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THE REACH REVIEW
Join
Gulf of Mexico and Sea
Made
, Task.
Washington.--Stea m shovels are
helmeted Spaniards
~ugh silent, tangled
search of the Fountain of
tall masts eventually may
pines In Florida's
forests: for the new ship ca-
ius been begun.
f the canal Is completed as
freighters, proud pan.
Hners, and even grim war craft
= the seven seas will steam through
on which in bygone days
lndisns and gold-crazed
eanoe~,"
National Geographic society.
engines and deep-throated
the silence In quiet
only the occasional
or the brilliant
colony disturbed
a convenient short cut"
the Atlantic ocean
the.Gulf of Mexico, the canal is
of
rlvers~thc
and the
Therefore, although
waterway will be
less than half
to be dug by hu-
agencies. Mother nature, the
already has excavated
Boats have
all three fly-
, will connect
Rout@.
~100-mile waterway at Suez,
will be a sea-level
o£ the huge locks and
'cuts' necessary
Canal building Is compara-
for the highest
Is less than two-
of the Washington
most of the state is
a few feet above the ocean.
the Atlantic. Ships will enter
versatile Jack-
~xPorts range from
oyster shells,
chickens' digestions I
only 25 miles from Flor-
is the state's
city, Its industrial center, and
J city, the gatewy to
playground, a
Miami beach
Peter~urg on the
other sontheru re.
first chins appear
this 'sun-
canal route. This Is the St. Johns
river, which strangely enough in so
fiat a region, flows due north 125 miles
before reaching the sea.
"A sluggish stream~lt drops only
70 feet in 100 miles---the St. Johns
carries a large wa~er-borne commerce
to Jacksonville.
"Palatks, bUSy little shipping sen.
ter on the upper St. Johns, Is now the
head of navigation for ocean vessels.
Palatka's lumber piles, seen from the
sir, resemble a city In themselves.
and the city boasts What is believed
to be the only camphor plantation
In the United States. Farther up-
stream, near Welaka, the new canal
will turn southwestward along the
narrow, winding course of the Ockla-
waha river, a tributary ~f the St.
John~ "
Throu0h Pine Forests.
'~uch of the country through which
the ~anal will pass consists of pine
forests, many already cut over, for
lumbering is a leading Florida indus-
try.
"Leaving the Ocklawaha, the canal
will cut across to the Wlthlacoochee,
'Little Big River' of the Indlaps, which
flows into the Gulf of Mexico. Navi-
gable now for 60 miles by boats of
shallow draft, the Wlthlacoochee car-
ties cargoes of fish, oysters, farm pro-
ear a minutg.
Jacksonville south, ocean
64 miles of
to be part of the
Is Due to Fear, Doctor Says
|,000 person may go through "Shocks of op-
positional environment" in childhood
or adult life. anff not have his speech
are beins affected, while another apparentLY nor-
a year In real Individual the "potential stutterer
type," comes out stuttering, or with
some similar speech disorder. '
The clinic createsnew environment
for the second type, teaches hlm~to
"acquire emotional stability," gives him
new self-assurance, and by cemposlte
therapy, including Individual and group
medical, psychological, psychiatric, so.
clal~ and educational ~tments,
turns him to normal J~,lal" condition."
Footl~|l--~
Star B~.ome=
• ~ Mighty Alaskan Hunter
San Francisco, Cattf.--Herbert Feis.
In all cares ehaeker, who used to be a football
no mechanical difficulty, at Stanford university, was tell-
certain tO stories to h~ friends of his thrill-
Ing adventures In Alaska, from where
he hail Just returned.
The stories were almost nUbelIev-
Doctor G4"eene but Herbert's. friends believed
them because he showed them some
~ames S. Greene, medical direr-
for Speech
~ong-accept-
a report
Oresne fonnd, don't
, talk: all they need is
"f r
rid of some hidden ea com-
Flattery Now Bait
Collectors Favor
Mllwankee.--The bill collectors in
these prxts@ave thought up a new
way to catch you at home.
A dulcet professional voice calls
on the telephone and asks the name
of your favorite radio program. A
check, says the voice, is being made
on the popularity of broadcasts.
Will you be listening to that pro-
gram tonight?
Thrilled by this attention, you
promise to listen in at a certain
hour. When that time comes, a bill
collector Is ringing the front door
bell.
dace and lumber down to the sea.
"Happy days may be In store again
for Port Inglls, at the Withlacoochee's
mouth, scheduled to be the canal's
Gulf terminus. Port Inglls prospered
In past days when large cargoes of
phosphate rock moved down the With.
lacoochee" but In late years the rock
has been largely shlppedEast by rail
and the town has declined."
Dog Jumps From Fifth
Floor and Walks Away
Hollywood, Callf.~Attempted suicide
police reported after a large, unldenti.
fled police dog made a running Jump
Iron? the fifth floor of Radio Station
KGFJ, landed In a truck of rubbish
parked at the curb, recovered bin com.
posure, walked away.
Cuba Honors Admiral Grayson
Dr. Domingo Romeu y Jalme (left), prusident of the Cuban Red Cros,
presenting a Cuban Red Crass decoration to Admiral Cary T, Grayaon, head
of the American Red C.~o~ at his office In Washington.
Moby,Dick Role _.That
Upon Young-Fmherman
Vineyard Haven, Mass.--Wilfred Pratt,
twenty-five-year-old fisherman, re-en-
acted the leading role at Moby Dick
while swordflshlng.
Pratt was to bring the swordfish
back to the mother boat after it had
been harpooned~ and fired. His line
became entangled about his feet In the
dory when he esme alongside a fish
Just caught. ~ fi~fll dived suddenly
and dragged Pratt with it.
After he had been recovered from
several fathoms of water he had no
idea how far he went down before he
cut himself loose.
FLUSSER LAUNCHED
over.
which~lnterfere with
'YOu can talk
' d
• can. An I prove it to
Oreene describes how one
In the Alaskan wlld~
Demand for Horses Is •
Ottawa, Ont,~The
comeback in (3snada. The 'Flus~r, one of "thW
The Canadian department of aSH- new 1,500-ten destroyers, is
that demands for here sliding down the
and lug launched
ads has lag company
in
Commander Charles
W.
Fluuer, who was killed in 1864, when
hit. shll~ the Miami, engaged the Cow
federate Ircmclad Albemarie.
q 20,000 Americans Without a Country"
By WILLIAM C. U.TLEY
THE time: A few months from
now.
Giant Clipper No. 7 of the
Pan-Amerlcan Airways splits
the eal~ air with her great wings 130
feet from tip to tip. Her tour, 3,200-
horse power engines drone smoothly
as they bear their burden of 30 or 55
tons out over the broad Paciflf, while
you and I and 48 oth#rs aboard turn
for a last look at the California shore
fading late the distance behind us.
It will be 18 hours before we feel
our feet on solid ground again, for
the next possible landing place Is 2,400
miles a~vay~Honolulu, the "crossroads
of the PaCific." We are bound on one
of the regular scheduled trips over
the new airway to Chlna~to China In
three chys l
Although there Is no land for hun-
dreds of miles, a radio beam holds us
to our course as surely as though we
:.: :i~..:
Ocean
were making the trip in a Subway
tffbo. When we are r~dy to go to
bed~and we will be before we reach
Kawaii---our seats are converted into
berths as comfortable as those in a
transcontinental railroad train. This
is literally "sleeping on clouds."
We're not going to miss much by
sleeping, for there Is nothing to see
at this stage of the Journey but water.
Besides, there is so much ahead of
us. Our trip, this time, has a double
purpose: To experience the thrill of
crossing the Pacific in less time than
tt took to cross the American conti-
nent a few years ago---and to visit
what is one of the most unusual spots
of the United States apd its posses.
slons. It 'is the Island of Guam, one
of Ah~erlca's farthest outposts, and a
land whose population Is "in a fix," as
we shall s~e presently.
Our arrival at Hawaii Is spectacular
in Its very uneventfulness. There is
a short stopover so we can stretch our
legs---possibly limber up In the surf
at the glorious beach of Walkikl, and
then we are off again, over the pine-
apple fields and the sugar cane, with
Pes¢l harbor disappearing beyond our
stern horizon as California did yes-
terday.
Midway Island. ten hours away, Is
our next st~p, but this time the hop
Is not so lonely. We soon approach
fhe ls]tand of Kaual, Whoso 500 Inches
of rainfall make It the wettest spot
In the world; we skirt Rs 4,000-foot
green mountain range, topped by the
peak of Walaleale. There are more is-
lands now~Napal[, with Its cliffs ris-
Ing from the sea 2,000 feet like great
white walls; Nllhau. a plateau with
volcanic craters at either end ; Kaula,
which looks like a loaf of bread a lit-
tle overdone tO a dark brown: Nlhoa,
with the grass.grown remains of what
were once ~ardan terraces and home-
e~tes for wandering Polynesian adven.
lurers who ease here to fish and hunt.
An Island Mystery.
There are more Islands. some of
them, like Necker, being merely the
tips of volcanoes poking their mouths
up out of 'the sea. On Necker are
many peculiar rows of terraces, wlth
upright stones bordering their edges
in orderly mystery. Who left them
here and why? Nobody knows. Mys-
teries like this are not unusual to the
South seas; there are the grotesque
and inealallesble statues of Easter IS-
land, for instance.
Mote of these volcanic islands, with
t~elr bases 18,000 feet down under
the sea, pass below us. There Is Lay.
un Island. fiat and barren, white and
empty where former forests and vege-
~n have given way to the onslaught
of guano diggers, poachers and rab-
bits. We ~pass Pearl and Hermes reef
and soon swoop dewn upon MidWay
Island.
I~ Is only a short while until we hop
off for Wake island. 1.200 miles south-
west of Midway, and reach It after a
trip unbroken by anything out of the
ordinary. At Wake our thirsty engines
take on a new supply of fuel. And the
next stop, 'after 1,564 miles of flying,
Guam.
As we glide down upon Apra her-
boa" on the northwest coast of Guam
we are coming to rest within the con-
fines of the utrbellevttble--an absolut~
monarchy within the United States.
In the 37 years it has belonged to us
Guam has become in many ways like
other parts of our country and Its pes-
tmssions. There are movie theaters
where the dyed-in-the-wool fans rave
over the darling dimples of Shirley
Temple.
Islandsr~ Political Plight.
There are housewives who wrestle
With electric refrigerator trays to lib-
erate ice cubes which will cool the
drinking water at their dinner tables.
Btreamlined automobiles speed over
lmaooth paved roads. Telephone and
telegraph quicken the business and
social world.
Yet these citizens of Guam---20,000
tf t~em---!mve no ~ete, no voice at all
In their government. They may be
born in this dtstav~t corner of the Unit.
there all their lives;
"a}leglance to the
the :republic for
furthern~e, never
eltisens of the United
Two sailors, stationed-at Guam, out for a walk around their barracks
(nothing elsa to do!). Guam, stop-off point on the air route to the Orient,
shown on the map above, is governed by the navy. Inset: Pan American
Airways new Clipper Ship No. 7, largest plan@ ever built In America.
They are ruled by the iron hand of
a United States naval officer appointed
by the President; so far this type of
rule has been Just sad wise and nn-
denlably beneficial, nevertheless the
governor is as much an absolute mon-
arch as were any of the kings of old.
[-Ils word is the only law. Queerly
enough, Uncle Sam's gobs under his
control perform every governmental
and administrative duty from Judging
criminal cases to blowing traffic whis-
tles, yet none of them have any real
naval duties at all
Arriving at Guam we have covered
6,500 miles since leaving California.
Let us see where we are now. Some
1,700 miles from Manila. The nau-
tical position Is given as 130 degrees
26 minutes north latitude and 144 de
grees 40 minutes east longitude.
Our Island is larger than Samoa or
the Virgin Islands. It is an oasis of
150 square miles In the watery desert
of the Pacific. It Is 29 miles long and
from three to ten miles wide. It Is
hilly In the south portion, with one
)eak, bit. Jumullong Mangloc rlsl~g
1,274 feet. The northern part Is a
coral plateau, 300 feet high In the In-
terior, but facing the sea with bold,
600-foot cliffs. There are several oth-
er fairly good harbors besides Apts. It
Is heavily forested with valuable hard-
woods and the soil is fertile.
Nature Mingle= With Civllisation.
Despite the presence of the many
scientific Improvements of our own
civilization which have' been fostered
under the American rule, the charm
of nature is everywhere to be found.
Water buffaloes pulling native carts
are frequently to be seen. There are
native villages consisting of one long
street of houses with sweeping ver-
andas, perched upon posts" The native
population is chiefly Cbamorros; there
are a few Tagaloa and Malays"
Stretching out lute the hills beyond
the capital city, Agana. where two-
thirds of the island's people live, are
fields of sugar, rice, tobacco and pine-
apple. In the river valleys are cacao.
coffee and indigo. Water buffalo and
Imported horses help with the farm-
Ing, which is the principal industry of
Guam.
It is somewhat appropriate that the
navy should govern Guam. which is a
forbidden naval preserve, although It
boasts no fortresses, harbors no guns
and withholds no secrets of a military
nature. For it was the navy that first
claimed the Island for Uncle Sam.
That was on June 26, 1898. The
Spanish governor dtd not know that
the war was on. When Capt. Henry
Glass sailed the cruiser Charleston. in-
to Apra harbor and bogan~throwin
g
dreadfully earnest shells right through
the tops of the coconut trees, the govo
eruor, probably already acqualnted
with American sailors, thought the
boys were ~ust out for a good time
and apologized for not being able to
return the salute, sines he was all
out of powder and had to walt until
some of his subordinate seners could
dash down to the corner drug store
and get some. He soon found out
that the American navy was playing
.this game "for keeps" and we bav~
kept the Pacific prize ever since. Pres-
ident McKinley dtreeted the navy to
administer the island government two
Weetm utter It was awarded to the
U~ States In the treaty of Pats,
Deeembe~ 10, 1898. a~d the nav¥~has
earn citizenship by merely staying In
their part of the United States. ot
even by coming to the mainland and
residing there for the period of yeare
which would orffinarlly be sufficient for
naturalization.
Denby Was Responsible.
The late Edwin Denby attended to
that in a proclamation made nearly
thirteen years ago, whe~ he was see-
retary of the navy. His "court mar.
tlal order," which has never been re-
scinded, was:
~Whlle a native of Guam owes per.
potual allegiance to the United States,
he Is not a citisen thereof, nor is he
an alien, and there are no previsions
under which he may become a citizen
of the United States by naturalization."
Iron!cally enough, the only country to
which the inhabitant of Guam owes
allegiance Is the one country of which
he cannot become a citizen.
The entire island of Guam we are
told upon landing there In Clipper No.
7, is a "closed port." The navy gov-
ernor's permission must be given be-
fore any foreign vessel can tle up at
the docks. We had to have special
permission to land here, for nobody,
foreigner or American, lands here with-
out the governor's O. K. No one san
get off the island, either, without the
approval of that same august gentle-
man. Even natives have to have his
permission to go.
@uam is the largest Island of the
Marianne archipelago; the rest of the
Mariannes are owned by Japan. We
once considered Guam an Important
naval base in the Pacific front stretch-
ins from the Philippines to Alaska,
but after the Versailles treaty the de-
fenses of Guam proved Irritating to
the Japanese and we removed them.
The navy had a little more than 90~
men at Guam before the treaty, but
now there are only about 600. There
Is s handful ot marlnes on the Island,
under the command of a colonel; about
two dozen of them are used for police.
bat the others have n6thlng at all
to do.
No Crlmo Problem Here.
There is little enough ueed for pc-
lice on Guam, we find., There are
only two lawyers there, and only one
of the two gets enough buslnesa to
make It profitable for him to take out
a license to practice.
Islanders are glven a good Ameri.
can education: In fact, it Is compul-
sory. There are business opportuni-
ties there, in the Industries of burning
lime and charcoal .and fishing and
building, although most Inhabitants
are farmers--small farmers: eseh fam-
Ily has Its own lltlle plot of land.
With little to do, the navy men sta-
tioned there have devoted most of
their time-to making all of the Indus-
try of Gut's resemble that of the Unit-
ed States in miniature. How well they
have succeeded is doubtful, but every
governor has tried It.
If we visit Guam next year, a~ter
the treaties expire, tt ie possible that
we may m~ ~tbe Island better ftirtified~
This is not likely, however, since grist, ' ~.
ins Pblllpplne lndepend~mce has left
mt with little In the Far West to Or~
trot. •
~fter a short stay In so
tt place we climb
for the long hop.
beautiful alrport
there