President Coolidge emphasized the need for a better exchange news-service to promote und standing between the American He mentioned that communica~ tions by means of shipping and railways, had greatly improved during the past decade and he would ask Congress to authorize the sending of engineering advisers to assist in the building of roads, while the ties of culture and commerce, he said, would be closer as a result of the aviation services which Congress was at present considering.
President Coolidge said that the Americas are now acting as a complement to one another in agricultural and industrial tion "to an unusual degree the result that there was an creasing exchange of commodities. In this connection, he paid a tribute to the efforts of the Pan-American Union.
In conclusion, President Coolidge referred "to the even more signi ficant result" in connection with political relations, saying. "If these conferences mean anything, they mean bringing all our people more definitely and more completely under the reign of law, laying on us all a continental responsibility."—Reuter.
Washington, Jan. 16.
Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, in an article in the United ates Dally, state hat she Ger. ernment's policy towards the Latin-'American Republics is one of mutually beneficial ce-operation. The Pan-American Conference can farther the continuation of the development of friendship and mutual understanding and sympathy among the Western hemisphere of nations. The United States has every reason to be confident that valuable and structive results will be achieved.
—Reuter.
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