Evening star., 1939-12-30
Conc|ave Told
Western Ways
Kill Orient
Senator Ebert Thomus
Speaks; Union Now
Held Impractical

neI0 ImPIoCtICoI
Senator Ebert D. Thomas of Utah
today deplored the disposition of
both Japan and China to follow
the technique of the West" and
advised they should turn to their
own theory and techniques."
Speaking to the American Political
Science Association at the Ward
man Park Hotel, Senator Thomas
said:
Here is China, the land which
for centuries divided the world into
China and the barbarians, now TAX
ing on completely the way of the
barbarian, and here is Japan, so
conscious of her weakness, attempt
ing to prove her imagined strength.
It means destruction for both.
There is another side to the pic
ture," he said, "and that is the
Vests part, and that isn't pleasant
to contemplate. We are advan-
tage-takers," he charged. Japan
thought that advantage taking paid
because we told her it did; now she
is learning what the West learned.
China's Strategy Doomed.
China, proud of her ability to
Withstand destructive conditions, has
attempted to win by self-imposed
destruction. She cannot do it.
Whether leaders in Japan and
China are great enough to see that
both are wasting themselves. and
whether leadership in the West is
healthful enough to cooperate in
healthful aid for each, remains to
be SEEN"
Senator Thomas spoke at a round
table on THE implications of
Japan's Asiatic Policy" one of the
seven sessions of the days program.
The 35th annual convention of the
association closes this afternoon
with business meeting.
Representative T. v. Smith, of
illinois, was scheduled to speak at
the noon luncheon on THE Need
for Historical Perspective in Poll
tics"
Yesterdays sessions were featured
by the annual address last night of
the association president. Dr.
Charles Grove Haines, of the Uni
versity of California at Los Angeles,
and by seminar in which Clarence
K Streit, author of Union Now"
explained his proposal for a union
of the democracies of the world and
received friendly but frank criticism
Of his work before big audience.
Arnold Speaks.
Thurman w. Arnold, Assistant
Attorney General, spoke to a lunch
con meeting closed to the press on
"The Maintenance of Free Trade
Within the Borders of the United
States"
DR.. Haines. discussing the Adapt
alton of Administrative Law and
Procedure to Constitutional Theo-
ries and Principles" characterized
the pending Logan-Walter Bill.
sponsored by the American Bar
ASS sociat tion, as Legislative
ht-jacket," which he said
would be placed over Federal ad-
ministrative agencies. He said it
was significant that the National
Lawyers Guild. following recon-
mendations of a special committee,
disapproved the bill, and advised its
members to oppose enactment, part
ly because it would have tendency
to "cast all administration into a
uniform mold"
Special objections were raised to
the attempt in the bill he said, to
place such a large part of the su-
pervisory functions of the executive
into the hands of the judiciary"
Pointing to the large amount of
time required by courts in handling
automobile accident cases, he even
recommended such matters be
turned over to some kind of a COM
mission established for settlement Of
accident cases.
Sees Almost Crusade Fervor.
Criticising the movement to curb
administrative officers and boards"
DR.. Haines said it was being 'fos-
tered almost with the fervor of a
crusade"
He praised the character and abil-
lty of Government administrators,
many of whom. he pointed out, were
lawyers. He predicted that despite
claims that all administrative tri-
bunals must be adjusted to the
American judicial tradition, with a
monopoly OF the lawyers" in the in
depreciation and application of the
law, I'VE shall go on and we shall ex-
pand administrative agencies wheth-
er we approve them theoretically or
not Such agencies" he said, fur
nish form of protection to personal
and individual rights and place OBJ
stacles in the way OF wrongdoing
which under our new social and in
dustrial conditions cannot be prac-
tically accomplished by the old and
simple procedure of legislatures and
courts. - A cursory examination of
legal history" he said, brings out
the fact that arbitration and con-
ciliation are among the Oldest and
have always been the most rational
and effective methods Of adjusting
many types OF civil disputes
Much interest was displayed in the
discussions laJe yesterday a1Cer-
noon in the hotel theater over the
proposal of Mr.. Streit, author OF
"Union Now" for a Federal union
Of IS democracies of the world. The
theater was packed as Streit and
six members of a panel-most of
whom were critical of the inmedi-
ate practicability of the plan-dis-
cussed its implications and possi-
bilities.
The Is founders of the union
proposed by STREET were character
lied by him as the "best neighbors
in the world" who ''own half the
earth, rule all its oceans, govern
nearly half mankind and control
more than go per cent Of nearly
every essential of peace and war"
They have the power, he said, to
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