JORDAN DISCUSSES JAP LABOR PROBLEM

Eminent Scientist of Stanford Thinks Question Not One to Be Decided Solely Through Economics.

ENTRANCE OF ALIEN RACE OPPOSED BY CALIFORNIANS

CHICAGO, Wednesday, June 1. President David Starr Jordan of Stanford University, who is taking his first real vacation in a quarter of a century, arrived in Chicago yesterday on the way to attend a meeting of the National Fisheries Commission at Washington. He was a guest of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity at the University Club in the evening.

Dr. Jordan's attention was called to the report of the California State Labor Commission, which, after an exhaustive study of labor conditions in California, expressed the conviction that either Japanese or Hindu labor must be used in the Western state if agriculture is not to suffer.

"It may be true," said Jordan, "that some fruit growers in California have suffered from want of labor, and this want may have occasioned a certain economic loss, but the question of Asiatic immigration is so complex in character it cannot be disposed of wholly on an economic basis. There is more than one side to the matter.

"A number of people of California are strongly opposed to having the state inundated with a race that must remain socially inferior and which cannot be amalgamated. These people are content with the arrangement which has been made with Japan. Japan has promised to keep its laboring people from coming to the United States. This arrangement, I believe, is better for Japan and better for the state of California."