Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
IN LATIN AMERICA
BY CASTON NERYAL.

American life Of which they had heard
very little.
The Chiiian diplomat, q notable jour-
nalist and writer. spoke of the exist
ence of a North American culture which
he deemed Is original and admirable
as the prodigious material development
Of the country.
North Americanism is not only an
economic reality" he said, but is also
. cultural reality. North America not
only has created methods of production,
1t not only has brought into being
characteristic systems Of organization,
1t not only produces and sells--it has
done more than that. It has created
| manner Of living. nd, side by side
with It's statistics Of production, its
manufactures, its banks and its stock
exchange movements. 1t exhibits also
the portentous figures which describe
ideaiistic activity OF the American
spirit"
And then he explained that there are
900 universities In the United States
with more than 1,000, 900 students, 96,-
| 900 secondary and normal schools with
$4,000 zoo scholars, and 100000 pFi-
mary schools with more than 25,000,000
pupils.
In the course Of his address Senior
tons of the country, its singular posi-
ton In history, its racial composition
and education, have created that which
he calls the American manner Of living,
or standard Of life. The United States,
he declared, is building up a culture
having its own characteristics and
Athens and Rome, vast cycle Of hu-
man civilization"
Here is q man who really knows the
United States. He has had the vision
to understand American spirit and
| American culture. Not in vain did
Ambassador Davila travel all over the
country in most modern way, going
by airplane from one State to another,
visiting one university after another,
meeting representative people in all the
leading American cities, giving lectures
and conferences everywhere, all Of
which put him in contact with the
intellectual classes of the country.
During his long stay In the United
States Ambassador Dayila came in con-
tact with the American soul. And back
in his own country he realised that he
could do much more for better under
ing that soul TO the Latin Americans
rather than by repeating once more
hoi many billions Of dollars are spent
yearly by the Federal Government, how
many millions Of automobiles run on
| American roads, or how many stories
there are In the highest skyscraper in
modern Babylon.
THE CENTURY MILESTONE"
/ The first Inter.American Conference
on Agriculture, Forestry and Animal
Industry was opened last Monday in
Washington. Representatives from the
81 American republics are gathering
daily ct the Pan. American Union Build
ing, with q view TO improving agricul-
tural conditions throughout the CONT
nent and formulating basic plans for
| effective corporation In that field
among the countries Vt the New World.
This conference has q double sig
nif1cance. From an economic point OF
view, 1t Is expected to be Of consider
able value to the future welfare of each
Of the interested nations. Is well as to
their relations with each other. This
Is the hrat sentimental assembly de-
voted exclusively to the study on a
broad scale of agricultural problems as
they exist in the Americas. A PAM
| phlet distributed by the Pan-American
Union summarizes thus the major topics
TO be discussed ut the conference:
| Questions Of cultivation, not only OF
crops In general but on individual crops
| in which each of the American nations
/ ~ AhUSACoJCdS 9AsO pAOOtUAAAS IA A&AAA
management transportation and mar
keting, agricultural economies, co~op-
eFatiVe associations and credit systems,
plant and animal diseases and their
control, educational problems and re-
search work and inter-American prob
lens affecting present and future food
supply.
nomic Importance OF this conference
for each of the countries involved can
easily be appreciated. 1t has also been
announced that detailed study will be
made Of the latest and most scientific
| methods employed in agriculture, for
estry and animal industry, for which
purpose scores of specialists and experts
on the various topics to be considered
ut the gathering he'e been engaged cHr
form the basis for discussion by the
delegates at the conference.
But this is not the only significance
Of this international assembly. Aside
from Its strictly economic aspect, this
conference marks another stop IN the
march OF pan-American ideals ~
seeks corporation, closer contact and
q greater interchange Of agricultural
products among the countries OF North
Central and South America. And by
strengthening agricultural and eco
nomic ties it will morally and poiiti-
cRlly encourage the pan-American
movement. International friendship
depends today upon gooa economic re-
lations.
Still further Importance Is added to
this assembly nov In session Ut Wash
ington by the fact that 1t marks the
holding Of the Tooth major gathering
| of nations of the Western Hemisphere.
! II d the century milestone" Of pam
American congresses, the first one o.
which was held at this same capital
in 1890,
Much has been done in these 30
years for the success OF the pan-Amer-
lean cause From . political ideal PAN