Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-08-06 | Page 7 | Berlin Lecture is First since Opening of War

N1EP LECTURE; IS FIRST SINGE OPEIJipil Columbia College Professor Giren Hearty Reception; Says South Americans Are Matters of , Politics BERLIN, Aug. (.South AmvlctM are "part maatere In tha' art of politic," poli-tic," declared Profaaaor William R-Shepherd R-Shepherd of Columbia university. New York, in a recent lecture at the University Uni-versity of Berlin. Dr. Shepherd urged greater appreciation ef the Importance of Latin-American nations In the eouit-aele eouit-aele of world powers, discussing the subject. "The Republic! of Spanish and . Portuguese America and Their Inter-national Inter-national Relatione." ' The lecture waa the flrat formal event ot Ita kind elnce 1 14. It waa attended by- a dletlnguiahed company ef aome 400 persons. Including the American and Jspanese ambassadors; representativea of the Bouth American k dlilomatlc and oonaular offlcee; mem- bera of the government, and a number of noted jrofeasora of the university. " "ine later compriaed an Imposing llat of famoua educators who have appeared ap-peared in American university lecture room, such aa Professors Frledlander. Bonn. Brand). Penck. Vogel, Spranger, Htemfield, Brlngmann. Bering. Ueg-mann Ueg-mann and Koebeper. Profeaaor Shepherd waa liven a hearty reception when Introduced by Dr. Walter Nernat, rector msgnlfleus of the unlveraity. Dr. Shepherd roughly outlined the historical development of the Latin-American natlona from the close of the elghtenth century, when there exlated "the greatest colonial empire em-pire ever atruck off by the hand of man, the empire of Rpaln." Decades upon decadea, he aald, the countrlea to the aouth of the United States have been neelectd by Kuropan Immigration and Kuropean capital, two factor! which he deemed fundamentally vital to the progress of new world lands. Theae two elements have been required re-quired by the United States to bring It to lta present flourishing condition. Dr. Shepherd said, sddlng that when they had been obtained by the nations to the aouth the future of those landa wmiM hi ...iitH . The speaker urged greater conetdera- tion for the statue of the Latin-American states In world politics. He ex- I pressed the belief that "the quantlta- J tlve method of determining actual worth Is Just as unfair when applied to nations aa to individual!." Profeaaor Shepherd delivered a second sec-ond lecture the same day before the KngHals aemlnar, speaking on the con-nction con-nction of Europe with modern civilization. civiliza-tion. During a week's visit in Berlin - he was the guest of honor at awnum- bar of social functions, .