Show CHURCHES is PLAN LAN LANTO TO IO DJ J PEACE IN PACIFIC IS ULTIMATE VIEW OF FEDERAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES California Organization Insists Congress COngress Con COli gress Must Continue On Guard And Plan Bitter Fight On Move Washington Immigration quota rights f for r Japanese and Orientals as ae soon oon as possible and full equality quality under amended Immigration laws aws is the program of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ a as am announced on the eve of the assembling ling hag of congress says F. F W. W Wile ita Ina ica it In a article At one time ii was planned to launch a drive durins the he coming session to place tho the Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese on the quota basis in July 1 I 1927 The purpose has now been abandoned The leaders of the tho movement movement move move- ment meat who Include George W. W Wickersham Wickersham Wicker Wicker- sham and S. S Parkes Cadman have concluded that at present such a drive would be useless It has been determined de de- de Instead to undertake a 0 long slow process of education The churches do not propose a political campaign to approach congress or eve Individual congressmen They project an educational campaign to approach the people Mr Wickersham Dr Cadman and their heir associates declare it Is a mistake mis take to accept the view that the Japanese Jap Jap- anese anes immigration question is finally fin tin ally and permanently settled and that hat nothing will be gained by further fur fur- ther thee effort to arrive at a r remedial situation The Time organization goes the tIme length of saying saying more more or less in the spirit of the famous grave consequences dispatch that dispatch that if we want friends across the Pacific we must show ourselves friendly If we want peace in the Pacific we must be courteous and considerate and must practice the Golden Rule and the laws of brotherhood The movement sooner or later to abolish Japanese exclusion Is bitterly opposed by Pacific coast interests banded together under the tho title of California Joint immigration commit commit- tee The organization leagues the activities activities ac ac- ac of the American Federation of Labor the American Legion the National Grange and tho the Native Sons of the Golden West It has adopted as its slogan the tho declaration made by President Coolidge during the 1924 1921 campaign when he lie said The immigration immigration gration incident Is closed Mr Coolidge Cool Cool- Idge added Wo We must seek by some soma means besides immigration to demonstrate demon strate eLm the time friendship and respect we feel for the Japanese nation The committee states that the effect effect ef ct of the Coolidge policy polley upon Japanese Japanese Jap anese public opinion was notably In Inthe Inthe inthe the direction of stifling any hopes that exclusion ever could be undone But Dut the Californians contended that the American churches' churches new campaign campaign cam cam- for Japan now threatens to reopen reopen re re- re open an agitation which can only lead leall to disappointment in Japan and therefore there fore aggravate rather than Improve our relations with that proud people |