Evening star., 1928-12-08

The theme of this movie" is neigh
borhood dispute, magnifed.
There was group of neighbors liv-
ing peaceably and Sociably together in
a very desirable locality. It was beau
tiful park, well favored by nature with
trees, rivuletS and gardens of flowers
and fruits, and everything to make
life enjoyable. The neighborS were or
ganized for mutual benefit and used to
get together to talk over their domestic
problems, including that ever-embar-
raising dilemma when unlimited COM
pany arrived in such numbers as to
overcrowd some of the homes. In such
events, it became the custom to share
bors, until even that led to bit OF
friction.
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Ole. Olson had a number of relatives
who came and were easily taken care
of John Bull, with his great mansion,
had enough spare rooms" to accommo-
date aIleh English, Scotch, welsh and
Irish cousins tPat and Mike lived in
North ireland, but Larry came from
South Ireland-which is an important
fact to bearsin mindp. Francois seemed
not to have: so many parents" (mean-
| ing relatiyes) as did his British and
Scandinavian neighbors, sohe made no
trouble for the community. But Hans
| und GYetchen-oh, they had nearly
as many visitors as all the rest of the
community combined! Very nice people
| they were, except that there were so
many of them and they took up so
much room, demanding place In the
sun on every occasion.
One day, there came tremendous
horde of folks right off the steamboat,
| without an hours warning. And they
were strange lot--yery different from
the British German, Scandinavian and
French visitors. "a The newcomers had
different dress, different speech, differ
ent manners and different ideas as to
how this happy community should be
run. They poured down the street look
ing for the residents who would take
them in, without even setting up much
of claim to being blood kin. They
dumped their baggage on front porches
and their children began twisting the
house-dogS' tails and munching the
apples in the orchards.
Finally so many of them crowded
onto the porch of the Hon. Samuel
Yank that he stepped over to his neigh
Dor, Col F. F. Virginia, to propose that
they should call meeting Of the COM
munity at the council house and see
what would be the right course to take
with this dilemma of uninvited new
comerS. Nobody wanted to be in
hoSpitable nor rude, but, between neigh
borS who owned these homes, who had
built these residences and who had
families of their own to care for. it
seemed to be their duty to hint to the
interlopers that they were loo fresh and
too numerous and too-tco everything
that was not CONNIE II faut. Besides,
Hon. Samuel Yank already had his own
cousins visiting at his holse--11 or IS
of them-and Col. F. F. Virginia had
some too, but not so many and down.
street most of the houses we're already
overrun with visitors, uneyenly divided
among the families.
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At the council meeting some one
proposed that the community should
adopt rule limiting the visitlrs to lust
so many per family, according to the
national origin of the respective fam
lilies who we're settled there N their
own homes Under that rule ,cme of
the Germans would have to wit, but
it would affect the queer newcomers
more than it would any Of the @uSinS
from Great Britain, Germany, S@ndi-
navia or France.
Those who would be most stringutly |
barred had come from the BalknS, |
Poland and Russia, from Italy md |
Spain, and these folks overheardSa a |
bit of whispering in the community, aid |
so got wind of the discussion, and they |
crowded about the windows and doom |
of the council house and began boiSter4
Gus shouting and caterwauling. To-
them, so accustomed to wrangling at
home, 1t appeared perfectly natural that
they should begin throwing stones
through the windows Of the council
house.
So the first reel of this thrilling
movie ends in tragic situation as its
climax In a few seconds the operator
will change reels and the scene will
shift to the hall of the United States
Senate, where the immigration reStric-
ton law is under consideration.
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The staid Senators are assembled
and the clerk has finished routine read
Ing of the minutes. One Senator. sit
ting at his desk, paying little heed to
proceedings, opens letter from con-
stituent, Mr. Edward r. Lewis Of Chi
cago. who writes:
.'.When you stop to consider, Senator,
tured sometimes by hunger, always by
thirst, they reached Honolulu. Cam
eron'S account of his eight months on
Sand Island, with a mutiny and a
typhoon to break the monotony. Is as
thrilling as ANYTHING in the ahSOrhinO