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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 .fra..‘ zfe. .V. fe Jj 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 A.w eni.'vi t> »(!...) ♦JU , ' ■■■ ’■'■'■■'■o B ' ■ No Real “That Japan ‘ a, : 'a., 5’ . 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. ■ » ATLANTA OPERA SALES. ATLANTA, Feb. 15.—Announce ment was made here today that thA public sale of season grand opera season in begin March 6 and will ojE 26. The sale of .. ■ ipi'i: on April 1. ■ J® . i t way, B situaß s a . '■'"■A: ■ meß SINGS AFTER SILENCE OF SIX YEARS. ’ <• >. j JiL -w - ■ * -iQ J V ' L 'it'\ - Ztb I IOJ -T \JZ 1— ' - ■ ' x \ W RBBAi m-.w .’i - - Z ' ' ’ ered hei® ence. Sl® ■ n She box® . r iS a ■B ’ZK s Z ’Z* 4 *' C *r * * 1i 7 />!%■_' jj _ _ n jj what a** VOL) DCMMG PRICE FIVE CENTS. 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