The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-21
Topeka STATE JOURNAL
Information Bureau
FREDERIC J. HAsKIN. Director.
Washington, ID. G.
NEW PAN-AMERIcAN PROJECTS

/ Washington, d. G.
NEW PAN-AMERICAN PROJECTS.
] Washington, d. c.. Feb. 1S.-If a
boy in Mexico or Chile or the Argen-
tine or any other Latin-American
country wants to come to the United
States for his education, the Pan
rangements for him. 1t can very like
ly obtain him scholarship, 1t will find
work for him after his graduation so
that he may get practical experience
to round off his education, and in gen.
eral it will act as his friend and ad-
wiser.
| Likewise, if a boy in the United
States wants to go to a Latin-American
country for his education in order to
learn the language and the laws of
that country, the Pan-American Union
will give him assistance in finding
what he wants. In word, the Union
\ is going to facilitate in every possible
way the exchange of students among
the American republics, because it
believes that in this way more than
any other a real Pan-American spirit
of friendly understanding is built up.
In fact, the value of the plan has
long since been demonstrated. The
best friends the United States has in
Latin-America are the numerous ma
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University of Pennsylvania, and other
American colleges, who are scattered
all thru Latin-America. from Mexico
to the Argentine. Turnout those coun-
tries there are United States univer-
stiles clubs, made up of the alumni of
American universities, some of whom
are natives of the United States and
some of the countries in which the
club is located.
Needless to say, these clubs are GEN.
ters of Pan-American friendship,
There are today about 5000 students
from Latin-America in schools and
colleges in the United States. Natural
ly the number of Americans who go
to South America to study is much
smaller, but the Union emphasizes the
value of that side of the movement,
too. There are great opportunities in
South America, and the young man
who has studied there is in a good
position to take advantage of them.
For example, a graduate of an Ameri
can law school went to Rio de Janeiro
to study law. He became consul gen.
eral for the United States, but later
gave up that work to open a law Of
flee. He now has a large business and
employs several assistants, and is
legal writer of some note in Brazil.
Movement Started in Mexico.
Tho influx of students from the
South to our universities has been
greatly stimulated by the American
Chamber of Commerce of Mexico City,
which has a representative, Mr.. o. W.
z. Cook. in this country to induce
American universities to grant scholar
ships to Latin American students and
American industrial firms to give
them jobs in their chosen lines. He
has had great success in both. The
way of the Latin-American students is
being made easier and easier. He is
taken care of. in many cases, from the
time he lands here until he is ready
to return. And he returns a booster
for the United States.
The exchange of students IS one of
the new activities of the Pan-Ameri-
can Union under its new director, DR..
Leo. S Rowe. DR.. Rowe has two main
plans. One of these is to depart
mentalize the work of the Pan-Ameri-
can Union, so that it may work more
effectively along special lines, such as
education and sanitation. The other
is to make the Pan-American Bulletin
a medium to carry practical informa-
ton to the Latin-Am erican countries
as well as message of friendship.
In addition to his plans for a special
department devoted toe education DIR.
Rowe has already well under way a
department of sanitation. This is to
act as a clearing house for all new
discoveries and researches along the
lines of sanitation and hygiene, so that
these may be made Immediately avail
able all over the western hemisphere
instead of waiting upon the slow
process of translation and Transmission
thru ordinary channels.
For instance, the United States pub
lie health service has recently discov-
cred, by its experiments in Hawaii,
what seems to be a specific cure for
leprosy. Chaulmoogra Oil has long
been recognized as having value in the
treatment Of leprosy, but it has been
oil which the patient could assimilate.
This at last seems to have been found.
Doctor Rowe's new department of
sanitation will undertake to place the
results of these experiments in the
hands of Latin-American govern
mentss some OF which face very Sc
we're leprosy problems. Arrangements
have also been made for some Of these
governments to receive small Quantt-
ties of the improved oil.
Works Better Than Words.
That practical assistance in solving
their problems is what many of the
Latin-American peoples most appre-
ciate seems to be the basic conviction
of Doctor Rowe's administration.
This is an idea which seems also to be
entertained by many other students
of our relations with Latin-America.
IL mas long been our custom to send
diplomatic missions on battieships to
the southern republics. These have
always been received with the great
est courtesy; speeches expressing the
most profound friendship in the most
eloquent terms have been exchanged,
and innumerable toasts have been
drunk to the future amity of the west
ern hemisphere. At the same time.
our actual diplomatic and military
maneuvers in Latin-America have not
always confirmed in the minds of the
southern peoples the impression OF
disinterested friendship which our
words have conveyed.
No doubt administrative b1unders
are inevitable in a country which
changes it's management of affairs ev-