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. Feb. ?—Fred Van Daekm
hausen, 19, as his name suggests, la
a descendant of those eminent Dutch
who made the Steven Seas their play
ground. When he day dreams he area
spars and full bellied white sails, and
flecks of foam and a thousand Strang*
countries.
So Interested was he In a ship
model he saw In the offices of ih*
David'Fork company that he parked
it off under his arm- He was ar
rested and arraigned In boys' court
all because the legacy of his ancestor*
Is a love for the sea and Its toys.
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