The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-07-10
BENEFITS OF UNDERSTAND
ING WITH NEIGHBoRs DIS
CUSSED AT N. E. A.
Child Problem During
War Is Discussed
Unbalanced Economic Conditions
a Peril-Women Handle Many
Subjects at Meeting This After
noon.

UNITED Press)
PORTLAND, July 1O.-Great inter-
est is manifested in all the sessions of
the National Educational association
at its meetings here and the problems
of the war or growing out of it, are
still the principal subjects of discus
sion.
Among the papers this morning
were Pan American Relations" by
Professor L. G. Dubach, of the Ore
gon Agricultural college; "Democ-
racy," by Rhoda NJ. White, dean of
women, of the State college of Wash
ington, and Guarding the Health of
Children Under War Conditions" by
Sarah M. Hobson, of Chica 20, Ill.
On the subject "Pan-American Rela-
tions,' Professor Dubach said in part:
THE mutual advantage of co-opera-
tive action demands attention now
| The foreign trade of Latin America
totals almost three billions annually.
United States does about 40 per cent
of this. Latin America sells what we
need-coffee, rubber, minerals and
metals, hard woods, extracts, fruits,
grains, animal products, etc. Latin
America needs what we sell and will
have to sell in increasing quantities.
manufactured goods. We compete sue
cessfully with Europe in some lines of
machinery, leather goods, and manu-
facturers Of wood. We are weak in
textiles, porcelain, china, earthen-
ware, glassware, toilet preparations
and accesnOries.
How can we grow in Latin Ameri-
can trade?
Credit facilities, weak in the past,
will be greatly strengthened by the es-
tablishment of branch banks in Latin
America, under the federal reserve
act. Shipping disadvantages, over-es-
timated in the past, should be entire
ly overcome by increased United
States tonnage constructed now for
war purposes. Exporters must study
manufacturing processes more thor
oughly, and the markets and market
ing conditions first md, in order to
compete with the English, Germans
and French.
Ninety-five per cent of foreign in
vestments in Latin America was held
by Europeans at beginning of the war.
United States capitalists should be
able to control this field in the future.
Better understanding of the people
is necessary. If peoples of Latin Amer
ica and United States study to know
and trust each other the Monroe Doc
trine may become a Pan-American
doctrine.
The substance of DR.. Hobsons talk
on Children Under War Conditions"
follows:
The problems of guarding the
health of children under war condi-
tions will be the usual problems in
tensified by the high cost of living
by the withdrawal of women from the
home into industrial occupation, by in
crease of children in industry, by ex
posure to disease brought back from
the war zone by returning soldiers.
The Unbalanced economic cOndi-
tions which are met in many cases by
so-called charity" constitute the
greatest peril. To give to one group,
under any guise whatsoever, a COM
modify or service for which a neigh
Dor group pays, and is therefore in
dependent, is to break down the
American spirit. The spirit of Amer
lea asks for an opportunity to work
and for wages adequate to pay the
things necessary to a wholesome life.
President Wilson has said we are
in the war to make the world safe
for Democracy. This is true and it is
|
mount duty confronts us, that of keep
inging democracy safe for the world.
This is where the work of the colleges
come in. If democracy of a kind
which should persist and be extended
in the world is to exist during and
after this great world spasm, then it
will be because the fires of idealism
have not been allowed to be quenched
by blood or money bags.
I The spiritual altars of social, eco
nomic intellectual progress must
have their fires kept alight, and edu-
cation must see to it that no torch of
t idealism, of vision for the people, shall
{ be thrust for rekindling into spent
? ashes.
The efforts made by colleges both
for their men and for their women
at the first great shock of call, were
naturally in the direction of the OBJ
! vious, cooking and knitting for the
women, drilling and enlisting fCT the
men. This was necessary and well,
but not enough. The great contribu-
/ tion of the college is yet to be made
it is not of leaders in bloodshed nor
! yet as martyrs for the salvage of hu-
man wrecks, but as staunch resisters
of the subtle inroads of sordid and ma
terialistic thinking as guardians of
the social and industrial gains of
years, saviors of the soul of the peo-
pie through clear vision.
The colleges of the nation are Gus