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Still deeper in wild Chiapas, the Mexican savants found a still older city, Junchavin, near the Guatemalan border. Signs indicated that the prehistoric inhabitants had covered their spacious settlement with a blanket of masonry before evacuating. The inscriptions on monoliths and on a "million-year-old" stone were reported of unknown designs, surely pre-Mayan...
Guatemala. At Quirigua, many remarkable monoliths elaborately carved, and huge statues of turtles and other animals were found by Profs. William Gates and J. J. Waterman, American experts in charge of archeological work for the Guatemalan Government. On some of the monuments the figures are all male; on others, all female. There is an entire absence of representation of weapons of war, indicating the advanced and peaceful state of culture. The United Fruit Company, which has big plantations throughout the region, is helping to protect the Guatemala ruins...
Latin America. The Carnegie Institute has received a five-year concession from the Guatemalan Government to carry on explorations in the Peten district, contining Tikal, perhaps the oldest of the Maya cities (200 A. D.). Dr. Sylvanus Morley will soon return to Central America to take up this work. American archeologists are in charge of the museum at Guatemala City...
Press reports received recently in this country state that Guatemala has decided to abandon the use of subsidiary coins made of hard rubber, and is to adopt coins of German manufacture which are to be made of porcelain. No longer can the spendthrift Guatemalan carelessly toss his extra pesos to the street urchins, knowing that if they fail to catch them on the fly they will get them on the rebound; now, alas, the coins upon striking the paving will be shattered into a thousand pleces, valueless as a means of exchange and effective only in puncturing automobile tires...
There must be some reason for this, either political or economic. It is quite possible that insidious German propagandists have duped the Guatemalan government into believing that porcelain coins are better, solely for the purpose of establishing a new market for German goods, a market which will never be satiated. For as long as the coins are constantly being destroyed by break-age, there will be a demand for more, thus keeping the German workingmen occupied, and increasing the prosperity of the Fatherland...