The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-12-29
NEW STEP TkitN
IN WOgO UNITY
PAN-AMERICAN UNION SETS AN
EXAMPLE OF UNSELFlSH
COOPERATION
WESTERN HEMISPHERE ENJOYING PEACE
Trade Relationship Ideal as Result
Of Trust in Motives Held
BY Sister Nations.
BY DR.. L. s. Rowe


Editors Note-As director general
of the Pan American Union and the
authorized general exponent of all the
Latin-American republics (22 in num-
ber) DR.. Rowe is working energetic
ally and expertly to forward a com
bined effort on the part of United
States manufacturers to increase trade
relations. His article will be found
intensely interesting and greatly illum-
inating.]
The dream of the civilized peoples
of the world since history recorded
civilization has been and is being ac-
complished today on the western CONT
nent.
International disputes are being set
tied before their activities have more
than been born. Hatreds are smoth-
cred in the cradle. Injustice is an I'M
known quantity. The sword has indeed
been beaten into a p~lowshare and this
in the face of the cry, There will
always be war"
While the great nations Of the world
view with suspicion even the sugges-
lions of peace overtures that shall last
forever, view with distrust the hopes
of a universal disarmament, cling to
the apo Of war with one hand
while touching the olive branch with
the other, there is before them an
example of international cooperation,
of international h~elpfulness, of misun-
~derstanding smoothed away across a
table that has been going on for years
and with each new year seeing a more
complete understanding and a closer
drawing together of the nations thus
affected.
While the great nations of the earth
shout If their civilization and their
the ever-increasing program of ships
and guns the Pan American Union
goes on it's way bringing peace and
prosperity to it's membership and
growing trust and confidence in it's
decisions.
Throughout the world, the masses
of the people are passing through a
period Of disillusionment and disap-
pointment. The high hopes enter
tanned Immediately subsequent to the
ing upon a new era of international
goodwill and cooperation have been
sadly shattered. Enthusiasm has given
way to moral lassitude and cynicism.
The r%esurgence of selfish nationalistic
and ever imperialistic ambition on the
part of the peoples of Europe has de-
veloped an atmosphere of pessimism
with reference to the future of western
civilization.
The bitter experience of the last few
accepted and hitherto unquestioned
beliefs relative to international affairs.
There is a growing feeling that the
ruthless international competition,
which has characterized world rela-
lions during the last century, has not
produced the results which were an
ticipated. Even those countries that
seemed to gain the greatest advantage
from this competitive system have
often found those advantages hollow
and of little permanent value. With
this increasing doubt as to the eff
cheney of international competition,
there is a growing feeling that the
welfare of the masses of the people
in all countries can best be guaranteed
through a policy of international CO.
operation rather than competition.
Since the first Pan American confer
ence, held in 1889, under the states
manlike leadership Of James G. Blaine,
there has been worked OUT a policy
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