Evening star., 1941-03-06
Far Eastern
Lectures
Start Here
Yale Professor
Sets Background
For Series

An audience of more than 300
heard DR.. Ellsworth Huntington
professor Of geography at Yale Uni
versity, in the opening lecture of a
series on the Far East held yester-
day at the Shoreham Hotel under
auspices of a committee of promi-
nent Washington women.
Many remained for buffet
luncheon which was served in the
blue room OF the Shoreham with
a group of cabinet wives and wives
of Supreme Court justices as honor
guests.
DR.. Huntington, an authority on
Far Eastern affairs, set the back
ground for the series by discuss
ing the geography of the Orient
after a message had been read from
Secretary of State Hull. Maxwell
M. Hamilton, chief of the State De-
partment's Division of Far Eastern
Affairs, read the message in which
Mr.. Hull pointed to the Importance
of understanding Far Eastern prob
lens and congratulated sponsors of
the lecture series for undertaking
the project.
Expansion Of Trade
Suggested for Japan.
DR.. Huntington, who suggested
that the most prosperous course for
Japan to follow would be to expand
her trade rather than her bound
aries, declared that square miles
alone do not determine the living
space of a nation. What is import
ant is that the people live well, re-
gardless of the amount of land each
has in proportion to the population.
In respect to geographical and cli-
matte conditions, he asserted, Japan
compares favorably with the United
States and is much better endowed
than China. For the japanese to
migrate into China would force
them to compete with much lower
standard of living, he continued,
and thus defeat the purpose in seek
ing living space"
Tracing much of the world con-
fiict today to the desire for living
space. DR.. Huntington remarked
that the United States unwittingly
was to blame. In the past, he ex-
planned, a nation reaching maturity
became adapted inevitably to its
geography, but modern means OF
communication have enabled people
of other countries to learn how peo-
pie live in the United States.
THE world is suffering from
'Americanitis,' he said, "a disease
that makes all people think they
ought to live as we do"
The speaker contended that ma
tions which have exhausted their
geographical resources must expand
in other ways in order to realize the
desire to improve standards OF living.
Mrs. Clifford Pinchot
Presides at Lecture.
Mrs. Clifford Pinchot, chairman OF
the lectures, presided while Mrs.
Francis Cabell Brown headed the
committee arranging the informal
buffet luncheon. Mrs. Raymond
Clapper is general director.
The honor guests, who received
In two lines, were Mrs. Robert H.
jackson, Mrs. Frank C. Walker and
Mrs. Claude Wickard, representing
the cabinet circle, and Mrs. Harlan
Fiske Stone, Mrs. Owen j. Roberts,
Mrs. Stanley F. Reed, Mrs. Felix
Frankfurter and Mrs. William O.
Douglas, representing the Supreme
Court group.
Luncheon hostesses for the day.
Mrs. Barnet Mover and Mrs. Frank
A. Waring, were assisted by large
group including Mrs. Arthur H. Van
denberg. Mrs. Frank H. Buck, Mrs.
Claude Pepper, Mrs. Paul V. Nc
Mutt. Mrs. Warren Lee Pierson, Mrs.
Frederick Livesey, Mrs. Tomas Gail
gas. Mrs. John Dempsey, Mrs. John
Studebaker, Mrs. Morris Sheppard,
Mrs. Parker Van Zandt, Mrs. Basil
Manly, Mrs. Max o. Lorenz, Mrs.
Gilbert Grosvenor, Mrs. Frederick
M. Gould, Mrs. Harold Kraft, Mrs.
Adam Gordon, Mrs. Harold Biese-
meier, Mrs. Robert Sherrod, Mrs.
Frank A. Linzel, Mrs. Archibald
MacLeish, Mrs. Richard HarknesS,
Mrs. Oscar L. Chapman, Mrs. Wal
ter Burke, Mrs. Stanley K. Horn
beck, Mrs. ]. B. Kirkland, jr., Mrs.
william B. Sims, jr., Mrs. Bruce
Smith, Mrs. Charles Brand, Mrs.
Harold Bowen, Mrs William c. Van
Vleck Mrs. Frederick Shelton, Mrs.
Henry Cabot Lodge and Mrs. j.
Marcellus Woodard