Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-30

ton seven foreign merehan, g.,
INES ana eleven coastwise ma uAe
, nhes' moreover one Of these mer ioea
, n' the Nippon Yusen Kaishs etrIShan
Maii steamship company, on ~spai
.ue longest ocean route on Tho pgIIa'ei
,hat IRON Yokohama TO Antvsr,,,' ope'
~ possesses so splendidly eap,ran'
modern merchant and passen per 'PPge'
equai IN luxurious Furnishings ups
on the sea, q few transatlantlc an!
excepted. Japan has regular s,a miletl
routes TO both San Francisco ana 'SSuuel
tle' Altogether japan has noo. 'sat
modern built ships. In 1870 sbe KY
only 10. cue hat
10 understand how this resul, H..
been achieved one must know tbo uai
ahese people, have some ecora sap
ahce with them and do not hesIis,a
say mat Tor aspiration. perslstence ~,
real intellectual ability 1t Is nv boWNN
no white race today ia their 0unvi
When | think Of the japanese choHruai
ter, somehow | always recall the n,Ts Az
adopted by some young jap naval c,a
GERS TO learn conversational Engilsb' N''
An American lady was tTo"s,,..
alone, going to London on one ~ ,t
Jap steamers plying between Yokob s'
ma and Antwerp. The passengers wer.
chiefly English and japanese. The Ia,
naval officers were going to london :,
bring home q new torpedo boat destrov
er the English were building for tbsi,
fleet The second day out one of tho'.
approached the American lady, wb,
was unattended, and introduced him,
self In fair English thus
Il am Lieutenant Saito, first officer nj
the torpedo boat destroyer Akebono o
the imperial japanese navy. am talk
ing the crew OF the Akebono 10 I.ondo,
TO bring the vessel hcme."
"Ah, Lieutenant Saito." drawled IN,
lady, much taken back. II was an nm
usual introduction for n naval officer AZ
any nation. She wished Leutenan,
Salto would take himself of. but h,
did not. He began telling her OF HI,
efforts to speak English haltingy and
with more difficulty as he went alons
Finally he asked her what would 4,
the best way for him to get the Eng,
lish pronunciation.
IL think" said the lady. III YOU wer,
10 read aloud little every day from
an English book It would help YOU
That's a good way to learn a foreign
tongue"
The American woman was playib,
solitaire her cards spread out upon tho
saloon table, She did not know any.
body on the ship, she did not want 10
know anybody on the ship. When she
told the man TO read aloud from an
English book she turned back To- he,
game Of patience, politely indicating
thus that the conversation was ended.
But II was not so 20 be. The jap
hemmed and hawed, but he held hii
ground, insisting further on his con.
sumlng desire 10 talk English, Finally,
as much TO get rid of him as anything
else, the lady told him II he cared to do
so he might come and read TO her hall
an hour on deck at o'clock next day
But had he any English book?
Oh yes, he had He would bring one
Next afternoon appeared not only the
persistent lieutenant Of the imperial
japanese navy. but also two Of his fell.
low officers Of the torpedo boat destroy.
or, his surgeon and a lieutenant No,
TO put up too small show, the layou,
was attended by the Jap purser Of the
ship they were travelling on, who also
took this occasion TO improve his mind,
But had the lieutenant brought tho
book?
He had. He handed the lady tho
last report OF the United States navy,
the navy Of her own land, one Of those
reports she had never read In all her
life. The Jap knew far more about the
sea power OF the United States than
she herself had ever known. The les.
son began with the reading aloud, The
learners took turns. The lesson became
a daily one. The lady could not get
out Of IT, From half an hour 1t stretch
ed TO an hour, then to two hours, and
so Il continued for six weeks. And,
though the American woman had been
a teacher In her own land, she never
found pupils so apt, so enthusiastic
and eagerly acquisltiye.
This high resolve 10 master at any
cost the knowledge that will help him
Is characteristics of the Jap, old and
young, male and female, When he was
a hoy In Japan, Marquis Ito ran away
from home at the risk Of his life and
put to sea with a companion In row.
boat, taking the chance that foreign
bound ship might pick him up and take
him aboard. That was in the hftes,
when no Jap was allowed TO leave the
empire under pain of death. This Ito
did to see western lands and learn
what made them more powerful than
his own country.
What the boy Ito looked for actually
happened. a foreign ship picked tho
youths up, made them work their way
TO London, and then-and then all the
world opened before the dreaming lad.
Japs mention with pride to this day
that the great Ito, who has brought his
country out Of darkness sinto the light,
Is no man Of noble birth, but u son Of
the people.
The Jap soldier fights because he
loves his country; the Chinese soldier
fights because he Is ordered into bat
tie, and that Is why Japan whipped
China
Yet, after all the whipping. Russia,
backed by France and Germany rob-
bed the little brown man Of the Just
fruits Of his victory, That the lltte
brown man has never forgotten. IL
has ranked in his breast like an I'M
healed wound ever since, But note you
how he prepared 10 avenge himself
The neatness Of 1t shows that not even
astute Russian statesmen are longer
headed than the men who rule Japan
China was supposed TO be Japans
enemy Japan saw her only hope for tho
future in coping with the conscience
less. crushing power on the north was
10 make friends by land with emma
on the sea with England. THIS ! nave
learned from intelligent japanese close
10 the heart Of things. Japans llrst
move was TO make fast friends WIN
China by a generous, helpful pollol'
This was adhered to steadily, and II "
telling at last Chinese and Japs are
natural allies. The languages are 50
near akin that Jap and Chinaman can
understand each other II Is certain
that today Japan Is the best and most
dIslnterested friend China has, under
the lead OF Japan the two nations We
gether could by sheer force OF numbers
check any grabbing move Russia might
make, | cannot express the dlherehVe
between the Jap and the Chinese chaf.
acter better than by saying that Jay
seems like the man and Chlhal'ah
like the woman of the same race
In manual training the japanese sur
pass any other people, Children IN we
schools are usually taught TO Wrlle
with both hands. That manual educa'
ton western nations are now only lale
waking up to the Japs have taught
and practlsed for 1000 years. ZAP
can do ANYTHING with his hands. Tue