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HOW TO BE FREE THOUGH MARRIED—A RULES BROADSIDE , , call marriage a partnership, men of today are concerned, a mag nificent graft. Someone has recently suggested tha?all marriages should be Incorpor ated, hoping with a charter and by laws. a detailed agreement aa to duties and authorities, to solve the problems which are filling our divorce courts and keeping our novelists over time at the typewriter. There was once a person who killed the goose that laid the golden eggs. Women, Insisting upon Incorporated marriage, would do much the same ‘service for many of their sisters. No charter and no bylaws ever heard of would allow a woman the unlimited claim which many women make upon the time and money of the man they marry—in return for the exceedingly limited time and ser vice which said women offer. Now let the roof prumble and the walla fall In I The Crux of the Personal Equation. Love la indeed beyond rubles, to balancs the exchange. And if the ladies cast love out of tli* scales to make room for a red-sea led agreement concerning duties, authorities and di vision of funds , . . then in a large number of easee, to put It con servatively, will the ladles be out of luok . , . and compelled, for the first time In their charming exlstsnosi to render value' received. This, naturally, does not refer to the woman who rears a man’s chil dren, keeps his house and shares with him the ears and strain of a family, ■uoh a woman, to do her Justice, earns mere than the average man In moat affluent moments is able to l^jtw har,' But the woman who takas hsr troubles ta th* divorce court, who wants In biaek and whit* th* amount h man ewes her . , , la not usual ly IBs mother of a number of chil dren. Neither Is she th* woman who makes a business of her housekeep ing. Housekeepers sad mothers com monly reodve from th* men whom About the Author. Fanny H*asllp Lea la another example of a wife who has combined a career with successful homemaking. Married In 1911, she has clone some of her beat short stories while keeping house In far-off Honolulu. where her husband is director of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experi ment station. Horn in New Orleans In 1884. Mm. Agee —to use her married name—was educated in tho public schools and received her Pm Beta Ka*jpa key at Newcomb college. Here is her own story, simply told. • "I’ve been writing ever since I w&i a little girl—but I’ve never been a waitress —never been a cowboy—never been an actress—In fact there simply isn’t any thing in my simple annals to hang pub licity on. "Just now I’m living In Honolulu, and I liko the Islands extremely. I like housekeeping. I love to cook; I like swim ming and dancing and tramping and motoring; I love New York—it’s the ro mance of the States to me." Many wives, lulled by the soft breezes of the tropical Pacific might be content to lie on the beach at Waikiki and watch the waves come in. But Fanny Heoslip Lea Isn’t that kind. She keeps busy tak ing care of her home, writing romancos and living one. they marry euffiedent respect as co workers (partners, returning to the Initial phrase!, to socure them an adequate share of the man’s earnings. In which case charter and bylaws would be superfluous. And In which case, again, no Impersonal arrange ment as to duties and authorities would suffice. You cannot solve the personal equation with x, y and a. Marriage Is the crux of the personal equation. No judge, however wise, can suc cessfully draw up a set of rules for the governance of the relationship be tween a man and a woman whom he has never seen. Because the only man whom he really know* Is him self. And the woman whom he cornea neareat knowing Is his wife. But John Doe is not the judge’s self—nor la Sarah Roe, the judge’s wife. There fore, the judge’s whole dictum aa to what John Doe should do, and Sarah Roe leave undone, becomes worthless. No calm outsider can satisfactorily determine what constitute# a fair share of marital obligation. Mostly, for the first BO yeans, the happy pair can’t even determine It themselvee. If marriage didn't begin with love—theo retically, at least—we might hope to lay it out along scientific and Judicial lines. But love In marriage makes locksmiths look silly. Men, In lo^s, will give their all—for nothing. Women In love will give their all for nothing. And we marry—most of us —for love. You can't Incorporate a thing like that. y It's a popular belief that with the feminine vote we shall attain a cer tain sort of law which protects women from matrimonial Injustice. The woman who makes a success of matrimony won’t need those laws. And It may be a long time before ths woman who falls will be able to com mand them. Meantime, one wonders Just how far human nature Itself, un der steadily Improving social condi tions, might not turn the trick. If women taught their daughters to give as well as to take, to marry for character and congeniality as well as for position and money ... If men taught their sons to offer ss well ss to expect a square deal . . In the married state . . . wouldn’t the whole thing start off on a basis so safe It would have no need of Judicial Interference? And can Ju dicial interference, when nil is said and done, ever be anything but a wall with a hole In It? A Wedding Ring—For the Man. There la the old, amusing sugges tion that men—as well a* women— should wear after marriage a ring. What earthly difference does It make? The man who has a roving eye can rove Just as fast and Just as far with a gold ring on his finger. The law doesn't exist even in our law-loving land that can keep him from putting that ring In his pocket, ones in so often. It Isn’t law that keeps wadding rings on ths fingers of ths women who wear them. It’s love and pride and superstition and custom—and one or two other things. Even at that, women have been known to take them off at times. KANNT HEANLIP LEA Whose refreshing, buoyant talent within a few years has lifted her Into the forefront of contemporary magazine writers. , Marriage Is eltljer something deep er than ft ring on the finger—or it’s something a. ring can't verify. tVhen ft man and a woman, with the assist ance of church and state, make a pact to live together and love each other—the rest of their lives—they have undertaken, so to speak, a suf flciently large order and should be allowed to make the boat going they ran, unless they come openly and finally to grief and require once more the assistance of church and state to set them free. Between marrying them and freeing them, church and state should give them a chance to work out their owq salvation. Marriage is. after all an individual adventure . „ . a sea on which no man’s chart Is ever quite safe for, any other man to follQw. In spite of which one surmises: If only people— married people—would respect each other's rights as individuals. . . . (There was once a man who said of his wife In an unguarded moment— "She opens my letters, and I could wring her neck for it.”) Studying Husbands and Mah-Jongg. If only women would follow their husbands’ work with the same amount of interest they expend on . . . Mah-Jongg! (There was once a man who cried in the bitterness- of his soul, “Fifteen minutes a day— spent in studying a husband—would nail him for life.") A husband is so much more responsive ,that a five foot book shelf. If only men and women would oc casionally take a vacation—away from each other! A man, when he is ready for a rest, doesn't take the office with him to the mountains— or the shore—but, generally speak ing, he does take his wife . . . which is no rest for either of them. "I have never spent a night in my life away from John!” cries faithful Orlselda. and doesn’t in the least realize that It may be that very thing which Is dulling the gleam in John's eye when he lodks at her. Consider the various widows who blossom sweetly and undeniably, a decent 12-month after the beloved husband has gone the way of all flesh! Women who loved those hus bands . . . devotedly and Incon testably . . . acquire, without them, a new vlvdness of aspect, a kind of second youth. Why? Because the overlaid personality has now a chance to turn toward the sun. Because, for the first time since she stood before the altar, promising all things, that woman has now a chance to he her honest self, without regard to the prejudices, preferences and taste In clothes of the man she married. Bo long as he stood beside her she had either to yield to his taste—er combat it. Without him she expresses herself, frankly and unconsciously. Her true soul, after all the loveliest thing in any woman, stretches its wings and leaves the ground. Seeing Each Other With New Eyes. Yet how much better would all thla be without the ghastly agency of death! A month in the city, with shops and shows for the woman who adores them both . . . she will come home freshened beyond )>eiief ... 10 years knocked off Her age, by virtue of a little delicious personal freedom.. A month in the woods for the man who is sick of office routine, tired of hearing the children refuse their dat meal In the morning ... he will come hack made over, brown and hard . . . incredibly younger by virtue of hav ing pleased himself and no one but himself for a few clean, careless days, a few cool, lonely nights. They will see each other with new eyes, those two. There isn’t a man living, nor a woman, so angelically constituted that he—or she—can stand without friction, day in, day out, the constant encroaching of another personality. Intimacy can be the most relentless torture—as well as the keertest de light. Business partners separate for weeks at a time . . . children go off to school . . . even servants have their sacred afternoons ... it Is only hus band and wife who trudge doggedly along together, through the four sea sons, through gaiety and depression, bored or eager, satisfied or restless . . . willing or reluctant. There was once a man who said . . . wistfully . . . "She has never left town long enough for me to wear a red tie.’’ The reverse of the shield, of course in the matter of separate vacations, is that many women do not trust their husbands away from them, nor many husbands their wives. These know best their own necessities. Always rememliering that forced prayers ars no devotion. Why Marriage Stands Today. It will be possible In a world like ours to legislate on any sybject—ad visedly or not. Divorce and marriage have constituted for years a shining mark for the lawgivers. But law can never touch the secret springs of an Institution based primarily upon the need of man's lonely soul for an other lonely soul to comfort It. Ail the lofty treatises, the wise fat tomes and dusty documents askilfg—"What Is the Matter with Marriage?"—are written by people looking bark along the road—or over the hedge lieside it —not by lovers Just starting forth to follow it. Lovers never listen to stories of failure . . . each boy and each girl, embarking upon the Great Ad venture, believes radiantly that he and she have found the secret of the world. Incorporated marriage—true lovers had rather have none at all! And It is upon true lovers after all that the continuance of marriage as an insti tution depends. Because, regarded in cold blood, considered as a way of liv ing—without love to make Its sacrl flces eager ones, its disappointments cheerful ones, its limitations friend ly ones, and Its endless struggles mer ry ones . . . without love, mart riage would hardly be worth th# while of any thoughtful man or wot man. And that's as It stands, today. What It would be with a chart** and bylaws . . . with detailed agreements as to duties and author ities . . . good Lord, deliver us! As well give a woman a rubber beni —Ip place of a wedding ring! ICopyrisht, 1824 > LLOYD GEORGE SAYS LABOR RULE DUE TO TORY DISTRUST nr DAYid llotd oeorghl iHriil Cable to The Omaha Bee. London, Feb. 2.—"The gilt-edged Hat to higher.” "There wee again a cheerful tendency In the atock mar kets.” "The markets, in planes, were dls ttoetty buoyant In the stock ex change. Notwithstanding the eonttnu aaca of the strike, homo rails moved up substantially, and gilt-edged lecuri ttoc wore brighter In tha market than for some time past. Some of the heme Industrials, too, were strong. The cheerfulness of the market! was mainly attributed to the composition of the new cabinet having been favor ably reoelved and to there being e mot* confident feeling as to the gen eral cntlook." These ere quotations from leading financial articles In two of the most nerve-shaken, antl-soclallst papers the day after the resignation of the con servative government and the advent to power of the socialist administra tion. Fifteen month* ago the new conservative regime was Inaugurated. r~ ..with promises of a high road to good times paved with tranquillity, security end other good Intentions. On the other hand, less than 12 months ago. the socialist leaders pledged themselves to the final over throw of property and private enter prise. And yet, when the tranquillizers quit office and the power passes into the hands of the destroyers, gilt edged securities are buoyantl What Is Explanation? \g»» can you account for this ex traordlnary behavior on the part of such highly respectable Investments? If, at the next presidential election, not only were President Coolldge de feated, but, owing to the chances of a triangular contest, Mr. Debs .were elected aa his successor, would Ameri can securities have so demeaned them selvss? Tbs first axplanatlon Is the relief felt by the nation at being rid of the most Incompetent administration that aver handled Its affairs. The liberals and laborltes are free to say so. The conservatives can only ex press agreement by their silence. It Is significant that, on the day which saw ths announcement of the dis missal of the tory government by the house of commons, no conservative journal regretted it on the ground, or by reason of the loss which would be sustained by the country in being de prived of the guidance of so capable a government. The epitaph of the government has been written by the two papers which represent the typically conservative British citizen of the milder sort, The Times and Punch. The Times, In writing Of the failures of the late government, said that under their sway, "Britain had ceased to count.” whereas, "the Influence of Franea was dominant In western Europe.” These things have often been said by angry opponents of an administra tion. but not since the degenerate days of Charles Second could they be fairly said of any government by an Impartial critic. On* recalls also tha poignant car toon of the first issue of Punch la 1924, picturing the departure of "the nightmare year 1923.” That was the solitary year of tory government we have enjoyed since 1905. It was the first year after the fall of the coali tion government. There is another reason for the re covery of the stock market. When th* oomposition of th* new ministry was announced, It was generally rec ognized that they were, man for man, much abler than their prede cessors. Many of them are men who have managed huge organizations and have met constantly the great est business men of the day, and ex amined with them questions vitally affecting our lndu8trles. Many have had municipal experi ence In councils that govern the most Important cities of th* empire. Most of them by natural ability and force of character, have achieved Influence and authority, without the aid of wealth or eoclal prestige. Fallen Ministry Admitted Weak. The departed administration Is ac knowledged to be the weakest In brain that this country has seen for over 100 years. Its apologists almost boasted of Its deficiency In this re spect. The qualities of Its ministers were supposed to be moral rather than Intellectual. That, It was ar gued. would Impress M. Poincare and Signor Mussolini to such an extent that they would readily accept the point of view urged by men ap con spleuous for their honesty, purity, sincerity and general highmlndedness. They mocked at the idea that first class brains were Tieeded to rule a first class country in exceptionally difficult times. There was always an implication that they stood alone In the possession of those virtues. They came to believe it themselves. They were always, with swepieng gesture, "thanking God they were not like those publicans." "Be good and let who will be clever." That was their pose before the world. Certainly Not Clever They certainly were not clever. They possessed perhaps two men with ability aboVe the average. Lord Cur zon and I/ord Cecil. Mr. Baldwin's capacity is still debatable. LoM Curzon is that type of man to whom experience never brings wisdom. He possesses another defect fatal In a foreign secretary who has to confront a situation demanding a stout heart, a steady nerve and a resolute mind. His cobrage is soft coal. It blazes fiercely for a while but burns out quickly. M. Poincare soon found out this weakness and, with a few tfell dlrected Insults, sent Lord Curzon sob hlng out of the conference room. Needless to say, the Turks also, with their oriental insight Into char acter, smiled at his haughty allocu I lions and proceeded to Impose upon him what a leading ministerial paper admitted to be 'the humiliating treaty of Lausanne." By the way, It will he Interesting to watch whether the American sen ate, which rejected the covenant of the league of nations, will swallow this Turkish triumph. With such crippling shortcomings,* Lord Cur zon is a serious handicap to any government. Cecil Rides Conscience With regard to Viscount Cecil, one always asks why. In spite of natural gifts, In spite of the possession of an inherited name, in sptte of much bustling energy and the spur of an inordinate ambition, he has, at 60. never yet held very high office. The answer is to be found In grave faults of temper and Judgment and In fundamental defects in character. Several of these defects came out In his clumsy handling of the Corfu question, which did so much to dam age the prestige of the league of na tions. He is a man of greater pre tentions than any living politician, but he has always wonderful control over his conscience and can ride It easily in the direction he desires to travel. When he was opposing the coali tion government, he charged them full tilt on his high spiritual horse, armed with the spear of the cham pion of the IcMue of nations. Why did they not refer reparations to the league? It was because they were enemies of that sacred Ideal. But as soon as coalition resigned and the league crusader was seeking office in Bonar administration, hw sup ported the government by voice and vote In their refusal to ask the French government to refer the dis pute over reparations to the league of nations. But verily, he had his reward. When at the last general election he brandished the league as a weapon against liberals and labor, whom he knew were its staunchest friends it only confirmed the impres sion of fundamental Insincerity. Kent Just “Splinters." No minister outside these two men has displayed any special talents The test are Just splinters that fill up Interstices. It is therefore not to be wondered at that even the antisoeialist papers admit that the new ministers are su perior in ability to their predecessors In office. The question Is asked, here and alihoad, will the new ministers be equal to their tremendous responsi bilities? Much depends on them, but more on events. Will trade improve and will M. Poincare Improve, or will France at the coming elections throw him and his policy over? At home, will labor refrain from strikes and abandon Its resistance to dilution in building trades? Success of this bold experiment In government will depend largely on the answer to these questions. More depends on the prims minister's per sonality than on that of all his min isters put together, If he has the clearness of vision, the Judgment, the tact, the* firmness dnd the drive to make the best of his own abilities and of those of his team. The min istry will succeed I dare not predict, for I do not know enough of him to be able to forip an opinion. Why IJberals Yielded. Why /J id the liberals give the vote which placed a socialist govern ment in power? The answer is three fold: 1. They felt that the existing gov ernment was mismanaging Interna tional affairs so badly that the peril to world peace was Increasing every hour they remained In office. They felt that the labor government might, at any rate, display greater cour age and firmness. Irfss skill they could not possess. Peace Is the su preme call of the moment. The lib erals therefore, turned out the gov ernment that endangered It. 2. As a socialist government could not remain In power one parliamen tary hour without libefal support, there Is no danger of any revolu tionary legislation being carried. Tory-l-iberal Combine Impossible 3. A decision to keep the conserv ative government In power would have Involved co-operation with the tory party. Only 10 liberals out of 137 could be found to think that was any longer a possible combination Why were the numbers of those liber als who were prepared to work with the conservatives so Insignificant? Two years* a go, there were over 110 liberal members .prepared to face ostracism from their party and con stant charges of betrayal of Its prin clples to sustain a partnership be. tween conservatives and liberals which had successfully pulled the na tion through war 'and which had helped to navigate several menacing situations after the war. . But as soon as the dangers seemed passed and the tory party thought it could statid alone without assistance It abandoned its liberal allies to ths fury of estranged friends and open foes. It did more; it Joined in the sport of clubbing them and rejoiced ostentatiously in the massacre. That is why the number has been reduced to 10. There will be very few liberals who will ever again trust these "hon est" men, who knifed their fellow mariners. Almost all the ablest and most honored names In conservatism protested against this perfidy. Their plea, however, went unheeded. Rooted Distrust Follows. The result is rooted distrust of all compacts or deals with conservatives. That distrust is one of the gravest dangers of the future, for it may well paralyze common action when real danger once more falls upon the land. The men who negotiated that be trayal have already gamble! a#ay their 30 pieces of silver, and they ha\e nos? nothing to show for th-un hut the unsavory record of broken game sters who, hasing sold their friends, recklessly squandered most of the purchase price in futility and then threw away the rest in a vain effort to retrieve their fortunes. {Copyright. 1*14 > FRICTION AGAIN LOOMS OYER EXCLUSION OF JAPANESE By MARK SULLIVAN. Washington, Feb. f.—On one of the closing days of December the im migration committee of the lower house of congress was holding a hear ing on the new Immigration restrlc tloa bill. Among the considerable number of persons summoned to give Information was a member of con gress, the Hon. John Franklin Miller of Washington. He began his testimony by showing ■the committee a copy of the latest Is sue ef The Seattle Times that had reached Washington. Tn this news paper Congressman Miller pointed out te the committee the usual dally stetletlea ef births registered In the' office of the commissioner of health of Seattle the day before, December Z4. He said: “I want especially to In rite your attention to this dally re ^^■-sort. In It you will observe that out of II registered births for that day. 10 are of Japanese parentage." The slipping shows that one of the Jap anese cases was twins, so that the true figures are 11 Japanese to eight others. However, the twins are rela tively Immaterial. That statement stands In the rec orC Congressman Miller did not ex pend on It. He had the air of tak ing It and Its Implications for grant ed—as If It was no new story to him. as a resident of ths Pacific coast, and he merely wanted to call the at tention of the members of the com mittee who live In other parts of the country to the condition. Congress man Miller went on to urge that Im migration from Japan be restricted, but he did not expand on the daily birth record. Is It Average Hay? But to the observer distant from Seattle, that dally record of births Is arresting. What any observer must wish to know, Is, was the day preced ing last Christmas a normal average day? Does the proportion between Japanese births and other births run the same as this—lft Japanese to eight others—every day? If It was, what about tlie decidedly startling quality of the deductions which apparently flow from these statistics, assuming that they aro average. To work these deductions out with scientific "accuracy would call for a person familiar with the technique of this kind of statistics.' Offhand, It would seem that it would be somewhere between L’O and 30 years when Seattle will lie one half Japanese, and something like 40 years •when Hoattle will he wholly Japanese. (f One wonders of that can possibly be correct. Is It a case of Japanese mothers having many more children than other mothers? What la the present proportion between the num ber of Japanese mother* and the number of other mothers in Seattle? Are there any other conditions that would modify the deductions appar ently necessary to draw from these statistics? What of the Future? ' Also, on# would like to know more about those other eight blrthp, the ones not Japanese. The casual reader will take It fpr granted that these other eight were ail white. Is that so? One wonders If any of these eight were other than Caucasian. And as to such of them aa were Cau casian, how many were of old Ameri can stock? Seattle a good many years ago was practically a white olty and a city rather dominated by New Rngland stock, both as to Its people *nd as Its Institutions, At that time It was Just a email city. Today Seattle has a population of 349,525. How many of these are Caucasian and how many noncaucaslan? • But what, hi the light of tt>at dally birth record, If it Is average, will he the composition of Seattle by the time our children have grown to maturity? Congressman Miller did not expand on the birth statistics. He did. how ever, give much testimony about Jap anese Immigration In genera! and the neceslty, as hs believes, of checking it by means of a clause In the new immigration restriction law. He had the air of being entirely friendly to the Japanese, of recognising their good qualities, but he was most firm In declaring that It Is best for both people and both governments that Japanese Immigration lie excluded, exrept as to certain clusses, such as oiluentors, students, ministers of re ligion, tourists, merchants, etc. Many of High Caste. The following nil characteristic ex tracts from Congressman Miller's testimony: “I want to say that wo have some very hlgh-easte and high-class Jap anese in Seattle, connected with the diplomatic service, with large ship ping institutions, etc.—keen, clever, well trained Japanese, highly edu cated. “Those, however, are quite distinct from the Japanese Immigration ques tion. It occurs to me that the friend liest relations ought to he cultivated between our country and tlie orient, from the commercial angles. . . . “The best way, it occurs to mo, to maintain that friendliness, is to tpaln tain It not. only from the commercial angle but from Hie personal touch angle. And It cannot be continued from (he personal touch angle when Indiscriminately people of Japan com* to our country and live un welcomed In our midst; It raises fric tion, and that friction spreads. Fric tion between races has no element of charity In It, and It even fails to re spond to common sense. Friendly Relations Vital. "It Is my Judgment that a con tinuation of our most friendly rela tions with Japan Is not only desir able but necessary, but we should courteously and firmly assert In our laws that element of real national In dependence which Is Inseparable from independent nations and say who shall come to this country and under what conditions they shall come, and to define them firmly, courteously and manfully. • Congressman Miller admitted that not everybody on the Pacific coast agrees with him about Japanese ex clusion. Again and again In the hearings the argument was exploded that we must have immigrants be cause, as alleged, Americans don't want to do these kinds of wcfrk. Again and again It was shown that the real reason Americans are not found in some klndy of work is that they have been driven out of these kinds of work by aliens with a lower stan dard of living. In those parts of America where there has been no alien immigration Americans do every kind of work. In this very case con gressman Miller said that the truck gardening used to be done by Ameri cans and Italians, but the Japanese came In and supplanted not only the Americans but even the Italians. “By far the major portion of our truck gardening in and about Seattle is now conducted by Japanese. The Japanese women in a great many cases work in the field alongside the men. and the Japanese woman will work in the field when she is ap proaching maternity. \ Americans Supplanted. "How soon does she go to wprk after her child is born?" "Within a few weeks after mother hood she takes her place In the field as a laborer alongside of her hus- ! hand. Consequently, the joint earn- 1 Greatest Hope>of Future Lies in Education of Young, Wells Says; Condemns Classical System as Drag on Progress By H. G. WELLS. Author of "The Outline of History." London, Feb. 2.—It would be near the truth of things to say the only evente of permanent Importance Ip human affaire are educational. Ex cept In so far as they demonstrate and teach, or Interrupt teaching, wars, treaties, kings, laws, all the standard material of history, are but byproducts of the educator's work. Soma day when we haw escaped from the dignity of classical history, a new Gibbon will trace for us the failure In understanding and co-oper-' atlon that made the Roman empire no more than a staggering preten sion that left Europe and weetern Asia a fpsterlng cluster of national lama to this day. No conqueror can make the multi tude different from what It Is, no statesman can rarry the world's nf falrs beyond the Ideas and capacity of the generation of adults with which he deals. Hut teachers can do more than either conqueror or statearnun: they can create a new vision. Creative Education Needed. At no lime In the world's experi ence has the need for creative educa tion been so manifest as It Is today. The present social ami political sys tem Is ailing, divided against Itself, falling to reconstitute even so much economic unlversallsin ns prevailed before the great war, Involving It self In a hopeless muddle of debts It Is a system plainly doomed to a fur ther scries of wider, prufounder dls asters, unless amidst Its distress It can evolve a clearer realisation of (he origins of our race ami civilisa tion. J'opulatlun With such a breadth of outlook, a population disciplined to creative, constructive work. Is not simply desirable today. It Is Impera tively demanded of civilization, to avert decay and collapse. It Is because of his realization of the paramount need of great educa tional effort ns the supreme thing In human affairs today that every Intelligent man must needs note with something between dismay and bitter derlsloti the recent signn of a revival of "classical” teaching In the school# and colleges of the Atlantic peoples. French lend Way. The French, who so love the eight eenth century that In foreign and domestic policy they are always try ing to get back to It. have led the way. Disturbing modern subjects which tend to lietruy the facts that the Mediterranean sea Is not the whole world are to he kept out of the purview of French adolescence. More Greek will he taught, but not enough of II, not well enough for the young Frenchman to realize how feeble was the political, social and economic reaction of Greece upon Home. He will he trained to think there was |mn« sort of magnificent succession between the two, whereas Home got little from Greece except slave pedagogues and pedants, ar* tides <lc luxe, living and dead, archi tects, sculptors, painters. it cared so little for clarifying Aristotle that It left Ills hooks about and lost them. The French cherish I heir own l.titin Illusion In their own fashion. It conies nearer home to an Kngllsh writer when he finds President t'ool lilge blessing llin classical side. And still more dismaying Is the truculent behavior of the Krltlsli Classical ns soclation which has recently been meeting In the congenial atmosphere of Westminister school. Mr. Costley White, the head mas ter, boasted of the Increasing num ber in his school taking up a classical course and made it clear that even those who were supposed to have a modern course In school were really not (riven an honest modern course at all, but wasted time on elementary classics before they were contemptu ously ■'specialised" In science, mod ern history, mathematics or modern languages. Slow to Change. It Is clear that the classical head masters of Great Britain, In n mood of self complacent obstinacy, will spare no efforts to pith ns many young Intelligences as possible with their antiquated, deadening anti social disciplines. Classical tradi tions are still strongly entrenched In tho educational world of the Knglish speaking people, both In America and the British empire. It will he over Its dead body only that modern edu cation will be aide to teach tho finer mlpds of tho new generation. Now It is useless anil dangerous to write flattering things about the classical education that still cripples the selected best of our youth. It robs us of a directive class of lively Intelligences. Tho uncritical cant that sustains us about the peerless beauty of Greek art, Greek charac ter, the massive wisdom and Integ rity of Homan law administration has been and stilt Is a blight upon tho creative Impulses of modern life. U consumes tho s< anty tints of Ottr youth, tears up the time table so that any effectual breWlenlng study l I of other things cannot coexist w ith lit; it presents the history of man kind grotesquely out of perspective, it saturates Its victims with pro Hellenic pro-1<atin partisanship that perverts their Judgment of all his torical processes. Its material be ing languages and literature that are dead, without any power of growth or fresh combination, It Is before any thing else a training in stereotyped expression, stereotyped forms of thought. Head Spot in System. At the present time. In the face of the world's present needs. It Is im possible to regard a school or college presided* over by a classical scholar, devoted to classical tradition, ns sny tliing but a dead, death finishing spot In otir educational system. This new offensive against the proper education of our children, to which the Ilrittsh Classical associa tion gives such definite expression. Is a tiling essentially evil, a thing which any servant of creative civ ilisation must fight at any cost. Wc ran not afford to sacrifice our con victions lo politeness, pretend that we think the classically trained mind anything lietter than a warped, re stricted, mischievously-Infected tnltnl. \\ o need worldwide, common edu cation. in which the history of life and the si loners ot life and matter are the two main divisions. In which languages are studied as methods of expression, not as a subject In them selves, In which music Is properly utilized m the development of esthetic perception. In such modern education Hie dead languages and literature cun play only » subordinate. Illu.-mi liie. properly-proportioned part. (Copyright, Pill' K ings of Japanese husband and wife, so far as the truck gardening is con cerned, are such that they can drive an American or an Italian out of the truck gardening business.'’ "It is unquestionable as an eco nomic principle that the Japanese truck gardener will drive out any body who comes in competition with him. "The children of those Japs, from the time they are old enough to tot ter. are taken to the fields to pull the weeds from around the growing veg etables: you will see the man weed ing over here, and the woman weed ing over there, and the little folks, 4 or 5 or 8 years old, weeding around them. And sometimes the woman doing that is approaching motherhood." One feels Ilka pausing to remark whether the American point of view is wholly wise which "looks down” on American women wording in the fields—at such times, of course, when they are In perfect health. May It not be that, partly because of im migration, we have come to enter tain notions that are false and harm ful about the place of women In in dustry? Is truck gardening really a less desirable occupation for w-omen than waiting in a restaurant or standing back of a counter? Is planting potatoes In the field less de sirable than paring potatoes In the kitchen? And may it be that the reason Jap anese women generally seem able ap pnrently to have so many more babies comfortably than American women lies in this very fact that the Jap anese women lead an outdoor life? And when it Is said that Japanese mothers have three children to Amer ican mothers' one. does the complaint lie against Japanese mothers for having too many children or against Amevioan mothers for having too few ? l.ngest Group Dominate*. One thing seems certain: Since the knowledge of the hygten* which preserves child life is spreading lo all races alike, it follows that tf one group has sleadily larger fami lies tlinn another group tt is only >v question of time unti’ ths first group w ill dominate. Immigration from Japan to Amer ica Is now held down l>> a "gentle men's agreement” between the two governments. t'ongicssman Miller diil not seem to think tilts ■ nvntle man's agreement" is “ffective enough. Several' members of the committee also seemed to think tt Is toe Infor nial t'onsequmtly. in the new hill an effort will 1st mad* to rsclud* by formal statute all Japanese immigrw tlon except the classes already men tioned. educators, students, minister* of religion, tourists, merchants, etc. This Is going to be painful lo Japan and embarrassing to the government* of both countries. The trouble la the* the bill will attempt to put the Jap. anese on substantially the name bastg as the Chinese. What the JapeneW^ object to about this 1s discrimination between them and European Immi grants. European immigration I* restricted, but not excluded. Euro pean nations are permitted to sen* in ! per cent of the number of their , nationals already here according t* the oensus of 1590. If the Japanese sere put on this same basts they would not object. Love for Model Ship Gets Him in Trouble Chicago. 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