Evening star., 1923-07-15
by BEN MckELwAY.

n y ATIVE chambers of commerce
and business organizations
" generally in South America
a are becoming impressed with
the fact that manufacturers in the
United States are making a real effort
to study the needs of their South
American customers. a condition which
is in marked contrast to the years pre-
ceding the war. according to DR.. l. s.
Rowe, director general of the Pan
American Union, who recently re-
turned from a trip through South
| America following the fifth pam
American congress. DIR. Rowe states
that there is a growing adaptability
to South American conditions and a
| willingness on the part of American
manufacturers to make what their
consumers In South America really
want, a condition which augurs well
for Increased and better commercial
relations between the two continents.
DIR. Rowe's trip, following the ad-
Journment of the pan-Amerfcan con-
gress. took him through Argentina,
Paraguay. Uruguay and Brazil On
his way to attend the congress in
Santiago he stopped over in Lima.
and the capitals in these countries.
interviewing business men and gov
ernment officials. The organizations
of American business men in these
countries, which are affiliated with
the United States Chamber of Com
merce, DR.. Rowe states, are doing a
great missionary work in behalf of
better commercial conditions under
which they are used in South Amer
lea. Their efforts to study the needs
u
fill them conscient1ously are bringing
about better understanding between
North and South America.
For Pan-Ame ricanism.
DIR. Rowe's visit to the government
officials of four influential South
American republics was made in be-
half of the Pan-American Union. He
endeavored to learn through contact
what the Pan-American Unions means
to the republics of South America and
obtain first hand suggestions for in
areasing it's scope. DIR. Rowe reports
he found on every hand a deep inter-
est in the work of the union and a
desire for greater utilization of its
facilities by the southern republics.
One of the immediate results of his
trip will be the compilation by the
Pan-American Union of data bearing
on such topices as irrigation. housing
OF the working classes and the reduc-
tion of infant mortality. this latter
a subject of peculiar interest and i'm
portance to every South American
republic today. Information on these
subjects will be compiled for use in
the different South American re-
publics and forwarded to the govern
ment officials interested, through the
Pan American Union.
While the fifth pan-American con-
gress is thing of the past. the work
| of the Pan-American Union in con-
| nection with this congress is only
\ beginning. The congress is governed
| to a large extent by the Pan-Americar
| Union. whose governing board sets
the time and place of meeting and ar.
| ranges the program of subjects FOL
discussion. Many of the resolution.
adopted by the congress were re
ferred directly to the Pan-Americar
| Union to be carried out, and in ar
ranging the details and compiling tn,
data called for by these resolution
the Pan-American Union will have it.
hands full for some time to come
Conferences called for by the pan
American congress to be held q
are questions which must be arranged
by the union within short time. ant
the work of gathering the materia
| for these conferences falls, to a larg,
extent. underr the union. interesting
among the conferences to be ar
ranged for by the Pan-Americal
| Union are those on the pan-Americal
railroad. conference on electrical