Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 11

T1 In HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1925 LIS 1GELES POLITICAL CRISIS! mmwurs rising women attorneys WOMEN LAWYERS An Anodyne For Blues A 1 NEAR II JAW, PEUETRATE INTO OFFICIAL FIELDS OBSEiERIHIIS Extension of Suffrage in Empire Seems as Experi- ment, Perhaps Dangerous! -Z Hi 5 1 Fall of Kato Ministry Pre Two Local Women Honored With Government Posts After Brief Practise Here Miss Ashford and Miss Buck Tell How They Came To Enter Law As a Career By VESTA KELLING At list the profession of law. long considered by Jur ists and attorneys a realm women could never penetrate in spite of their general emancipation and entrance into the world of work and business, has been forcibly opened by feminine hands. All over the United States at the present time, women are being admitted to the practise of law, and found proficient in the intracacies 1MFFIC PLAH California City's System Recommended to Study of Honolulu Police Heads Pedestrians, As Weil As Motorists, Educated to Obey the Traffic Signals By HOWARD D. CASE (Special SUr.Bulictln Corrwpondenet) LOS AN'GELES, Cal April 6 Loe Angeles la a city of speed, a city of thrills, a city with a police department that Is virtually perfect. With a cosmopolitan population tfcfrt la now nearing the two million i2.rk, and with new purchases of automobiles Increasing at a rate that is little short of sensational, the system In use here for handling vehicular traffic ought to be' studied thoroughly by the Honolulu police department with a view to working out a similar scheme, although of course upon a much smaller scale.

From the traffic standpoint, Honolulu, with Its 97,000 Inhabitants, is but a mere country crossroads when compared with Los Angeles. The ebb and How of traffic In this city both of vehicles and pedestrians Is tremendous, and one need 1 By DON LAN DING It's the colors the colors the colors you see From the green on the hills to the blue in the sea, From the virginal pink of the wakening sun To the primitive pageant of day that is done When the moon bursts aflame at the edge of the sky Till it quenches its embers beyond Waianae. There's the red of hibiscus like splatters of gold, While the rice is like slivers of jade in the mud Of the paddies. Vermilion is spilled on a tree In a fire of flowers. Above you there tl be In the daytime an arch, from the clouds to the land, That is paved with raw opals a luminous band For the feet of our dreams.

On the curtain of night Burns a rainbow of moonstones and silvery light. On the mountains the koas make patterns of green With the paler kukuis embroidered between. In the hedges the crotons are russet and rust, Where the shower trees scatter their gold in the dust. When the days are all sunlight the land is ablaze. When the clouds mask the sky with their gauzes and haze Then the colors are dimmed and diluted with gray 'Til the purples turn mauve and the blues fade away, But the crimsons and scarlets are three times as bright.

No rain has yet fallen that quenches their light. When we live in Hawaii we sometimes forget How lucky we are. We oftentimes let Many days slip away without pausing to view The hills that are green and the sea that is blue. The sky that is turquoise, the trees that are flame And the scene that is never two moments the same. Now color's a wine we may drink without harm, So once every day drink a goblet of charm, A flagon of beauty, a cup of delight, A draught in the morning another at night.

You'll find it a tonic, a cure for ills. It's better than medicine, better than pills For the ailment of grouches, depression or blues It's surer than anything else you might use. only stand at the Intersection of dieted; Party Hatreds Growing More Intense By ALFRED E. PIERES, Star-Outletin Correspondent. TOKIO.

April 2. After the throne has been thrice asked to prolong the diet session; after stormy debates and prolonged disputes; after public excitement reaching such a fever pitch that, day by day, a considerable proportion of the Tokio police had to be stationed, some In ambush and others openly, all around the diet chambers, and after repeated amendments by the house of peers, the privy council, the house of representatives and the cabinet, Japan today has manhood suffrage. When the next general elections take place, between thirteen and fourteen millions nearly a fourth of the entire population of the Japanese empire excluding the colonies will be privileged to cast ballots. Hitherto only three million-odd persons had the franchise. The new freedom granted to the Japanese empire is for Japanese only.

Koreans and Formosans who have been in Japan for a continuous period of over a year are entitled to vote or to stand for election, but the franchise privilege does not extend to the colonies. Hailed as Big Step Manhood suffrage is the latest step in the gradual progress of Japanese politics from oligarchy (albeit a paternal one) to democracy, and from bureaucracy to constitutionalism; it identifies the people with the state in a much more direct and effective manner than has hitherto been the case. When the ministry of Premier Kato came Into power In May last year this was hailed as a big advance of the liberal element in Japan. It was the first time that a government party had been defeated in a general ballot, and the defeat was largely engineered by the opposition parties merging their differences and presenting a united front to the then government party. All the accepted practises in the conduct of elections up to that time conditions which provided ample assurance and insurance that the government party will not suffer disaster disappeared almost overnight, and th opposition flivver twn busy streets to realize the enormous task which confronts the Miss Marguerite K.

Ashford (left), deputy attorney general, and Miss Carrick Buck, recently assistant United States district attorney. Photo of Miss Buck by Post. threw the government car on met of protecting individual rights, both social and evil. There have been three women admitted tp the practise of law In the territory of Hawaii. One several years ago, who is no longer practising, and the others.

Marguerite K. Ashford and Carrick Buck; Both of these women have been honored with government posts after a brief period of professional practise in Honolulu. Government Attorneys Marguerite K. Ashford la deputy attorney general, appointed by Judge William B. Lyroer, attorney general.

Carrick Buck has been appointed assistant U. S. attorney by Charles F. Parsons. U.

S. attorney, and will take office May 1. Both of these women declare that success In the legal profession has nothing to do with sex, that it'a a matter of Individuals entirely. "The time has come when men and women ptart Just about even," says Miss Buck. "And I believe that more and more women are coming to be rated according to their efficiency In all professions.

Just the same as men." "There doesn't seem to be any reason why women shouldn't be as good lawyfcrs as men." declares Miss Ashford. "There are good and bad attorneys In both sexes. 'Youngest Admitted Miss Buck enjoyed the distinction of being the youngest woman ever admitted to the practise of law. She was exactly 21 years old. Miss Buck is from the University of California law school, although she was born and raised in New Mexico.

Before coming to Hawaii not Jong uro she 4vas associated fContlnnefl on Pae 3 city's traffic squad. Surge Across Streets la Los Angeles pedestrians do not cross the streets by twos and threes as they do In Honolulu. They cross by the hundreds when the signal Is given, and then other hundreds line up along the curb back of them to await their opportunity to surge across when the bell rings and the "Go" arm raises. And while this is going on. veritable floods of automobiles and trucks, street cars and horse-drawn vehicles, are passing up and down.

Above the never-ending commotion one hears only the periodic ringing of the signal bella which guide this closely packed mass humanity and machinery, and send it on its way smoothly and regularly. From my observation of the Los Angeles system, it works perfectly. The traffic squad at police headquarters asserts that It cannot be equaled, although it Is the opinion that It can be Improved. It Is en consistently practised since the brave" days of yore, and their very antiquity and historical association lend them a form of Immunity. The peers have been known to aid similar practises.

Press Dissatisfied While a chorda of gladness has been sounded by the press because the circle of voters has been enormously widened, a deep note of dissatisfaction and of fierce resentment against the "obstructing" peers is also clearly discernabie In the comments of the papers of the land. A few extracts from some of the principal journals will best show exactly what public opinion, as reflected by the press, thinks of the new orientation in Japan's domestic politics. "The granting of the suffrage Is an epoch-making event In the history of our nation," says the Osaka Asahi. "It draws a line of distinction between the old and the new ages. The peers, by an objectionable amendment, have prevented and prevented Dr.

Suzuki from going to the upper house. At the same hour other soshi invaded the homes of other peers, acted in a similar manner and practically confined these members of the house of peers to their homes. As a consequence, the upper house held no morning session on the last day of the fiftieth session of the diet. The peers afterward blamed the government and accused Premier Kato and his cabinet of having instigated the gangsters. This the government vehemently denied, but the peers reiterated the changes and demanded and received an apology from the ministry.

Charges May Have Been True It is not improbable that the government knew that such an attack on the homes of peers was to be carried out. It is not Improbable that some of the cabinet members secretly egged the soshi on, thinking this an excellent way of shortening the debates on the various bills then pending." Gangster politics are nothing' new to Japan; such methods have been realonly and Just as it was then maintained that the victory of Premier Kato and his supporters was a marked advance in the constitutional progress of Japan, so it is now said that, by virtue of the passage of the suffrage bill. Premier Kato has opened before the nation a new vista of eventual "government of the people, by the people and for the people" in Japan. Plenty of Dirty Work Gangster politicians played a big part during the recent diet sessions, especially in connection with the suffrage bill. The most dramatic and startling Instance of such activity took place on the last day- of the fiftieth session of Japan's parliament.

Thirty-odd soshi (political gunmen) entered the home of Dr. Suzuki, a nominated member el the house of peers, intimidated his servants and slashed the screens and furniture in his home with swords. They chose a time approximating the opening of the TnornIrr session of the dipt stated intervals, bells ringing each time there is to be a movement in a new direction. At night colored lights, red and green, accompanied by the bell signals, guide the traffic. It is only during the rush hours, and at unusually congested intersections, that traffic officers are present.

Why It Works The reason why the traffic sys tem in Los Angeles works so perfectly is this: Pedestrians as well as motorists have been educated to a strict obeyance of the traffic signals. When a stop signal is given, and all vehicular traffic is halted pedestrians who have been waiting along the curb know that they can cross the street in perfect safety, con-: (Continued on Page 2) tirely automatic During the day the traffic Is handled by corner sternal arms which are changed at A KSSK It costs you less to own and operate a Chevrolet than any other car on the market. Passenger Cars and Trucks i r. AJm -A The Chevrolet mm lias loir I always -been ram OIIS I its power ano con 01 my0 etter -W 1 Now more fully 1 and Wi balanced, etter; imbricate with better carbiiretion tftan ever bar ore. I fK aV '9 extra soap and flexibility are added to an already famous performance.

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