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extent, this lease expiring In 1897. It
also owns, under q contract or agree
ment with China which expires in two
zones. respectively, in 2002 and 2007.
a railway system comprising some $50
miles, together with zone" along the
lines comprising in all about 100 square
miles. 1t maintains an armed railway
lines, with the privilege of increasing
that guard to $4,000 in case Of need.
It is obvious to any visitor to that
region that the area Of japanese con-
troll in Manchuria Is the best admin
iStered, the most peaceful and the
most progressive in the three prov
inces" comprising Northeastern China.
Nobody out here expects Japan ever
to yield this possession. Non-partisan
extend its sphere for the sake Of a
lessening of the danger of conflict
Just at present, with the threat OF war
between China and Russia over the
control and management of the Chinese
Eastern Railway, this feeling gains in
strength and in frank expression. But
what Of China? Who knows when
China will lind herself: become, in
fact. a strong. unified country with de-
cided ideas Of nationality and with q
keen desire to regain possession ana
full control of its richest agricultural
area?
It is folly to attempt to predict In
these premises. The most assured fact
is that the events of the past IS years
steadily have driven Japan out of re-
lations with China and into relations
with the Western powers. Today the
Japanese resent classification with the
Chinese. They regard their neighbors
as incompetents in government, as
backward In education. as retrograde in
culture. They have little faith In the
stability Of the present so-called Ma
tionalist government at Marking. They.
speaking as individuals and not as Of
ficials, consider the maintenance Of
extraterritoriality as essential to the
economic stability Of China and the Sc
curity of foreign interests there.
Defines Japan"
When say Japan" in this connec-
ton, I mean the Japan with which we
have been in close contact during these
past few weeks-offlcial, business and
social Japan In brief the Japan that
speaks English and that we can under
stand directly and without interpreta-
ton. OF the minds Of the masses OF
the people who have no such facility Of
speech it is impossible to know. But
one can Judge somewhat by external
evidence. We have gone among the
people at every possible place. in the
large cities and the small ones. in the
villages and in the rural districts.
And, with practically no exceptions. we
have seen no sign Of hostility or re-
sentiment.
/ am told that in some quarters the
people make distinction between an
american" and a Californian" with
obvious distaste for the latter on the
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CLIMPSINC THE FAR EAST
BY GIDEON A. LYON
Guest OF
International Peace

recognition that the Japanese are
human beings entitled to association
with Americans even as are the peoples
Of Europe and Africa and South Amer
lea and some other parts Of Asia.
Japan Sees East-West Conflict.
Japan wants to be aligned with the
Western civilization" he continued.
"She believes that the day will come
when the East and the West will be in
conflict, when Asia and the other parts
of the world will be at odds. In that
event Japan wants to be on the side of
the civilization which was brought to
her by America. And 1t Is to that end
that she wants to have this diScrim-
nation removed, this slight corrected,
this classification with the undesirables
of Asia amended"
This statement puts the question In
q somewhat different light from that In
which it is usually viewed. Assuredly
conditions over on this side of the Pa
cific are sufficiently disturbed to give
value to the potential partisanship OF
Japan. There is in progress at pres
ent a pan-Asiatic movement. the END
of which cannot be foreseen. When
Rabindranath Tagore, the Hindu poet
who crossed on the same ship with us
from San Francisco and who gave lis
a collective interview on the voyage
was here he lectured on this topic and
aroused q lively discussion. His i'm
mediate hearers were Of radical ten
denotes, sympathizers In spirit with
the pan-Asiatic idea. The press paid
but little attention to the matter, how
ever, and Tagore passed on to other
fields without having effected any deep
impression here. 1t may have been
only a coincidence that shortly. after
his visit there we're several disturbances
among radical students in Toxic, re-
sulting in the expulsion Of a number
from their institutions, which Guenched
the fire.
Japan has nothing In common with
the pan-Asiatic movement. She has
thrived in every way in consequence OF
her contacts with the lessons from the
Western nations. There is no posi-
bility of political interference with her
affairs by any Western power. When
she has gone too far, or too fast, in her
dealings with China, international in
fiuences have been brought to bear IN
persuasion, to bring about Withdrawals.
Manchuria a. Source Of Trouble.
Just now there is only one sphere
of possible NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ia
pan holds q lease upon a small but
important area at the tip Of the Lao
tung Peninsula. 1900 square miles ir
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score of the discrimination in the Inn
hearsay. It may have occurred In only
few cases. The whole body of pub
lie sentiment, so far as have OBJ
served 1t, Is friendly.
To see the real Japan, unweSternized,
one has but to 60 any night into the
native shopping district. In some cities
1t Is called "Theater street." as here,
where the street" is a series Of pas
sages covering several acres. There,
until 10 or IL o'clock, the people con-
gregate to promenade, to purchase, to
visit. They carry their babies with
them on the backs of the mothers or
In the arms of the fathers. Whole
families trot along on clicking geta
chattering and smiling, now and then
stopping to buy or, more often, to watch
somebody else buy.
I went up to Theater street the other
night with some American ladies,
friends at home. Whenever we stopped
to price goods or to purchase trinkets.
crowds gathered. A hundred men,
lently, gazing upon the Westerners.
Not a rude gesture was made or, so
far as we could know, a rude word was
uttered. There was nothing disrespect-
full in the steady stare of these on
lockers. They were simply interested.
And II one of us looked around and
smiled in appreciation Of the situation.
dozens Of smiles came flashing back
in recognition Of q mutual sense OF
humor
This is the Japan we are loath to
leave, the Japan of the small streets
smiling Japan.
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land that is certain to figure largely
in the worlds economic equation in
the future and may at some early date
be the scene Of combat between
nations. We have gone through North
eastern China. the Land of Uncertainty
and Trouble. have talked with the head
of its government, and with the leaders
Of thought and action and have OBJ
served the conditions making sinful
taneously for progress and retrogres-
sion.
These tours, in Japan. Korea, Man.
churia and China, have occupied about
three months and every day of that
period has been filled with interest and
information and enlightenment re-
garding this part of the world. Yet
We are quite ready to start for home.
and impatient only Of the comparative
slowness Of the voyage, speedy though
it may be.
America Is Held In High Regard.
Our visit was promoted by the
Carnegie Endowmer; for International
Peace. for the purpose Of making the
members of our party better acquainted
with conditions over here. with the
purpose of lessening the possibility of
misunderstanding between the nations.
Certainly, as far as we personally arc
affected. there has been a complete
success in that we have a better con-
understanding OF the circumstances in
which they are functioning as govern
ments and social organizations.
We have found that America" as
our country Is generally called over
here. Is held in high regard by both
the Japanese and the Chinese. There
has been a decided change of senti-
ment in Japan in this respect since
the great disaster of 1923. Whereas
there was formerly spirit Of bitterness
toward our people because OF the ex-
States. the instant generosity of our
people toward Japan in the hour of her
most grievous affliction has worked
wonderful change in spirit.
came over here prepared to hear
much discussion of the immigration
question. To my surprise, 1t was never
mentioned. Was it merely q matter
OF polite avoidance of q painful topic
in the presence Of guests? Were we
being granted q special dispensation
of courtesy to prevent asperity? AS the
unmentioned wondered. and my Won
derment grew until one day. on my
first visit in Toxic, had CONVERSE
ton with an American who has lived
here for many years. in the prosecu-
ton of an important educational work
He made the matter plain to me.
you will not hear this subject dis
cussed," he said, because Japan has
adopted a policy of silence regarding
it. immigration is not mentioned pub
licly or privately. Japan has not for
gotten or forgiven the slight put upon
her nationals by the exclusion from
their United States She will not do so.
But she understands the matter better
now than at first. and realizes that
political considerations in America
prompted this discrimination. She
hopes and believes that If the subject
is not discussed, Americans will them
selves in time, perhaps soon. remove the
stigma of the exclusion act and admit
japanese to the privilege of entrance,
on a quota basis. However. small the
quota may be, its establishment will
be regarded as an act of justice, as
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GOODBYE ITCHING SKIN

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many thousands of
miles in travel by
rail, by motor and
by ship. We have
gone through the
southern part of
Japan twice, in
Guiding a trip
through that most
lovely area. the In
land Sea. We have
gone Straig h t
through Korea and
stopped at Seoul to
see the riches Of
antiquity In that
ancient capital.
We have traversed
Southern Manchu-
ria and witnessed
the deveI0Dnoent NJ
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TOWS RUM CRAFT TO PORT
Coast Guard Cutter Captures Cargo
Valued at $4,000.

SAVANNAH, Ga, August rs (P.-
The Betty r.. a broad-beamed 32-foot
craft claiming British registry and with
900 cases Of liquor aboard. was towed
into Savannah yesterday by the Coast
Guard cutter Kimball The rum cargo
was valued at $4,000. The crew of
three, two Americans and a negro of the
Bahamas, were arrested The Betty R..
from Nassau, was captured so miles off
Mosquito Inlet. Fla. The crew said she
had been drifting for week as a result
of an engine breakdown.
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sidar Named for Good. Will Flight

MEXICO CITY. August 20 (P).-Col.
Pablo Sidar has been commissioned by
the Government to make a good will
flight to all countries of Central and
South America. He will use the air.
plane in which he arrived from Los
Angeles Saturday. 1t will be named
Ejercito Mexicano Mexican Army. He
will probably start some time next
month
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TOXIC. Japan, July 81, 1929.

TOXIC, Japan, July 81, 1929.
In two days we sail for home on the
Siberia Maru. At present. to be quite
frank, we are counting the hours be-
tween now and our departure. For we
are quite eager to get back on board
ship, headed for the United States. 1t
is not because we are tired of Japan,
for we are all delighted with this beau
tiful country and with the people. But
it is now just Is weeks since I left
Washington. and IA weeks since sailed
from San Francisco, and to tell the
truth. I. for one, am more than q bit
homesick.
We have been feted and Toasted. en-
tertained and shown beautiful places.
given a close view of industries and Of
the peoples lives. We have covered
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Model of
Trucking Sounded Death Knel TdCi Planners to Make
Approach Most Beautiful Marine Gateway in

is almost free of graceful briggs and
schooners. In those days they stripped
the decks of spare ropes and parapher-
MALTA and held SpreeS under the ships
lantern. The vessels were piled in the
harbor nose to nose, and going ashore
was merely matter of being agile in
hopping from prov to prov.
Hard by the car barn are three other
institutions that serve the public. Al
most dush with each other are the
morgueNf fire department and police sta
ton. Their buildings are part of the
harbor scenery as much as towering
masts. The morgue, with its cupola,
resembles an innocent village church;
the fire department next door Is a
sleepy-looking place that becomes alive
on moments notice, and the police
station-the harbor police-standS for
law along the water front.
Now, the city's business is the
morgues. Rich and poor, ignorant and
brilliant, old and young are brought
here for Identification And If no one
calls for a stiff" it goes the way of all
flesh, back to the soil, via some medical
school. This morgue is pious place
for the dead, and not such an outland-
ish spot to hold last services for the de-
parted. Like the car barn and police
oUdt4OIl, tAlC llIOLSuC ACIiIdlllS OpeIl
throughout the night. Find a place
more inspiring than a morgue along a
water front by night. The harbor's
haze always hangs around 1t. The gar
ment is cloak of death.
And the harbor police. These gentle
men are as much seamen as land lub-
bers. They must know how to steer the
police boat through snow, fog and
night. Harbor policemen enjoy a great
variety of duties. They hobnob with
sea-going men who come into port from
long cruises. They patrol the municipal
fish wharf and pilot the police boat
along the shaded shore. Recently the
water police installed a powerful search
light beam on the prov of their boat
Night or day. they are prepared to curb
lawleSsness. When last Summer Col u.
S. Grant ruled that lovers shall not spoon
in public parks, his decision applied to
the Potomac shores as well. And now
the harbor police stink quietly along
the bank and suddenly throw vivid
light beam on a spot where lawlessness
is suspected.
But one of the important duties Of
the river front police is to drag
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son for the increase. They can be
gotten out of the bay pretty cheaply.
Thirty years ago we had lot of
DRINKS on the wharves. They weren't
exactly what you'd call wharf rats
they were too gentle and harmless for
that. Every morning, as I'd come
down to work, would see them lying
about like so many stranded fish.
But as far back as I can remember,
this waterfront has been peaceful I
can't remember any outstanding
crimes, nor other things you'd write
home about. No, they didn't do much
shanghai-ing here, either. Most of that
was done around Baltimore. A man
could be in his cups and still be safe
from being kidnapped and made to
work on an oyster boat. They used
I, to have hard time to recruit hands,
; because pay was low and the work full
! of hardships.
Yes, the fish business has fallen off
| tremendously. The present volume
| can't compare. I might be stretching
/ 1t point when I say the oyster feet
at present does not number even 10
boats. On account of high prices, they
| manage to make ends meet; however,
/ can foresee the time when even these
will disappear.
THE trucking business has sounded
the death knell for river shipping, Over
| good roads autos can bring perishable
fish to markes in a fraction of the
time it takes boat to sail up the
river. A good part of the catch Is pre-
pared for consumption close to the
place the fish are caught. This does
away with transporting much waste.
For instance, oysters are put up in
cans and jars for family use. There's
no need of freighting tons and tons of
heavy oyster shells that are, after all,
only by-product of the industry.
THE piles of shells that accumu-
late around here are sold for two cents
bushel. They are ground and sold to
farmers as fertilizer. Down South they
use these shells in road construction
work
Nothing is wasted today. Pearl
buttons are made out of fish scales
fertilizer out of offal and chicken meal
out of bones"
Now, take Seventh street. Emerging
from the Mall, it dives straight for the
heart Of the channel, For long, the
city fathers have sought to do away
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oysters each trip.

A sight to conjure with. Walt Whit
man used to come down Water street
frequently. He dressed like the dock
men, and must have courted compan-
ionship with herring sailors who cruised
the feeding grounds.
Across the channel is the Speedway,
where the dumps have been turned
into golf links and smooth driveways.
A level line of trees, straight and evenly
spaced, face the fish wharves. Below
the fish market are passenger and
excursion docks
They tell along the wharves that since
the new municipal market building wos
erected, after the war, the aspect and
outlook have changed tremendously
The recent brick structure replaced q
large number of wooden, privately
! owned shacks where fish merchants
drove trade in sea foods. Health in
| spectors? Never heard of EN-. A man
made his own sanitary laws. Usually
J he did his own fishing, transporting anc
merchandising, too.
! i've lived on this wharf more thar
so years." said Capt. Jack Faunce, 9
/ former oyster boat owner, and remem
Der the time when so and so oyster
| boats anchored off this wharf at ont
time. Yes, sir. and they were loaded
to the gunwales. too. Around abou
April and May one could see 20 to 2;
ships freighted with herring and shad
Those days fish were plentiful ant
labor cheap. When the stuff was un
loaded on the docks, farmers and store
keepers from nearby towns used to COM
in with their wagons and buy at auction
whatever they could resell.
las I was saying, back in rs ant
80 as many as so oyster boats anchor
ed off this dock. These were calle'
market boats and they bought oyster
from dredgemen on the lower bay.
know that between 900 and 700 vessel
were engaged in oyster dredging at on
time. Today. 80 per cent of them hav
quit the business Oyster beds hav
petered out and the demand is not S
great.
X X y X
"THE oyster prices at that tim
weren't exactly high. I remem
Der buying and selling oysters for 3
cents bushel. Today, k;y fetch any
where from So to S2.50M bushel. Q
course, their scarcity Is the main rea
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BY DON GLASSMAN.

IF 1t swimS chances are rosy that
it came from Water street. Nay,
one Water street habitue will have
II it that IF it swirns flies, crawls
or eats, we have it." That, it
seems, is like carrying Wall street to
the Sahara.
But there is no gainsaying that all
pisces Washington eats derive from that
odorous sector called Water street, be-
tween the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing and the War College barracks.
Along Water street one smells sea-
going scent that has fingered along the
Washington Channel for not less than
a century, and probably some years
longer. In fact, there are sailed gentle
men whose shoes have left footprints
along that waterfront for more than
90 years.
Water street-how the name trickles
off the tongue has far more than a
halcyon past. 1t boasts picturesque
present and an suspicious future.
Soon Water street will be the food
center of the city. Besides the fish
market. all manners of food dispense
f1es will shortly HE themselves to this
quarter, which has been segregated by
city planners as the ideal spot for re-
ceiving handling and selling daily ra-
blOIlS bD Ille UuSy Ildll-IIllllkoIl- WdIcl
street, from the War College to the
printery, will reek and wallow in such
odors as to inspire a symphony in
smells.
Last week, the Potomac Freight Ter
minalS Co. awarded a $500,000 contract
for constructing a 700-foot building to
house commission merchants now driv-
ing business along the Mall This
along with other developments, will
make Water street one of the most cos
ynopolitan food foundries south OF
Rivington street, East Side of New York
WHERE in the city does the air taste
Nv more savory than along thl
wharves on a Thursday and Friday
with half a dozen oyster sailors broad
casting odors to the Capital? What
more picturesque than an oyster boat
lacking to the wind? Or weather.
beaten crew climbing the ratlines ano
reeing sails? Or a bay captain baw!.
ing orders as he fingers the wheel anC
NRadeS his vessel into her berth.
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with the cobblestoness and lay down
smooth asphalt. But what is Seventh
street without cobblestones? Horse
hoofs make merry clatter, and heavy
trucks sound coarse thunder as they
roll over this granite pavement
Stay with this street as far as it will
take you. There, you will find the car
barn. What place is the Seventh
street car barn! The end of the car
line here seems to mark the brink of
another world. Should you be rash
and fail to stop at the last station. you
will find yourself swimming In the frigid
water of Washington channel.
All night long lights in the Car barn
can be seen blinking across the water.
A funny place, all those flat-faced ding
dongs lined up, row upon row. In the
barn are lighted pits where mechanics
pry under wheels and explore the inner
works OF the citys common carriers.
Go out at night and overhaul the
neighborhood of the Seventh street
car barn. Beware of the harbor patrol,
lest they take you for a prying thief.
Sit down on a piling and listen to
sounds that come out of this barn. On
an inky night they are wierd. Grind
ing wheels, hummlng motors Then,
"Whoa" Turn off the lights, Bill"
A frog switch clicks. From across the
channel comes the faint purr of motors
Car bell clangs. Grinding wheels
throw out bright sparks. On the street,
lights are scarce and dim. Bang!
Clang! Riveters at work. Then
silence. Silence such as can only be
found along the old wharf, where mem
cries cling to the streets like shadows
on a moonlight night Nondescrjct
people walk in the distance, mere black
forms. A breeze from the bay.
BY night the water front is polished
mirror, wherein die the reflections of
houses and gaunt ships. Here on
| this corner stood a saloon in days when
| firewater ran along the river front.
One saloon? Nay, the water front was
| we'll spotted with saloons. And the
street was ablaze with their light. And
drinking songs were waited across the
channel by the night air.
These memories lie buried beneath
| the cobblestones. Few horses play
+ "click- clack- clickety-clack" now. And
few sails catch the wind that huns a
tune through salty canvas. The harbor
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PARALYSIS "ALIBI"
FAILS TO GAIN MERCY
Driver Fined $35 After Car Crash,
Despite Plea He Is Unable
to Drive Machine.

The contention that he was partially
paralyzed in an accident in Baltimore
August 10, and has been unable to drive
a car since, failed as an alibi for Paul
Donaldson Beach, 1900 block of street,
charged with reckless driving. Judge
Isaac r. Hit fined Beach $35, when two
witnesses identified him as the man who
ran past red light and struck their
car at Sixteenth and K streets Deem
Der 80.
Beach was arrested on complaint of
r. L. Christians, driver of the car
which was struck.
When Beach produced James Corbett
as witness to testify he had been driv-
ing the car on the date of the accident,
and would take all the blame, Assistant
Corporation Counsel Chester H. Grey,
who prosecuted the case, asSailed Cor
belts attitude ON the ground that he
was party to a Damon-Pythias agree
ment"