Evening star., 1923-06-10
|PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS
RESULTS ARE SUMMARIZED
State Departments Resume of Santiago
Sessions Show 4 Conventions Signed
and 73 Resolutions Adopted

the Pan American Union in its study
OF economic and commercial relations
between the American states, Inter
| national labor organizations in the
| American countries, questions OF
! hygiene in the American republics
1 and the development of intellectual
! cooperation between American uni
versitles.
DiscouraEes Liquor Shipments.
IL the United States delegation had
| any high hopes Of obtaining a whole
hearted promise of cooperation from
the other American republics in it's
efforts to prevent smuggling liquor
across the borders Of the Unitcd
States there must have been dis.
| was adopted reads that the American
states should adopt measures cor
ducive to the prohibition Of the ship
mcnt of Intoxicating beverages to =
| country where their consumption is
prohibited without the previous spe-
cial authorization of the competent
authority of the country from which
shipment is made: and although the
American delegation put on record
the fact that this measure does not
go as far as the prohibition laws uf
the United States. the resolution
stood because 1t seemed to repro.
sent the maximum acceptable to the
majority of the other republics Of
America" AS Il stands. the reSolu-
ton, which is only resolution, is
rather weak and meaningless.
Better Communication Taken Up.
Better communication by rail.
water and highways was encour-
aged by the congress. which adopted
number of resolutions on this sub
ject. The encouragement OF mari
time communication between the re
publics was asked in a resolution
which recommended adoption OF uni
form laws and regulations in the
ports of entry and the granting of
such exemptions and facilities as are
possible to the merchant ships OF
other states.
Recommending further construc-
. tion of the Pan American railway.
the congress requested that more
motor roads be built and that con.
ference be called to meet and dis
cuss this latter subject a a date and
place TO he determined later by the
governing board Of the Pan American
Union. =
Another resolution calls for the
formation of an interAmerican com
mercial aviation commission, which
would be established for the consd-
Grafton of laws relative to CONNER
cial aviation. and which will meet at
a place and date to be determined by
the governing board of the Pan
American Union.
Commission to BE Formed.
An interAmerican electrical com
| munications commission would be
| formed, in accordance with another
resolution of the congress. which
would study the cooperation be
tween the American republics regard
ing electrical communications and to
prepare a convention establishing
! equitable proportional rates and uni
form rules governing inter-AmericaH
electrical communications. This COM
mission also would be called by the
| Pan-American Union, which would
pass on its findings and submit them
| to the members Of the union.
/ The governing board OF the Pan :
| American Union is charged with
calling still further conferences
! which would study standardization OF
machinery tools and the holding of
annual commercial exhibitions. The
| congress also recommended a Pan
! American university conference to be
/ held in Santiago. Chile, in 1926, which
/ will discuss measures toward encour-
aging the Interchange of univresity
| professors and educational informa
| ton.
! Other resolutions encourage the
| protection of literary and artistic
| copyright. the Interchange of agri-
| cultural information. a convention o.
: the American Red Cross societies. a
: Pan American press conference to be
1 held I'm Washington and the erection,
! of a monument in Washington i'll
honor of Henry Clay