Evening star., 1932-03-22
DEBATE ON ORIENT
BRINGS FLARE.UP
Author Defending Japanese
Angered by Hint of
Pay Roll.

| tion OF perSonaHtleS.
The fiare-up took place when Judge
Myron Linebarger, legal adviser to the
government of China, objecting to q
previous speech by Frederick Moore
writer and lecturer, raised the question
Of source of the salary of the two
men.
Citing statement by Moore con-
corning China, Linebarger said: The
speaker said there was no government
in China. Well, I am on the pay roll u
4 Judge Linebarger previously had ex-
Iplained he postponed sailing for China
In order to attend the meetings of the
institute. The nturning to Moore. who
was sitting in the audience. he suggest
ed that Moore, too, was on pay roll.
! Interrupts Speaker.
| Suddenly interrupting Linebarger,
Moore from his position in the audience
leaped to his feet and, shaking his
finger at the speaker on the platform,
said:
Il am not on the pay roll OF any
government. You are, but l am not "
Moore sat down. but Judge Linebarger
continued to score him with charges.
At this juncture, DR.. Ellery c. Stow
ell, chairman of the Executive Com
/ mittee of the Institute, suggested that
the open discussion proceed but that
personalities be entirely eliminated.
There were a number of questions
and answers and Judge Linebarger
waxed eloquent in his defense of the
Chinese.
Debuchi Is Guest.
Katsuji Debuchi, the japanese Am
basador, was guest of honor last night
at the session at Brookings Institution,
spoke briefly and heard the subjects
Economic Relations in the Pacific
and The League of Nations and the
Sino-Japanese Dispute" discussed re-
spectively, by DR. Harold G. Moulton,
president of the Brookings Institution,
and by Felix Morley of that institution.
I The sparks started to fly this morn
ing when Mr.. Moore, the first speaker
at the campus session, discussed The
Condition of China
| 'The enemies of China are not for
teigners," he declared, mot even Japa-
nese. They are Chinese-Chinese war
lords and corrupt or visionary officials. "
| He charged thatsthe United States was
spending more III protection of China
| trade than we can possibly profit by
lit. Our Japanese trade" he said, "in-
finitely larger, costs us not a dollar for
protection y He criticized three condi-
! tions in China-"lack of railway COM
munication, illiteracy and poverty"
Fears U. S. Policy.
! "Our Government has developed an
I, extraordinary policy regarding China,
he said, "one which is open to serious
question of wisdom. Although we have
carefully avoided entering into any pact
providing for the security of a Euro
pean state, We have led the world into
treaties and policies pledging China s
independence and integrity. We have
the power, If we care to use it, to pre-
| vent Japan's transgressing her colossal
neighbor's territorial integrity, but we
cannot defend China from Russia. The
japanese can. They have In the past
and may be required to do so in the fu-
ture.'
The japanese in Manchuria, Mr.,
Moore. said, 5.haye provided safety OF
life and opportunities for labor and
eommerce which have enabled millions
OF Chinese TO 1--we in comparative peace
ara prosperity. That is the reason
millions have migrated from China
proper to Manchuria-outside the great
wall.
In discussion following Mr.. Moore's
speech, Judge Linebarger asked: How
4 SoAa SAA-io oPSi atC itS BOfCl HAiCIlL, WIICIi
its machinery is controlled by foreign
interests? Why continue TO expect Of
| China the impossiblep Why abuse
| China of the millenia for not putting
its house in order when the foreign
nations have taken possession and oc-
| cupy every room Of that ancient
manor? Why give Japan an excuse for
robbing China by holding in our own
hands the same bludgeons of the un-
equal treaties.
Defends Chinese Efforts.
Each of the 1,943 hsien or districts
| OF the % provinces is really a minia-
| ture republic said Judge Linebarger,
expense is very efficiently conducted as
regards life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. Since these republics are
largely autonomous, their authorities do
not care to. identify themselves with a
weak central Chinese government.
which has to kewtow to the foreign ma
tons for its very recognition. Only
when the unequal treaties are abolished
shall we have strong central govern
ment in China. Then China. sovereign
| in its own vast domain, will astonish
the world by its governmental eff
ciency."
DR.. William Crane Johnston, assistant
professor of political science at George
Washington University proposed that
an international agreement should be
| concluded between China and the in
terested powers defining the status of
the foreign settlements in Shanghai
during the transition period. Such an
agreement, he suggested, should in
clude charter for the International
Settlement and the French concession,
| Incorporating the essentials of the re-
port of Justice Feetham to the Shanghai
Municipal Council last Summer"
The formation Of joint commits
sion composed of representatives of the
governments of the International Set
tlement, the French concession and the
Chinese municipality, to act as a clear
ing house for information and a CO.
ordinating BODY to adjust questions OF
police jurisdiction, tax administration
etc, Is suggested" said the spekear, "as
a means of enabling the three munip-
alities TO attain some degree of uni
formity and the Chinese municipality to
attain Western standard of city gov
ernment."
Praises Calm Philosophy.
DR.. Stanwood Cobb, principal of the
Chevy Chase Country Day School.
speaking before the luncheon meeting at
the campus today. discussed the '.Philo-
sophie Background Of China - China,
he said, has witnessed in the past
the rise and fall of great dynasties and
the working out by trial and error OF
almost every type of political expert
ment known to man. And through all
these ups and downs has gone on a
steady and cumulative cultural prog
ress-progress in the practical arts OF
living and progress in the fine arts to
point Of esthetic taste and achieve
ment hardly equaled elsewhere in the
world. To be born an American Is to
be born doer. But to be born q
Chinese is to be born a philosopher"
DR.. William c. Dennis, president OF
Earlham College, formerly Of the State
Department was scheduled to speak or
the subject, Trial Battle in the
Orient"