The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-01-27

by the senate committee and nothing
done until the senators can formulate
a permanent policy on immigration In
this they are yielding to the opinion
of representatives of certain classes
of employers, including the railroad,
steel and coal people, who told the
committee that the threatened flood
if immigrants from Europe" is
myth, and that there is no emergency
warranting the passage of the Johnson
measure.
Secretary Frank Morrison Of the
american Federation of Labor told the
committee that the federation's de-
mand was for straight-out protection
from alien ,,bor for a period of two
years. He said that reports just re-
ceived from labor officials in 141 cities
showed the total number of unem-
ployed in these places to be 1,S19,372,
and said he would not dare estimate
what the total of all cities would
show"
Figures were submitted by Mr.. Nor
rison showing the unemployed in
Greater New York to be 100000; De-
troit, 10000; Philadelphia. $4,000;
Chicago, 100000; Cleveland, 11S,000;
st. Louis, 10000; Boston, $4,000; Mil
waukee, 10000; San Francisco, $4,000,
Seattle, 1900, and Pittsburgh, 10000.
In contrast to this, he showed the net
immigration. at present rates, would
be $4,000 a year.
Avowedly in order to set an ex-
ample OF economy and democratic
simplicity, Mr.. Harding last week
caused to be Cancelled all the arrange
ments for an elaborate ceremony on
the occasion of his Inauguration March
4. At his request the citizens commit
tee called off the celebration it had
planned and also the ball. and the
joint congressional committee agreed
that there shall be nothing doing ex-
cept the administration of the oath
to the President-elect and the delivery
of his address, probably from the east
porch of the capitol. This course nat
urally has peeved the business men
and hotel keepers of Washington, but
everyone else in the country heartily
cOmmendS it.
Afr. Harding's conferences with
prominent men are about over. Very
soon he viii leave Marion for Florida,
where he will write his inaugural and
presumably finish making up his mind
as to his, cabinet. Concerning the lat
ter, it was interesting If not pleasant
to read last week that the hyphenated
COMMUNICATIONS, newly organized
into a league, were virtually to ask
Mr.. Harding to give place in the
cabinet to a German-American. A
committee was selected to carry to
Marion a list Of men from which the
President-eIect might make choice.
The ayowed desire of the new league
to create an era OF good feeling at
home ard abroad would meet with
greater sympathy If it did not insist
on the German and if it were not
for the fact that one of its leaders is
George Sylvester Viereck, editor OF
magazine that was formerly the Fa-
therland and notorious for his pro-
German activities during the war.
General Crowder is helping Cuba
to get out of, her political and finan-
cial tangle and the prospect is now
that he will succeed. First he has TAX
en- up the matter of the recent pres
idential elections, recommending that
the thousands of charges of fraud be
cleared up speedily by grouping them
and deciding representative cases.
Then he will undertake to arrange
the islands money troubles. The Gu
ban senate already has passed meas
ure for the extension of the mora
forum for four months on a modified
basis, a plan approved by President
Menocal and probably by General
Crowder. The Cubans are strongly
opposed to the plan of the American
bankers for taking over their finan-
ciai institutions, which were COLLAPSE
ing. They said the bankers asked too
high a rate Of interest and too long
a period for the loan offered. 1t is
said the situation is unpleasantly COM
plicated by the activity of our acting
secretary of state, Norman III. Davis,
who is reputed to have made for
tune in Havana under the regime of
Gomez, one of the claimants to the
presidency.
Discord between the British and
French over the question of German
Preparations is further revealed by the
downfall Of the Leagues ministry in
Paris. A large majority Of the cham
Der Of deputies fell in with the pop