AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS

- .lAl’ KXCLLSION. NEW YORK. Aug. IS. A telegram from CliautiHii|iia. New York Suite, says that the first endeavour ta remove the impediment to Oriental missionary work caused by the Japanese exclusion law has been made by Doctor William Axling. a Rapist missionary, who addressing a ( oiivenLion of tile Federal Council of Churches sail that America's exclusion of the' .la on tie.".' had struck the Christian movement ill Japan it staggering Mow. and had plunged missionaries into a dark clb.'omane. Mr Axling added: “The' exclusion law came as a climatic crucifixion of national pride. They asked me to shout front the house-lops their pica; ‘Limit Japanese immigration to vanishing point, if necessary, hut treat its as brothers! Remove' the sting of shame in the discrimination of the basis of race!'’ He recommended the inclusion of the Japanese in the general immigration t|iinL't. permitting the entrance of a negligible number of Japanese. the seiaind Congressional Amendment law to confer privileges impartially, regardless of rac e. F > WOULD FLIERS. WASHINGTON. Aug. IS.

Authority for Lieut. I.nc.aldli l i a"nipanv the Kuitcd States World liters front Rexkaivik. in Iceland, to Greenland has hern given by the Chi el ol the' I S A. Air Service, provided that the Commander of the Knitcd Stale's aviators i- satisfied that the Italian's place will not endanger Hie success of tho flight. plans arc being made to rclii'l the I'.S.A. fliers at >ca if necessary, in the long hop to I redcreikcdal. in Greenland a distanc e' ol Stio mill". Ihe idea of using nearer landing places have licc'ii abandoned owing to ice. The proposed flight will require 12 hours in tlic air. Every confidence is expressed that the jump will hr made solely. THE ABRAMS TIIKOIIV. l’Rt I.NOl’Nt ED TO I IK. INFO ENDED TRKUTKtts Tnt.Ki;lt.t ms.] Received this day at S a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 1!) The electronic' reaction theory ol the late Doctor Abrams, ol San I’rancisro. was pronounced unfounded in a report by a special investigating I'omnihteo of tlie journal. “Scientific American." following a year of enquiry. Dr Abrams, who. several years ago. announced that the electron basis of life was the foundation of health, died ill January last and lelt an estate of bet we*.'!! two and five million dollar-. I*, A fit a ill- colli riidnl that a chop 111 blood contain- indium- ol elections which rellecled many characters ol the person. By the use of an instrument, called a "rctlexuplnine," he claimed that he could delect cancer, tuberculosis and other diseases. The diagnosis ol a drop <d blood, he contended, would reveal, not only the presence of disease, of any. hut also, ihe age oT llm person, race, religion, and probable length of life. In Abrams’ theory alter a disease had been detected by his method, a cure' could he olleetod by means ol the o-rdlocast, which Used electric waves to ollsc’t other waves within the body, lie had malty followers. In’s thecirv being supported by some prominent men. although denounced hv the American Medical Association. There are at least thirtylive hundred recorded Abrams’ elect mu practitioners, As prospective patients are ittvil C-,| to send drops id their blood lor analysts, a great mail order business was built up by Abrams.