Evening star., 1921-03-20
WANTS.
AMERICAN FARMERS
Believed Demonstration of Their Methods
Will Build Up Business of Trans
continental Railway.

the five countries. which at present
maintain five embassies here, would
be sent to the United States. Saliva
dor has ratified the treaty which calls
for the formation of the union.
Dispatches reaching Washington
from the Buenos Aires American
Chamber of Commerce describe a sit
uation which is said to be decidedly
bad for importers of American auto
mobiles in Argentina. The situation
is due primarily to the unfavorable
rate of exchange and increased Gus
toms duties, with general business
depression. A general decline in the
automobile business in Argentina is
imminent. II is stated. unless help
is forthcoming. Three thousand five
hundred American made cars are
held in customhouses and importers
bankruptcy.
Guatemala is preparing for the cell
bration by the five Central American
republics of their first centenr al cell
ebration Of independence. The ar
rangements for the celebration are
being made. in accordance with a
convention signed at San Jose, Costa
Rica. in December.
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The section of education of the Pan
American Union is cooperating with
committees formed in some OF the
Latin American countries to assist
teachers and students coming to the
United States to find where they can
best obtain the training they wish.
Announcement has been made Of the
formation in Cuba OF an advisory
committee Of prominent educators,
approved by the secretary of public
instruction, which. will be located in
Havana to aid Cubans coming to the
United States to study.
The committee will obtain from the
students statements of their previous
training and the branches in which
they wish to specialize here in the
United States. The data will be for
warded to the Pan-American Union,
which will send back list of COL
leges which fill the desired needs. In
this way il is hoped to avoid loss OF
time which foreign students frequent
ly experience in trying to select their
schools. The committee in Havana
will have a delegate in each of the
normal schools to assist in carrying
out the work.
Virgilio Rodriguez Beteta, prohni-
vice president of the executive COM
mittee of the National Press Confer
ence. will leave the United States
within short time to visit Rio de
Janeiro, Montiyideo. Buenos Aires and
other South American cities in the in
terest of the Press Congress OF the
World. which is to convene in Hawaii
in October. 1921. Mr. Beteta, who is
Latin American and Spanish delegate
to the congress. will confer with ed
itors OF the leading publications, OF
South America TO interest them in the
The congress is to be held in Hawaii
at the invitation of the Pan-Pacific
Union. -
Rear Admiral w. c. Braisted, chair
man of the provisional board of di-
rectors for the proposed Gorgas Me-
pleted and forwarded to President
Porras Of Panama, report on plans
: for the Institutes foundation. Ad-
miral Braisted has just returned from
trip through the United States. dur
ing which he visited the Mayo Foun-
dation, in Rochester. Mimi: the Uni
versfty of Minnesota. and other insti-
tutions. In his report TO President
Porras he states he found great in
terest in the proposed memorial
among the educators and physicians
he interviewed on the subject, includ-
ing DIR. Charles Mayo, DIR. Judson.
president of the University of Chi
cago, and other prominent men of col-
leges and universities.
DR.. Franklin H. Martin of Chicago.
secretary general of the American
College of Surgeons. now on tour
Of the South American countries to
bring about further cooperation be-
tween the American college and SINH
lar organizations in Latin America.
passed through Panama recently and
expressed his hearty approval of the
proposed memorial. Part of his state
ment to President Porras on the
proposed memorial which has reached
the legation here. follows:
This should be a spontaneous move
ment. The countries of North and
South America should all have a part
in it. according to their size and
means. It should not be limited to
the medical profession. Every in
dustry and every profession has bene-
fitted or will be benefited by the work
of this renowned scientist. Nothing
that we can do will magnify the
work Of Gorgas. but we can. in this
small way, become part of It,"