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...immigration question promises to assume paramount political and industrial importance in the near future. Day by day the tide of protest against the 3% law rises among employers of labor; day by day organized labor is strengthening its defense in support of restriction and protection; while Congress and the press as a whole appear to be taking the position that, bad as the law is in many respects, it would be a short-sighted policy to open the gates to the hordes of European unemployed...
This suggests strongly that the Administration is prepared to press as its program the plans being drawn by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The 1920 Transportation Act directed the Commission to prepare tentative plans for consolidating the railroads. This was done, and in August, 1921, a plan for uniting the roads into 19 systems was announced. Then the Commission set about comparing notes with the railroads and getting their suggestions on consolidation. Hearings were held for the railways west of the Mississippi and for the railways south of the Ohio. On May 16 hearings will be opened at Washington...
FLORIDA: The investigation of the Florida peonage system whereby convict laborers are flogged by " whipping-bosses " has revealed incidents fully as brutal and gruesome as any of the tortures employed during the Middle Ages. The press is unanimous in its agreement that it is one of the darkest blots on civilization in America. This system, whereby convicts are delivered under contract to turpentine camps at $20 a head profit to the sheriff sending them there, whereby flogging of prisoners to death is a common occurrence, has been speedily condemned by the Florida legislature, which voted 31 to 1 to abolish...
...object of the Turks in ratifying the concessions to Admiral Chester is so diaphanous that they can hardly be credited with their usual clever cunning. The Allies and the United States are hardly likely to fall out about these concessions, which, after all, are not so conflicting as the press makes out, when the International Court is ready to settle the whole matter in a peaceable manner. The Turks forget that they and their diplomacy are well known all over the world and especially in Europe; thus, with everyone on the alert, the worst effect of their scheming will...
...American-Turkish Development Company-the Chester concern-to build series of railways across Turkey which will open up the interior of the country and facilitate transportation to the coast. Ports, canals, roads are to be built in addition. The next important project on a long list-at least the press says it is, but it has not yet been officially published-is the rebuilding of Angora on the plan of Washington. The New York Times correspondent says: " It is to be on an heroic scale with all modern require-ments-public buildings, Government offices, sanitation, avenues, parks and so forth...