Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-09
ENVOY WILL SEEK
TOSOLvE PROBLEM
Secretary Wilson Anxious to
Devise Some Plan to Save
Prospective Immigrants.
TO LOOK INTO BOOKINGS
BEFORE EMBARKATlON
Suffragettes Play Clever Trick on
Scotland Yard Sleuths-Man
Escapes Under Guard.
Foreign Correspondence Of The star.

| Foreign Correspondence OF The Star.
LONDON. August /. 1918.
From ten to fifteen thousand men and
women are turned away from the portals
of the United States every year, and sent
back to the countries whence they came.
in their endeavor to enter the land of
promise. The reason is that they do not
meet the requirements set for immigrants
by the American authorities.
This condition constitutes one of the
most difficult problems faced by the
American Department of Labor. and in
an effort to solve Ii the department has
sent w. w. Husband, one of its special
agents, to investigate and report on emf
grafton conditions in England and on the
| continent.
Every year. in spite of the efforts Of
| the steamship companies to exclude such
passengers from their lists, nearly fifteen
| thousand immigrants the gates Of
! Ellis Island closed against them, and
with the earnings of years swept away
| by the expense of the voyage they are
| compelled to resume the battle of life
| under the conditions from which they
sought escape by emigration. The de-
| partment does not either desire or Seek
according to MIR. Husband, the lowering
of the present standards but Secretary
Wilson is anxious to devise some plan
whereby the shock and suffering incident
to being turned back after sighting the
vented. In an effort to do this, Special
Agent Husband will investigate the book
ing of prospective immigrants by trans
portation agents with the idea of de-
vising some method whereby only those
who are practically certain of entry into
the United States will be permitted to
embark on this side of the water.
Detectives No Match for Women.
1t is so easy for the suffragettes 10
hoodwink Scotland Yard that the women
are wearying of the sport.
The latest case is that of Ewry Clayton.
The police were after Ewry, who was
critically i'll. and to make sure he should
not escape they posted detectives To
guard his house night and day. AS soon
as he recovered sufficiently to walk
abroad he was to be gathered in. Every
day members of the suffragette organiza-
ton visited the Clayton cottage. bearing
fruits, jelly and flowers for the sick man.
The police felt secure as they saw the
suffragettes come and go: they would get
their man on his recovery. Finally. the
visits of the women ceased. The police.
wondering, drew their ranks closer and
finally entered the house. Ewry was not
there, but In America. The house was
filled with flowers, fruits and jelly
enough to last Mrs. Clayton for weeks
to come. Ewry had slipped away and
taken steamer a Ddch, ana
the daily visits of the women were sim
ply a blind.
Suffragettes Befriend Chemist.
The suffragettes took all this trouble
for Mr.. Clayton, because he is the chem
list who was sentenced to penal servitude
on a charge of criminally conspiring with
the members of the Women's Social and
Political Union in that he supplied them
with explosives for some of their arson
outrages. He went on hunger strike"
and was released under the provisions of
the ''cat and mouse bill" He went home
I'll. and Scotland Yard was watching to
rearrest him when the women's ruse was
put into such successful operation.
The leaders of the militants declare they
did not desire the sacrifice of a mans
life in their cause, and when they were
informed by his physician that a return
to Jail would probably result in Mr.. Clay
tons death they persuaded him, through
the mediation of his wife, to leave the
country. 1ney will not say where he lis.
contenting themselves with stating that
he is safely located at least 5000 miles
from London.
Justifies Payment of Fine.
The payment of a fine by Miss Zelie
Emerson, when she was arrested for as
saulting the police I'm connection with
Sylvia Pankhursts Downing street riot,
has caused the American suffragette to
lose caste with some of the ruling powers,
and 1t is said that only her close friend
ship with the Pankhursts saved her from
being disciplined by the war cabinet OF
the w. S. p. L.
A number of the militants asserted
that in refusing to go to jail Miss Emer-
son gave the impression TO the public
that the morale of the forefront of the
fighting line of the organization was
weakening at the very moment Ii is
straining every effort to nullify the ef-
fects of the "cat and mouse bill. TIE
Michigan girls first term in jail, when
she was forcibly fed. was the result of
raid she made with Sylvia Pankhurst on
the windows OF Bow and Bromley, since
which time she has enjoyed a close
friendship with the Pankhurst family.
Shortly after her release following a pro-
longed hunger strike Miss Emerson was
operated on for, appendicitis, and she de-
tends her course in paying fine by as
serting that even brief stay In jail at
this time would so impair her health
that she would be unable to take her
place on the firing line for many months
TO come. She feels that she can be or
more assistance out of than in jail.