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ASSOCIATED
PRESS NEWS OF
THE WORLD
FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 38
REVOLUTION BREAKS OUT IN CENTRAL INDIA
IS U. S. FACING WAR WITH JAPAN?
PERIL IN JAPANESE IMMIGRATION
William Philip Simms, Georgia Writer and War
Correspondent, Tells of Problem of The
Pacific
William Philip Simms is a former Georgian, employed for a num
ber of years on the staff of the Atlanta Journal. He served during the
war in France as the chief representative of the United Press', and was
one of the very best news reporters at the front, scoring many nota
ble beats for his service. He is now on the staff of the Newspaper
Enterprise Association, of which The Times-Recorder is a membe., and
has been assigned to find and tell the truth of the Japanese question.
Here is his first article. Other will follow:
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMS.
CAN DIEGO, Calif., Feb. 15.—For the good of America and, for the good
of Japan, maybe even for the peace of the world, the Japanese immi
gration problem must be made “Case No. 1” on the docket and settled
without delay.
Twice I have traveled up and down the Pacific coast, from Tia Juana
to Vancouver, talking with all classes and conditions of people, with Ameri
cans and Japanese. I have interviewed governors of states and other pub
lic officials. Immigration commissioners in this country and Canada have
told me their view. Chambers of commerce and business men’s clubs have
unhesitatingly expressed their position on the übject.
starving™
NEAR SSOO MARK
Housewives Urged Not
To Forget Produce Do
nations When Buying
About S4BO has been deposited in
the bank by W. W. Dykes, chaiman
for Sumter county of the European
Relief campaign, of funds from cash
donated by Sumter county citizens
and money realized from the sale of
produce donated by citizens unable
at this time to give cash. This will
shortly be forwarded. Dozens of
good-hearted people have given .to
this cause. Many have given in small
amounts, but it has all helped to
swell the growing fund, until the
chairman now is hopeful of reach
ing a total of probably $2,000. In
this hope he is banking on the peo
ple continuing to respond as liberally
as they have since the announcement
a few days ago that donations of
provision as well as would be receiv
ed and on the householders continu
ing to buy.
In addition to the S4BO in the bank,
a considerable quantity of choice
country produce of many kinds. is
on hand at the Hightower Toy store,
where Miss Emma Mae Borum is in
charge of sales. Here the donations
are received and placed on display,
where householders are earnestly
urged to call and buy. Produce is
for sale at current market prices.
Every cent received goes into the
fund, no rent or other expenses be
ing connected with the sale or col
lection of the produce.
More than SSO in cash has been
received from Andersonville school.
The Huntington school has respond
ed excellently, Chairman Dykes re
ports, and the Concord school has
made donations of cash and produce
valued at more than $42. The names
of the donors in the Concord school
group follow: Mose Harvey, Mrs. Ida
Wright, Mrs. Rosa McGarrah, Lin
nie Logan, Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Bart
lett, Mr. Callaway, Mrs. Drane, Vir
ginia Drane, Will Sims, Mr, Forbes,
Mrs. Lassiter, Mamie Battle, Howard
Logan, Mrs. Logan, Agnes Guest,
Clinton and Clifton Morrell, Jose
phine Wells, R. C. Wells, Harold
Guest, O. S. Bass, Robert Harvey,
Felton Harris, Mr. Wooldridge, Mrs.
Amzie Mathis, Mrs. Daniel, Isaac
Harvey, Bernice Parker, Varner Par
ker. Mrs. Rabon, Mrs. Tom Smith, J.
B. Holly, James Hart, John Battle,
Laura Morrell, Oneda Allen, Aubrey
Kart, Irlene Guest, Susie and Mary
Morrell, J. F. Allen, Geneva Allen
.Katherine Carter, J.. B. Lassiter,-
Virginia Dozier, Cullen Battle, J. M.
Buchanan, Blake Harris, Scott Hart,
Julia and Vivian Rabon, Elmo and
TO SAVE STARVING CHILDREN
OF EUROPE
(100 Cents of Every Dollar Donated is Used For This Purpose.)
I AGREE TO DONATE:
Cash $; Wheat, sacked, bushels Corn,
sacked, bushels, ; Peas, sacked, bushels,
Peanuts, sacked, bushels Potatoes, sacked, bush
els .....; Syrup., gallons ; Hams ....;
Shouldersi; Sides
Will deliver to J. E. Hightower in Americus, or to
School house on day of Feb.
1921.
(Sign Here.)
Farmers, bankers, labor leaders,
store-keepers, publishers, preachers,
deep-sea fishermen, fruit growers,
salmon-packers, police authorities,
statisticians and ex-soldiers have
talked to me freely.
And the vast majority of them
agree that, the real merits of the
case to one side, rightly or wrong
ly—whichever way you look at it—
further arrivals of new Japanese la
bor would be decidedly unadvisable.
No “Excitement.”
There is no “excitement” out here.
Not a single Japanese hks been mo
lested nor a Japanese place of busi
ness interefered with. There is no
discrimination against Japanese in
hotels, restaurants, theaters or else
where. But by common consent,
among the leading Japanese think
ers in the west as well as among the
Americans, the future, with unre
stricted immigration, holds a menace,
real and certain.
Gov. Ben. W. Olcott, of Oregon,
told me:
“There is no direct Japanese men
ace in the state of Oregon today
What I am afraid of is the future.
And it is to prevent future trouble
that I now place myself on record.
I do this in the hope that our govern
ment in Washington will take notice.’’
Tihe governor, in his message
to the state legislature, declared:
“The Japanese are a race high
in culture. They are a courteous pe»
pie of education and progress. But
they are not our people. We cannot
assimilate them and they cannot as
similate us. * * * So long as Jap
anese and Americans attempt to till
their acreage side by side, so long
will there be enmity and distrust.
* * * There should be peace between
the two nations, but conditions as
they now exist can serve to no other
purpose than to finally lead the two
nations to the brink of serous even
tualities.”
Curb on “Colonies.”
Governor Olcott favors “ a curb to
the growth of Japanaese colonies.”
• K. K. Kawakami, author of “Japan
in World Politics,” “Japan in World
Peace,” and other widely read vol
umes, one of the most listened-to
leaders among the Japanese in Am
erica, told me frankly that in his opin
ion circumstances demand a tighten
ing up of the present agreement be
tween Washington and Tokyo. He de
clared in favor of an understanding
which would effectively bar the ad
mission of new Japanese labor into
the United States at the same time
guaranteeing justice to the Japanese
already lawfully in this country.
And here is opinion of the board
of trustees of the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce and Commercial club,
as handed to me personally by Sec-
Sarah Dupree, Garrison Guest, Wil
bur Brown, Douglas Merrell, Elean
or Drane. ’ ■ ’ ,
The names of donors through other
schools have not been received, but
will be acknowledged when received.
THE TIF®SSiECORDER
SHED IN THE JrSFw&s HEART OF
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WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
retary Hadley of that organization:
“To afford adequate protection to
Japanese, now domiciled in the Unit
ed States, in all their rights, is a posi
tive obligation of the government
and the people of this country; but
unrestricted immigration is a differ
ent matter. * * * Existing conditions
in this country involve problems that
must be solved in order to conserve
the peace and well-being of cur peo
ple and preserve the stability of our
popudar form of government. ”
The business men of Seattle then
suggested “that adoption and pro
mulgation at this time by Japan of
a settled policy of strict restraint of
emigration of Japanese laborers in
tending permanent residence in this
country would remove apprehension
from the minds of our people and
help allay agitation demanding legis
lation that might prove to be of
fensive to Japan.”
Center of Agitation.
But California is the center of the
agitation. The states of Washington
and Oregon, I found, were but mild
ly interested. California, by a vote
of 668,483 to 222,986, or about 3
to 1, adopted the anti-Japanese land
initiative law prohibiting not only
the ownership of land but the leas
ing of it as well, and in addition to
that calls for a Federal exclusion act
as drastic as that against the coolies
from China.
Says Governor William D. Steph
ens:
“As a people and as a nation we
have the normal and the internation
al law right to declare who shall and
who shall not enter into and abide
in our country.
“We look to the Federal govern
ment for legislation and treaties
which will keep from our borders
Oriental immigrants impossible of be
ing assimliated into our national life
and whose increased presence here
would prove disastrous to the Ameri
can mode and manner of living.
* * * The exclusion act should, in
my opinion, provide for the full ex
clusion of all Japanese save certain
selected classes.”
“Convinced that “California ,
stands as an outpost on the western J
edge of Occidental civilization,” asfl
Governor Stephens put it, V. S. Mc<l
Clatchy, of Sacremento, one of th J
leaders in the anti-Japanese
ment, declared: <-- B
“California’s work in the math®
has only commenced As a frontßj|
state she is making the fight of
nation against the incoming rushMjg
an alien, unassimilable race. She rnMg|
now educate the nation, congress
the administration to a full
tion of the situation and the nH§
sity for immediate action or
solute exclusion of the Japarte®
well as of other Asiatic races.’jH
Among the pro-Japanese ®
Clatchy is ranked as an
Judge Thomas Burke, of Seajß ? -d
tower of dependability in the®’
northwest, told me he deploi®FvF; *:
fomia’s stand, but admitte® .
same time the possible ,
strengthening the
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 15, 1921.
GEORGIA LABOR
PAYSCALEGOES
INTO WAGE FIGHT
President of A., B. & A.
Present Many Affida
vits To Board
CHICAGO, Feb. 15. Further
testimony regarding the wage con
troversy of the A., B. and
Atlantic railroad was given the Rail
road Labor Board today. The board
had before it sixty-two affidavits or
statements from employes of com
mon labor in Georgia, presented by
President Bugg, in an effort to show
that the transportation acts basic
wages for labor was too high in that
state. The statements indicated that
the pay for common labor is rang
ing around twenty cents an hour in
Georgia.
Pleas that the A., B. & A: be de
clared without the board’s jurisdic
tion and the present wage rates be
continued were overruled by the
board Monday. The ruling marked
the termination o fa fight by the la
bor side to throw the case out of
court on the contention that finan-
I cial inability to pay the wages laid
down by the board last July should
come properly before the Interstate
Commerce Commission and not be
fore the Labor Board. The poor fi
nancial status of the road had been
given as the reason for a wage re
duction, to be effective February 1,
which was recently ordered rescinded
by the board.
The board’s ruling decided that
each side in the controversy be per
mitted to present its evidence in its
own way.
N. C. & St. L. Carries
Income Tax Fight Up
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—The
Nashville. Chattanooga & St. Louis
railway took to the supreme court
today its contention that the railroad
is entitled to deduct a reasonable
amount from its gross income for de
preciation of roadway” when com
puting income taxes. The internal
revenue collectors have refused to al
low such a deduction.
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ATLANTA OPERA SALES.
ATLANTA, Feb. 15.—Announce
ment was made here today that thA
public sale of season
grand opera season in
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PEOPLEFLEEING
FORPROTECTION
TO BRITISH FLAG
State Troops Actively
Engaged In Up
rising
LONDON, Feb. 15. Revolution
has broken out in the Indian state
of Tonk in Rajptana, says a Reuters
dispatch from Allabad.
After agreeing to the demands of
people, the Nawab, native Moham
medan ruler of the district, arrested
the leaders in the movement, where
upon rioting broke out.
State troops are actively engaged
and the people are fleeing toward
British territory.
The capital of the district is locat
ed in the City of Tonk, fifty miles
south of Kaipur.
COTTONEXPORT
BANK OPENED
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 15.—With
1 $7,500,000 available to loan on for
eign trade deals, the Federal Inter
national Banking Company became a
going concern today and entered the
field of financing the movement of
Southern staple products to foreign
markets.
It was announced that applications
already exceed the initial
