I remember, when many years I first went to I felt that it was and most practical clubs T had visited. 1 got.the same feeling when I motored' out to the country clu at San Salvador. There was an atmosphere of affluence ey where—picture something of a combination of the Hankow Race Club and he French Club at Shanghai, and you will get an idea of t's San Salvador club. And Salvadoreans are delightful lasts. While they sre indem in their outlook, they still retain much the old-world love of gentility one case, and ere gracirosness ite? to the stranger within their gates, The first building to be seen after tone leaves the port—La Libertad—sturdy free public school, on a cliff overlooking the sea, where the state of Salvador educates the oer children of the section. This is typical of the republic, for whatever else Salvador has to go without she will not neglect her excellent. educational system. For many. years education has been free and compulsory, and s T was, posting 1 letter at the Acajutla post office I read a bulletin to the effect that night schools for adults were to be established by the progressive government.
Salvador, moreover, as a republic is very prosperous in its progress, for I saw less poverty there than in any country in Central or South America that I visited. There are many very wealthy people in the eupital, and wher one remembers that Salvador goes a long way towards supplying the coffee-loving Americans and continental Euro-8 with their breakfast beverage ff is not to be wondered at that coffee plantation men are rather lad that they have their ground im coffee rather than in rubber.
The Power of Tradition It is not possible, however, in short newspaper articles to do other than barely touch upon the matters of interest in these fast changing republics of Central America, It seemed to me that wherever one looked he could see that great conquistador Cortez, whose brilliant " conquest in this part of the world ranks as one of the most splendid achievements in the world's history. Indeed, it is all more like romantic fable than sober fact. Not to know what took place in Central America through the great work of Cortes is to know little about the might of Spain. Cortez was no common adventurer or mere courageous soldier, but a captain of admirable and resource, a statesman of rare penetration and foresight. Mexicans, Guatemalans, Salvadoreans and others with whom I discussed certain aspects of the history of that subjugating period spoke of the great soldier as if he had lived but a century ago. Carter was one of the arch pioneers of ancient Spain—reckless, heroic, passionate yet patient, cruel at times yet sincerely religious, silent and reserved and yet capable of inspiring deer personal affection. In many things, says one historian, Cortez resembled Casar, "knowing, how to bet
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