Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1919 — AMERICANS WILL BE THERE [ARTICLE]

AMERICANS WILL BE THERE

Opportunities Offered in Abyssinia Are by No Means Likely to Be Long - ~ > After his visit to the United States one of the Abyssinian visitors admitted that he knew now why there were no Americans in Abyssinia. As he had seen him at home, the American, so the stranger from Abyssinia decided, Is not given to slow and tedious traveling. He wants to get about quickly, and Abyssinia, with nothing faster than a pack mule, offers no inducements of rapid transportation. “That, It seems,” said the Abyssinian, “has kept the American man out of our country. It is too bad. We need bridges like youra r we need streets like yours, and we need men like yours to direct the building of them.” Commercially and Industrially, however, the truth probably Is that Abyssinia has not been “discovered," and when That happens the American man will come and build his own rapid transportation. The mere statement that the capital, Addis Abbeba, Is a city of some 40,000 inhabitants and no rallvray connection with the outside world f* a temntatlon.—Christian Science Monitor.