The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-22
UNDESIRABLE SOCIALLY

nave llOlHIlS III ny bCeiib puC ehC kindest feelings toward them.
 UNDESIRABLE SOCIALLY
 But there are racial differences and distinctions which will always prevent these great powers from combining so- cially. They do not like us There is no question about that A few years ago we had the humilia ting spectacle of the President of the United States begging California to admit the Japanese children to the schools of the Pacific coast not withstanding the fact that boys Is or 20 years of age were asked to be admitted into the schools with little girls, children eight or 10 or F years of age. The Call fornia people did not submit to it. They would rather be driven into the sea, my friends, than to submit to it.
 "A wear ago the President was opposed to any and all preparedness. Now they are blaming him for changing his mind. My friends there is nobody but fool who never changes his mind. l beseech you not to criticize those who are trying to do something, but to help them solve a difficult problem.
 This continental plan of MT. Garrison s does not meet with my approval, but 1 do not say that l am going around and telling people that it ought not to be enacted. I believe the solution for this is universal military training, but l know that the people have not been educated up to it yet. Until it is enacted there will be no proper reserve to draw upon Tn case of necessity.
 Tt may be that this continental army plan. indorsed by some of the most dis tinguished soldiers in the army, can be hammered into shape. It can be gwen a trial, and if it does not work, the Amer ican people will know it, and then they will be more nearly prepared to come to military training"
 Senator Phelan of California declared he had been reliably informed that the recent presence of Japanese vessels in Mexican Pacific waters was not to aid a stranded Japanese warship, as stated, but for the prpose of making a demonstra- ton in anticipation of an American pro- test against Japan's demands on China.
 JAPAN IS AGGRESSIVE
 Japan is aggressive" Senator Phelan said "She seeks a lodgment on the Mex ican coast. It is rumored today that her troops are in that country. She has had a warship in the waters down there. pre- sumably crippled, and has sent over a large number of her warships in order to take the crippled vessel, so-called, off the shoals. But I have it on the best authority that the vessel was not crip- pied at all and that at the very time Japan was making this demand under the 12 articles against China and feared the American protest-which was made. And that fleet was over here, I verify believe, to make demonstration; but happily for us (and America is singularly fortunate in all it's affairS), other nations, like Eng land and France, joined in the protest against the demands made by Japan upon China; and because our protest was so fortified that fleet withdrew from our coast.
 We were not prepared even to meet the fra gment of the Japanese fleet, which could have put our cities under tribute and sailed away
 'Our country is not sufficiently safe- guarded upon the Pacific coast. We har- Dor no i'll will toward our neighbors. The oriental people have a most excellent field to exploit and there is no need that they should come to this continent. We should impress upon them politely and in diplomatic language that their field, their zone of influence is in Asiatic wa ters. while ours is here on this continent, and we wish to be let alone.''
 Samuel Gompers. president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, sent a letter to the league. read at tonight's session, in which he reiterated his recent asser- ton that organized labor favored an ade- quate national preparedness policy which would insure equal opportunity to all en- listing in the contemplated naval and mill itary forces.