AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

[Australian N.Z. Cable Association.]

PHILOSOPHERS MEET.

WORLD CONFERENCE,

NEW YORK, Sept. 13,

At Cambridge. .Massachusetts, 400 ol the world’s leading philosophers and teachers of philosophy gathered at the first international meeting since the \\ ar. Alany sjimkors expressed the conviction that philosophy could bring the minds of the various nations together on a . plan which would bridge the ordinary distrusts and rivalries, and which would offer a path to an understanding and amity.

The meeting is being held at TTnvard University, and it includes representatives from England, Franco, Germany, Italy, India, Turkey,, .Japan and Chinn.

Doctor Butler, President of the Cu- • lumbia University, iu welcoming the delegates said.—“We welcome those scholars in philosophy who speak the German tongue.” Here a great burst of applause interrupted Dr Butler. Ho continued.—“ This congress is in the spirit of Locarno. Philosophy speaks no single language. It speaks the •inguage of the classics and it speaks the languages of all modern nations, and it is now learning the language of the Orient. Now the day has come for philosophy, not as something guiding life to the fulfilment thing guiding life to the fulfillment of its purpose.” IMMIGRATION LAW IGNORED. HALIFAX. Sept. 13. The Italian steamer “Dori” caused a furore iu the Saint Margaret’s Bay district by landing one hundred and sixty foreigners at a fishing hamlet 40 miles from the city yesterday. The vessel is expected to be brought to Halifax by a Government cruiser today.

One hundred and eight men, mostly Sicilians, were rounded up by the authorities, who scoured the countryside for them. They were lodged at the immigration premises, pending instructions from Ottawa.

Their spokesman said that the men had been attracted by the steamship agents’ tales of wealth in America, and they bad decided to emigrate to the United State o , where they understood that ihov had landed. OTTAWA. Sept. 13.

Officials of the Department of Marino Fisheries declare that a Board of Inquiry will have to determine the facts of the “Dori” case. If it is ascertained that a deliberate attempt was made to evade the law. the vessel will probably have to be forfeited.