The New York herald., 1922-03-12

Dir Philip Gibbs.
stunts to keep up the prestige and
spirit of the American people In the
end the Japs would be down and out
utterly ruined"
II hope to God 1t never happens!
said. barring my head In the sunshine
and rejoicing in the loveliness OF the
Pacific sea.
He grinned at me again with
thoughtful farseeing eyes.
Perhaps 1t won't, but you never
can tell"
Theoretical Talk.
Other talks l had like that with
other men. A different kind Of talk
1t was, with a tall Irish detective,
feet 8 inches, with friendly smile
and quiet, watchful eyes, who took me
through Chinatown, which he knows
in all it's cellars and secret get
aways" as he called the narrow alleys
and hiding places between the houses.
You would be surprised how the
Chinese are getting rich here. These
little shops and houses don't look
much. The Chinks live in crowded
quarters and like to get as far from
the sunlight as they can in those un-
derground cellars. But they are doing
business, and their merchandise is
pretty considerable. It's the policy
of peaceful penetration"
"Do they give you much trouble?'
/ asked.
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certain Chinese clans. family ven
dettas of a Sicilian kind. so that II
man is killed in one family he is
revenged by the murder of brother
or cousin or maternal uncle or infant
son in the family Of his assassin. The
police are getting the better OF that
-wiping it out. Their chief trouble
now is with the gambling dens and
the dope traffic. They have got the
better Of the gambling dens by drastic
measures, but the dope business Is
measures. bu the dope business Is
harder to kill and Is demoralizing
many white folk.
The tall Irishman glanced toward
young Chink slouching through the
public gardens.
"See that boy? He's waiting to pass
the dope. I'm having him watched"
White men and women are falling
to the vice in great numbers in spite
of the law and police activity. I saw
groups of these miserables in the
prison of San Francisco. pacing up
and down like Gagged animals in the
narrow corridors between their cells
Some of them were well dressed young
men. There were nice looking girls in
the women's part of the prison-vic-
Tins Of dope-and the sight OF them
spoiled the sunlight for me in the city
outside.
Chinese Good Natured.
are a law abiding. good natured folk.
and honest in their way of business.
They did not seem to resent the pres
cnce of the Irish detective. but greeted
him with grins and "Hullo, boss" !"
as he strode into their houses where
old Chipks sat playing cards; led me
up high flights OF stairs into large
rooms filled with the incense OF Joss
sticks and furnished with gayly COL
ored affairs, with wax figures and
paper flowers and gilded carvings,
and then downstairs into dark pas
sages through secret doorways.
He walked with the assurance of a
man who knows his way in the dark.
flashed his lantern on bolts which
could be operated by cords and pull
leys from upstairs rooms. showed me
how the walls and panels disguised
oh rp1, ta t,.lr =
bolt at the first signal OF alarm.
Wonderfully good work." said the
Irish detective with professional ad-
miration. "All these rabbit warrens
cost US lot OF trouble to locate"
There is no friendship or alliance
between the Japanese and Chinese in
California. In San Francisco they live
in separate quarters, suspicious OF
each other, hostile, and the Japanese
are arrogant toward those other peo-
pie OF the East who glance sideways
at them out OF slit eyes and read their
newspapers with no assurance. I am
told. in the clauses OF the Washington
conference which guarantee the in
tegrity of China.
SO IN San Francisco the problems
OF the Pacific are intimate and hu-
man, whereas in New York they are
remote and theoretical. These prob
lens. in my mind, are linked up with
the rising tide of color throughout the
world. with the spirit of revolt in In
dia, Egypt. Mesopotamia. Syria, Per-
sia and the old Turkish Empire and
all Mohammedan peoples. The thought
imprcsses one great moral upon white
people If there is ever to he any COM
mon sense among them. Tt Is the ne
cessity Of peace between them. ~
there is another massacre of youth In
Europe like that OF the last great
war. II the white races tear each other
70 pieces again. other races will take
their place.
There is no possibility Of doubt
about that. Another conviction comes
to an Englishman In San Francisco.
1t Is the vital need OF union between
the English speaking peoples VI the
world--in the British Empire and the
United States. Our interests arc tho
same in the Pacific and In the Old
World.
Copyright, 1922, Nv The Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.