Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-01-12
latin DELEGATES
LIKE WILSON IDEA
Scientific Congress Is Nearing
CIose-Next Meeting to Be
Held In Lima, PERU
Unity Is Aim.

Washington, ID. c., Jan. S.-Presi-
dent Wilson'S address before the Pan
American scientific congress last night
in which he outlined the governments
plan for a Pan-American alliance
guaranteeing absolute political indie
pendence and territorial integrity, was
favorably commented on by delegates
today.
The United States proposes. the
president said, that all the American
nations shall agree to settle all pend
ing boundary disputes a soon as pos
sible by amicable process and to dis
pose of all disputes in the future by
arbitration. Furthermore, all coun-
tries under h plan would agree that
no revolutionary expedition shall be
outfitted against or supplies for e v
o%lutionists shipped to %ncighborins
states.
Announcement of the selection OF
Lima, Peru, as the meeting place of the
next congress in 1921 was regarded
by the delegates as an evidence of
the desire for closer relations among
h American republics.
Sessions of the various sections of
the congress today We're brief. The
congress will close tomorrow with a
joint meeting. when resolutions and
suggestions evolved i'll sectional meet
ings will be taken up.
Sees Closer Relations.
After expressing regret at his inabil-
ity to bc present to greet the congress
at it's opening session. the president
said:
II have been told so much about
the proceedings of this congress tina.
feel that I can congratulate you upon
the increasing senses of comradeship
and intimate intercourse which has
marked it's sessions from day to day.
and it is a very happy circumstance
in our view that this, perhaps the most
vital and successful of the meetings
of This congress-. should have occurred
in the capital of our own country, be-
cause we should wish To regard this
as the universal place where ideas
worth while are exchanged and shared.
The drawing together of the Ameri-
cas-, ladies and gentlemen, has long
been dreamed of and desired. 1t is
a matter of peculiar qualification,
therefore. 20 see this great thing hap
pen: to see the Americas drawing to-
gcther and not drawing together upon
any nsubstantia foundation or mech
anicsm.
After all. even friendship must he
based upon a perception OF common
sympathy of ommon interests, of
common ideals. and of common our
poses. Men cannot be friends unless
they intend the same things. and the
Americas have more and more real
lied that i'm all essential particulars
they intend the same thing with re-
gard to their thought and their life.
and their activities. To be privileged,
therefore, to see this drawing together
i'm friendship and communion based
upon these ole foundations, affords
every one who looks on with open
eyes peculiar satisfaction and joy, and
it has seemed to me that the language
Of science, the language of impersonal
thought. the language Of those who
think. no. along the lines, of Individual
interest. but along what are intended
to be the direct and searching lines
Of truth itself, and a very fortunate
language in which to express this com.
munity Of interest and sympathy.