Evening star., 1922-06-07
RESULT EXPED|TES
WORLD CROP DATA
Triumph of American View
at Institute of Agriculture
Benefits Nations.
BY EDGAR ANSEL MoWRER.
By Cable 10 The Star and Chicago Daily News
Copyright, 1922

Copyright, 1922.
ROME. June THE complete tr!-
Umph of the views of the American
delegation at the general assembly
of the International Institute of
Agriculture will enable the institute
TO make its services more useful to
the entire world. The nations thus
will be willing to make bigger money
grants to the institute which. in
turn, will make itself indispensable.
This is the opinion of most OBJ
servers of the recent general assem-
bly,. A certain amount of skepticism
existed throughout the world con-
cerning the working of the institute.
one of its chief purposes was to pro-
vide the world with swift and ac-
curatc reports of crop conditions and
prices in all countries, but this work
has been made difficult by the tardl-
ness of the governments III furnish-
ing the institute with figures. Often
the tardiness was 50 marked as TO
cause suspicion OF willful negligence
Reports Received Too Late.
Even when received these reports
were distributed by mail with the
result that they reached their des-
tinaJiOns too late to be OF much
utility.
Another useful achievement was
the provision that official publications.
hitherto printed only in French, shall
henceiorth be printed in SIX prin-
cioal languages, including English,
thus permitting 4 prompter and
btuader diffusion of the publications,
among which are many monographs
of scientific and practical value. The
money necessary for thiS purpose
will be saved in part by the less ire
quent publication of less untlmely
material. 1t is believed that the va
rlous governments will come to see
that the sum of $l50.000 which is
now available annually is insufficient
for the institute work.
The credit for the changes Is due
in large part 70 the American dele
CATION, warmly seconded by Great
Britain. and especially by Prof. W.
H Stevenson of the Iowa State Col
lege, who has represented the Cnited
states in the institute during the last
year.
Statement by Prof. Stevenson.
Before leaving for the United States
Prof. Stevenson made the following
statement to the writer:
II believe far more now than when
7 arrived year ago that the lnsti-
rute has great future. II Is tne
first and most successful experiment
in internationalism. When you re-
member that sIXty-three or siXty-four
nations are represented You will realize
our q difficulties. The war was a great
blow but, thanks to the complete ac-
Ceptance of all the five resolutions
presented by the American govern
ment, the institute can progress and
become Indispensable. ! believe that
all the representatives in Rome de-
sire the success of the institute.
Among Greatest Successes.
"One Of our greatest successes has
been in the collection of agricultural
statistics where they did not exist
before. The great problem still is
how to persuade the various govern
mentS 10 provide the necessary data
more promptly. l cannot believe that
any state would deliberately falsify
its figures or misrepresent its situ-
alton. All the information gathered
by the institute will appear immedi-
ately in English for distribution to
our people. who will be constantly
more and more indebted to the in
stitute. l intend to recommend to
the government that the American
member of the institute shall be
member OF the Department of Agri-
culture. in order TO strengthen the
link between the government and
the institute.
please tell our fellow Americans
that the institute is a great-perhaps
the greatest-existing experiment in in
ternationalism."