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I great ruthless pow power r perhaps fear tear U Us but they nr are watching our actions They are keen enough to see that we have outstripped pod them thus f far faff t. t but th they are b beginning to feel teel their own muscles to wonder if it they could n not t use our methods modified modified modi modi- fied tied to suit their new media and above all aU to avoid our mistakes when whon they thoy too take tako wings and soar upward What may mOy be the result when the many American youth now in our own universities return to their respective countries filled with our new philosophy of ot work ar aral service power and re responsibility rOe ro- Each ono is a a. pa patriot patriot patriot pa- pa triot to his own country and each realizes that tho the opportune moment moment mo mo- ment has arrived when his hia country may come into it its own They aro arB aronow aronow now where we vero about onehundred ono one hundred years ago ngo and with our example and especially with our mistakes to avoid who can say ray how fast they will get on their feet Mt or to what heights they may arise Many of ot us are hazy as to just justI I how large largA these countries aro are arc P Peru ru 1 is as large as Spain France Italy taly and G Germany combined Bolivia Bo Bo- livia could contain all these and th the British Isles blu included Chile ChUe would re reach from New ew York to San Francisco while white Argentina I is almost as liS large l as S the whole of ot the territory east ast of the Mississippi river rl Little Little- Venezuela has throe three times th the area of ot Japan We do donot donot donot not give sufficient Importance to those these great at gr at storehouses of ot practically practically practically cally the only remaining territory which is unde undeveloped and yet capable capable ca- ca pable of ot supporting huge The United States can not go on indefinitely developing Its Its- it resources es for practically our country is Js now settled and in use ule Speaking Spanish Sp America could support two to hundred millions of people instead of the scarce sixty millions that it has baa at present There is it no need ne d h herc re to point to Spain's past glory which was excelled by no other ether European nation Its literature both classic and nd the more modern is as good goodas as ns that of ot Fran Franco e or 01 England and andas andas andas as much worth while literature is being produced now in Spanish as asIn asIn asin In any language But it Is not to the past or Clr to the present that thal we should look but to the future There is no question that Spanish America will be the scene of or great activity and enterprise and andt t if present tendencies do not deceive deceIve deceive de de- us Spanish will one day be second only to English and that day la is not far tu distant It is lafor for tor us the tho Inhabitants of ot the greatest modern nation of ot the world to be beon beon beon on the alert and ready to share In this coming boon by knowing these people and their language Ready to operate co with them ready ruady to share shara their glories ready to build with them the nations that will endure because they are republics like our own and founded found found- ed on the principles principle of ot liberty and justice |