Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-09

knowledge. Various Pan American
organizations have done a most val
liable work in this direction But
one of the most important factors In
bringing about a better understanding
has been an awakening of interest
among us in the news of the coun-
tries represented by our visitors; con-
versely has come the desire on their
part to learn more of what we are
doing and why we are doing it.
This has resulted in the enlargement
of old and the organization of new
services for the interchange of news.
AS I understand the purpose of your
conference, it is not only for the
forming of friendships by personal
contact, but also for the exchange
of views and the discussion of con-
ditions mad problems, as they come
to the editor who is striving to pre-
sent to his readers a true prospec-
tive of what is taking place in his
own country and in other countries.
After your deliberations in Wash
ington you, who are our most well
come guests, will visit other parts Of
our country to see for yourselves
the material and cultural progress
we are making. Perhaps in other
years our journalists will have the
privilege of coming into intimate con-
tact with your nations and of seeing
for themselves the wonderful advance
you have made in these directions,
thus giving US both more complete
knowledge and understanding of our
common aims, aspirations, and
achievements.
1t is most appropriate that you are
meeting in Athis beautiful building.
In very real sense this is your
home The ideals and the purposes
iof the Pan American union are those
which the press of this hemisphere
should seek to serve./ 1t should pro-
mote a better understanding among
the western republics, and it should
foster spirit of sympathy, harmo-
ny and co-operation.i Your newspap-
ers may do much to emphasize and
make more effective the efforts of
this organization to bring the United
States and the Latin American repub-
lies into closer bonds of mutual help
fulnesS.
Your visit to our country will,
trust, be beneficial to you by reason
of what you may learn of our gen
eral mode of life. You will come in
contact with our Industries, our uni
versities, our political and our re-
ligious institutions. This will enable
you the better to interpret our ideals
in your, future communications to
your own people. 1t will also pro-
citizens
to give you personal assurances of
! the depth of the friendship which
exists here for you and your people,
and the earnest desire for contin-
uation of those friendly relations
which are the result of commercial
intercourse and mutual aspirations.
/ 1t will also afford the occasion
for the inhabitants of our country
to learn more of what our sister re-
! publics are and what they represent.
1t will give them an opportunity to
recall that the early inhabitants Of
colonial South America established
centers of culture earlier than SINH
lar agencies were established in Eng
lish colonial possessions En- Forth
America. No less than eight insti-
tutions of higher learning were found
ed prior to the establishment in 1886
of Harvard, the Oldest university IN
the United States. The Royal and
Pontifical university of st. Paul, in
Mexico, and the Greater University OF
st. Mark, in Lima, both were char
tered by royal decree in the year 1851.
| These institutions were intended to
equip their pupils for the priesthood,
just as the first schools in North
America were designed primarily to
/ train young men for the ministry.
( Printing in the new world firt
appeared in Latin America. The first
fprinting press this side If the Allan