The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-09
Featured by Addresses Re Emphasizing the Tendency
 Toward Closer Relations
MARKS THE CLOSE OF
 SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS
Delegates Will Go on Tour to Boston Tomorrow, Ending at New York Next Sunday-Lansing Expresses
 Qualification of United States

WaSnlnSCon January o-DeIeSdleS to the second Pan-American Scientific congress, which ended two weeks session here today, were guests of Secretary Lansing tonight at a ban quet featured by addresses re-empha- sizing the growing tendency toward closer relations among the American republics.
 Secretary Lansing, Ambassador Edu- ardo Suarez-Mujica of Chile, president of the congress; Judge George Grey of Delaware, chairman of the United States delegation, and P. c. lgnacio Calderon, Bolivian minister here were among those on the after-dinner pro- gramme. Mr. Lansing expressed the qualification of the United States for what the congress had accomplished, and Ambassador Suarez, responding for the organization, proposed a tosat to the President of the United States as a symbol of the country that has entertained us so fraternally."
 FAREWELL BY GREY
 In delivering farewell to the de- parting delegates Judge Grey urged that the American Republics which "need no formal treaties to impel us to unity of thought and action" should not neglect in their friendly relations with each other to take steps for mili- tary preparedness. Another indOrse- ment of President Wilson's Pan-Amer- ican policy was made by Minister Cal deron, who declared it "a great doc trine which excludes no man. threat ems no country, but is the continuation of that great universal yearning for freedom, for peace, for justice and for amity."
 Monday, as the guests of the Uni- ted States government, the foreign delegates will leave for a tour north as far as Boston, which will end at New York January 16. They will be en- tertained at luncheon Monday by the Baltimore Board of Trade and after ward will visit Philadelphia, Prince ton, New Haven, Boston and various other cities
 Judge Grey in his farewell address tonight emphasized that military pre- paredness should be directed mot for war, but as happily has been said, against war"
 He added that the opportunity might come "and we all fervently pray it may soon come" when the President could offer as the spokesman of all the Americas a suggestion that might find Judgement in the mind and heart of the people of the world
 NO SELFISH AIMS
 'sThis voice." he continued, when spoken, must be the voice of a virile people, who, with no selfish aims to subserve, and with no purpose of ag- gression or aggrandizement, stand for law and justice and the broad human ities that underlie our civilization.
 Strengthening of the sea power, "south as well as north,' he said, was a duty that we may protect every where the commerce that traverses the high seas and ocean paths that are open to all neutral nations" While the United States must so strengthen it's army that it may serve as a nucleus upon which the citizen soldiery of the states may be built into an efficient army of defense"
 sThese." he declared, "are the senti- ments which, are felt in the hearts Of the American people as they hold up the olive branch of peace to the na- tions of the world. We need no formal treaties to impel us to the unity Of thought and action that will make the injury of one the injury of all. It IS for us, of all the world, to make moral salvage of Christian civilization TO paraphrase the words of the President the Americans ask nothing for them selves except what they have a flght to ask for humanity ltselI.
 COMMUNITY OF INTERESTS
 'Friendliness and good will have been the atmosphere in which this con gress has worked for the benefit of humanity It is only for the peoples of the two continents to will to be friends, and the work is accomplished Time and circumstances have drawn us together. We cannot ignore the community of our interests if we would nor can we neglect the duty Of CO., cperation which that community i'm poses on us.
 with the performance of that duty of cooperation will come, l am sure the mutual respect upon which alone true friendship can be founded. on such foundations I look forward hope fully to union of the peoples of Pan America, more enduring than any that can come from treaties or laws
 Secretary Lansing told the delegates he hoped each of them would return to his country 'an apostle of Pan- Americanism, teaching his fellow cit izens the truth as to other republics wipng out the doubt as to their sin cerity." He said Pan- -Americanism should be the guide of all the Amer ican republics in their intercourse, and Ia oF arip m all times