Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-23

AT EMBERS of the Woman's Press
MI club of Southern California have
III accepted an invitation to attend
the exhibit of pictures at the virginia
hotel at Long Beach and will go next
Tuesday afternoon. leaving the Paci1c
Electric station at o'clock. Mrs Van
Pelt will arrange a program to be
given during the afternoon, and the
many beautiful pictures and curloS
which are to be found in the art gal
lery there under the care OF MRS. X.
Herbert Jackson will offer additional
cause for the visit.
The program of the regular meeting
held yesterday at the Alexandria was
in charge of Mrs. John w. Mitchell
and the opening paper was read by
Miss Ruby Archer on THE special
Article" AS many of the club mem
bers are magazine writer's and nave
occasion to use this literary form ire
quently, the comprehensive and help-
full suggestions were Of special Nalue'
From a literary standpoint alone the
paper was most enjoyable also and
showed Miss Archer to be particularly
adept in the essay form Of writing.
Mrs. Harriet Williams Myers, whose
wide interest in all that pertains to
bird life Is well known, read a little
nature study which was suggestive
and picturesque i'm its atmosphere.
Mrs. Dora Oliphant Coe read one Of
Miss Bessie I}eatty's newspaper
articles published in a San Francisco
daily, the trio of articles showing well
the work which club members are ac-
complishlng.
National ethics as Influenced by a
National Philosophy" was the subject
of a lecture delivered before the Science
Section of the Ebell on Tuesday after
noon by the Hon. T.. c. Bellows, late
United states consul general to Japan.
The attitude of the people of the
United states toward Japan formed
the subject matter of General Bel
lows discourse, and he was most
earnest In his protest against what he
considers the utterly unWarranted anti
japanese sentiment.
After a brief talk on the moral and
ethical side OF the life of the japanese,
the speaker dwelt on the erroneous i'm
pressions gained in this country from
the reports Of chance tourists who re-
turn from a two weeks sojourn i'm the
flowery kingdom and give out to the
world as facts stray bits of information
they may have CLEANED from the coolies
drawing their rckashas, thus giving an
estimate of the life OF a nation gained
through the most ignorant of its peo-
ple. He says: "If you give the Ameri
can people the truth tell them what
are the facts. they will do the proper
thing every time; II you keep them in
ignorance, tell them the wrong thing,
they will not
AS an instance of the falsity of many
Of the reports circulated throughout
the country by the anti-Japanese ele-
ment General Bellows cited the agita-
tion in San Francisco against the Jap
anese In the public schools when the
statement was made that our children
were being crowded from the primary
grades by whiskered men of the alien
race. General Bellows assisted George
Kennan I'm his investigation of this
matter, an inquiry made at the request
of President Roosevelt and found the
facts to be that out of 10000 pupils
ninety-three were Japanese and only
two of these above the age of 90 years,
while one-third of the entire number
were born I'm our country and entitled
to its educational privileges.
General Bellows also referred to the
action of Japan at the time of the
San Francisco earthquake, recalling
the fact that the first patton to send a
message of coincidence after the disas-
ter was Japan. and that this was fol-
lowed by a draft for $246, 900, while the
ten other nations contributing together
gave a total of S213,0O0, all going to
show something of the attitude of ia
pan towards the United States.
General Bellows believes that ii is
the people of our country, and especial
ly the people of the coast. who are
causing the trouble. not the govern
ment. He stated that the government
of the United States never had a par
ticle Of difference with the government
of Japan. never a question arising
from any act of the Japanese govern
ment towards our government. 1t is
the people. and it has been the people
who in every war we have ever had
have forced us into war; Sixty-five per
cent of the revenues of this govern
ment are put into preparations for
war. There is no government on earth
that pays the amount of money we do
for wars that are past and wars that
are to come If this country could
take the sixty millions that have been
devoted to the Improvement of our