ITEMS OF INTEREST May 7, 1910 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

The beautiful new home in Washington, D. C., of the International Bureau of American Republics was formally dedicated last week in the presence of a most distinguished company. The building represents the expenditure of one million dollars, of which sum Mr. Carnegie contributed seven hundred and fifty thousand and the twenty-one American republics the remainder. Its large staff of diplomatic, statistical, and commercial experts conducts an extensive correspondence in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French publishes a monthly bulletin descriptive of the progress and conditions of the American republics, distributes hundreds of thousands of pamphlets, and declares that it was directly responsible last year for fifty-two million dollars of new business in the exchange of trade among the American republics.

"If I had the power I would force Germany and England to make some explanation of their action in disturbing the world peace by going on with their armaments. I would assert our right to be consulted. I would tell them that they must submit their quarrels to a tribunal." So spoke Mr. Carnegie at the dedication exercises.

The forest products laboratory at Madison, Wis., has been completed, and June 4 has been set as the date for the formal opening. The laboratory has been established to aid, through experiments and demonstrations, the lessening of waste in the manufacture and use of wood. It is a cooperative undertaking between the United States department of agriculture and the University of Wisconsin. The state has erected for the purpose a new building and the department of agriculture has supplied the equipment and apparatus and will maintain the force of thirty-five or forty persons required to carry on the work. Through this arrangement the United States has secured perhaps the largest and best equipped wood-testing laboratory in the world.

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