Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-20
MRS. PEARSON HITS ROPER ASKS TRADE
ABEL IN ANSWER AS WAY TO PEACE
Study Others Economic
Needs" Secretary Urges
in Rotary Talk.

Trade as a means of peace instead
of an agency of war was discussed by
Secretary of Commerce Roper this
afternoon in an address before a
pan-American good will forum. held
in Memorial Continental Hall by the
Washington Rotary Club as feature
of its twenty-fifth anniversary pro-
gram.
Maurice Duperry of Paris. president
Of Rotary International, spoke on
Rotary as Vehicle
Let every country" Secretary
Roper suggested, study more broadly
the others economic and social needs
in the light of the individual country
This would mean the abandonment
of high-powered salesmanship meth
DDS, with view TO selling the people
of the countries what they need rather
than what We desire to sell.
This procedure would naturally
enlist lasting mutual respect. 1t would
reveal and sustain a neighborliness
that would bind the Americas in an
indissoluble union that outside sinister
pTUphSdIlud tDuIu Iob StNCi. lipopci
ity to all would this be brought in
commerce through understanding.
United Action Urged.
Roper urged united action through
out the Americas for the publication
OF verified facts about every country,
stressing constructive events and
detectives rather than specializing on
preiudices, crimes and disrupting hap
penings." He added:
We all need to cultivate faith,
confidence in and respect for each
other dispelling suspicious based on
inaccurate knowledge and misunder-
standing"
Other measures which he suggested
were the wider study Of foreign Ian
guages in every country and the en-
couragement of tourist travel among
all the Americas.
Tn the process Of adjustment to
new conditions" Secretary Roper add
ed. lit is significant that the cardinal
principles of Rotary International are
as fundamental to safe progress and
safeguarded future for our country
as when civilization was in the stage
of simpler economy. Your organiza-
ton stands as an instrument of mutual
understanding in nearly all of the i'm
portant countries of the world
Calls on President.
M. Duperrey called at the White
House earlier in the day and paid his
respects to President Roosevelt. He
was accompanied by Jules Henry
Charge d'Affaires of the French EN-
bassy, and George w. Harris of the
Washington Rotary Club.
The silver anniversary dinner of the
Washington Rotary Club will be held
at the Mayflower Hotel at o'clock
tonight. M, Duperrey will be the only
speaker. Prominent Rotarians from
other cities and a number of dis
tinguished guests will attend.
President Roosevelt planned to re-
ceive M. Duperrey during the day,
and the head of world Rotary also
expected to call on Secretary of State
Hull.
Luncheon for Mime. Duperrey.
Social events of the day included
luncheon at the Congressional Country
Club, which the wives of Rotarians
rendered Nine. Duperrey.
Officers and directors of the Wash
ington Rotary Club gave M. Duperrey
a luncheon at the Army and Navy
Club.
His hosts included Robert B. Swope,
president; Albert F. e. Horn, vice
president; Joseph K. Meyer, secre-
tary; Richard w. Hynson, treasurer;
w. Spencer Brenizer. sergeant at
arms; the Rev. Charles T. Warner,
past president: James S. j. Clark,
percival Hall, Henry E. Stringer. Roy
w. Champion. e. Carlyn Guy, M. x.
Wilberding, Clayton A. Amman, Leo
c. May and L. Bert Nye, directors;
George w. Harris. Capt. Greer Dun
can, U. S. NJ; William Leahy. Burks
Summers, Tom Ganey, DR.. Harrison
E. Howe, Gardner johnson, Will Tufts
and George O'Connor, committee
chairmen.