Off the Map

The Eagle Pencil Company of New York did not know that El Salvador was omitted from a world map which it was including in children's pencil boxes until the United Press called its attention to the protest made by the National Tourist Board of El Salvador to the Salvadorean Minister in Washington. The Eagle Pencil Company regrets this incident which was entirely unintentional on its part. It did not prepare or print the map in question but bought the same from a company of high standing in the printing trade. The error will be corrected in the future.

This statement from Eagle Pencil Co. did much to mollify Salvadorans last week. El Salvador nestles between Guatemala and Honduras on the west coast of Central America. Its area is 13,176 square miles and its 1,600,000 population are chiefly Indians & half-castes. It became an independent republic in 1839, on the dissolution into independent republics of the Central American Federation. This had comprised the States of (from north to south) Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. El Salvador, the smallest, most densely populated of the Central American countries, has 80% of her soil under cultivation, is a one-crop country (coffee). In its capital, San Salvador, flourish 100,000 and the President, His Excellency General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez.

At latest reports Irishmen had not yet officially protested the omission of Eire from Eagle Pencil's map. The map omits among others the name of Czechoslovakia, makes the meridian of Greenwich, from which all time and longitude are reckoned, pass through Paris, France, not through Greenwich, England.

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