grown; the states of Sao I'aulo and Mattu tirosso are tho principal producers of this unlet . sourcu , of Brazil's W-oalth. Tho latter stale, which unibraces both pliitoati and plain, has an area of Siiu.ouu square miles. It Is tho principal cattle slute of Hrazll. I'rucllcally Ita cntiro aroii Is good catllo land. some uf it as good us tho Improved cattle lands of tho Argenllno and on tho overage Is fai-Titer than the Argentlno In tho natural slate. The state has'numeruus rivers and loss of cattle through droughts Is unknown. Duo to tliotmmll varia tion of seasons I ho pusturo Is as good in the winter us In the suni nier. Most of the chilled meat of Hraull is marketed In l-Juio'pe, Italy being the largest consumer. Tho vast, undeveloped resources nt Braitll ulniosl are beyond belief. In thS Amazon Valley It bus the Kratest forests of the world. II has a wealth of minerals. I'ractl cally every slutu has deposits of Iron ore; there are billions of Ions of oro in Hrazll thut ono day w ill lie developed. The best Iron beds discovered thus far are In the stale of Minns (leraes, n veritable trea-' sure huusc of minerals. it has gold, iron, nianagancse and pre cious stones. 1'rlor to ISiio some UOtl million dollars worth of gold was taken-utit of Hi sill, one-half coming from illnas llernes, Ueroro tho discovery of the South African diamond 'mines Minus (leraes pro vided ninny of tho world s finest Mtonca.i Among them wero the "Star of the South," "(Ireon Dia mond of Dresden" und the "Htar of MIiihh." Ml were famous stones; each wus worth many thousands of dollars. The diamond mining still la curried on there, as It has been slnco 1 73i. The stones nro found In the gravel uf streams and some times In a blue clny similar to -the blue clay diamond deposits of Africa. Almost a Virgin lind It is not from pr.lous stones or mineral weallh. however, that economists expect the development -of .Brazil. Some - clay adequate transportation will open up the vast Interior tu commerce and make possible the exploitation of Its Umbel-lands; the ever-lncreas-li demand for steel will seek out Its iron; the excellent fruit country nhout Ceuru will see possibilities In other, things beside bananas. As yet tJi-HZil la a I most a virgin coun try. Kxrcpt in a minor way, the day of Its development has nut yet tlawncd. It has been In the lust -twenty years only at Mi-anil has had any Industrial iff-. Slnco l3(i, manu facturing In the slute or Sao I'aulo has been under the protect Ion af a heavy tariff and greut strides have been made, r ho metropolis of this nit(eil ,0 ri111vni westward re state, Sao I ,,l, tho second elty ,,,, , ,,r ,,, Creek tribes, of lJiuzll. Abuu It are great puck-, A fow ,.e,.B tutar oil wns illscov ng houses, si eel mills, cofree ware j Hm , okluhninn and the Indians Houses; It is the financial tenter 1 1.,., i,,.w.,i ,..n,.. ,.,., of the coffee Industry und the tall the coffee Industry und the tall-; road center of aouthern llruxll, Sno I'aulo la uii old city. -ll had been In existence more than fifty years when ('apt. John Smith land ed at Juuiostown. Still there Is ' little evidence of Its nntbiulty In Mts appeuranee; the houses are but Undeveloped I paved; it has magnificent public j buildings, theaters und educuliunal I buildings. The Illy i.f llio It.s.f ! crlimoKt ports of the South Ameri can continent.. The former Is the first porl lit which Kuropoan stenniers slop after leaving Lisbon. It IlIlK IL Title hull oto...wl t.e Hoover would see a beautirul city of some 7a.lMio population, with hrlglit-rolori-d houses, clean streets lltld well dressed Inhabitants. Out from the city are banana fields, orange trees and palm ki'ovcs. Them Is ono palm growing wild In t'eara that produces more things, perhaps, than any other tree In tho world. This Is the (.'arnauhn palm. From Its roots n medicine Is made; lis trunk Is used for rafters and bulldhig material; when It Is young It Is eaten as a vegetable and from It are made wlno, vinegar and starch the fruit Is good for cattle, thu pulp has an agreeable taste and the nut Is used as a coffee substitute. Tho I pith of the carnauba Is as light as i cork and musical Instruments are made from tho stem. When tap ped tho trco gives forth a lliiuid much like cocoanui milk; hats, brooms and baskets are made from Its straw-like bark, which Is also used to thatch houses; from Us leaves a wax is obtained lhat Is manufacture Into caudles. There may bo some other properties which no one has thought to enu merate. 1'iira, l'orl of the Amazon I'ara, the seaport of the Amazon valley, Is a city about the size of Denver, Its waterfront always n picture of activity us boats and ships of all descriptions bring pro duce rrom the great Interior or uwalt cargoes destined to the seven corners of the world. All goods tluu go out or go Into the Amazon country, niuslpass through I'ara. Several thousand ships call there every year ami the trade amounts to tens of millions of dollars. Perhaps the bustling port of I'ara will glvo .Mr. lloover his last I picture of the republic of Brazil - I the land of vast resources where ; Nature has been so lavish In its! girts that so far man has hail only : to tako those wllhlu easv reach. ' J w. v. it. TA.MI'A, Fla. () A few seon. ! Indiana who persistently i-oI'iihihI lo! nilgrato from Tlorlda lo Ihu old j , " , lu,Tl HI'v 11 Uiiry "go !!!. T'"" H ' ! i,uoii.v nun illiteracy, wnno cous ins irow wealthy from oil fi d ' I under (heir holdings In Oklahoma, i This quirk of 1'alo was runtllotl'l I html when tho sites of an old fort I and II mllllarv hlirhwuv bnlll ilm-JI lug tho Seniinolo wars of l!i:i l.' wern marked wlilt tabids reeenlly. j Tho marlioi'H wero placed and unvclli.tl by tho Daughters or the I American Revolution, mm where j I l'"mi llroohv was bnlll In ami i I tho other on thn military trail run-1 nlng 100 miles northward to Korl ; King. After formal Icrrllorial govern- j mcnl was established hy Amnrl-j cans In l-'lorlda tho loglslatlvo conn-! ell first was convenoil ill HI Ahl'. ! iimMiiii lit tU-e Ah,. hi II, iu H.iwJl ofl'orts wero begun lo Induce the 1 Semlnoln Indians to tlilgralo to the, lower Mississippi valley. This movoment was resisted h.vl tno reunion ami war clouds again he-tun to gather over tho much ills-1 1 pitted, territory, held at different I times hy the Spanish, French, ICn-r-llsh nml Americana. Soldiers were ' sout tu garrison thu frontier In central Florida, Skirmish and buttle lietwoen whlto ami Indians followed 111 rapid ' succession until a treaty was sign- j I cd In March, ISU7, at (.amp Hale. nmr what la now lole City. Until the end was not yet. Osceola, one 1 of tho Indian chiefs, was captured j Willi 17 of his followers a few j mouths tutor, hostilities broke mil j again. Another treaty was Rlgued In IStl!. Although war wns ended of ficially und many of tho braves i moved westward, ono tribe, liuni-1 tiering 100 or more, kept up nrmed I resistance tinder Chief Hilly llow-i leg It wns not unltl IS'ii that ! these suT.iges wero pressed back ' Into thu KvergladoH beyond thOj southern settlements. , Tho Sumlmiles wero not tho urlg-1 inal Indian Hotllers In Florldn. As I part of thu Creek nation they h:d drifted southward from the Missis nlppl valley iibotit the lime the lil: enlouien revolted from tireat llrll-1 nln, I'pott reaching Florida they j ntlopted the name of Semlnoles und utmost extorintuutcd the Florida Indians, who were nil entirely till', fereut rucc, resemhllmi tho Ar-tecs, of Yucutuit moro thun any other! tribe. ! Those of the Hemlnoles who sub-; nwniiieu Wrote omii Kiting- W'OHCUHTKIt, .Mukh. The I only services at the funeral of Thomas l. Abbott were the read-: lug of a paper prepared by himself.- The p.er wis a sketch of i j HIGH SPOTS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CHEVROLET "6" PEE.VZEV 1 ' . ... o ! 1 h'f tr'V-rMx v,1 i. W' fayl i h wM hA 1 -ggVsgg : MAIL-IS .HELD SAFE FOR VALUABLES:; WASHINGTON (!') I'oHt office licpaii merit iveunlH hIiow the air mail 1h comparatively mm vi fc a iiH'dlum for Nhipphw valniihh' pn- Medford P'tm hh other im-iins ut trunMpnrui tion. "TllO InKS of 1 0 1 7 HiiekH t)t niui! in the ulnklntf of tho V.strin :tlone i onstituted a Ki-'e-ater ohh thun the ilr mull linn experienced during the 10 yeai-M of Jus existence,"' W, I Irving (i lover, neeond assistant , poHlnmstcr general, sayH In review i lug tho records. . "Firo in a railroad car Just out- I side New York this year destroyed i t serve as u protection from Much j Ati K5-year-old visitor was an in-moi-c ninil thun lias ln-en lost dlir- 'plight fires us might originate from I teresterl spectator." pening Day, E Immenat crowd viewe.l the new Chevrolet Six models at the Northern California pre-view which was he 10 in San Francisco from December 8th to 13th. While only eleven showings were originally scheduled in Important cities throughout the United States, the response and Interest has been so great that additional showings will be held between now and the first of January. At the upper left Is the new .Chevrolet Six coupe, center, a head-on view of the new radi. ator with little Mies Marian Claire Hooper showing her ap proval of the new models, right, The Chevrolet 8ix ponvertible cabriolet and lower left, a -view of the complete showihj which was held in Larkln Hall of the Civic Auditorium. intr the entire openitionH of the air mail, , Itocords tihow that for the 1 0 ye;n-H of tho nlr mail's operation, 4,S(i5 poundH of mall were car vied With a Iokh of , only 1235 pound. The percentage oC uir mail lost in transit is VootlK 1 . . The posst ofi'iee department re- i quires mail compartments of all planes to be lined with sheet metal ng emporary for D SERVIC Jackson and Riverside ' Phone 520 wiring or similar local An Antiquity Party HOCKLAM), Me.-W A resi dent of Hope recently reported seeing a "25-year-old 'colt' being j shod by a 75-year-old blacksmith in a 100-year-old blacksmith shop. The Hinith was using a lU5-year- I old vise and a 150-vear-old nnvil, defective causes. Jan. 2, 1929 In order to supply Medford motorists with the complete line of Firestone Tires, we will occupy temporarily the building located at Jackson and Riverside Streets. Here you will find a complete stock of Firestone Tires at the .lowest prices in tire history. This includes every size of Firestone Gum-Dipped Tires, Firestone-Oldfield, Firestone Courier and Firestone Truck and Bus Pneumatics. . . . . Make this your station you better. Ho Is the Aloug with Texas going Repub-ltliat made such a hit. with tljo Mean comes the news that all tho U'"1- T"at is to say, 'here was . . i a personality about the old-fashion-circuses la the country have been clrcug lhat nmue up partil,anii gobbled irrtliiy a circus trust, with of Im) nanies no less than of tltrf .headquarters at I'cru, lnd., and ! circuses themselves, .that hereafter circuses are to be ' Now, we learn, there Is too such operated with the object of pay- ! circus as the Johu Robinson, ex Mng dividends on a big Investment, cept in name only. It is a coruor laays the Kansas Cltv Star. ation back in Peru. lnd. Imagine I It looks- like hard times for tin- j "'e sloiy uf the old Harnum I inocracy, whether you spell it with chciis being centered in such n ' a big D or a Utile d. The Miller I meaningless name as that of tho i Bmthets' 101 Ranch circus is the "American Circus Corporation." j lasi. to be amalgamated into tho And that Is what we have fallen ' hierican circus corporation. Hng- upon In theg last days! euback-Wallaee and the John Hob- J'robably there will be no mora linson circuses, and the remnants ! street parades magnificent. Blor- and wrecks of all the popular old shows, under various names, ail have fallen victim at last to the Creat Red Dragon the money power. While the circuses will be oper- uled as usuul, under the same old nanjes, Htlll,,;we are aKHtired. they will be owned and controlled by the Peru corporation. That takes all the Individuality out of tho good old circus. Those of us who first saw the wonderful sights of. a one-rim? cir cus under a John Robinson tent Harnum had not thought of the two-ring circus In that day never have failed to maintain a distinct interest in the Robinson circus. There were other circuses, 1 of course, and the big bills, posted on the sides of the livery stable and the fairground fence in the Old Homo Town, revealed that ono circus, bv and laree-. was aR eood as any other circus. Still, wo I heart out of our old favorite cir could not shake off tho belief that ! cases, and directing them from the Robinson circus was better. 'Peru, lnd. Some way or other we bigger, faster and funnier than any nevor will be ablo again to cnj6v other circus In the world. 'The individualism of the circus, In our young minds, ran, even to picturing John Robinson as the circus ringmaster, and even, at times, twonderinj if he were not, indeed, that awfully funny clown Location B&ch tire sold gets our complete service to your car, and proper inflation and during its life, free of charge. we'll save flrestone Factory Method Repairs Employed O O Circus Fallen! i 'ous, dazzling Because street pur- adoB cost tho price of a city li cense. We remember those big red wagons, most of them closed in the parade, we were, told, be cause they contained beasts so fer j oclous that, If they but glimtised the human beings lining the streets no ca-Ta could hold them. When we went to the circus in the Hft ernoon, we hurtled to see the big red wagons and the ferocious beasts, only to find the wagons still closed. There were no fer ocious beasts In the closed wagons, as Sherman Irish and Hooti? Sprlggs once found out iu the OJil Home Town, hut what a thrilling myth it was! Well, that is to he eliminated, also, because it costs money to carry an empty red w&- gon around tno country, circuses now must pay dividends. We grow sick in contemplation ! of what it means, this taking the' them as we once did, for Instead of picturing the ringmaster as tho inspiring head of the show, wo will think of him as the mayor, or the city marshal, of Peru, lnd. The joy is gone from the old circus, so far as wo are concerned. J correct application inspection regularly : ii you money and serve Oregon new, the street J wide and well i owti life.