Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-09

the field Of a great social crusade South
American people have no idea, as a rule,
OF the value Of our institutions for better
ing the condition Of the poor for prevent
ing the spread Of disease, for increasing
good will among employers and employed
for organized philanthropy, in short. The
American institute stands ready, he states,
II an agency OF propagation Of knowledge
Of American institutions can be established
in Buenos Ayres, to provide an immense
mass Of material which will be instructive
to the people Of the South American repub-
lies. This center in the leading city OF
the continent would. Or. Strong predicts
become the source Of many philanthropic
activities. At the same time It would dem
onstrate to prominent land owners, en-
ployers and manufacturers Of Argentina
that improvement along social and indus
trial lines is attended by material success.
Still another man who is taking keen
interest in this project for cooperation be-
tween educational institutions Of the two
continents is Ernesto Nelson, a special
commissioner of education to this country
from the Argentina government and cor
respondent Of the well known Buenos Ayres
newspaper La NaciOn Mr.. Nelson, who
has been spending some months in eastern
Massachusetts in a study Of schools Of
higher and elementary education, says en-
Enthusiastically that the plan, II successfully
carried ont. would do much to promote
that closeness Of international relationship
OF which so much has been written in the
last few years. but which has proceeded
more slowly than its ardent advocates
might wish. Want Of personal under
standing Of national differences has been
responsible for much OF the i'll success up
to this time Of American manufacturers
and merchants in the South American field.
Some of the efforts Of capitalists of the
United States to capture the South Amer
lean trade have verged on the grotesque.
Manufacturers have frequently attempted
to force an entrance into the markets Of
the south by dumping into them goods en-
tirely unsuited to the peoples wants, and
when the Spanish-American merchants
have courteously declined to throw away
their good money. the Americans have
branded them as backward and prejudiced.
Exporters in many cases have shown them.
selves not only unfamiliar with the needs
Of their prospective customers, but also
with the tariff regulations OF the country
and with such laws as directly affect com
mercial interests The American manu-
facturer, for example, first adopting a
lIbu6 marx ntEe8 OWLS IT. uUueT lIS civil
law, which prevails in Argentina, n trade
mark is the property of the person first
registering It. Should an American manu-
facturer build up paying business for his
trade-marSed goods in that country and
should fail to protect his rights by regis
tration, he has only himself to blame If he
finds himself suddenly barred out by some
INSCRIPTIONS European competitor who
has registered the trade mark, claiming it
as his own.
Mr.. Nelson. during a residence OF five
years in this country, has found that few
North Americans have correct ideas re-
garding Argentina. They almost invarla-
bly,, for example express great surprise
when they learn that it is larger than the
entire United States east of the Mississippi
and has all varieties of climate from the
tropical down to the extreme cold of the
Straits of Magellan.
SO far as South American feeling towarC
the United States is concerned this, Mr.
Nelson says has been strikingly bettereC
by the recent visit of Secretary Root, whos'
emphatic assurances, repeated in every