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MATTERN, WORLD
FLIER, IS SAFE IN
SIBERIAN WASTES
Radio Message Brings First
Hint of Fate of Long
Lost Aviator.
MISSING SINCE JUNE H
Solo Trip Around Globe
Brought to End on Dash
to Alaska.
Hi/ I nited Preiis
CHICAGO, July 7.—Jimmy !
Mattem, around - the - world !
flier, who became lost over:
the desolate wastes of Si- 1
beria, radioed his backers !
here today that he is safe.
A cryptic message received here
said:
“Safe Anadir, Chukotka, Siberia. '
“Signed. Gemmie Matern.”
Mattern's backers attributed the
misspelling of the aviator’s name to
prrors in transmission.
Last Word on June 14
Mattern, who took off from Amer- i
ica in a bold attempt to make a solo j
flight around the world, was last!
heard from June 14 when he wired j
his headquarters here from Khabar
ovsk, Russia.
At that, time he said he had flown
1.400 miles toward Nome, Alaska,:
but was forced to turn back.
“Will try again tomorrow,” his
message ended.
That was the last word, save for
news dispatches indicating he had
taken off in this new effort.
Backers Are Believed
Days and weeks went by with no
word.
“We were frantic,” said Samuel J.
Sackett, one of the backers, today.
“I never have known such relief
as this message today gives me.
Rescue attempts were being made,
of course, but in the wastes of that
country they seemed feeble and
hopeless."
The radiogram from Siberia con
tained just one word and the name
of a city, but to Mattern's friends
it spelled a story replete with de
termination, courage and persever
ance in the face of ill-fortune.
Beset by Misfortune
After crossing the Atlantic and
reaching Russia. Mattern was ahead
of the round-the-world record set
by Past, and Gatty. The whole world
watched the news of his attempt.
But setting out across the sparse
ly populated areas of Siberia, mis
fortune attended the aviator. Once
he got off his course. Again he
took off for Nome from Khaba
rovsk, but was forced back.
Again he started and this time no
word was heard for weeks. Aviators
conjectured that Mattern was
forced down in the desolate Arctic
region, possibly damaging his plane
or perhaps just running out of fuel.
Making his way to the isolated
settlement, he doubtless started at
once to get word back to America of
his safety, but with no telegraph or
telephone lines, such a message may
have depended upon the speed of a
courier hastening to the nearest
population center.
Sent Urgent Rate
The message today was dis
patched from Anadyria. It was sent
urgent rate and addressed to Harry
Jameson. Hayden R. Mills. John
Clark and Sackett.
Sackett voiced the thanksgiving
of the group. “We felt such a tre
mendous responsibility." he said,
“having sent Jimmy away on this
venture.
“For the first week he was missing
we held high hopes that he had
landed safely in some isolated spot.
Recently, however, our hopes turned
to fears and we had almost de
spaired.”
Spot Deep in Siberia
Anadirsk is a trading post on the
Anadir river, in far northeastern
Siberia, a desolate region just raider
the Arctic circle. There is no
means of communication, and it is
considered quite possible that Mat
tern could have been there for more
than three weeks without being able
to get word out.
The Anadir river traverses the
center of the Chukutka region cf
Siberia, north of the Kamchatka
peninsula, and flows into the Ber
ing sea directly opposite Alsaka.
It was at Anadir that the late
Roald Amundsen, Arctic explorer,
appeared in 1920 after being miss
ing for more than a year on an ex
ploration trip in the Arctic.
Wife Is Overjoyed
H/j United Press
WALLA WALLA. Wash. July 7.
—Mrs. Della Mattern. wife of the
'round-the-world flier, was over
joyed today when she learned that
Mattern had radioed his backers
he was safe in Siberia.
. “I am very happy, and tremend
ously relieved.” Mrs. Mattern told
the United Press. I have not had
any word myself, but I have every
hope that the message is authen
tic. I ne\er had given up hope
at any time that he was safe. He
has a way of turning up when you
least expect him.”
Mother Is in Tears
Hu l nit,4 Press
FREEPORT. 111.. July 7.—Mrs.
Caroline Mattern, mother of the
flier, heard news that her son was
safe while eating breakfast at the
home ol relatives here.
"Thank God," she said and burst
into tears. "I felt certain all along
Jimmy was safe in some remote
place.”
he Indianapolis Times
Fair and slightly warmer tonight; Saturday, increasing cloudiness with probably showers by afternoon or night.
VOLUME 45—NUMBER 49
Jimmy Mattern
WORLD MONEY
WAR IS FEARED
Inflation Nations May Be
Lined Up Against Gold
Countries.
BY HARRY FLORY
Unitrd Press Staff Correspondent
(CoDvriKht. 1933. bv United Pressi
LONDON, July 7.—Threat of a
world currency war, in which North
and South America, the Si Wish em
pire, the Far East and Scandinavia
would be aligned against the
European gold standard nations, de
veloped today at the world economic
conference.
A movement quietly was under
way to initiate a gigantic price rais
ing agreement >mong the Anglo
nations along the lines of President
Roosevelt’s inflationary program,
which brought the conference to a
life-or-death crisis, the United
Press learned.
Success of the movement Would
mean, ultimately, establishment of a
bloc embracing the United States,
Great Britain and her dominions,
the Latin-American nations, Japan,
China and the Scandinavian na
tions in favor of price raising.
They would leave the gold stand
ard nations, as it was put, “to starve
amidst their golden plenty” unless
they followed.
Pressure from the British domin
ions, and notably from Canada,
whose prime minister. R. B. Bennett,
stood shoulder to shoulder with Cor
dell Hull of the United States in the
fight to prevent adjournment of
the conference, was believed today
to be pushing Great Britain into
line with the Roosevelt policy.
This pressure has eliminated the
possibility that Great Britain would
align herself with the gold standard
nations. She now’ was awaiting, ap
parently, a practical demonstration
of the success of President Roose
velt’s policy with a view to possible
emulation.
LIMESTONE INDUSTRY
CODE IS SUBMITTED
sl4 Minimum Wage, 40-
Hour Week Proposed.
Hi/ United Press
WASHINGTON. July 7.-A mini
mum wage of sl4 per week for un
skilled labor and a maximum work
week of forty hours were proposed
in a code of fair competition sub
mitted to the industrial recovery
administration today by the Indiana
Limestone industry.
SEEKS $25,000 BALM
Wife of Physician Sues Office Girl
for Alienation of Affections.
Hu United Pres*
ELKHART. Ind., July 7.—Miss
Lucille Probasco. attractive brunette
office girl employed by Dr. Claude F.
Fleming. Elkhart physician, was
named defendant in a $25,000 alien
ation of affections suit filed here
today by Mrs. Florence Fleming.
The suit charged that Miss Pro
basco won the affections of Dr.
Fleming, and urged him to obtain
a divorce. His wife was granted a
divorce Thursday.
Dread Disease
Conquered
Children died by the thou
sands. as doctors stood help
lessly by. Once the dread diph
theria struck, recovery was in
the nature of a miracle. The
child plague swept the world.
Scientists sought for years
for the cause and the cure.
One made progress. Another
proceeded a step farther. Then,
after years of study and ex
periment. hope came. And,
finally, victory.
Today the battle against the
malady can be waged success
fully in the majority of cases,
thanks to the years of research
of a devoted group of physi
cians.
The first story of a fascinat
ing series on the fight against
disease, telling of the war on
diphtheria, appears today on
Page One. Section Two.
LIEBER QUITS
INDIANA PARK
CHIEF BERTH
Long State Service Ended
by Resignation as
Commissioner.
GUIDED GREAT WORK
Retiring Director Has Been
Foremost Advocate of
Conservation.
Richard Lieber, formerly director
of the state conservation depart
ment, and commissioner of parks
under the present administration,
resigned today.
Governor Paul V. McNutt accept
ed the resignation “with great re
gret,” he announced. It will be
effective July 15, the Governor said.
He will name no one to Lieber’s
place at present. Myron Rees,
Rochester, will be acting director of
parks under Virgil Simmons, the
department head, it was announced.
Reports were current that Lieber
might be appointed to some na
tional conservation position, or take
charge of similar work in some
other state.
No Future Plans Disclosed
Lieber issued a statement regard
ing his resignation, but did not dis
close any plans for the future. He
will remain in charge of Indiana’s
world fair exhibit in Chicago, hav
ing been appointed director by the
world's fair commission.
Lieber had been director of con
servation since the department was
founded in 1919, until the McNutt
regime reorganized the state gov
ernment.
He first became interested in con
servation when he attended the
White House conference under the
late .President Theodore Roosevelt
back in 1908. In 1912 he served as
Indiana member of the national
conservation commission and was
appointed to the board of governors.
Governor Samuel M. Ralston ap
pointed Lieber on a committee to
study plans for preserving Turkey
Run in 1915. In 1916 Turkey Run
and McCormick's Creek canyon be
came the first state parks.
Appointed by Goodrich
Governor James P. Goodrich ap
pointed Lieber head of the newly
created state forestry department in
1917. Lieber obtained the services
of Charles C. Dean, Bluffton, for
the forestry work and turned his
state salary over to him.
In 1919 all departments dealing in
conservation work were united in
the state conservation department.
A bi-partisan commission was
appointed, which elected Lieber
director.
The directorship was a full-time
job, to which Lieber devoted all his
efforts. Results produced made him
a national figure in conservation
circles, particularly because of the
state parks. He has held the presi
dency of various national bodies in
terested in such work.
Makes Great Progress
Under his leadership, the chain
of parks increased to ten, historic
sites and monuments six, state for
ests four, game preserves three, and
fish hatcheries five.
High tribute to his accomplish
ments was paid by Governor Mc-
Nutt, who said the resignation
came as a surprise to him.
In his statement, Lieber thanked
the public and press for co-opera
tion in his efforts and said it had
been a joy to serve for the last
fourteen years.
“Without this joy derived from
creative work, the ‘job’ meant
nothing to me,” he said.
JAKE FACTOR HELD BY
KIDNAPERS OF BREWER
Abductors of Hamm Holding Chi
cagoan, Underworld Says.
! (Copyright, 1933, by the United Press)
CHICAGO, July 7—From under
■ world sources came information to
day that the five desperadoes who
kidnaped William Hamm Jr.,
wealthy St. Paul Brewer, for SIOO,-
000 ransom participated in the
abduction of John (Jake the Barber)
' Factor.
BIG SAVINGS CLAIMED
$2,335,394 Cut from State Expenses.
Says McNutt
Savings of $2,335,394.27 in the
| general fund, highway and fire mar
shal departments for the first five
months of his administration was
; reported today in a statement from
Governc** Paul V. McNutt.
General fund saving was listed
as 10 per cent over the first five
i months of 1932; highway, 29 per
| cent, and fire marshal, 39 per cent.
General fund expenditures for the
five months of 1933 were $5,512,-
123.93; highways. $3,117,249.52, and
fire marshal. $14,888.
97-Year-Old Man Dead
Henry W. Shea. 97, a retired vege
table vendor, of 1262 West Wash
ington street, died at the Indiana
Christian hospital today. He is sur
vived by a son. Henry W. Shea Jr.
Arrangements for the funeral heve
not been made.
Drowned Girl’s Body Found
ftii I'nitfd Prm
HAMMOND. Ind., July 7.—The
second drowning in Lake Michigan
here within a week was discovered
today when Meyer Yordon. 10. found
the body of Nancy N. Smith, 8,
South Chicago, while wading.
Hourly Temperatures
6a. m 69 10 a. m 87
7a. m 72 11 a. m 89
Ba. m 78 12 (noon).. 89
i >. m M 1 p. m,.... 90
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1933
BUILDING OF AMERICAN NAVY TO
FULL TREATY STRENGTH URGED
TO ASSURE PEACE WITH JAPAN
BIIIEOFIWO
MONTHS SHOT
BY GANGSTERS
Automobile, on Way Here,
Riddled With Bullets:
Blame Hijackers.
With Mrs. Florence Drake, 36, of
613 Stevens street, in a critical con
dition in Williams hospital at Leba
non, with a bullet wound in her
chest, state police today were work
ing on a tip that the bullet was in
tended by Indianapolis hoodlums
for Joe Lee Drake, her husband, ad
mitted liquor runner.
Mrs. Drake, a bride of two
months, was shot about 5 a. m. to
day when three men opened fire on
the Drake car en route to Indianap
olis. The tip given police said an
Indianapolis hoodlum had voiced
threats that Drake “never would
live to give evidence” in a hijacking
case.
The bullet which struck Mrs.
Drake, said by her husband to have
been fired by hijackers, entered her
chest to the left of the breast bone,
traversed her body diagonally and
emerged from the right shoulder.
Shoot at Auto Tires
She also suffered a minor bullet
wound on the right wrist and is in
a critical condition from the chest
wound.
Drake and his wife, according to
his story to Sheriff Wilbur Small, of
Boone county, were driving from
Lafayette to Indianapolis, when fire
was opened on them from a car con
taining three men, on U. S. road 52
near the Boone-Clinton counties
line.
The fusillade was directed at the
tires of their car, Drake said, but
one shot went wild and pierced Mrs.
Drake’s back.
Windshield Is Shattered
This was at direct variance with
information Small obtained at the
hospital where doctors said the
bullet entered the woman’s breast.
Drake also told the sheriff that all
of the shooting was done by the
alleged hijackers as they followed
the car, but Small said the wind
shield of the car had been shattered
by a bullet.
Small said Drake admitted he was
a liquor runner, but denied he was
carrying a load of booze when the
attack took place.
Passing his car after Mrs. Drake
had been shot, the three hijackers,
Drake said, turned into a farm lot
and retraced the road to Lafayette.
He said he and Mrs. Drake were
married in May.
BANK CALL IS ISSUED
BY U. S. COMPTROLLER
First Order Since Reopening After
March Moratorium.
By United Press
WASHINGTON. July 7. The
comptroller of the currency today
called for statements of condition
as of June 30 for the 6,000 national
banks of the country.
This was the first call since banks
were reopened after the March
“bank holiday.” The last call was
for the condition as of Dec. 31, 1932.
Following the usual custom, the
state banking department also is
sued a call for statements from all
state banks. The call was announced
by Richard McKinley, director of
the new department of financial in
stitutions.
BOOTS BIYS NEW
SIMMER OUTFIT/
'ROOTS’ ” shopping tour is over
13 and she's back home with a
beautiful outfit of summer clothes.
This means that every youngster
is going to have the finest pos
sible collection of "Boots” paper
doll cut-outs!
’ Boots” called on her own per
sonal fashion expert, Edgar E.
Martin, who sketches all of her
clothes in the comic strip, “Boots
and Her Buddies.” He outfitted
her with twelve garments in all.
And now you are going to have
the fun of fitting them to
“Boots’ ” trim little figure.
The first sketch of “Boots,”
with one of her summer costumes,
appears on Page 15. ; m
The article herewith was written by Roy W. How
ard, chairman of the board of Scripps-Howard news
papers, upon his arrival in San Francisco, following an
airplane to.ur of the Far East, covering Japan, Korea,
Manchoukuo, the fighting area around the Great Wall
and north China.
In the course of the trip, taken to obtain first-hand
information on the complicated Far Eastern situation,
Mr. Howard had interviews with some 200 leaders of
thought and action in the countries visited. Premier
Saito, Foreign Minister Uchida, War Minister Araki,
Yosuke Matsuoka, former chief Japanese delegate to the
League of Nations, and the leading bankers, industrial
ists and publicists in Japan; in Manchoukuo, Henry
Pu-Yi, the former boy emperor, the foreign minister,
several members of the Manchoukuo cabinet, together
with Marshal Muto, Japanese ambassador to the new re
public, and its real administrator, and General Koiso,
the man actually responsible for the military conquest
of Manchuria.
The audience with Emperor Hirohito was the first
ever granted to an American newspaper man. In China,
Mr. Howard had extensive conferences with General
C hiang Kai Shek, Wang Ching Wei, head of the execu
tive yuan; Foreign Minister Lo Wen-Kai, and most of
the present Nanking cabinet, having visited Shanghai,
Nanking and Nanchang in a plane placed at his disposal
by General Chiang.
In addition, he had extensive talks with the out
standing journalists, native and foreign, of north China,
and witfi many American business men of long experi
ence in the East. His conclusions, here presented, repre
sent a compilation of wide diversity of opinion, collected
with reportorial open-mindedness.
ANTI-FASCISTS
MENACE FLIERS
Chicago Groups Threaten to
Blow Italians ‘Out
of Lake.’
(CoDvriKht, 1933. bv United Press!
CHICAGO, July 7. Anti-Fascist
groups have threatened to “blow
General Italo Balbo and his twenty
four seaplanes out of the lake” if
they try to moor the royal air force
squadron on the Chicago lake front,
it was learned today.
The Italians, possibly influenced
by the threats, have as yet not an
nounced whether the fleet will moor
here or in Lake Geneva, Wis.
A series of threatening letters re
ceived by Italian Consul General
Guiseppe Castruccio has caused so
much concern that special protec
tion has been arranged if the fliers
do land here, with a police motor
cycle escort to accompany them if
they proceed to Lake Geneva by
automobile.
Takeoff Is Delayed
Bu United Press
REYKJAVIK. Iceland, July 7.
Their motors tuned and their fuel
tanks filled, Italy’s twenty-four sea
planes en route to the Chicago ex
position awaited good weather today
before taking off for Cartwright,
Labrador. A takeoff was not thought
likely today.
SLANDER CHARGED TO
CEMETERY RECEIVER
550,000 Damages Are Asked in Suit
Filed by Dwight Ritter.
Suit asking $50,000 on a slander
allegation was filed today in circuit
court by Dwight S. Ritter, a direc
tor of the Glen Haven Cemetery As
sociation, against John J. Rochford,
receiver for the association.
Ritter alleges he was slandered by
Rochford during a hearing June 27,
when the receiver asserted $400,000
of cemetery funds had been “mis
applied and misappropriated.”
Suit was filed by Merle N. A.
Walker, counsel for the cemetery
directors.
Walks Far Under Water
Times Reporter Enjoys Trip on Broad Ripple Pool
Floor, Wearing Diving Helmet.
BY HELEN LINDSAY
Times Staff Writer
I'VE never been “down to the sea in ships,” but I did go down to the
bottom of the Broad Ripple pool Thursday afternoon in the diving
helmet. That was an unexpected thrill, a special “reward” for master
ing the kick in my second swimming lesson in the Times-Broad Ripple
free swimming lessons. j _
The diving helmet is a part of
the equipment used in keeping the
pool clean. It is a huge affair,
connected by a long rubber tube to
the filtering plant of the pool,
where air is pumped into it. I
couldn’t even lift the helmet from
the ground.
When it was adjusted over my
head, as I stood on the ladder
leading into the deep end of the
pool, its weight forced me slowly
down, As soon as the water closed
WOMAN NAMED
TO GRAND JURY
Precedent Set as North
Side Resident Is Sworn
Into Office.
“I deem it a privilege and an
unusual opportunity to be chosen
a member of the grand jury,” Mrs.
George W. Gordon. 1503 Park ave
nue, declared today, after being
sworn in as the first w’oman grand
juror in Marion county. Mrs. Gor
don is the wife of George W. Gor
don, architect.
“I hope there will be no criti
cism because of the broken prece
dent,” Mrs. Gordon said. “I always
have believed in law enforcement,
and I am interested in juvenile
court work, although I never have
had an opportunity to do jury duty.”
Oscar C. Hagemier, grand jury
deputy prosecutor, said he was
pleased to learn Mrs. Gordon had
been named to the jury. “I don’t
see any reason why women can’t
serve,” he said.
Mrs. Gordon has been identified
with state charitable work for years,
doing volunteer Red Cross work
during the World war.
As president of the Welfare club
of Indianapolis, she directed its ac
tivities for two years. She has been
a member of the Women’s Depart
ment Club for nineteen years.
Mrs. Gordon has served as treas
urer of the Seventh District Dem
ocratic Club for two terms. She is
a member of the Central Christian
church.
MACON HOOKS 5 PLANES
Fighting Machines Successfully At
tached to Dirigible.
By United Press
LAKEHURST, N. J., July 7.—The
giant naval dirigible Macon today
demonstrated its efficiency as a war
craft when five single-seater fight
ing planes successively hooked
themselves to the airship while in
flight.
Carmel Postmaster Named
By United Press
WASHINGTON. July 7.—Acting
Postmaster-General Joseph O'Ma
honey today named Clyde Davis as
acting postmaster of Carmel, Ind.
over it. the pressure was relieved
and I hardly knew the helmet was
there.
It was great fun, i walked about
half-way across the pool, sub
merged in nine feet of clear, cool
water. Through the glass vision
I could see Earl Montgomery, my
instructor, swimming about under
the water around me.
He told me later of similar ex
(Twm to £ago Throe)
Entered aa Sccond-Clae* Matter
at Postoffice. IndiaaapoUs
U. S. Arms Reduction Moves Wholly Misun
derstood in Tokio, Roy W. Howard
Finds in Extended Survey.
DRIVE TO OUTLAW WAR PREMATURE
Nipponese to Hold Seized Territory in Defi
ance of World; Exclusion Act Repeal
Is Held Vital.
BY ROY W. HOWARD
Chairman of the Board, Sc ripps-Howard Newspapers.
To assure continued peace with Japan, and to dispel a
wholly erroneous opinion that exists there as to the real
motive behind American interest in arms reduction, a build
ing plan should be launched at once which will bring the
American navy up to full treaty quota at an early date.
This conviction, reluctantly arrived at, represents the
result of a first-hand investigation and an effort to deter
mine what sane course is open to America in the far east,
following the breakdown of the Washington conference
plans of 1922 designed to preserve peace in the Pacific.
In Manchoukuo, Japan has created another Alsace-
Lorraine, from which she never will be ousted except by
force of arms.
China now realizes that
she is to receive no aid from
the league or from the United
States and that she will re
cover the “lost provinces’’
only when she has an army
equal to the task.
Any thought formerly entertained,
by Japanese liberals that the anti
war machinery of Washington and
Geneva ultimately might restore
“the territorial and administrative
integrity of China’’ likewise has van
ished.
Bluntly put, these three facts
mean that more than a detjade of
American effort and progress to
ward outlawing war was ended in
failure—temporarily, at least.
Effort Is Premature
The last two years have demon
strated that so far as the Far East
is concerned, America’s efforts to
substitute reason for force in inter
national disagreements were prema
ture.
The conclusion is inescapable,
though there is no disgrace attached
to the failure, which, in the final
analysis, resulted from Europe’s re
luctance to co-operate.
Since the world obviously is not
prepared to outlaw Japan for what
it has branded as her treaty viola
tion in Manchuria, and since Japan
and the United States must con
tinue to occupy opposite side of the
Pacific, common sense demands
some workable program, even though
it be erected upon the ruins of a
decade of progress toward 'world
peace.
Two Courses Open
Today America faces the alter
native of continuing indefinitely
a futile protest against Japan's
Manchoukuoan program, or of rec
ognizing that other nations, less
content than ourselves with their
present territorial boundaries, are
not yet prepared to accept foreign
concepts of idealism, if or when
these concepts clash with their na
tionalistic interests.
Until there is a more nearly
unanimous world opinion than ex
ists today about all that remains
in the way of an American anti
war program is to argue the prac
tical advantages of our idealism,
instead of offering it as an ultima
tum.
We can have faith in the world’s
ultimate abandonment of force, but
meanwhile we can not sit by and
sulk.
Japan today is the one nation to
which American statesmanship
should be devoting its most serious
consideration. Upon the intelligence,
tact and far-sightedness of this con
sideration hinges the peace of the
Pacific. That peace is endangered
today.
Army Rules Japan
Japan knows it. We should know
it. Who is responsible for this sit
uation is not as important as what
is going to be done about it. There
never has been less cause for dis
agreement between Japan and
America than exists today. Never
have the tangible advantages of
good will and co-operation been so
obvious.
Never have the suicidal certain
ties of conflict been so apparent.
But logic and reason do not pre
vent wars.
The army completely dominates
the present Japanese government
and is supported strongly by all
factions except a small, thoroughly
cowed, and wholly inarticulate lib
eral group.
The army has convinced the peo
ple that Japanese statesmen re
peatedly have been out-traded in in
ternational conferences designed to
preserve peace and the status quo.
The myth cleverly has been built
up that the United States has been
chiefly responsible for thwarting
Japan’s ambitions.
Even more serious, the Japanese
public has been convinced that
America, inclining toward pacifism
in consequence of female suffrage,
is facing military impotence because
of public clamor for tax reduction.
HOME
EDITION
PRICE TWO CENTS
Outside Marion County, 3 Cents
The Japanese believe that in this
desire for tax reduction lies Ameri
ca's real affection for naval re
ductions.
That a nation as rich and strong
as America is conceded to be really
could favor arms reduction to ad
vance an idealistic principle is
beyond the grasp of Japanese im
agination.
The fact is that the Japanese pub
lic has been convinced that America
is too penurious to fight. In that
misconception lies real danger. The
gravity of the situation is tempered
only by the fact that it results
from differing psychology rather
than from clashing fundamentals.
In the meantime, in th,’ interest
of anew working agreement in
which the strides toward Utopia
necessarily must be more measured,
the United States belatedly should
make some reasonable effort to evi
dence the admiration and respect
which the American people, as a
whole, entertain for the Japanese.
Exclusion Act Makes Trouble
A good start on this would be to
repeal the unjustifiable, trouble
breeding Japanese exclusion act and
substitute a quota basis for Japan.
This would not permit any inrush of
Japanese immigration, but it would
save Japanese face—a major con
sideration with all oriental people.
The exclusion act, the nature of
which not one person in a thousand
east of the Rocky mountains knows
anything about, is known in all its
details to every adult male under
the Japanese flag, and is accepted
mistakenly by his as proof of our
contempt for Japanese pride, and as
evidence of our belief in Japanese
racial inferiority.
We should picture more intelli
gently to both nations the impor
tance to the prosperity of each of
our existing trade relations.
Since it now is obvious that there
is to be no peaceful restoration of
Manchuria to China, the United
States might, if approval were as
sured, advantageously send a com
mission to ascertain what, in the
light of existing actualities, our fu
ture course should be with regard to
tnis alleged republic being fostered
under the Japanese tutelage.
Should Recognize Russia
Certainly we should recognize
Russia at once, not only in the
interest of our own trade needs,
but in the interests of a better bal
ancing of the Far Eastern situa
tion. This conceivably might be
come the first step in a general
policy of recognizing established and
functioning governments, without
concerning ourselves too greatly
with their accidents of birth, at
least until such time as the rest of
the world evidences equal con
cern.
Such a policy might have a de
cided bearing on our future atti
tude toward Manchuokuo.
And, finally, we immediately
should commence building the
American navy up to treaty quota—
a move which could not be regarded
by any nation as other than the
logical and to-be-expected result of
the collapse of the anti-war and
disarmament programs.
That the most astute politicians
in Japan are as sincerely desirous
of peace as is America there is no
doubt. Building up the American
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