Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-12-16
Won MEYER CRITICIZED.

THE critics of the navy department
under Secretary Daniels have been unus-
ually active and outrageous in their work,
not hesitating even to make false state
ments,' said the senator. The one man
particularly active in this criticism has
been his immediate predecessor. Mr..
Meier seems to be unconscious of the fact
that in indicting the navy as he has UNI
der Secretary Daniels, he, in truth, is in
dieting himself and his republican prede-
cessors in the navy department. The
Congress has appropriated enough money.
but it has been squandered, misappropri-
ated. or spent unwisely. Poor old Massa-
chusetts. how unfortunate in giving birth
10 such a man as he. | feel sorry she
should be held up to scorn-if such a little
and mean man can hold her III to scorn-
by the actions of Mr.. Won l.. Meyer"
Concluding, Senator Tillman made a
plea for prompt action on his armor plant
bill.
Nothing but brazen cffrontery and UNI
bridled greed, aided by official corruption
in Washington, can delay the passage of
his bill, and I hope that it will become
law inside of 30 days" he said.
Things scientific, especially conferences
and conventions In the distinctly special
ized arts. are passed over as a rule by the
laymen as in some way esoteric, unless
matters of particular and intimate interest
to him arei nvolved but there is something
broadly political, commercial. and social
in the meeting to he held soon in Wash
ington which will m the attention
of the entire intellectual world.
For thirteen days-December n 20
/ lamar ~ S-upder the auspicaS of the mi
ted States government, there will be con-
best thought and learning of the 81 repub-
lies Of the two Americas. 1t is to he
known as tho second Pan-American Sci
entific Congress-, and one need not strain
the superlatives to say that the conference
will be the most important, the most far
reaching, the most beneficial meeting of
the peoples of Spanish-America and the
United States that has been witnessed
since the idea of Pan-American solidarity
was born n century ago.
"Pan-American kultur" 1t might in
deed be called. If one searched for 4
phrase that would in some way convey
the purpose of the conference, though II
has none of the spirit OF rivalry, hut all
of the spirit of cooperation and mutual
] II ' ~ "'''
misnomer as it is used in the official
name of the Congress. 1t is "A translation
from the Spanish word. which does not
mean n congress of bespcctaclcd chemists
and alchemists and what not. hut rs
sentially contains the idea of "learning.'
knowledge" education"
University professors by the hundreds,
teachers, doctors. lawyers, engineers,
railroad men. financiers. publicists, and
statesmen from all the countries OF the
two continents are to be here Nothing
like it has ever been held on this side of
the Atlantic. Nor is the idea original
with the United states. 1t Is a distinctly
Latin american affair. initiated in lSs'
by Argentina and composed for n few
wears of only some of the larger countries
of South America. When the conference
was broadencd in 1905 to include all the
American countries, the United states
became a member, and at that meeting
plans were laid for the second congress
to be held In Washington this year.