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Show IDEALS VOICED BJ DELEGATES Second Scientific Congress Opens m Washington With Large At tendance OPENING ADDRESS MADE BY LANSING Vice President Marshal Welcomes the Visitors in Place of Wilson, Response Re-sponse by Suarez WASHINGTON Dec "7 Pan Amer icanism character zed by Secretary Lansing in his address of welcome as the expree on of the idea of nter national sm was the central thought in the speeches made today at the opening of the second pan American sci entitle congress Men and women from all the repub lies of the two Americas attended the session which was held in continental memorial hall of the Daughters of the American Eeolution There were more than a thousand of them including of ficial delegates guests of the Carnegie Endowment md many others prominent m science and other fields of invest gation. Tomorrow they will begin the senous work of the congress in sutr sect onal meetings to continue for twelve days Fifteen other societies meeting here during the same period will hold frequent 3omt sessions with sections of the scientific congress Vice President Marshall welcomed the vis tors after John Barret, director general of the Pan American union had introduced Eduardo Suarez Mujica em bassador from ChiU the president of the congress Secretary Laos ng spoke m the name of the government that ha;I invited the scientists to meet here and Embassador Suarez in response em phaazed the better understanding created cre-ated between the governments of Lat lDvAm erica and, the- United States Marshall Represents Wilson Mr Marshall took the place of Presi dent Wilson away cn his wedding trip And I shall not apologize for the president s absence, he said after this explanation In the presence of love science is s lent I am quite sure I address no man who has loved who does love or who hopes to love who dees not wish for the president years of unclouded happiness After wel coming the guests in the name of the nation the vice president said a word about preparedness to defend the rights of the Americas I am one of those men who believe in preparedness for war he said Not that I want war because the dream and the prayer of my life is that we shall keep out of war but I know myself and I am not willing to have some- ruffian interfere with what I believe to be my rights He added that the idea of pan Americanism would not perm t of xploitat on and that which touched the nations to the Bouth to the r injury touched also the United States Bulwark of Democracies The Monroe doctrine was d scussed by Embassador Suarez who declared that so long as it was understood as a threat it was vie ved with d strust by South and Central America but that defined as a derivation of pan Americanism t had become a tie of union a guaranty a bulwark for our democracies Equal ty and fraternity that knows no superior and no inferior but which recognized only eqnalrtv and fraterni ty r was the thought Secretary Lan sing left in his address on pan Amen canism and the Monroe doctrine He compared the desolation of Europe at war and the peace of the Americas as indicated fcy the meet ng here of the members or the congress Pan Amen canism, he declared was the idea of internationalism an idea of which America has become the guardian and which in the end will rule the world-Geographical world-Geographical isolation similar political institutions and common conception of human rights he eaia had made this possible He pleaded for nn ty of ac iion in seeking the common good Fraternal Helpfulness Whatever is of common interest the secretary added whatever makes for the common good whatever de mands united effort s a fit subject for applied pan Americanism Fraternal helpfulness is the ke stone to the arch Its p liars are faith and justice From Hot Springs Va. President Wilson lent to he congress a message express n his hope for its success and h s apprec at on of the large attend ance Chairmen, of the ar ous delegations many of them d plon atic representati es here replied bneflv to the formal ad dresses Ernesto Q esada of the Ar gentine delegat on expressed a w sh to see some pract cal accomplishment resnlt from the meeting proposed that steps be taken for creation of a bureau for interchange of nivers ty instruct ors and students a b bl ograpnical union for exchange of publ cat ons and an nternat onal un on for conservation of pre Colombian records Members of the congress were guests tonight at a reception by Secretary Lansing and members of the official delegat on of the United States |