The Washington times., 1914-08-29
SOUTH AMERICAN FACTS

csts of TIE country need about
Latin-America and its business pos
sibiIities for the United States at
this time. Facts, and more facts.
To the average person with pc
numbral idea that there are some
chances to sell things in South
America, if only somebody would go
to work and make a regular place
out of it, with regular people IN 1t,
wanting conventional things, some
plain information would be of the
greatest value.
For these reasons it would be a
real service if every business man in
the country could be in some man
ner induced to read the Bulletin OF
the Pan-American Unicn; the
monthly magazine published by the
union. 1t is attractive physically,
splendidly illustrated-and pictures,
such as illumine its current number,
do as much as anything el.ie possibly
could to convey a correct impression
about the southern republics--and is
filled with the very kind of irtclli-
gerce that is calculated to make peo-
pie want to try out the possibilities
of the countries it describes.
The August issue is at hand. open
ing with an editorial article about
the mediation conference at Niagara
Falls. Following this is an article
which suggests much to the reader
concerned to learn what are the ties
uniting the States to the South
American countries. There are vast
lv more of these of sentimental than
of business character. This particu-
lar article deals with Domingo Faus-
tino Sarmiento, one time President
of Argentina.
How many readers can guess why
Argentina should be erecting mon
,rment to this former President, in
Boston? Not in Buenos Aires, but
in Boston!
Sarmiento was the founder of the
public school system of Argentina,
Gre of the best in the world. He got
his models and his inspirations from
Horace Mann, father of the public
education system as we have it in
this country. Mann's great work
was done in Massachusetts,, where he
worked out bis ideals into n system.
Therefore, the Argentines. wishing
to give to America testimonial at
once to their ard our fathers Of pop
ular education, decided to place this
monument in Boston!
Sarmiento might be called the
Lincoln of Argentina. He was poor
boy, struggled for the Ineager aca-
demic education he secured. He
fought in the civil wars of his own
country, AMI when afterward, in the
course of extensive travels, he came
to the United States, he studied Lin
coin, and wrote popular life of the
martyred President, books on the ed
ucational system of this country, and
studies of our Government. So much
beloved was he in his own country
that while he was travelling ir. the
United States he was nominated and
elected President of Argentina.
He assumed the Presidency in
October, 1868, had a wonderfully
successful administration, and after
his retirement, like our own John
Quincy Adams, plunged anew into
public service. He served as minis
ter of education, as minister to
Chile, and in many other capacities.
He died in 1855, figure in the eyes
and imagination of his countrymcn
hardly less revered than we can be
assured Lincoln would have been had |
his full span of life been spared.
An extensive section Of the maga-
zine is devoted to political and busi-
ness news of the different countries,
condensed end specific. 1t is the
precise kind of material calculated |
to suggest the business opportuni-
ties waiting for American Develop
ment. A charming and splcndidly
illustrated article on the ever de-
ightful Isle of San Juan Fernandez
the real Crusoe's island-as it is
today and as it once was, will not es-
cape any reader who ever loved De-
foes great story.
Altogether, this number of the
Pan-American deserves 4 circulation
that it is certain not to get, despite
the excellent work of the union in
promoting community of sentiment
and interest among all the Americas.
PEDT OE EpANCEi