Mohave County miner., 1917-04-28
PROPOSES ERECTION Of THE AMERICAN
 HOUSE" IN PARIS

PARIS, April 2.-Ramon Lopez Lomba, Consul General of Uruguay, proposes the building in Paris of what he calls 'The American House" to serve as headquarters for commercial propaganda of American republics in France and develop social intercourse between subjects of Amercian repub- lies residing in or visiting the capitol.
 The project amounts to the estab- lishment of a sort of a Pan-American association like that at washington, that would group twenty-one different American republics with Canada and the French and Dutch possessions on the new continent.
 'The excellent york of the Pan American Union in Washington which has never encountered the slightest says Senor Lomba, "is the best indication of the feasibility of the American House in Paris.
 ''This institution should be semi-of- ficial," he added "that is to say that it ought to be subsidized by different represented. It would have for a special object the develop ment of better acquaintance of Eur ope by Americans and of America by Europeans, and to develop relations between the two continents. A whole collection of institutions might find place in this institution; first, a gen eral information bureau in which each American country would have its office, while a general office might centralize information relating to all of the countries, for instance, prices of different American secur- ities, quotations on the different ex- changes, current prices of principal products and movements of shipping.
 ''The museum attached to this in- said Senor Lomba, "migh: comprise a commercial section with a permanent exhibition of American pro- ducts that would put American re- sources in touch withk French buyers; a fine arts section that would organize an annual exhibition that would enable American artists to become better ac- quaintd; a section of natural history. another of ethnography."
 Senor Lomba proposes ss one feature of this institution a sort of combined Family House." to be used as a home by American students in Paris and prevent the evil effects of young persons being dispersed in Paris.
 The closer relations of American re- publics to each other and to Europe by the development of means of com munication, he suggests, would make desirable the establishment of a uni versity in connection with this institu- tion in which would be given courses in the history, geography and legisla- ton of American countries, thus pro- viding knowledge that will be more necessary in the future with increased business relations.
 Certain of the Latin-American re- publics," says Consul General Lomba, would like to exclude the United States from this project because they imagine there may be developed in the great republic of North America a desire for absorption or at least of negemony. As far as I am concerned, think it purely imaginary and that it is a calumny against the people of the United States to attribute to them such a state of mind. It would be pro- foundly regrettable if the South Amer ican and Central American republics deprive themselves voluntarily of the of North Americans who would aid them materially to exploit their natural resources.
 Some North Americans have also raised objections to the creation of this American House, thinking that it would amount to obstruction to the in the United States with the Latin American republics, by aid ing them to develop their commercial relations direct with the European countries. They forget that the same institution would permit the United States to increase it's outlet upon Eur opeau markets"
 That France would welcome and favor such a project since it would facilitate contact by French manu- lecturers "'ith all the markets of the new world" is Senor Lomba's belief.
 BOOSTING CHAUTAUQUA