9L AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ★ * JOURNAL * * IT'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME.J,u*h<*eU/ While we’ve never seen the statistics, we’ll wager fast in your room, it quietly appears (with a flower and there’s no home in the country staffed with such reti¬ the morning paper on the tray). If you crave in-season nues of valets and butlers, chefs and secretaries, maids or out-of-season delicacies, you'll find them in any of and men servants, as our hotel. That’s why we say the our restaurants. Prepared with finesse and served with New Yorker is "no place like home" — purposely. We finesse. You may have your railroad or air-line or theatre know that everyone secretly longs for and enjoys the tickets ordered for you and brought to you. You may luxury of perfect hotel service. And you have your shirts and suits speeded back know it is yours at the New Yorker, with¬ from laundry or valet, with buttons sewed out luxurious cost. • It is unobtrusive ser¬ 25^6 reduction on and rips miraculously mended. You may vice, too, that never gets on your nerves. to diplomatic and have all this service by scarcely lifting a fin¬ Everyone—from the doorman to the man¬ consular service ger. • You will find the Hotel New Yorker NOTE: the special rate ager—is always friendly, always helpful— reduction applies only conveniently located, its staff pleasantly at¬ to rooms on which the but never effusive. If you want a lazy break¬ rate is $4 a day or more. tentive, and your bill surprisingly modest. HOTEL NEW YORKER 34TH STREET AT EIGHTH AVENUE . NEW YORK CITY Directed by National Hotel Management Company, Inc. • Ralph Hitz, President OTHER HOTELS UNDER SAME DIRECTION: HOTEL LEXINGTON, NEW YORK • NETHERLAND PLAZA, CINCINNATI • BOOK-CAD ILL AC, DETROIT • THE ADOLPHUS, DALLAS • HOTEL VAN CLEVE, DAYTON CONTENTS COVER PICTURE: A Mosque on the Bosphorus ( See also page 82) VOICES AND EYES OF THE NIGHT By the Honorable Ralph J. Totten 65 THE INTER AMERICAN HIGHWAY IN CENTRAL AMERICA—By William R. Manning 68 A PILGRIMAGE TO KOYASAN By Helen E. Van A ken 71 HAND-WEAVING AS A HOBBY By Robert Harnden 73 THE ODYSSEY OF LILY OF THE VALLEY 1935 By Cece Goddard 74 DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY PHILCO FOR 1935—By Henry S. Villard 76 A REAL RADIO ORIENTE Natural tone from the Broadcasting; Studios By Edwin Schoenrich 79 in your own vicinity or in a far off land, is yours by just the turn of the almost magic TEN YEARS ACO IN THE JOURNAL 82 dial—hear every program at its best with Philco. NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT 83 The Philco leadership held throughout the years by the combination of the greatest engi¬ THIS AND THAT 85 neering staff in radio, together with a produc¬ tion schedule that gives you the finest in both reception and quality of workmanship at a NEWS FROM THE FIELD 86 minimum cost. There are 55 magnificent models to meet the A POLITICAL BOOKSHELF taste of the most discriminating buyer—a Cyril Wynne, Review Editor. 88 Philco for every purse and purpose. Every type and size of radio—AC, DC, AC- DC, battery and 52 volt. The model 28C FOREIGN SERVICE CHANGES ... 90 illustrated incorporates the following features: VISITING OFFICERS 92 Wave range 550 to 1720 kilocycles and 4.15 to 15 megacycles—25-75 meters and 175 to 505 meters. OLIVER BISHOP HARRIMAN FOREIGN SERVICE Universal AC, DC, for 110 or 220 volts AC-DC ... 94 Pentode Audio-System Bass Compensation BIRTHS AND MARRIAGES 105 Automatic Volume Control Three Point Tone Control IN MEMORIAM 105 Full Rubber Floated Chassis 6 Philco high-efficiency tubes equal to 8 single THE CONSULAR FLAC OF THE UNITED STATES purpose tubes By Carlton Savage 106 Cabinet 16" wide, 8%" high and 8" deep Tunc in on Philco programs from Station LETTERS 109 EAQ, Madrid, Spain (9.87 on your Philco dial) CONSULAR ANIMALS ... 116 PIIILCO RADIO AND TELEVISION CORP. Export Department AMERICAN STEEL EXPORT CO. Issued monthly by American Foreign Service Associa¬ 347 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. tion, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Entered as Cable Address: Amsta, New York second-class matter August 20. 1934. at the Post Office, in Washington, D. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. 61 JHE /^MERICAN pOREIGN gERVICE JOURNAL High Speed Century Progress Mud & Snow Tubes Rims Tractor Truck & Bus =C sSt®-'* Firestone Wringer Rolls THE NAME 'Firestone ON ANY PRODUCT IS YOUR ASSURANCE OF HIGHEST QUALITY AND Air Brake and Signal Hose Handlebar Grip GREATEST VALUE Q Pedal Rubbers Corrugated Rubber Matting VAMI is Grips a nd Pedal Pads iSiSii Juvenile Tiring Industrial More than 500 different rubber I Rubber & Canvas Footwear Rubber Flooring products bear the name Firestone Batteries Brake Lining fire$tone 62 JHE /^ME RICAN pOREIGN gERVICE JOURNAL To Patronize Our oA dvertisers Is to Insure a cBigger and cBetter Thoughts of Journal for Our Service. WASHINGTON INDEX OF ADVERTISERS American Security and Trust Company. 91 Bacardi 118 Baltimore Mail Line 108 FOREIGN Brewood (Engravers) 92 Service Cathay Hotel—Shanghai — 118 Officers Have A Particular Chase National Bank — 109 Interest In The Many Chesterfield Cigarettes 64 ChoiseuI, Hotel de France et—Paris 118 Activities of Government. Continental Hotel—Paris __ 118 Dunapalota Hotel—Budapest . 119 • When next you visit Federal Storage Company 100 The Capital, stay at the insti¬ Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. 62 tution where international per¬ Giro Sales & Service, Inc 113 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Export Company 95 sonages reside and great events Grace, W. R., and Company 113 occur. Harris and Ewing _ 92 Ilungaria Hotel Budapest 119 Single Rooms from $4 Kressmann, Ed., & Co 118 Martinique Hotel 113 Double Rooms from $6 Mayflower Hotel 63 Merchants Transfer and Storage Company 117 Subject to a Diplomatic Metropole Hotel—Shanghai 118 Discount Middleton, Mrs. Lewis 92 Munson Steamship Lines ... 115 National Geographic Magazine 99 New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. 92 New Yorker Hotel II Cover Pagani’s Restaurant—London 118 Palace-Ambassadeurs Hotel—Rome 119 Pan-American Airways, Inc. 101 Park Lane Hotel—London 118 Philco Radio Company 61 Pillsbury Flour 115 Plaza Hotel ... ... 93 Ritz Hotel—Mexico City.. 119 Rockefeller Center Ill Cover Sapp, Earle W., C.L.U 92 Savoy-Plaza Hotel 93 Sea Captains’ Shop—Shanghai , 118 Security Storage Company of Washington 91 Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. 103 Strasbourg, Restaurant Brasserie de—Marseilles 118 Terminus Hotel Marseilles 118 Tyner, Miss E. J _ 114 Underwood Elliott Fisher Company 107 United Fruit Company 97 United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company ..... 109 United States Lines 97 von Zielinski, Carl M. J. 113 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel IV Cover Willard Hotel . 101 Woodward and Lothrop 105 63 THE PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION YOL. XII, No. 2 WASHINGTON, D. C. FEBRUARY, 1935 Voices and Eyes of the Night By THE HONORABLE RALPH j. TOTTEN, Minister to the Union of South Africa THERE are many phases of big game shooting giving the watcher a much better view of in various parts of the world, some of which the country around. If there is a large tree include letting the game come to you rather than handy the entire machan can be built in that, attempting to stalk animals which have wonder¬ or smaller trees may be used for one, or two, ful eyes and hearing. I have spent afternoons corner posts with cut trunks set firmly in the and nights in a tiny hammock, swung in the trees, ground for the others. A substantial platform of when watching for deer and jaguars in South poles is lashed some twelve feet from the ground, America; I have and this is cov¬ watched for ered with a wild boar or twelve-inch lay¬ roe deer from a er of dry grass little hut built upon which the on poles in Aus¬ sleeping bags of tria and Ger¬ the watchers are many ; I have placed, and sat frozen all some sort of a day in a pole crude ladder, or blind waiting steps, is con¬ for I’otomac structed so that River canvas- one can get in¬ back ducks; but to the affair. I think night Care must be watching in the taken to have African bush is the machan to the most fasci¬ leeward of the nating occupa¬ water-hole, kill tion connected or bait, based with shooting, on the prevail¬ and I have nev¬ ing night winds er grown tired of the district. of it. After an early A properly dinner the night built machan is watchers pro¬ not only the saf¬ ceed to the ma¬ est method of chan with a half watching but is dozen boys to far and away “VELANDO EL TIGRE” carry their the most com¬ Slung in a Tiny Hammock. Ten Feet from the Ground, with Gun, Machete, guns, sleeping fortable, besides Game Bag, and Canteen. bags, e q u i p- 65 ment and the lighting Callous, but eminent¬ apparatus. In Northern ly efficient. Rhodesia, we used the After we were in place spot light and battery and the boys had gone from the truck, which back to camp with their gave an excellent light lanterns bobbing along by which one could through the bush, we ar¬ shoot to a distance of ranged our equipment, some eighty yards, but had a cigarette, and then a five or seven-cell elec¬ settled down to await tric torch will permit what the night might of¬ one to shoot with a fair fer for our amusement accuracy up to fifty or excitement.