Evening star., 1916-01-02

Impressed with the important part
the training of young men can have in
meeting the growing
Pan-American need for closer COM
mercia1 relations be-
tween the United
States and Latin American countries,
various agencies Of the government, as
well as non-governmental organiza-
tions. are cooperating in making
smooth the way both for students from
the southern republics who wish train
ing in the United States and for young
men of this country who desire train
ing that will fit them for commercial
work In South and Central America.
The bureau Of education has made a
contribution toward the solution of the
problems by preparing bulletin CIV
ing detailed information in regard to
the organization of all classes of Amer
lean educational institutions, but espe-
cially of universities. colleges and pro-
fess!ona1 schools. The whole bulletin
is shaped with special reference to the
needs of foreign students. Copies have
been placed in the hands of American
commercial attaches in South America
and are used in advising applicants for
In Information in regard to our educa-
tional facilities.
taken especial interest in placing Latin
American students in the United States,
and has carried on negotiations with
institutions on behalf of young Chill
cans through the bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce of the Department
of Commerce He has found that train
ing is especially desired-by students
contemplating coming to the United
States-in banking. railways. interna-
tional exchange and statistics.
u r.
Of Commerce. in making a survey Of
special facilities available for foreign
students, that number of chambers
Of commerce and other commercial Or
ganizations have taken the matter up
and have worked out arrangements
whereby certain industrial concerns
will cooperate by taking, on a modi-
fed apprenticeship basis. both foreign
students who will later return to their
countries and local students who 1t is
planned to have represent the firms
abroad. AS final link in the chain of
government and commercial interest
in assisting Latin American students
the bureau of foreign and domestic
Of clearing house, through which young
men from the southern countries de7
string special technical and Industrial
training will be brought into direct
touch with firms and institutions in
this country that have the necessary
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While the government. through the
reclamation service. has been building
dams and diverting rivers
Irrioation in certain arid regions of
the west in a way that is
Farming. the admiration Of the
worlds engineers. the average citizen
has acquired the notion that this work
of reclaiming a million or more acres
of productive land from the grip of the
desert Is the sole irrigation activity
of the federal government. AS mat
ter of fact, however. during all of the
time that this work has been in
progress the government, through the
office of irrigation investigstions OF the
Department of Agriculture. has also
been graphing with the complex prob.
lens that arise from the practice of
irrigation farming on the more than
fifteen million acres OF irrigated land
Throughout the country.
The function of the office is not like
that of the reclamation service. to ex-
tend the means of irrigation. SO much
as 1t Is to encourage the proper appli-
cation of the means that are made
available whether they are furnished
by nation, state, organization or indi-
vidual In carrying on this work the
Office is sending it's agents into the ir-
igated areas--often to the farms. with
spade in hand-to preach the gospel of
the proper use of water. For it has
supply is by no means the whole of
the battle to force the desert to yield
crops
Bound up with the individual use Of
water. the office has found, is the big