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...extraordinary" InterAmerican Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, and it was called for by extraordinary circumstances. Supposedly these circumstances were the "altogether favorable opportunity" resulting from the settlement of the bloody bout between Bolivia and Paraguay. Actually the favorable opportunity was created not in the jungles of the Chaco but in the long corridors of the U. S. State Department. Part of it was the long planning of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles, one of the abler gentlemen in Latin-American diplomacy. More of it was a wholly new era of U. S.-Latin-American relations resulting from Cordell...
...began at Montevideo three years ago when Secretary Hull showed him studied consideration, sent flowers to Senora Saavedra. It continued through the settlement of the Chaco dispute which Dr. Saavedra made entirely his own baby, even refusing election as President of the League of Nations Assembly to do so. Since Dr. Saavedra was adamant in rejecting all peace proposals which he did not originate, the U. S. delegate on the peace commission, Spruille Braden. carefully left the limelight to the distinguished Doctor. Again for the sake of his goodwill, the scene of the present conference was set at Buenos Aires...
...Boston and Cambridge there are some 25 settlement houses doing work among the poor. Each house has between 1000 and 3000 members. The settlement house is a neighborhood club for the entire family, and conducts activities for all ages...
...significance of personal contact with Boston slums and settlement houses, where boys and girls with a minimum of opportunities are encouraged to improve their minds and bodies in an atmosphere of social cleanliness cannot be exaggerated. It is one of the few forms of practical training that college life can offer. In social work a man tests his power of leadership, his ability to pit his ideas against keen, youthful opposition, and his skill in solving complex problems. It is valuable self-education, broadening an individual's social knowledge and directing his thinking into channels unrelated to himself...
...this drama Phillips Brooks House plays its part and plays it well. Many a future citizen at Harvard finds impressive the fact that the juvenile crime rate soars dangerously where no settlement house is located. He is concerned, and not in the tea-cup manner, about the people who live on the rim of existence. Today it is possible to find in the well-organized Phillips Brooks House clothing drive merely one outward manifestation of vigorous internal life and social usefulness...