New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-09
URGE SCHOOLS AS
LATIN TRADE AID
International Cancellation
Committee Reports on
South American Trip.
RECOMMEND STUDENT
INTERCHANGE IDEA
Also Suggest Establishing Per.
manent Association Branches
in Southern Republics.

IN Southern Republics.
An account OF summer spent IN
making calls on our South American
neighbors is contained IN a report re.
Gently made by Harry Erwin Bard,
director Of the Pan-Ametican division
Of the American Association for Inter
national Cancellation. The trip was
made with the sanction and support of
the Carnegie Endowment for Interna-
tional Peace. Its purpose was to pro-
mote closer intellectual and cultural
relations between the people Of the
United States and those of other Amer
lean republics.
Eleven university men, all instructors
and representing some thirty colleges,
participated. The tour took little
more than ten weeks. Ten cities were
visited, and stops were made at five
more. From one to six days was spent
IN each city. Notwithstanding the brew
ity Of the trip Mr.. Bard believes thai
much has been accomplished.
The direct result. he says, will be the
dissemination through colleges in this
country and in South America of
the impressions of those who made the
ant. A number of recommendations
including the establishment OF pesma-
nent branches Of the association In
South American republics, beginning
with Brazil, Argentina and Chilli, and
the establishment of training school
for those ambitious TO enter foreign
service, arc made By Mr.. Bard.
In the beginning of the report there
IL 4 suggestion Of the gap that exists
between the republics OF South
America and the United States, in spite
OF their similar interests. ideals and
social problems. Their relations with
Europe have been close, just as OUT
own have been. English is taught il
South American schools and colleges
but its cOnnotation is always England,
never the United States, just as the
Spanish taught in our own schools is
never thought of in connection with
the eighteen South American republics
whose language it Is, but in connec.
ton with Spain or the Philippines.
IN most OF the South American
schools French is the secondary lam
guage. German 10 widely taught, and
then comes English. A more general
study Of Spanish and Portuguese II
our own schools is recommended. The
young man intending 20 enter bushes:
in South America or ambitious TO &C
quaint himself with social and po-
litical problems is advised TO take q
course in a South American college
The interchange of students and teach
ers is 70 be encouraged. Departments
Of law, medicine and the applied
sciences receive especial attention in
most South American r7iversities.
In the course of the trip there were
many conferences with our own diplo'
matte representatives and with educa'
tors and men of affairs OF the coun'
tries visited Everywhere the eXpe-
dition was greeted cordially and 1t;
object discussed with enthusiasm. A:
10 the possible permanent branches IT
South American countries, Mr.. Barc
has this TO say:
These institutes should be founded
think, under the simple title, Ameri'
can Institute OF -----. Their pur'
pose would be to offer instruction
chiefly IL not exclusively, informative
in character, to the people Of the coun'
tries in which they are located and to
Americans who may temporarily re
side in those countries.
This instruction would vary ac'
cording to the peculiar needs and in
terests of the centre IN which the In
s.itute was located, but In every case
should be strictly limited to matters
pertaining 10 the language, thought
and institutions OF the United States
and Of the other country concerned
Each institute would be q bureau OF
information, and in no small measure
also a centre of serious study and re-
search.
Owing to the present unfortunate
conditions in Europe. these republics
Of America are practically cut Oft from
these important nations, with which
their political and commercial rela..
tions. rs we'll as their intellectua! ana
cultural relations, have been closest.
More. then. perhaps, from necessity,
than from choice will their political
and commercial relations with US be-
come closer day by day.
"If these relations are 10 be free
from needless friction and veXatious
Misunderstanding, and close, friendly
relations with these countries are TO
be maintained and strengthened. the
more rand development of closer re-
lations of An intellectual and cultural
character with them is really impera.
tive. and in this work the interest OF
all institutions of culture and learning
in the United States and in those coun
,ries should be enlisted and their ef-
fectiye cooperation secured"
Besides Mr.. Bard, the members OF
the party were Percy Bentley burnet,
of the Manual Training school, Kansas
CITY: John Driscoll fitzGerald, I'd. OF
tbe t-niyersity of Illinois; Reginald Z.
Goodell. of Simmons College, Boston;
Chester Lloyd Jones. OF the University
Of Wisconsin; Joseph Byrne Jockey,
specialist in education administration;
Frederick Bliss Luquiens, shertield SCI
entidc School. OF Yale; Leon Carol!
Marshall. University Of Chicago; will
lam Thomas Morrey, Bushwiek High
school. Brooklyn; Clark Edmund Per-
singer University of Nebraska; Guy
EdWard Snider, College of the City OF
New York. and Allan II. "Illett' Gar
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