/ 7 / A J ■'( c r Christian Pan- Americanism P. A. CONARD Associate Continental Secretary for South America Foreign Department The International Committee of Young Men’s Christian Associations 124 East Twenty-Eighth Street, New York City Rio de Janeiro City and Harbor I. YOUNG NATIONS— YOUNG MEN The first striking reaction one gets on going to South THEIR MEASURE America comes from distances and areas, dhis con- tinent, inverted with Panama for a hinge, would span Key West and the North Pole, Baltimore and San Francisco. Ten republics occupy it. The largest, Brazil, has more square miles than the United States without Alaska. Uruguay, the least, exceeds New Eng- land plus Maryland and has a capital the size of New Orleans or Min- neapolis. Argentina’s territory equals France, Germany, Austria, Hun- gary, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland and European Turkey before 1913 — nations that support a population of more than 200,000,000. Argentina, with 10,000,000, is sustaining multitudes by exports and is merely tickling the surface. She ships more beef and its products than the United States and is breaking into the first rank of grain-producing nations. As yet only 50,000,000 of the 728,000,000 acres of tillable land are cultivated. Commercially Japan, China, Mexico, Australia and Spain are in turn outranked by the nation on the Plate. The whole continent is one of limitless, undeveloped resources. Brazil produces four- fifths of the coffee used in the world. The northern desert of Chile yields the nitrates to make fertile the acres of many countries, also nets the Government in export duties alone iijO, 000,000 a year. The mineral wealth of the Andes is proverbial, likewise the hard-wood forests of the Amazon, that mightiest of rivers, offering to commerce, with its trib- utaries, 50,000 miles of navigable waters. The second impression gained is that of peerless THEIR GLORY cities. No amount of reading prepares for the sight which bursts upon vision as the traveller enters the harbor of Rio de Janeiro, surrounded by the majestic, trop- ical-clad Organ Mountains. The one-time synonym for yellow fever has become a health resort, a city of a million people, adorned by the hand of man as well as of God. Miles of water-front, esplanade and parkway begiule by day. A profligate use of electric light sheds brdliancy by night. Splendid avenues swarm with automobiles, as in New York or Paris. Buenos Aires, metropolis of the South- ern Hemisphere, is half as large again, and growing at the rate of 100,000 a Plaza Mayo in front of Government House, Buenos Aires year. Into this gateway of a vast, rich, free empire enter annually a quarter of a million immigrants. With stately public buildings, net- works of transportation lines, public schools, hospitals, department stores, theatres — from “movies” to $5,000,000 triumphs of architecture — shipping industries that serve the whole earth; universities of 5,000 students; Parisian fashions worn a season ahead of North America; boulevards and parks; publications; clubs and societies of every possible human interest, no material feature of the greatest of modern cities is wanting in the world’s second and third centers of Latin life. Such a chain of capitals constitutes the overwhelm- THKiR POWER ing influence in the life of the nations. Montevideo, Santiago, Lima and others, though less populous, are no less the heart and head of their respective republics. They de- termine things political, social, economic and intellectual as no city in North America dominates its common- wealth. The cities in turn are in the hands of their young men. You meet in the business world or consult professionally young men. They run the govern- ment or through the press make and Avenida Central, the beautiful boulevard of Rio de Janeiro guide puhllc opinion. A cabinet minister took a government party of thirty on a five-days’ trip to dedicate a new school building. Two were ministerial associates; the others, national senators and represent- atives chiefly; none were over forty years of age. The incident is typical and significant. Student debates and discussions lose the burlesque character here because the debaters move from college into the places of power and action. Here they are found ever courteous and friendly, mentally clever, attractive, passionate with national pride, responsive to noble appeal. II. PERILS These young men are terribly tempted. Sm respects FACING FACTS no national boundaries. The vices ot the whole earth have found the way here, as to all cosmopoli- tan populations. They are rampant and unafraid. The observations that follow are not for purposes of gleeful comparison, hut to point the inquiry why some forces for righteousness doing battle against the same evils in other great cities he not brought to bear on the deadly foes of the metropolis under the Southern Cross. What an Italian sur- geon or a German scientist discovers today is applied tomorrow in the world’s hospitals and laboratories. When a Brazilian aeronaut con- tributes to the conquest of the air or an Argentine statesman adds a new doctrine to the international code, Civilization acknowledges itself debtor. 1 he time has come tor free trade in moral resources. This is a plea for an international consciousness to assert itself against Phari- seeism when a sister nation’s character is reviewed and against injured pride when the light is turned on at home. Each South American nation fosters a lottery, with GIANT EVILS gains used to support hospitals, orphan asylums, or education at the price of raising a race of gamhlers. Ciovernment records in one city show $112,000,000 (Mexican) gambled on the race track in a year, a seven-fold increase in ten years. Ihe almost universal drinking of light alcoholics has been without besotting effects, hut in certain countries — notably Chile — large numbers are going at it like Anglo-Saxons with the same consequences. Air. Akers, in “A History of South America,” says that Valparaiso with 140,000 popu- lation had more cases of drunkenness reported to the police than London with its 5,000,000. Probably the former administration is more strict, and it is well to be so unless the common people are to perish in their cups. Flaunting exposure for sale of vicious literature is only one of many revelations of the nearly utter lack of public conscience against impurity and of the openness and ease with which a man may travel the way “going down to the gates of death.” Neither in Spanish, Portuguese nor the much read French is there offered any serious attempt to preserve society from this contagion. The double standard of Ofice of the leading newspaper, Sayitiago, Chili morals is found in aggravated form. The girl is most carefully guarded every minute of her life. The boy at fourteen or sixteen is given rein to run the streets at will. There are many splendid exceptions, hut in gen- eral even the boy’s mother does not require or expect him to spend his evenings at home. And that happens which overtakes the licensed sons of too lenient parents anywhere. They soon find all, even the worst the city offers, fall into habits that grip for life, and otherwise carry the marks of unguided experience. d his story is vouched BOARDING HOUSE r r kj t> i MENACE tor from JNlorth orazil : “One of the most fruit- ful sources of evil among students is the ‘repub- lica’ or student boarding and lodging house. Six to thirty students will rent a house, furnish it meagerly, hire servants and run an establish- ment which without the slightest supervision by the school authorities soon nourishes all the vices in the catalogue. A wise man will shun these houses if he can. Generally he cannot. One who for about a year lived in the poor Asso- ciation quarters was called out of the city and Calle Florida Buettos Aires. After four o'clock carriages are excluded and the street is used as a promenade gave up his room. When he came hack everything was full and he went to a ‘republica.’ A few days later he returned to beg for a place to sleep — even in the corridor. We finally put a bed in a storeroom for a gentleman who is accustomed to the luxuries of life and can afford to travel thousands of miles to get his education or take a sick brother on a pleasure trip to Europe when he pleases. Living conditions are but little worse for the students than among all other classes of young men who are compelled to board in this city.” Unbelief and pure materialism are the present mas- FAiTH DEAD of |-f,e Latin-American mind. Religion, with its moral support, has been well nigh abandoned. Hon. James Bryce states in his recent book on South America: “Both the intellectual life and the ethical stand- ards of conduct of these countries seem to be entirely divorced from religion. . . . Men of the upper or educated class appear to be wholly indifferent to theology and to Christian worship. It has no interest for them.” The discern- ing leaders of the nations, themselves, concede and deplore this fact. Follow the Miiyiicipal Theatre, Rio de Janeiro language of a professor in the University of Buenos Aires: “Completely unguided, without faith, without conviction, without moral or religious ideals, in an atmosphere whose sensualism materializes their ideals and the influence of which chokes their highest initiative and makes sterile their best energies.’’ A Uruguayan educator writes of the unbelief that reigns in the ruling class and in the intelligent youth in general, created by the resistance to clericalism, and — whether aggressive or passive in character — extending to everything which either directly or indirectly exalts the name of Christ or signifies any religious tendency. Among teachers and professors it is difficult to find any who believe that religion has or can have anything to do with life. Not infrequently this indiffer- ence flames into hostility. As recently as 1913 the representative of the Vatican arriving at the capital of Chile was met by hundreds of men. Apparently he w’as receiving a popular demonstration. He was. They were students of the National University armed with bricks, resenting an inter- ference in politics. Special police had to be called out to get him safely to his residence. One of the educational classes, Buenos Aires Even if the attitude were not hostile, the provision for ministering to the spiritual needs of the people is hopelessly inadequate. Buenos Aires has forty Roman Catholic and ten Protestant churches. Phila- delphia, of equal size, has ninety and six hundred and ninety respectively. In this held also the literature is impoverished where not inimical. Another element in the situation makes exceedingly difficult a religious appeal. Religious terminology does not call to these minds the associa- tion of ideas with which we clothe the same sacred terms. What solemn- izing sentiment burns the heart at mention of the Saviour’s sorrows! In South America there is a brand of wine called “The Tears of Christ!” Jesus is not an uncommon name for a hoy. Such signs as “Christ’s Corner Crocert ,” “The Drug Store of the I hree Crosses” and the like are to he seen here and there. One Good Friday a weekly illustrated magazine carried on its hack cover an advertisement of a brand of cigarettes. The picture represented the disciples smoking and Judas saying to the Master, “If I had smoked this brand, I would not have betrayed you.” \\ here that makes good advertising, what imagery will convey the concep- tions of the religion of Jesus Christ in its purity? III. INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ENGINEERING Now, given the combination of young, rich, THESE KNEW AND CARED growing nations, dominated hy great, pro- gressive cities; the cities in the hands of their brilliant young men, overwhelmingly tempted; the presence of people among them who know the Young Men’s Christian Association and who care; and you will have a call for, and a response from, that daring, versatile agency as surely as rainfall under stated meteorological condi- tions. The petitioners included the ministers, educators and business men of North American churches resident in these nations; Christian dip- lomats of Great Britain and the United States like the Kennedys, Barretts and Morgans; and eminent Latins of breadth and discernment who, as travelers and students, saw and coveted for their own young men this betterment agency of other lands, among them President Menocal, of Cuba, graduate of Cornell Univeristy; and Dr. Rodriguez, of Rio de Janeiro, editor and owner of the powerful Jornal de Commercio. Dr. Estanislau Zeballos, sometime Argentine Minister at Washington, when on the National Cabinet as Secretary of Worship and Foreign Affairs, wrote, in La Prensa, of Buenos Aires; “I remember, indeed, that when in the United States this beneficent institution made an indelible impression on me, with its magnificent buildings erected in striking prominence in all the great cities. ... It not only establishes a bond of union among its members, but makes tor the perfection of individual character, things very necessary, certainly, m the Argentine Republic. A part of our young men lack the spirit of association, are too individualistic, intolerant and at times violent. 1 heir manner is generally abrupt, their conversation light and hardly choice, their application to study deficient and their inclination to gamble and to participate in unwholesome pleasures too marked. This class of Argentine young men is, unfortunately, not small, and active forces for bettering their social condition and for drawing them from their ill-chosen course are not apparent. The influence of the home is almost nil. It seems to have no attraction for men; since fathers, sons and brothers stay at home scarcely long enough to eat and sleep and are always restless to leave. . . . “The Church gives little attention to the young man launched out amidst evil social customs. Her pulpit is generally silent as regards social questions and prog- ress, and is concerned only with dogmatic religion; its preaching is ineffective because it does not touch />. Jose Carlos Rodrigues, I'.diior, Jornai do Commercio. life. . . . Our political life, financial prosperity and lack of discipline, both public and private, help to increase the number of reckless young men. The Young Men’s Christian Association enters into the contest as a force that opposes the evil and protects the good. Welcome to this institution, and welcome to the young men who unite under its banner, whom I greet with all encouragement and with my profound sympathy.” THE COMPACT Already four Associations have been established in as many cities in Brazil, and one each in Uruguay, Argentina and Chile. Other insistent calls are still to be answered. The extent to which help is asked by one race and tendered by the other has just and sensible limits — briefly these: Enough experienced North American leadership supported from home resources to trans- plant the essential principles and spirit of the Movement, together with such material assistance in securing a few model buildings that its real and full utility may be demonstrated. Twenty- five men and a million dollars in con- ditional gifts towards equipment from Open house at Buenos Aires Association North America will make the Association as indigenous in the nations of South America as it is in Canada and the United States; and, judged by present growth, a greater factor in character-making than it was here at the end of the first quarter of a century’s existence. The response in the centers entered has SELF-SUPPORT been immediate and impressive. Rio de Janeiro last year had 650 men in night classes, signifying not simply a great educational institution, but a vital moral factor in the lives of aspiring men. The receipts from members alone cover sixty-one per cent, of the budget of Si 8,000, all provided locally. The city author- ities granted immunity from municipal taxes on grounds of service. After a seven-years’ object lesson in rented quar- ters, Buenos Aires citizens raised S 140,000 gold to meet the offer of S 100,000 from North America for the concrete build- ing which the Association now occupies with 1,800 members, nearlv half of whom throng it daily. North America loans the services of two secretaries at a cost of S6,ooo a year, against operating expenses of ^35,000 a year, called forth in the city itself. Probably few stockholders who invest one dollar thereby attract seven. Rio de Janeiro Association building wholly inadequate Responsibility and initiative are lodged in the hands AUTONOMY (jf men in the community. No foreign overlord- ship is in anybody’s mind. In Montevideo the president is a leading banker; the vice-president, Secretary of the Supreme Court; the treasurer, a chartered accountant and manager of an im- portant hrm. Besides these, on the board are the managers of the leading railway, the gas company, the waterworks, an Italian importing and a German exporting house; seven other prominent business men; a pro- fessor in the University; the head of a section in the National Depart- ment of Hospitals and Ambulance Service; the secretary of the railway; and the bookkeeper of the waterworks company. 1 he Uruguayan general secretary is one of the best known and respected men in the nation, for years Director of Public Works, and a conspicuous educator. Repre- senting tour Church communions and hve nationalities, they htly express the cosmopolitan character of the city. 1 he religious purpose TUB DYNAMIC and value of this in- ternational venture m brotherhood are neither obscured nor evaded, though prevailing indifference or enmity toward religion on the part A Bible Class hi Montevideo of the chief constituency might predict a different policy. Of eight men taken on the Buenos Aires employed staff locally seven had first become Christians in that Association. One, a young Englishman, proved so transforming an influence that he was called to a post in India — the first example of one foreign Association contributing leader- ship to another land. The preparation and promotion of Bible studies has no small import on a “continent without a sacred book.” There is spiritual hunger where skeptics offer to organize Bible classes if the secretaries will lead them. From one such group grew the student branch of Buenos Aires, the continental pioneer. Experiences of some of leaders in their personal contacts read like the Book of Acts. In a real sense the Anglo-Saxon givers of life or money to this task provide also for their own. Their young men are here. The religion of a great majority of them “does not survive moving day.” With the canal opened and increasing trade relations, they will be coming in force. What kind of influences they shall meet depends in no small measure on the continued and increased willing- ness of their fellow nationals at home to promote in the sister republics a chain of life preserving stations and moral dis- pensaries. This ministry is to the young Rio's model municipal playground supervised by the Association physical director manhood of the world. To one Association table were lately gathered i8o members of twenty nationalities. Tbe physical message meets widespread ac- BETTERiNG NATIONAL claim. Rio’s expert, among other large athletic services, directs a municipal playground, the first in Brazil. The Federal customs were remitted on the apparatus and bowling alleys of the Association. Nearly looo men attend gymnasium classes in the Argentine capital. The Uruguayan National Commission on Physical Education invited the Montevideo physical director to take charge of their playground movement. He was made instructor of the physical department of the Woman’s National University, and of the leading private boys’ school of the country. Under his super- vision are 125 classes a month, while on the playgrounds 5000 children and adults are receiving guidance and instruction. Most of these activi- ties are conducted by volunteer leaders whom he sought out and trained. A few such public servants can fix a type of phys- ical manhood based on Christian charac- ter among the young men of these nations, a colossal privilege that does not tarry long nor return if affronted by neglect. M ontevideo business men's gymnasium class IV. NATIONAL DIRECTIVE FORCES The North American’s ardent and braggart RDUCATIONAL CURRENTS patriotism soon cools as he goes south and finds European interests in almost undisputed possession of the commercial and great industrial enterprises. But if he looks further he may find a theme for Fourth of July solace in the influence of the United States^on the^educational systems. Th e course of the stream has varied in the different countries and d ecades. Argentina employed scores of North American teachers to reorganize her schools. Uruguay’s great educational reformer got his inspiration in the United States, whence he took his plans and methods. Mission schools have had widely distributed influence. In some countries missionary educators have been put in charge of government education. Many specialists have been called from North America by the nations — ten to a single institution in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Nu- merous commissions of educators have Life Problem Discussio7t Club, Montevideo been sent North as well as to Europe. To have thus served nations is assuredly no less an honor than to have sold them toys and engines or to have purchased their coffee and jerked beef. In general the educational systems head up in rOO BARREN . , . . . ^ . student life national or state universities. In them and the other institutions of higher learning in South America are gathered about 45,000 students. Planted chiefly in the great cities as they are, what is known as college spirit and life are almost entirely lacking — all those interests outside the curriculum, athletics, musical clubs, literary, social, philanthropic and religious societies. Class solidarity is minus, d here is practically no intercourse between the professor and his students. The alumnus takes little heed of his Alma Mater after she honors him with her name. The sole expres- sion of the student body in organization is a somewhat loose federation of recent years made up of “Student Centers’’ with ill-defined purpose and practically sterile results. The local “centeis” came to consciousness as vehicles of opposition to faculty meas- ures. A tew are beginning to serve useful ends. 1 he student bodies form probably the most hostile anti-religious International dinner at Buenos .4 ires groups in their nations. The ultimate bearing of this fact lies in the unquestioned supremacy of the younger educated men in shaping public policies and sentiment. Naturally enough, the Association activities RECOGNIZED t^ONTRIBU- i • i i • i ■ i • i TioN which have gamed widest attention on the con- tinent are those among the university men. W'ith one exception, in all the Associations a numerous section of them are in the membership. With equal effort exerted among them, they could he brought easily to displace the civilians. The one specialized depart- ment for them has been referred to already. Others must follow soon. [ he one sprang from a group who entered the Buenos Aires city Associa- tion. Their initial interest was in English classes, next in a distinctively Bible student circle, and then came a definitely organized branch for students, with 250 members now, or one-twentieth of the great University enrolment. A student hostel and clubhouse accommodating twenty-five residents has proved completely successful. As an experiment in dormitory facilities it is being watched with keenest interest by the administration. On recommendation of the National Superintendent of High Schools, the Minister of Education recently furnished transportation to both the North American and Argentine student secretaries for a tour of the schools of the interior in an effort to relate to the practical helpfulness of the Association and the student hostel the new students who stream up to the metropolis by hundreds every year. Superintendents, professors and senior students were everywhere found cordial and even enthusiastic. The Continental Student Camp held annually GENERATOR.S OF n' • r i 1 • TT 1 GOODWILL at rinapolis, the charming Uruguayan shore resort, has scored heavily in public favor. The governments of Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay for two years past have paid traveling expenses for part or all the delegates going from their seats of learning. The highest diplomatic representatives of these and other nations make official visits to the encampment and take the platform in behalf of what it stands for. They see the international bearings in a large way. The Secretary of State for Uruguay furnished the entire conference with round-trip railroad tickets from his capital to the camp. I'he Minister of War loaned from the Army Department all tents and other needed equipment. Both officials came out in a Uruguayan cruiser. I he latter declared the camp to be making a larger contribution to international peace among tbe South American nations than any other agency now at work there. The Chilean Minister in an extensive state paper to his government reported his observations to such good effect that urgent invitations have come from students and State to extend formal organization to Chilean students. The powerful press of the various countries gave unlimited publicity and approval. The owner of the estate on which the gathering PERMANENT? encamps is so impressed with the results as to offer for permanent grounds a perfectly situated wooded section which in the original plans constituted a public park. To hold the tender, suitable equipment must be provided as a guaranty of good faith and permanent use. The acreage is valued at ^25,000. Some discerning friend of Pan-Americanism and wmrld peace will see here, let it he hoped before the expiration of the limit, the opportunity for productive investment. The student attendants come largely unac- ^^PEN ViEART*^" quainted with one another and the principles to be considered. Before the ten days of Christian companionship, united sport and serious thought are ended prejudices are disarmed. The last evening is called “the night of the open heart,” with opportunity and an at- mosphere for perfectly free expression. One law student voiced the sentiment of many of them by saying; “Men, I have a confession to make. When my fellow students asked International student camp Bible class taught by the Secretary of the Supreme Court of Uruguay me to represent them at this camp I declined in anger to think that they should consider me capable of attending a meeting held under religious auspices. They pressed the invitation the third time before I accepted it. My father and mother have been fighters of religion, and I have thought it my patriotic duty to do what I could against religion in my country. But I must confess that I never heard of religion as you men interpret it — something inside of a man which makes him happy and useful. That has opened up to me a new world. I do not say that I am a believing Christian, but I do say that I go away an open- minded man, determined to make a first-hand study of this question.” A movement may be judged by the kind of LATIN LEADERSHIP men who give themselves to its leadership. The Associations of South America can so stand for judgment with deep satisfaction. On directorates, building committees and advisory boards are many of the countries’ leading men. Linked with them in counsel and achievement is a numerically small but increasing company of brilliant Dhlinguished visitors at Piriapolis student conference educated, devoted Latin sons whose contribution is made in the coin of life service. Senor Monteverde is a much loved professor in the National University of Uruguay. Member of a prominent family, long active and eminent in public life, a leader in every movement for the betterment of his people, a pillar in his Church, a loyal and Christian patriot always, every door is open to him and every name and face familiar. While the organization was still infant in his city, he dedicated himself to the secretaryship as the greatest service to be rendered his nation. He resigned a government position and a lucrative profession, keeping only his chair in the University, which required but one hour a day, that he might give himself unstintedly to the new calling. To him preeminently are due the amazing acceptance and rapid development of the Association among the Uruguayans. Another of these builders is Dr. Jose M. Rua, pro- fessor of biology in the University of Buenos Aires, well known among the scientists of his country, head teacher in the “Morris Schools,” which are giving educational privileges gratis to 6000 poor children gathered off the streets. His constructive service is continent-wide, whether as a member of the student branch committee of management, leader in the Dr. Joie M. Rua Continental Student Camp, or as special guest of the International Committee on a tour of the Universities of North America, where Latin American students are in attendance. For not to be overlooked in this aspect of Pan- NENTAL LINK Americanism are the nfteen hundred Latin students of university grade studying in North American universities. No one knows how many others are in prepara- tory schools and other institutions. They have not been entering in considerable numbers many of the best phases of student life. In promoting measures toward such an end, Dr. Rua proved himself a Christian statesman. Several went as delegates to the Lake Alohonk Conference of the Worlds Student Christian Federation. A special sec- tion for Latins was instituted as part of the Northfield student summer conference. Forty attended, representing fourteen countries. Doors of opportunity were opened for patriotic as well as international service of large and significant promise for the future. Among the students and speakers of honor were the Director-General of the Pureau of Pan-American Republics. No one who knows the influence of a man First Latin American student conference at Northfield, trained abroad on his return to his native country will underestimate the importance of relationships and mutual understandings thus eflfected. If there is to be rendered to South America a HONOR Lhristian service, it must be with the spirit oi genuine, fraternal good will, a friendly, under- standing heart, and a sincere desire to help highly sensitive, self-respect- ing, cultured neighbors to rise victorious over those common enemies of character and civilization by agencies and methods found effective here. 1 he call of South America is the call of young, potential, resourceful nations; of magnificent cities; of an inspiring and splendid history; the call of attractive and brilliant and worthy manhood. It is the call of deep and urgent needs, — the deepest of all, spiritual. It is a call to practical and virile ministry addressed to a fellow race which shuns no tasks for their bigness. 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