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Show BISHOP ADVISES . U.S. TO FOSTER PACIRCTRADE Calcutta Churchman Declares De-clares Policy of Isolation Impracticable; Advocate Siberia for Jap Overflow FPRIXOnKIJ). III., June 15 (By A P.)--A pica for a powerful merchant I marine In the Pacific rompoud of ! Tleeta of cargo Venn flying the American fla and engaged In trana- a, or ran la and Asiatic roaatwlee trade j ai mada today by lilehop Kfed B. Ft-iher, renlrient bin hop of Calcutta for th Methodlat Kplacopal church. In an addraMfl lefire tha Midday Uunetieon club. Abandonment of tha policy of i lenlatton "Ha Impracticable In an Interdependent In-terdependent axe," waa advocated by the apeftker, who ilio outlined principles prin-ciples for rapturing marked In the Far F.at. "Thla country ought to have a hut merchant marine In Pacific waiera," anld Blahop Flaber. "Not only ahould th-re be fleet a of cargo veaeela plying between our porta and thoae of China, India and other center of commerce In the orient, but there ahould be j American ltnea en oared In coaatwtee' trade connecting China with India, j There ahould be headquartera for our i foreign trade not only In thla country but Manila ahould be another haee of operitlona rivaling; Liverpool or Hone;- ' kong." I I daring the lna, of war between Jnpnn and the Vnlted Htatee to be "rtilculoua." Hlahop Flaher advocated allowing the Japanese to expand Into1, Kll.tria aa the only field left to which to aend .In pan 'a exceaa population. i Kxpandlng populatlona and the dim-Ini-ihlng of the geographical frontier i have brought the preaent generation i to a dilemna, according to blahop ; FNher. "No longer can migration aolve our problema," he declared. "There la not another Plymouth Rock In the world. In the pant there alwaya haa been a lone frontier to which people dlneatla-fie dlneatla-fie lit home can go and organize thinua after their own Ideaa. I "There la no eacape In moving away from our problema today. We muat imv and help aolve them. The Orient with it tnllliona of poorly clad, poorly nourished people Is no aaylum like the woMird ahorea of the new world. 'A prominent example of over-population in that of Japan with lta 57.000,. ooo crowded together In a apace the alx of California, whlrh hum tint 1.000.000 inhabitants. The dimlniahlnic frontier has affected the .Tapanfne expansion ex-pansion aehemee materially. The Occidental Oc-cidental powere have cut off practically practical-ly all fiolda from Japanese expansion eave Siberia and teem to be thinking of compelling her tr withdraw from there. Why ahould not thin be a safe ind logical field to allow Japan r "Live and let live," voiced the enly pnnslhle solution of the great problem nt ih fittiira mnr-rwAlntr m Iii.u.,.. Flaher. "It 1. the only way out." ha declared. "And unleaa each nation achoola ltaelf to allow to othera what It aeeka for ltaelf. a cataclyam auch aa hlatory doea not contain may ba tha outcome." |