1916 magazine article about ARGENTINA & CHILE, people, history, etc

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Selling is a 1916 magazine article about:
ARGENTINA & CHILE
Title: THE AWAKENING OF ARGENTINA AND CHILE
Author: Bailey Willis
Subtitled “Progress in the Lands That Lie Below Capricorn”
Quoting the first page “We North Americans, who live in a vast continent that lies nearly all in the temperate and cooler zones, scarcely realize that South America is four-fifths tropical. Fields of wheat and oats are familiar to us, but in South America are scarcely seen outside of Argentina and Chile, except in high, cool valleys. South America might be called a banana country.
Bananas grow from Paraguay to Mexico; wheat and oats flourish only in the tapering tip of the southern continent; and this gives to Argentina and Chile a peculiar interest among South American countries as the homes of vigorous, energetic peoples competent to rule themselves. To Argentina and Chile we may add Uruguay and the highlands of south-eastern Brazil, and also the limited areas of the tropical Andes, whose altitude gives them cool climates. The rest of the continent, the vast interior, is the land of the siesta-the land to be developed and administered by peoples of the temperate zones.
The great task and obligation of Argentina, southern Brazil, and Chile: the A, B, C powers, is to guide the development of the tropical Americas, through the exercise of wise statesmanship, toward stability, peace, and prosperity.
Rio de Janeiro, on the Atlantic coast, and Antofagasta, on the Pacific, mark the southern limit of the tropics, and thence southward the southern continent narrows rapidly to the point of Cape Horn. The equivalent distance in North America is from Florida to Labrador, or from oranges to reindeer moss. Florida and Rio are both renowned for their oranges, and Cape Horn shares with Labrador a most inhospitable reputation; but it is more like Scotland than Labrador.
The southernmost land, tapering south-ward between the oceans, is nowhere so cold as the broad expanse of North America is in similar latitude, and Tierra del Fuego, a region of bogs, fogs, and snow squalls, is a congenial home for Scotchmen and long-wooled sheep.
Buenos Aires, the focal point of life and intercourse south of Rio, lies half way between Rio and Cape Horn, in the latitude corresponding to Charleston. Palms grow there in the public gardens, and yet, the houses being unheated, a northerner may greatly enjoy on a damp, chill winter day the soft coal fire which he will find where Englishmen congregate.
Neither very cold nor very hot, the seasons are similar to those of our coast from Norfolk to Charleston; but they are reversed. As the sun circles northward past the Equator their summer ends, while our winter half year begins. There is always summer, north or south; always winter, too. When we are preparing to leave the cities Argentine society is gathered from the country estates for pleasure and politics in the greater metropolis, which alternates with Paris and vies with the French capital in seasons of gaiety.
Buenos Aires is to Argentina what Paris is to France-the center of the national industries, thought, and culture. Commerce, journalism, politics, the drama and music, literature, art, and social life are intensely focused there. The brilliant activity of the greatest city of the Southern Hemisphere (the fourth city of the Americas, after New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia) draws the Argentines to it as a flame attracts moths, and one-fifth of the population of the country struggles there in feverish competition for pleasure and gain.
No traveler to the southern countries but stops as long as he may in Buenos Aires to enjoy or to study the most cosmopolitan, yet most latinized, of the …"
7” x 10”, 22 pages, 14 B&W photos
These are pages from an actual 1916 magazine. No reprints or copies.
One page has some light, red staining, just on the margin.
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