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THE MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
WILL POWER CAN BE DEVELOPED.
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mens of humanity and the lower. The one controls and the other does not. By use we develop any
part of our physical system, and it is just the same with the mental system.
Perhaps the man whom I had in mind at the beginning of this article was weak. Perhaps he
lacked will power; but, at the same time, he knew the difference between right and wrong and he
permitted himself to drift along the wrong road.
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Simply because it was easier for him to attempt to build a substantial
business edifice by questionable methods than to stick to the old-fash-
ioned plodding way.
The short cut appealed to him as particularly desirable and his will
power was not strong enough to overcome the temptation!
the fact that capable correspondents in Spanish and Portuguese, or
salesmen conversant with those languages, have been difficult to
secure. A study of Spanish and Portu-
guese in the public schools will certainly
have a greater practical value from a com-
mercial viewpoint than the study of the Eu-
ropean languages that are now commonly
included in the curriculum by various
schools and colleges.
MADE IN AMERICA
FELT THAT IS FELT
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HE creation of a Pan-American Su-
preme Court charged with deciding
disputes which arise in international com-
merce between the merchants of this coun-
try and the business men of South America
was urged by John Hayes Hammond at the
meeting of the American Manufacturers'
Export Association held in New York re-
cently.
Mr. Hammond maintained that such a
tribunal would retain the confidence of
American investors in Latin-American en-
terprises. He said it should be made up of
leading jurists of the United States and of
Latin-Americans, and should sit on neutral
territory, and remarked further:
"If inspired only by self-interests, the aim
of such a court would obviously be to estab-
lish confidence in the security of Latin-
American investments, and for that reason
foreign investors would be assured of fair
treatment. Such a court might well be one
of final resort. In any event, it should try
cases and endeavor to adjudicate claims be-
fore appeal through diplomatic channels,
which almost invariably results in friction,
and often, indeed, in extreme tension.
"Cordial good feeling between nations is
essential to advantageous commercial rela-
tions, and it is for this reason that many of
us advocate the substitution of a Pan-Amer-
ican Defensive Alliance for the Monroe
Doctrine in South America. There no longer
exists the necessity of maintaining this doc-
trine as applied to the whole of South Amer-
ica, and the people of that country resent
what they regard as supererogation on our
part. We should, T believe, restrict the ap-
plication of the Monroe Doctrine to the
States of Central America, to Mexico, and
to the countries in the Caribbean Sea area."
v Mr. Hammond urged the Government, in
enforcing the Sherman anti-trust law, to re-
move, as far as feasible, obstacles to the
cheapest possible production of commodities
for American export trade, so as to place
this country at least at no disadvantage compared with competing;
nations. He also favored special export freight rates.
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