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Show HISlO FEAR OF HUNJ1VALRY Competition With America in South Regarded as Mere Myth. CHICAGO, Dec. 12. John Barrett, director di-rector general of the Tan-American bureau, bu-reau, the official International organization organiza-tion of the American republics, quoted trade figures to show that any fear of German competition with the United Stales in Central and South America is a "bogey myth," in a speech before, tht Cook County Ileal Kstate board tonight. "German competition neither was before be-fore the war nor will be after the war. an actual menace to the trade of the United States with the twenty Datiu-American Datiu-American countries," he said. "In the last year before the war the total tradt of the United States with these countries coun-tries exceeded that of Germany by nearly near-ly MOO, 0U0, 000. "At the outbreak of the war in' 1914 the value of the United States' commerce with Latin-America for the preceding fiscal year was approximately $"50,000,-000. $"50,000,-000. In the fiscal year 1917-18 it reached the immense total of $1,750,000,000, i growth of $1,000,000,000 in only four years. Last year the trade of the Unitea States with La tin-America was greater than that of all the other countries put ! together." |