Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1925, Page 47

Everyday Not a Talk on Theology, Religion But Upon Life and Right Living. BY RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., Bishop of Unfrequented Pathways. E followed an open, if un- frequented, pathway that led to immortality.” This is the inscription upon the tomb of John Howard, the man who did more to reform prison conditions than any one in England. When he undertook his self-appointed task he was confronted with seem- ingly insuperable difficulties. He was unsustained by public_opinion; as a matter of fact, he had to create it. Ile was denied the co-operation of those in authority, and by sheer de- termination he ultimately compelled them to recognize his claims. The results of his labors were far reach ing, and the world owes him its un- failing gratitude. The unfrequented pathways are many and are open to those who will seek to find and follow them. The trouble with most of us is that we run with the crowd. We tread path- ways hardened by the feet of the multitude. Few there seem to be who will take the troubie to discover for themselves new pathways in life. Tnitiative and originality are rare aualities. It requires little of genius To discover life’s unfrequented path- [1 ways, but it does require something | of ‘courage and the spirit of adven ture to follow them. Most of life’s occupations or fields of service are overcrowded, and while there may be “plenty of room at the top” few ever attain” it. The world’s outstanding pathfinders and discoverers have dared to follow unfrequented pathways in searching for a better and more open way, and some of them have gained Immortality in doing so. Our great advances have been registered by men and women of this type. They may not in their generation have received the approbation and the applause of A grateful people. Indeed, all too frequently their measure of success has only bheen recognized when life was well spent after adverse criticism and impugned motives had been their lot. voung people today are emerging from our schools and uni- versities. They are looking eagerly forward to the advantages and oppor- tunities of life. Many of them lack objective or fixity of conviction. We recall that it was a Japanese admiral who said, “After a thousand changing thoughts, one fixed purpose.” Once he had reached this conviction, suc- cess was within his gra One un Throngs of Washington Ow To Great Vision of L’Efifanti central ness section, lying and Eleventh streets 10 the river front. Burns owned most of the territory west of Eleventh street. The location and extent of Davidson's holdings cannot be defi nitely determined. The President had appointed three Commissioners to govern the city yet-to-be. Daniel Carroll was one of these commissioners, and the others were Thomas Johnson of Maryland and David Stewart of Virginia The landowners took advantage of the occasion to ask exorbitant prices for their land. Stephen Girard, one of the few wealthy men of the young Republic, endeavored unsuccessfully to induce Carroll to sell him a part of his land for $200,000, an enormous sum in those days. L’Enfant pro- tested vigorously against the attitude of the owners of the land and thereby inewwred their enmity L’Enfant Proves Grit. Daniel Carroll was not on trict commissioner, but was a_mem ber of the first Congress, and had Dbeen a delegate to the convention at Philadelphia which framed the Fed eral Constitution, and of a family of high standing and distinction and strongly influential. L'Enfant, how- ever, “played no favorites” and op- posed with vigor and determination anything which he deemed would in- terfere with the development of the infant city. So when Carroll, in spite of warnings, began to build a house across New Jersey avenue ias it was plotted on the map) L'Enfant | sent his assistant. Isaac Robideau, to tear down the incomplete structure. Before he finished the demolition Car- | roll appeared upon the scene with a warrant, and Robideau was arrested I.’Enfant was at Aquia Creek getting out a load of sandstone for the new Capitol, but as soon as he returned and learned of the facts he went himself with a gang of laborers who worked all night and completed the work of destruction. ‘Washington, to whom Carroll com- plained, remonstrated with the impul- sive and hot-headed engineer, and sug- gested that he permit the construction of the building: but, although L’En- fant had great respect and reverence for Washington, he would not yield an fota. The President then called Thomas Jefferson to his aid, who in- vited L'Enfant to dinner and endeav ored to dissuade him from his uncom- promising attitude. But it was of no avail, and so, on March 6, 1792, Jeffer- son reluctantly wrote to the district commissioners that “it having been found impossible to employ Maj. L'En- fant in that degree of subordination which is lawful and proper, he has part of the Northwest busi- between Seventh extending s a dis been notified that his service was at | an end.” In his delight at being interested with the planning of the Federal City and his deep interest ih the work nothing had been said about compen- sation, but soon after his Washington instructed the com to pay him five hundred guine: to give him a lot in the best part of the city. L'Enfant, without giving any reasons, refused both the money and the land. Remains Until Death, After his dismissal he remained in Washington and its immediate vicinty until his death. The French Revolu- tion had entirely destroyed the family fortune, and “his” city so dominated his mind that he seems to have been unable to divert his brilliant talents to other fields of endeavor. He pre- sented many memorials to Congress, but received no pay whatever for his services until 1810, when Congress voted him the munificent sum of $666.66, with interest from 1792, This afforded him no relief, as it was seized by his creditors In 1812 he was appointed professor of engineering at the United States Military Academy, but he refused the appoiniment, notwithstanding _that James Monroe, the Secretary of State, wrote to him, urging him to accept the office. He received no pension from the United States. but the King of France on January 13, 1783, granted him a pension of three hundred livres “in consideration of his usefulness and of the wounds received by him during the American War.” Perhaps it was Lecause of the ironic incongruity of receiving from France, instead of America, a pension for wounds in- curred while in the American Army. but, at any rate, he never drew this pension, but permitied it to lapse. During the st few years of his life | were bestowed upon it. such as | The departures from that plan are to (2N Washington. ' frequented pathway that is open to our youths today is that of selfless service. If they can only have the clearness of vision to see and under- stand it, the legend that marks this pathway is, in the language of the Book of books: “Behold, I have set before thee an open dqor, and no man can shut it.” It may be an unfre- quented pathwdy, carelessly disre- garded by the majority, but it is the only pathway that leads ultimately to satisfaction and measurable suc- cess. It may seem at the first like a_trail imperfectly blazed, but after all it has compensations of indescrib- able and enduring value. * ¥ ¥ % The real benefactors of the race have ever been those who dared to follow unfrequented pathways. The great Master Himself declared that “he that loseth his life shall find it.” Those who have followed His dictum have had revealed to them its infalli- bility. The names that shine the brightest in the tragic annal of the great World War are those of men and women who ‘counted not their lives dear unto themselves.” All Eng- land pays tribute to the woman who dared to follow the dictates of con sclence, and the name of Edith Cavell is linked with that of Lady Night- ingale as one of the greatest e emplars of heroic and unselfish ser ice. Cardinal Mercier is honored by every man who believes in righteou ness, because he dared to stand the protector of his countrymen in the time of oppression and persecu- tion. He chose for himself an unfre quented pathway, and choosing it fol- | lowed it without fear. | * % % We may not all gain the place of high distinction. Our names may not be chronicled with those whom we call the great and the good. In the lowest spheres of life there are open pathways of service that call for no outstanding genius and little more than the spirit of consistent adven- | ture. More and more the world sees in s of Nazareth the sublimest ex- ssion of self-sacrificing service for More and more it is coming to accept the conviction of the scholar, who, standing at the cross, witnessed the incomparable sacrifice, where he said: “Truly this man was the son of God.” After all, there is open to each one of us an unfrequented path- way that may ultimately lead to im- mortalit (Copyrigh i es Its Beauty | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Fearful Loss in Lives and Treasure MAY 31, 1925—PART 2. Results Each Year From Auto Accidents BY DREW PEARSON. HE police are most to blame for the appalling total of human lives wrecked by the auto- moblle every year. That statement came from Gen. Smedley D. Butler, the fighting marine, who for the last year has been “cleaning up” the city of Philadelphia. The police have taken an oath to arrest any violator of the traffic laws, Gen. Butier went on to say, and pub- lic laxity toward law enforcement is no excuse for police laxity. New safety devices may help, wider streets may do some good, more public education is bound to decrease accidents, but what we need most is the enforcement of the laws we already have. There is not a great deal of use in cluttering up our statute books and confusing our motorists with new laws until we can get the old one enforced. Gen. Butler, who is sometimes called the “czar of the Quaker City.” went to Philadelphia to reform the city’s police politics, and probably knows more about the faults and merits of American police than any other man in the country. Leading Philadel- phians went to the President to se. cure his temporary loan from the ma- rines, and for over a year, despite considerable opposition from the “old guard,” Butler has practically ruled Philadelphia. How to Prevent Accidents. Having been commissioned to make a study of traffic problems in the leading cities of the country, I selected Gen. Butler as one of the foremost authorities on public safety and went to him first. “How are we to prevent the tre mendous number of traffic accident: occurring in this country every day? My first question brought from the director of public safety a scowl and this answer: oung man, do you realize that vou are asking me a_question which Herbert Hoover, with all his staff plus the traffic commissioners of our leading cities, have spent a week or two d ting, and have not vet an- swered And do you realize that the city-planning conference recently held in New York and the American In- stitute of Architects have just fin- ished a long discussion of traffic prob- lems without getting anywhere? 1 do not like to pose as a traffic expert,” he continued after a signifi- cant pause, “but I do know something about its difficulties and its expense | to the individual, the city and the Nation. Goes Up in Smoke. “Hoover estimates that the cost of accidents last yvear alone ran up to $600,000,000, and Hoover's figures are usually preity accurate. seen it worked out some- the general went on, taking a sheet of figures from a file, “that this accident cost of a half billion dollars would be enough to build 55 Woolworth buildings. Or =2gain, ft would add 20 battleships to the United States Navy, or 25.000 airplanes to our nir fleet. Two hundred and fifty I'vi THE COST OF CARELESSNESS Aot 0 irplanes (Drawing Prepared by Scientific American.) With the money wasted on motor accidents the Nation could have paid for 55 Woolworth buildings or 200 dirigidles, or any of the items listed above. Here is a waste of human lives each year equal to two and one-half times as many casualties as all those s World War. uffered by the American forces in the with the money wasted every year on accidents, or 7,150 locomotives to haul them. Or we could buy 50,000,000 barrels of flour with that money to feed some of the people who don't get enough in this and other coun tries. “Those are comparisons which may make some of our reckless drivers sit up and think. Remember, every year all this evaporates into thin afr—in smoke, in repairs, in funerals and in hospital bills. “Imagine blowing up 55 Woolworth buildings every vear! Yet that's practically the equivalent of the dam- age done by our automobiles.” “Aside from accidents how much do traffic delays and other traffic prob- lems cost the Nation?" I asked. “I have no figures on that, but 1 know one stretch of congested high- way between New York and Eliza- beth where traffic is held up for long intervals, and where, if you reckon a waste of §1 for every hour of delay, there is an annual loss of $20,000,000. Since motor trucks are operated at a cost of about $25 a day, an esti- mated loss of §1 an hour seems most conservative. “Then there is the loss of life, which neither Mr. Hoover nor any one else can measure in dollars and cents. Automobiles kill 22 every 24 he was a familiar and pathetic figure, | in a long, high-buttoned blue coat, at | the Capitol and committee rooms, ndering sadly over the streets and avenues of the infant city, many of which were unmarked. but whose | imaginary outlines he could mentally | define with the utmost accuracy, dis-| appointed and despondent, but never wavering in his faith in the utmost realization of his dreams and hopes. Meager Possessions at Death | For several years preceding his| death he was a guest of the Digges | family on their farm near Bladens-| burg and was buried there. His sole possessions at the time of his death were three compasses, three wa and a few books, maps and surveying l‘nsu’umen(s, the whole appraised at| 7 Tp to the time of his death, and for | many years after, it was the custom of newspapers and individuals, both American and forelgn, to ridicule and deride L'Enfant’s plans, and to assert that the city would never be anything but a colossal failure. Many epithel bonian Bog,” “Wilderness,” etc. The Abbe Correa de Serra, Minister from | Portugal. give it the famous title of | “City of Magnificent Distances.” | Georgetown was called a ‘“city of houses without streets,” and Washing- ton, a ‘city of streets without houses.” Thomas Moore who visited Washington in 1804, wrote: In fancy now bencath the twilight gloom | Come, Ist me lead you o'er the modern Rome, | Where tribunes rule whose dusky Dati bow, | And what was Goose Creek is Tiber now. | Thia famed metropolis where fancy sees | Squares in_morasses. obelisks in trecs | Which traveling fools and gazeteers ads ‘With shrines unbuilt and heroes yet unborn. | Complete Vindicaf I Three-quarters of a century after | his death came L'Ewfant’s belated but | complete vindication when, in Jan-| uary, 1902, the Park Commission, co sisting of Daniel H. Burnham, Charl F. McKim, Augustus Saint-Gaudens and F. L. Olmstead, together with a committee of the United States Sen- ate, in an officlal report, reached this conclusion: “The original plan of the city of Washington having stood the test of century, has met universal approval. be regretted, and, wherever possible, remedied.”" On April 28, 1909, in pursuance of act of Congress, the remains of nfant were disinterred from the Digges farm with imposing cere- monies and conveyed to the rotunda of the Capitol, where the body lay in state. Thousands, including the Presi- dent, Vice President, cabinet officers, members of the two houses of Con- gress and other high officials did it honor. This tribute had been given theretofore to but seven persons: Abraham Lincoln, Thaddeus Stephens, almon P. Chase, Charles Sumner. James A. Garfield, John A. Logan and Willlam McKinley. L'Enfant is the only person of foreign birth who has ever been so honored. Then, with an imposing military patade, the remains were escorted to Arlington Cemetery where the flnal interment took place with full military honors. Two yvears later, in 1811, a monu- ment was erected on his tomb by Miss C. Morgan, great-granddaughter of Willlam Digges. on which occasion appropriate services were held and addresses delivered by President Taft and Elihu Root. The long deferred, but exceptionally high honors paid to L'Enfant in 1809 were all that could be desired; but they will soon be forgotten—in fact, have already been forgotten by many. The Capital City is the materializa- tion of his dream, and in_ that city there should be a visible and enduring memorfal to the courage, loyalty, genfus and triumphant idealism of Pierre Charles L'Enfant. Empress Zita Soon To Get Back Income Hungary is preparing to release the proceeds from the royal property se- questrated after the revolution, and thus to provide an income for former Queen Zita and her family and to re}leve them of their dependence upon ts. gl'l‘he main source of income for the Hungarian royal family was the crown domain of Ravkeve, near Buda- pest. Since the war this estate has been administered by the Hungarian government. 1¢¢ | this statement without fear of contra- | Cuba and Porto R thousand freight cars could be bought . HAITI SURVEY REVEALS ISLAND’S STRIKING GAINS 'Rodenberg Confutes Critics of United States Occupation—Shows Pros- perity and Freedom Grow HE Republic of Haitl is to- day enjoying a greater de- gree of prosperity, of se- curity and development of its splendid resources than at any time in its history. Its people are happier, freer, more contented and rising higher in the scale of civil- ization than ever before. I make diction from any reliable source, and attribute the splendid showing en-| tirely to the American occupation of | that country during the past 10 vears.” These are the views of former Representative William A. Rodenberg of Illinois, who has just returned to Washington from a visit to the black republic with a party of friends including National Committee- an Allen F. Moore of the same State. The Republic of Haiti,” said Mr. Rodenberg, “roughly embraces ahout one-third of the island lying hetween > O s regarded by Colum bus s the most charming as well as the most valuable of all his dis coveries. Tt was the scene of all his triumphs and all his sorrows. It was there that he was appointed governor and afterwards imprisoned, loaded with chains and finally died. His body was interred in the eastern end, in the Republic of Santo Domingo, but many of the principal events in his career were enacted on Haltian soil. His flagship on the first voyage was wrecked upon that coast, and it was there that he held his earliest confer- ences with the native chiefs. - For that reason Hafti will for all time hold an absorbing interest for the American people. Position Is Unique. It has held a unique position from the start. It Is the only land visited by Columbus that has not retained its Spanish origin. After being ceded to France by the Spanish crown it re- ceived the special consideration of that government and had become at the time of the French Revolution what the great discoverer had dreamed it one day would be—the wealthiest and most highly prized colony in the world. Modern Haitlan history really starts from the time of the Jrrench Revolution, and as all the world knows, after the extermi- nation of the white population by the slaves, the country, save at a few sea- ports, degenerated to the depths of barbarism. Some idea of the extent of the de struction was pointed out by a Senate committee three years ago when it showed that although the French had built 550 miles of public roads in Haliti, pronounced by French writers to equal_the highways leading from Paris to Versailles, they had degener- ated at the time of the American occu- pation to such an extent that only a fraction could be used by wheeled vehicles. Instead of a magnificent system of h**hways women and burros became the burden bearers of the country. All products which were brought into the market or taken into the interfor from the coastal citles and towns were borne by the women carrying their burdens upon their heads or upon the backs of thelr burros. Men Rarely are Seen. This same primitive condition still exists and one of the most pic turesque: sights in the country is to see a mnever-ending stream of these women and burros upon the highways bringing _their meager wares to market. The men are rarely seen in these cavalcades. For generations it was dangerous for them to appear on the highways as they would be im- pressed into the army or made to Jabor for the chiefs, so they adopted the plan of remaining in hiding and sending the women to market. But this condition is rapidly changing.+ When the Americans landed 10 vears That island w: hours. That, in my opinion, is a na-| ago there were less than half a dozen automobiles in Haiti. Today there are more than 4,000 and every steam- | er from the States is taking in an increasing supply. What I have said about the high ways will illustrate the general con- dition existing at the time of the oc- | cupation. The report made three | years ago to which I have referred | pointed out that about 2 per cent of | the population represented the wealth | and culture, which was the governing class. These were divided into two factions, the “outs” and the “ins,”| the latter being protected by a sub- stantial army, without which no gov. ernment could exist. The peasant class, it was pointed out, constituted | from 95 to 97 per cent of the popu lation. They can neither read nor | write. They have no conception of government. They have been the | pawns of the governing class. Their | condition is truly pathetic. Naturally | generous and kind, with proper train- | ing and education they can become | prosperous cultivators, capable of | guarding their own interests. | Property Confiscated. At the time of the occupation their animals and the products of their lit- tle gardens were continuously being confiscated without compensation, and when the women took their produce to the markets in the cities and towns they were never certain that the little money they received for it would not be taken from them. The Senate committee, without intending it in a critical spirit, went on to say that be- fore the American intervention few | of the Haitians had ever seen a plow. The peasant class had never seen and did not know how to use a shovel. At first when shovels were given to them for use they would take them to a pile of gravel, pick the gravel up in their hands, put it in the shovel, and then carry it to the place where it was intended to b?pllced, ‘When the American marine& began road build- ing in the island, a schooner with road-building machinery was docked. In the hold of the vessel were 60 wheelbarrows. A captain of the ma- rines in charge of the road building sent the foreman, a Haitlan, with 60 men to bring the wheelbarrows to the place where the road building was in progress. After a time he looked for the men with the wheelbarrows. He saw them carrying the wheelbarrows on their heads instead of wheeling them. The committee findings, however, do not differ in any essential respect from the reports of travelers who visited the island from time to time follow- ing the expulsion of the French. The English author, Anthony Trollope, who was on the neighboring Island | of Jamaica when Solouque, one of the last “Emperors” landed there after a hasty flight from Port au Prince in 1859, gave a rather vivid description of this royal personage and his realm, which, with many similar productions from the pens of travelers, served to make Haiti a forbldden country up to the time of the American occupa- ton. 29 Rulers Since 1804. Since 1804, when the whites were massacred, there has been a dozen constitutions and 29 chiefs of state, including Emperors, Kings, military dictators and Presidents. Prior to the present occupant, who has been the only one to receive the friendly grasp of his predecessor on assuming office, only one President completed his term and voluntarily retired. Eighteen were deposed by revolution and assassi- nation and one committed suicide. The present occupation resulted from the following cablegram received by the State Department from the American legation at Port au Prince July 25, 1915: “At 10:30 mob invaded French lega- tion, took out President, killed and 1 | nounces l him tional crime. President Coolidge is certainly right when he says: ‘If these total accidents were concentrated into one calamity, we should shudder at the tremendous catastrophe.’ Imagine it! One-half million people injured by automobiles every year! And in the last six years the accident toll has increased by 80 per cent.” “Who is chiefly to blame for this ‘motor crime’?” I asked. “We are all to blame. The public is usually half asleep and doesn't wak up until some series of dreadful acci-| dents. Occur. Then, after a short campaign against motor crime, the public goes to sleep again “The pedestrian is frequently to blame. He loses his head or is care- less. The driver usually gets most of the blame, and as a rule he deserves it. But I think most of all the police are to blame. It is only human nature that when the public is not too en thusiastic about enforeing speed laws the police should lag in making ar rests for speed violation. However, that does not let us out. We have taken an oath to arrest any man who violates the law, no matter who he is, and it is our bounden duty to carry out that oath. A police force that is incorruptible, vigilant, and merciless in its enforcement of traffic laws can do much toward cutting down our motor crime. Until each cfty trains JAPANESE such a traffic squad, automobile accidents will continue to increase in numbers.” “What will happen to American cities if the automobile increases in the next 20 years as it has in the last 207" 1 asked. “That is a big if,” the director of public safety replied, quizzically. “There probably will be a saturation point in buying automobiles just as there is in buying diamonds or sweet Ppotatoes. The human system can only absorb so much of any one thing. Au- tomobile manufacture has been a mushroom {ndustry. There were just 3,700 cars made in 1899. Four-million in 1923. In the last 10 years—between 1914 and 1924—the number of regis- tered vehicles increased from 1,711,399 to 17,740,000. But although I'm no in- dustrial prophet, my humble guess is that we won't go on making cars at the rate we have in the past. Airplane Parking Next Question. “However, 1 notice that the city- planning experts are mapping out the cities as if there were to be as many automobiles as go-carts in the next generation. The Russell Sage Founda- tion prophesies triple-decked streets and arcaded sidewalks. The command- ing officer at Mitchel Field, Maj. Hens ley, predicts that within 12 to vears workers will be flying from their homes in the country to the big cities, and that the crying need of the future will be landing fields and parking places for planes. I suppose there will be some kind of a zonmng law re quiring skyscrapers to be of equal height, so that they can be covered with @ sort of flat cover, like the top of an airplane carrier, for airplanes to {land on. | “According to the general director | of New York's regional city plan, that | city is going to hold about 20,000,000 { people fn the next hundred years. It will extend for about 50 or 75 miles, and will be about half a mile high. One of his colleagues predicts that within |the next 50 years automobile traffic | will have entirely disappeared from | the surface streets, and will be oper- ated entirely through tunnels. That | ought to prevent accidents. But T can't see people getting much kick out of touring. The surface streets, according |to this prophet, will be reserved for | pedestrians. Also there will be horiz tally moving rooms and oscillating balconies, while people will be shot | through tubes a distance of 50 miles in |30 minutes, like mail through pneu- i matic tubes. Gen. Butler paused and looked | thoughtfully out of his window upon | the court of the Philadelphia City Hall, | where a squad of his traffic policemen interesting. but | enough trouble helping i {unravel these traffic problems { here and now. Judzing by the |culty we have foday may the Lord help the cops of tomorrow who have to chase alrplanes for speeding and arrest dirigible balloon pilots for taking up too much parking space.” (Copyright. 19 having police to right 'CALIFORNIANS WILL FIGHT QUOTA PLAN Wickersham Proposal to Admit Nippon- ese Immigrants in 1927 Faces Bitter Opposition on the Pacific Coast. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. LANS recently launched under the leadership of George W. Wickersham, former Attorney General of the United States, to place Japan on the immigra- tion quota basis in 1927 are to be bit- terly opposed by the Pacific coast ex clusion party. Acting through the “‘California joint immigration commit- tee,” the exclusionists, who forced the hand of Congress on that issue in May, 1924, have served notice on the National Committee on Japanese- American relations” that the quota proposal will be fought tooth and nail. They declare that it reopens the whole question of Asiatic immigration, and will “greatly increase the present fric- tion with Japan.” The executive sec- retary of the coast organization. V. S. McClatchy, who led the exclusion forces at Washington a yvear ago, an- “an aggressive campaign in opposition.” Proponents Asked Funds. Mr. Wickersham a few weeks ago launched a drive for funds to educate American public opinion with regard to the desirablility of according Japan quota rights two years hence. His associates include Hamilton Holt, Luther Burbank, Carrie Chapman Catt, Cleveland H. Dodge, John Grier Hibben, Bishop Willlam F. McDowell, Alton B. Parker, Henry W. Taft, Charles Schwab, William Allen White, Stdney L. Gulick, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Otto H. Kahn, EI- bert H. Gary, James R. Angell, Jane Addams, R. Fulton Cutting, Howard Heinz and a number of other men and women prominent in intellectual, financial, mercantile and social life. The constructive proposal of the Wickersham committee, it asserts, would virtually secure what Cali- fornia asks—the stopping of Japanese fmmigration—and also what Japan asks—a treatment free from race discrimination. Seeks Better Rel: ‘The committee seeks public support and corresponding pressure on the in- coming Congress of the following proposal: That after July 1, 1927, Japanese be included in the quota provisions of the new immigration law, thus laying the basis for right relations between the two countries. It is contended that if this proposal should be incorpcrated in the immi- ions. dismembered him before legation gates. Hysterical crowds parading streets with portions of his body on poles. “U. S. S. Washington entering har- bor.” From such a horrid recital it is, n- deed, gratifying to turn to the picture of content, industry and achievement that Haiti presents today. In contrast with the men who for more than & century exploited the island and its people solely for their personal ends, Haitl has at last been blessed with an executive of high character and attainments and inspired with the highest patriotic motives. He is a man of great ability and culture. After completing his academic and legal studles In the highest schools of France he returned to Port au Prince, where his true ability soon won him the reputation of being cne of the leaders of the bar of Latin America. Not only was he a_successful prac. titioner at the bar, but his long and varfed experience in the diplomatic service of his country peculiarly fitted for the high office to which he has (Continued on Twelfth Page.) gration law the result would be the admission of only 150 Japanese and 100 Chinese immigrants annually. The California joint immigration committee’s rejoinder to the Wicker- am committee’s crusade says in part “You are presenting this matter to American citizens, not from the Amer- ican, but from the Japanese point of view, based partly on error and mis understanding. You have the quasi indorsement of the Federal Council of Churches, but your attempt to reopen the question convinces us that it will markedly decrease church influence among loval Americans within and without the church fold. In our judg- ment, the effort of Mr. Wickersham to form a committee of 1,000 fo peti- tion Congress to put Japan under quota after July 2, 1927, is a mistake. It will rot accomplish the end sought. It will lead to a controversy, the re sults of which, we think, w make less probable any early solution of this question, such as Japan evi- dently desires. See Americans Opposed. “If it 1S to be understood from your letter that Japan will insist on the right for entrance of her people into this country as immigrants as a pre. requisite for the restoration of the friendly feelings which have existed heretofore, our belief is that the Amer- ican people, much as they admire the Japanese and desire to retain their friendship, will not agree to these terms. “It seems to us that President Coolidge fairly and fully covered the situation when he said, in accepting the presidential nomination on Au- gust 14, 1924, ‘The incident is closed. We must seek by some means be- sides immigration to demonstrate the friendship and respect we feel for the Japanese nation.’ “The movement now being inau- gurated by Messrs. Wickersham and Gulick is for the declared purpose of demonstrating our friendship and re- spect for Japan by making certain changes in our immigration laws which would violate our long es- tablished immigration policy. Dr. Gulick is really the instigator of this movement and in our opinion his counsel in this matter is as unwise as that which he has generally given Japan and the friends of Japan in the United States since he came to this country from Japan 10 years ago.” Japan Not in Agreement. That Japan does not agree with President Coolidge's dictum that the exclusion issue is a closed Incident was made plain by Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira in his first impor- tant public utterance in the United States. Addressing the Japan Soclety of New York shortly after he was ac- credited to Washington this Spring, Mr. Matsudaira said. “In the wake of America's over- whelming evidence of sympathy for Japan after the earthquake of 1923 came the immigration law, putting us among the excluded nationals. The enactment of this legislation gave us a great shock and disappointment. I should not be honest with you or with myself if I were not to tell you that the dissatisfaction of the whole na- tion with the status which the new law has conferred upon my country- men is widespread. Tor me to dis- cuss this question on this occasion would serve no good purpose. We have, however, an abiding faith in the sense of justice and equity in- herent in the American people. This faith gives us hope that the day will come when this question may be set. tled in a manner satisfactory to both our countries.” (Omprriehe. 1098.) 1 be to! | HE following is a brief sum- mary of the most important news of the world for thej seven days ended'May 30. o o The British Empire.—Great Britain is aroused by the fact (made of public knowledge by debate thereon in the Commons) that within recent months several important orders for con- struction of craft for British use have gone to Dutch and German shipyards; one to a Dutch yard for six motor tankers; another to a Dutch yard for thirteen steam-driven tankers; a third to a Hamburg yard for five motor liners. The foreign bids were 5o much low- er than the lowest British ones (a to- tal difference of about $1,500,000 in the case of the German bid) that it was necessary to accept them: the British bidders would not (probably could not) | accept generous compromises offered them. The chagrin might have been endurable had motor craft only (@ new type) been involved; but that, in the present depression of British ship- building, orders for steam-driven craft | should go abroad—that was too much. The primary reasons are the lower ages and the longer working hours on the continent and the far lower taxation levied on continental indus tries. The average weekly wage in |the German yards is said to be the {equivalent of $6; in Great Britain of $15. The German workman puts in 54 hours per week; the British workman, 147. Moreover, the continental Yards are adapted for other kinds of output in_the absence of shipbuilding orders. There are other reasons, but the above are sufficient. Prior to the sreat war 80 per cent of the new ship- ping of the world was being turned out of British yards; the percentage | is now 30. Lieut. Col. Repington, the famous | war correspondent and author of the| two well-known books, ‘‘The First | World War” and “After the War,” is | dead. J. G. Coates succeeds the late Mr. Mas s premier of New Zealand. Like Mr. Massey, he is a member of the so-called Reform (Conservative) Party, which is the strongest party in the New Zealand Parliament. xix ¥ French Morocco.—The French have | withdrawn to the south of the Wergha River. Maintenance of the line blocl houses north of the river at inter- vals of above five mi s, and with mobile columns disposed so as to sup- port threatened blockhouses and re pulse attempts at infiltration past the gaps, was 100 exhausting. The new line is shorter and easily defensible and considerable forces are released for normal open warfare north of the river, and for strengthen ing the defense of the railroad line from Fez, eastward via Tasa and Ujda to Algeria, by which line reinforce- ments and supplies are conveyed from Algeria. The advantages thus secured are offset by increase of exposure of the natives north of the Wergha to |the propaganda. or tender mercies of { Abd-el-Krim, | siderably augment the number of his recruits from those unfortunates caught between the devil and deep sea. The latter are, in fact, sacrificed to political exigencies; for Marshal Lyautey has been compelled to post pone his plans to await the resuit of result of efforts by the French govery- ment to persuade the Spanish gov- ernment to co-operate with it in deal ing with Abd-el-Krim. By the treaty between ‘France and the Sultan of Morocco, the former is stopped from independent negotiations with Abd-el- Krim; but it is understood that a member of the Sultan's family is, by mutual consent of the Sultan and the French authoritles, attempting a negotiation. On Wednesday, the 27th, the French government was: interpellated in the Chamber by Socialist and Communist spokesmen on the origin and the con- duct of the Morrocan war. The anim- adversions of the Socialist leader, M. Renaudel, were moderate, but the Communist champion lashed himself into a Red fury, threatening that the French soldiers would be brought to fraternize with the Rifenos.” There- upon he left the tribune under pres- sure, while the handful of Commu- nists in the Chamber sang the “inter- nationale.” The next day M. Painleve, the premier, and M. Briand, the foreign minister, explained to the Chamber the government's Morocean policy. ot {a single soldier.” said Painleve, “will be sacrificed for conquest, but all the forces of France will be used for her defense. 1f France is at war, it is in spite of herself, and she is at war only for peaceful ends. French sov- ereignty in Northern Africa is at stake: that sovereignty, given by treaties, I'rance will defend to the ut- termost. It is a national question; it is the whole colonial trade of France that is at stake. We are establishing two great forts to dominate the Wergha, and there we will remain ex- clusively on the defense, protecting our territory against the Riffian raids.” (Associated Press translation)—Al- most the whole Chamber, except, of course, the Communists, applauded the above declaration, but some of the Socialists thought they scented an Af- rican in the woodpile when Briand an- nounced his expectation of an agree- ment with the Spanish government whereby an effective blockade would be established to prevent illicit sup- ply of arms to Abd-el-Krim. One may only guess the_precise nature of the Socialists’ apprehension, but it is a good_guess that they feared that M. Painleve's “defensive” might include that “offensive.” which experts agree is, where feasible, the best kind of efensive.” To be at once technical and euphe- mistic, vour ‘offensive-defensive’ is the ticket. At any rate, a caucus of Soclalist_ members, held in an inter- val of the Chamber proceedings, de- cided by a majority of one to abstain from voting should the question of confidence be put. Getting wind of this, Palnleve postponed the putting of the question to the next day, hop- ing to be able in the meantime to per- suade the Socialists to a better mind. Could he, indeed, accept a vote of con. fidence achleved only through support from the opposition? It is to be noted that M. Briand did not express expectation that the Spanish government would _allow French pursuit of Riff forces within the Spanish zone. Without such per- mission, French action must needs be in the strictest sense defensive. The above detail would seem to pe worth while as illustrating the increase of sentiment (also seen in post-war devel- opments in Great Britain) in democ- racies against imperial sway by such democracies over allen peoples as illustrating the precariousness of dem- ocratic imperialism. ‘The Socialists came around to a better mind overnight and on Friday the government received a whooping vote of confidence. 537 to 29, only the Communists voting contra. The French forces at the war front are said to number about 60,000. Painleve announced to the Chamber French casualties as follows: 400 kill- third of the total Frenchmen, the rest Senegalese). It is thought that Fez has been made absolutely secure by defensive works. FE— Italy.~Mussolini and D'Annunzio are reconciled. The premier has been visiting the prince at the latter’s villa at Gordone and, so report has it, hag who no doubt will con- | debate in the French Chamber and the | ed, 1,100 wounded, 35 missing (one- | Peal Story Week Has Told Comprehensive Survey of Latest Events in United States and Abroad. BY HENRY W. BUNN formaliy accepted the gift to Italian nation (to take effect after D’Annunzio’s death) of the vilia with its valuable library and objects of art Some will have it t the recor ciliation is happy prologue to th swelling act of some imperial theme Giddy rumor has spread abroad thousand tales of bizarre doings and sayings at Gordone. Such rumots properly discounted, one could wish for a true chronicle of that episode especially of the conversations The Italian Chamber has pa Mussolini's bill regarding secret socie tles. The bill requires ev assoclation to furnish the police, demand, a list of its members bandment to be the penalty of fail to comply. t government em: to secret societies which requires 1 The bill, of course, is : Free Masons and gives expression to the view that Ireemasonr menace to the government and pa ticularly to the arr One hears t Mussolini_has pre pared an order for the mobilizatic Italian women in case of war. es from b or any United States of America.—Imporis of rubber into the United S ing the calendar year 000,000. The same am prices would cost $400,000 portant cause of the tren in price is government rest export from British plantations in the East Indies The Shipping Board has resolved to sell for scrap 200 of the vessels its charg otal deadwel nage of § Don Barber is dead It is reportec of a certain have won renowr books, the proper the reason that the sion of the theo: the eminent architect Miscellaneous.— Amundsen expedit The Belgian gove: us of its desire to |date negotiations w funding comn settlement of ment’s debt to th ernment, and tc send to Washington & eminent financiers M. Caillaux has French Chamber to the budget present riot government (ac the French P: completed) c: dition to t budget, in order to compl of the budget. M. Caill the internal debt of 280,000,000,000 francs ¢ 4.000,000,00 The Chamber of Labo jurges the Austrian goverr | quest the Con | States to pa ing the immigration « {into the Tnit the regular auota, the | finance th, has 170.000 Trotsky has been g portant jobs, but he must nance befora he is restored complet to his old foo been m a member he Presidium of Djerjinsky) and cessions committee. According to the tion bureau at Wasl now exporting petrole e the wz greater the - of ) 10 rate of 30,000 to 4 them, one hears, are most of them the pil meant much self-denial. The Persian Majlis, ¢ sembly, has pass engagement American e Persian departmer, Millspaugh cial in our Sta rector general of fi The annual conv American Medical As held in Atlantic City in passed. In his inaug new president of William D. Tenn.. of this. our 1 ievement,” with ence to the follow The discover berculosis and 1 death toll of per 100,000 in in 1922, The discovery that rad certain forms of cance. The new knowledge concerning the functions of the ductless glands and such marvelous results issuing from as the gift of »rmal ming to a cretin and the t rmation of a grotesque dwarf into an apollo or Diana. # The miracle of The discovery that g of iodine m will ¢ is Tar in foo! water. —_— Filipino Tribesmen Win Wood’s Support Gov. Gen. Wood has made two cal changes in Philippine government policy. To the bureau of non-Chris tribes charged with the administrati of Moro and pagan tribe affalfs he has given orders that preference in provincial government employment be given to tribesmen, instead of to ¢ tian Filipinos, as has been the prac- tice. He eaid that in pushing forward the development of the non-Christian provinces “we must do all we can to train the natives to fill the vi us posts therein.” The other cl the authorization of the officials of Bohol Province to utilize voluntary labor in constructing public works. 1n practice this only means that men ex- ercising feudal authority will erder their tenants, or plantation sals 4o go and work for as long a time as it may please the caciques (bosses) have them do so. Though the gov- ernor has stipulated that care be e ercised, it is recalled that when queii- ing the Pulajan outbreak in the neig! boring Province of Samar Gov. Cur found that one of the prime causes of trouble was precisely this form of vol untary labor on public works. o wad to Opera Stars Refuse Low Berlin Salaries Berlin, which claims to be flis world's musical center, would ltke to hear great opera singers, notably Maria Jeritza, Viennese soprano, and Gigli, Italian tenor. But for such lux« uries Berlin is too poor. Negotiations with Jeritza are reported to have been broken off because she refused to ap- r in the state opera house for lesg than $3,000 a performance. That sum was paid to Gigli, for a time, for Bere liners will try anything once. Bug after a few performances the authori- ties concluded that Gigli was being overpaid. They have offered him 2,250 a night, complaining that -im these hard times even an artist ought to live within the limits of income. L