Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1905-11-17


and fifty thousand Of our people are
being annually destroyed by the great
white plague, tuberculosis.
4 In Japan the disease Is practically
4 unknown.
Why7
Because the Japanese breathe fresh
4 air.
What would the Japanese think 81
they were told that their people could
not have fresh air because they did
1 not have more money!
Or could not have exercise becau141
they could not AFFORD to belong ~
athletic clubs?
| Or must 70 without food because
they lacked money to buy It at ri
butcher or a grocery store, when
every Japanese gardener has the land
| from which he knows how with hiSs
| own labor to get all the food he needs
| for the abundant nourishment for
himself and family.
The Garden Farm.
or the 45,000,O0o population On
Japan 80O00,0O are farmers, or more
correctly speaking, gardeners. Tn
Japanese farm Is q garden, Irrigated
intensively titled.
/ And a recent writer. describing th4l
| life Of the Japanese farmer. says
Measured In money, he Ii not rfc4s8
| But he dwells In comfortable and In
/ wiling home, purged OF every taint ~
| dirt and dust. The transparent paper
| walls OF his house, made Of bark from
| his mitsumata shrubs, flood his dwell
| Ing with light and keep out tile wind.
He enjoys good food served In dainty
but inexpensive dishes made OF native
4 Ia xx4l
poorest, there are no visible signs OE
poverty. There II no squalor In agft~
cultural Japan. The humbiest peas.
| ant farmer II clean, Industrious and
| comfortable. The area of fence corners
abandoned on many American farms
| to Wild mustard. fennei. ana pig weed,
would furnish comfortable living TO III
whole family In rural japan. Some
idea Of the trIfilng cost of living tn
agricultural Japan WINS given bye
an American who has spent tfteem
takes vacation In the farming -
gions. He has good food, sleeps On
clean and comfortablcquifts In impec
cable houses lis carried about In c0t1I1~a
| try carts. and at the end OF two weetma
| finds that his total expenses have nc&
exceeded ten yen, or Ave dollars.
| And from the gnrden farmE--the
! Home Acres-of agricultural Japan
have come the soldiers who have faced
death to drive the Russians from Man.
churia and leaped into eternity IN -.
OF the Russian Navy from the seas thae
wash the shores Of their Home LAnd
A Nation Of Home Acres.
1t Is an old saying that man wil1
not fight for boarding house. but thS
| Japanese have proved that they Wiit
| fight like demons to defend the fnntts
tutions or a nation OF Home Acres
We instinctively think Of the vicfc
ries Of Japan as the victories Of her
| leaders.
But there, again, we are superficial
Our military men were loud In their
praises Of the mastery way in which
Kuropatkin played the game Of war;
And Rojestvensky must have th0
credit due him for sailing his feet four
thousand miles and planning 10 Gx
GENTLY to provide X with coal and pro-
visions. M
But oyama and Togo had the me-
and every Japanese soldier and H4iIq4
Is not only a hero but q leader. *
every officer In the japanese army An11
navy above the rank OF Captain We1e
stricken dead tomorrow. their plaeG
would be filled and Japan would con
tinue to prosecute the war to final vilcE
tory. The secret Of her power 1feS -
the fact that In intelligence, ia mental
and physical strength, III individual
initiative in patriotism, In all that TO-
to make mp q fighting unit, every
Japanese soldier and sailor Il u
Oyma or Togo in embryo.
You might destroy every ship that
IHnHH I109anaoao x1oot,><.xx k1.s $500
and munitions Of war, take away even
the clothes on their backs and tram.
port every soldier In her army ana
every sailor In her navy back 20 ~
shores OF Japan as naked AZ the day H
were born, and leave the nation to III
own devices, and In few years theY
would completely reproduce THEFT
naval and military power and II
stronger than ever. 2s
substitute for them the dull-wifte6
peasantry OF Russia or the enaeuie :
factory operatives OF England, ana
you have destroyed Japan.
Men Before Rattleshlps.
True to his wariike impulses ana u
stincts. President Roosevelt eatcheN ~
the echo from the great naval baffl*
which has just been fought. and cSlIS
on the country for more battle shlnf
Rojestvensly had battle ships. -
nad more Of them than Togo. Hut h6|
didn't have the men. And be c0111dElT
get them. Russian institutions couI6
not produce them. s.
Now, would It not be wise for H.
people OF this country to wake un Is
the fact that the foundation Of d.
strength as nation Is not In an aruS5E 4
or navy, but In our citizenship. Il