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farmers, Victory gardeners, and the

Army and Navy.

“Here again the U. S. Department

of Agriculture has been of outstand

ing help,” Zemurray declares. "From

Its tropical experiment station In

Puerto Rico, planting stock of der

rls (from which rotenone la taken)

has gone to Haiti. Mexico, Honduras,

Guatemala, the Dominican Repub

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American tropics. The rotenone

plants thrive In American tropical

soil.”

Zemurray says that quinine, like

rubber, was originally grown wild In

South America and then carried to

the Far East, where It was domesti

cated. Again like rubber, It Is be

ing replaced by substitutes, he says,

but big quantities of It are still

needed to fight malaria.

"The story Is a similar one for

dozens of other tropical crops which

we have been bringing around the

world,” he writes. "Every one of

them can be grown by the farmers

of tropical America; every one has

been grown In small or large quanti

ties. Every one of them is needed

by the United States, In war and

In peace. Every one of them, raised

In Latin America and sold to the

United States, will make our south

ern Republics stronger, more pros

perous, more stable, and a better

market for our own manufactured

products.”

Seek Rescue

Of Jews

New York, Sept. 3—(UP)—The

—The American Jewish conference

today advocated Immediate rescue

of as many Jewls as possible from

Nazi-occupied Europe and expressed

concern that "the democracies have

as yet failed to institute sustained

and vigorous action to save those

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Waterbury Democrat. (1943). Waterbury, Conn., 1943-09-03. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82014085/1943-09-03/ed-1/?sp=8

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Waterbury Democrat, 1943-09-03.