Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-14 | Page 12 | Immigration Law Change Advocated

IMMIGRATION LAW I CHANGE ADVOCATED HONOLULU June 14 P f JP- JP Modification tod fi cation of the American immigration law to permit entrance of Japanese and Chinese on a quota basis as a friendly gesture to Asia was urged at the fourth Pacific Rotary conference conference confer conCer ence here today by Dr S Samuel J J Hume of Berkeley secretary of the California council on Oriental relations rela Hume said if it the United States would participate fully on such quota basis vast potential markets would be opened up in Asia He said It W was essential that everything possible bedone be ber done to remove existing causes of friction and misunderstanding Hume flume asserted that all aU enlightened opinion now agrees that the thc discriminatory discriminatory discriminatory clause in the thc immigration act of oC 1924 was a mistake He added if it the thc European quotas were applied to the far cast Japans Japan's QUo quota would be yearly and Chinas China's This immigration he said would be negligible a. a