Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-30
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posal are SO far being held as con-
fidential between the State Depart
ment and the Latin-American chan
cellortes here. Mr.. Lansing to-day
declined entirely to discuss 1t in any
phase and the diplomats uniformly
declared they could not discuss a mat
ter which was in Its preliminary stage
home foreign offices.
Outlined Proposals
II became known. however. that
soon after Secretary Lansing delivered
his Pan American unity speech be-
fore the scientific congress in which he
advocated a Pan-American "one for
all and all for one" he began inviting
the Lattn-American representatives
to the State Department two at a
time and outlining to them his pro-
posal A the same time, II is under
stood the secretary's public declara-
tion which had attracted much favor
able attention among the Latin Am
ericans because of its suggestion that
all the opinions among American ma
tions should II necessary constitute a
united bulwark against any unjust
invasion or aggression against a
netghbor was discussed in some detail
and uniformly it is understood the
Latin Americans expressed their ap-
probation of Mr.. Lansing's state
ments. The technical form in which
the new proposal was made was not
disclosed to-day but there are indica-
tons that 1t took the usual form of a
memorandum to the diplomats, and
was in such official form as could be
transmitted to their home govern
ments as the basis for action.
Would Preserve Peace
One of the first elements of the
proposal which has for one of its
ultimate objects the welding of a
thoroughly united America is the pre-
serving of peace on the American
continent. IL is realized that the
chief menaces to such a peace are
boundary disputes and revolutionary
activity. 1t is pointed out that if all
boundary disputes are removed to the
realm of arbitration, and all the Pan
American nations bind themselves to
absolutely prohibit shipments of war
munitions to any other than estab-
lished governments, peace among the
nations themselves would practically
be assured and the attention of all
the American nations could be de-
voted to what Secretary Lansing ex-
pressed in his speech as working out
their destinies.
Many of Mr.. Lansing's declarations
10 the Pan american Congress took on
added significance to-day in the light
of his proposals to the Latin American
proposals.
within recent years." said he. the
United States has found no occasion,
with the exception of the Venezuelan
boundary incident to remind Europe
that the Monroe Doctrine continues
national policy in this re-
public. The republics of America are
no longer children in the great family
of nations. They have attained ma
turity."
with all earnestness, therefore, 1
commend to you the thought of the
republics, twenty-one SOW
ereign and independent nations bound
together by faith and justice and firm
ly cemented by sympathy which
knows no superior and no inferior, but
which recognizes only all equality and
Women Should he Trained
Ida NJ. Tarbell told the Pan-Am-
erican scientific congress to-day that
the education of a woman should be
based on the assumption that she will
marry.
The woman as a rule comes to her
task without systematic training" i"
said Miss Tarbell Parents gener-
she can pick up what she needs to
know. The results are deplora BILE
Training should be general and should
begin in the kindergarten and con-
tinue through the schools. Nothing
else is going to lift the stigma that
now rests on housekeeping labor for
hire"