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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

It is always gratifying to read in the columns of a university paper a comment on an international question such as your latest on the Japanese exclusion act (Editorial on June 3), for there is the possibility of remolding minds which have as a goal the present mental attainments of some of our senators and representatives who think they are glorifying their country by jeopardizing the friendly relations with a foreign country merely to make a display to the people back home of one of their 100 per cent 'isms. If the student of today is made to think internationally, the leader of tomorrow will think likewise: and that will help form a solid foundation for the development of world peace and friendliness.

Furthermore, it may free us from absurd congressional uttering. An example typifying what we are becoming forced to digest mentally as outbursts of intellectual brilliancy from congressmen, is the cry within the last few, days for a second limitation of armaments conference. Imagine the president being called upon to invite under the present circumstances Japanese delegates to discuss a further limitation of armaments! It would not be surprising to hear of some representative calling for an appropriation to finance a conference of scofflaws who might find a way of persuading a prominent delegate from Florida to the Democratic National Convention to become their standard bearer in bringing about a repeal of the 18th Amendment. The sanest thing Congress can do before adjournment is to invite a body of allenists to determine how many of its number should transfer so other lastitutions.

That brave consequences would follow the passage of the Japanese exclusion act has come to pass. It is a pity that those senators who voted for exclusion do not have to share the difficulties that have fallen on the shoulders of Secretary Hughes and Ambassador Woods. Well can they learn a lesson of friendliness from Japan whose treatment of the American aviators, in spite of the immigration turmoil, can hardly be surpassed even in this country.