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Show TAKING THE CONCEIT OUT OF US. The cutting through of the Panama Canal has suddenly brought us face to face with a brother, instead of one whom we had considoied a distant relative And this brothor Is bigger, in some physical respects, than ourselves. our-selves. Wo could place In Brazil all of tho United States, excluding Alaska, Alas-ka, and have 200,000 squaro miles' margin. Argontlna would accommodate accommo-date in her borders all of the states east of tho Mississippi and the first tlor of states west of that river And a trip as long as from New York to San Frnncltico by water would be required re-quired to measure the coast line of Chile. If you were to circle South America, as did tho American tourists recently on the Kroonland going through the Canal, down tho long bare coasts of Ecuador, Peru and Chile, through the Straits of Magellan, flanked on cither side by glaciers, and then up the eastern east-ern coast of Argentina and Brazil, passing the Guianas, Venezuela and i Colombia, you would consumed month 1 , H in a continuous travel. You would go Fi H -from the heat of the equator to the ) IH cold of the world's southernmost city,- -j H Punta Arenas, on the Straits of' Ma-, H rrv- II 1 |