Evening star., 1941-02-09
Columbia u. Alumni
Hear Chilean Envoy
Ask Stand for Ideals
Senior MicheIs Calls
For Spiritual and
Material Arsenal


Material Arsenal
The building up and maintenance
OF this hemisphere as a spiritual
and material arsenal for the preser-
vation among men of all races" of
our own democratic ideals was ASKED
last night by Senor Don Rodolfo
Michels, newly accredited Ambassa-
dor from Chile.
Ambassador Michels spoke before
the annual reception and dinner of
the Columbia University Club of
Washington at the National Press
Club.
Another speaker, Associate JUS
tice Justin Miller, of the United
States Court of Appeals. sharply
criticized the colleges of this coun-
try for having, as he charged, timed
teachers who turn out poorly edu-
Gated students with no qualities of
leadership.
Professors don't dare talk about
Communism or anything radical he
asserted, nor anything that has
happened more recently than so
years ago"
More Interested in Teams.
The trustees, too, he said, are
responsible for the situation. and
he declared they are more inter-
ested in football teams and fine
stadiums than in well-informed stu
dents who will make leaders in later
life.
He said that 25 per cent of the
students funk out and maintained
that this in itself is stigma which
serves to crush leadership
The Chilean envoy warned against
taking "a snobbisn satisfaction in
contrasting the spiritual unity and
peaceful collaborations attained by
the American "epyblics with the
tragic occurrences in other parts of
the world"
Peace achieved through cooper
alton" he continued, is not a self
enduring condition. The living and
growing body of an-Americanism
requires constant care and sus-
tenance. Our awGreness of this must
not diminish and our efforts be
unceasing."
Good Neighbor" Requisites.
Echoing the policies and beliefs
which have been expressed by our
own State Department, Senor
Michels summed up the requisite
for good neighbors' as follows:
The American Continent has
been called "the reservoir of hu-
manity' and rightly so, because
here are found ethical and spiritual
values saturated with sane and
sublime principles; of men and
peoples who march with open arms
toward the future, certain and con-
fldent that it belongs to them: be-
cause our traditions and our minds
are nodded in the idea of subordi-
mating force to law, and because
the experiences of the picture of
horror presented by the drama
torturously unfolding itself in the
Old World has placed this continent
on plane of calm thought. con-
fraternity, and solidarity, delineat-
ing the duties that must be OBJ
served toward our sister peoples
as we'll as among ourselves.
And these postulates can be
maintained and defended as long |
as we continue being good neigh |
bors, as long as we have the deter |
mination to maintain peace on this |
continent, as long as we combine |
our efforts toward making this |
hemisphere spiritual and material
arsenal for the defense Of those in |
stitutions which we deem sacred |
and fundamental for the preserva-
ton of peace. freedom and toler- !
ance among men of all races and
all Creeds."
The Chilean Ambassador, who ar
rived in Washington three weeks |
ago, devoted much of his address to |
recounting the history of Chile and |
its endeavors to settle all disputes |
"by peaceful means"
DR.. Butler Sends Message.
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent of Columbia University, for
warded from New York brief mes
sage which was read at the dinner
by Herald L. Stendel, secretary of
the Columbia Ur persity Club of
Washington.
In referring to t. severe" prob
lens which are facing American
universities today, s'r. Butler assert
ed, The long-colsinued economic
depression and the Sigh, almost con-
fiscatory, rates of Federal and State
taxation are making public service
IN the field of hiaher learning in
creasingly difficult.
1T is for these s!nd other causes
that the universities of Europe have
so largely had to seek government
support, which, C course, means
government contrG.
Columbia University, born and
developed in the field of liberty, and
not in that of government, will, I
trust, go on through the years doing
its work as best it can in that field |
OF liberty, to the protection and
development of the underlying
principles to which we have been |
and are so sincerely devoted"
Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, Of |
Wyoming, and president of the club,
was toastmaster. Other guests of
honor included: Senator LANCER,
Republican, of North Dakota; As
sociate Justice Justin Miller of the
Court of Appeals, Philip w. Bonsal,
chief of the American Republics
Division of the State Department.;
Senor Don Mario Rodriguez, first |
secretary of the Chilean Embassy;
William Roy Valance, assistant legal |
adviser in the State Department.;
Mrs. Eugene Meyer, president pro
tempore of the Barnard Alumnae
Club Of Washington, and William e.
Leahy, president of Columbus Uni |
rersity.