Evening star., 1905-10-21
| THE GREATER JAPAN
Lord Rosebery Contributes an
Important Preface
FOR A NOTABLE BOOK
BRITISH COMMITTEE WILL SUB
NIT A WAR REPORT.
Giving Conclusions Arrived at by
the Attaches Accompanying the
japanese and Russians.
Special Correspondence of The Star.


Mr.. Alfred Steads new book on Greater
| Japan; a Study in National Efficiency"
Japan is, indeed says Lord Rosebery
| ''the object lesson of national efficiency, and
happy is the country that learns It. we
have been SO successful in the world with
| out efficiency that in the ordinary course OF
| events we shall be one Of the last to strive
| for 1t without some external pressure we
| won our empire and our liberties by genius
| and daring in an inefficient world. Now
| that one more nations are keenly striving
| after efficiency, 1t will not be easy to main-
| tain our heritage.
| Some think we are too old a nation for
| new departures; that our garment is too old
| for new patches. But Japan is, historically
| speaking, a much older nation than ours:
| and yet she actually did this very thing
! some thirty years ago; discarded nearly
| everything but patriotism, and began a
! fresh career. But the exception of patriot
| ism was vast and pregnant
| How stands it with us in comparison
| with these orientals? We have all the raw
| materials, some of the best. We have cour-
age and brains and strength, but there is
| surely an immense leakage of power in
| their development.
POLITICALLY speaking, we begin and end
| win party. We are all striving to put our
selves or our leaders into offices or expel
other people from them. This is not from
want of patriotism; quite the reyerse-the
hablt of centuries has made us believe that
| this is patriotism this and no other.
10 we ever stop to reflect what is the
outcome or 1t all; the net result of millions
| or words, words, words; of great debates
and incessant divisions and spirited autumn
campaigns? In truth, exceeding little The
tact IS that party is an evil. Its operation
blights efficiency. 1t keeps out of employ
ment great mass of precious ability IT
puts into place not the fittest, but the most
eligible from the party point of view-that
is very often the worst. Efficiency implies
the rule Of the fittest; party means the r,,Ie
OF something else-not the unfittest. but of
the led ht the accidentally not unfit and
the glaring unfit anu
"And, after all If Won get rid ne n.r. t.,
one shape 1t will turn up again in another
why, then, 1t may be asked, break your
teeth against a stone? There has, no doubt
peen plenty of party in Japan. But party
perhaps, in the other direction 1t annears
TO De rivalry of faction for the goal and
prize of efficiency.
Ihat is where we differ. We regard our
parties as interesting groups of gladiat ators
Our firmest faith appears to he that 90
wiii 90 worse than the other so we main
tain the other, whichever that NAV he
ne possibility of directing and vitaliz-
ing government that shall do and inSniro
great Things we seem to exclude from nos
sipllty with a sort of despair. We know
700 700 wei that our ministers, however great
the ardor and freshness with which tba,,
set to work, will soon be lost in tba ~,
Iliilhlne mazes of parliamentary discussion
anu that Whatever energy they can nra
seLNe When they emerge must be devoted to
forms. VA ~ io'iiciai plat
ana yet there is work to do-pressips
,,ioa uoai woIk which does not admit of delav.
" Worh Whlch would fill strenuous years even
II parliament were suspended and 40
speech We're delivered But pa rIiament ~, -. a
sIt ana speeches must be DISCHARGED W.
~ luei tHeh at least learn from Japan bon,
sI ~ oplah eInciency in spite of the nartw
can teach u.s. 0"oh tnat she
All the British naval and n,,,,.
Tara "no nave been accompanying the
japanese and Russian forcas th,o. e
war having now returned, the imneris, H.
fense committee has constftuted 81 ue
sort Of commission to draw I'm -.
giving their opinions on the conduc+ of ~
war ana the conclusions thew have a
rived at as to the lessons to he Iaornas a.
, ION II. They will be assisted In tbeir
work by officers of the intelligence d.rne. onstr
ment OF the war Office and admiraItv
me deliberations are likely to be nro-
tonged, as report of the most compre-
rt nresantoa aha Iar.reaching character is to be
oeiense committee. Formerly it was the
rule of each officer to present bic irdi .Me
tldual ta opinions. but in practice those We're
Iound TO be so conflicting and often so
discursive that they were generailv MT
INTO the pigeon holes and never afterward
extracted. Inc method now adopted ap-
pears pea more business-like. AS the report
VIII be impersonal. personal fads win NOT
be allowed to intrude upon 1t. and mnch
unnecessary verbiage will be avoided.
X
Mr.. Israel Zangwill Is making proeress
with his Jewish territorial organiza ton
which he Is perfecting to combat the de-
eision of the recent Zionist congress not
to accept the offer by the British govern
oent or land In East Africa for Jewish
colonization purposes. An office has been
opened in Essex street, and vigorous cor
respondence is being conducted with SYM
pathizers on the continent and in America
Ihe acting president of the organization is
Dr. Jasslnowski, an eminent lawyer In War
saw, who was formerly a member of the
chief executive committee of the Zionist Or
ganZation.
In Germany the leader is likely to he
DR.. Klee Berlin lawyer who Is an ex-
cellent speaker and was a favorite with
the late DR.. HerZl In America Mr. Zang-
will is said to have the support of Judge
Mayer Sulzberger of New York. AS soon
as sufficient financial backing Is assured
bank will be founded in London, much
on the same lines as the Jewish Colonial
rust. III RUSSIA Speclal receipt form
tfor fifty kopecks) has already been printed
and circulated In England a different
form (for one shillng) will be used, and
the design will most likely be made by
Mr.. Solomon ]. Solomon. one of the most
recent of Mr.. Zangwilrs recruits. Next
week Mr.. Zangwill will open a debate on
the new movement before the Maccabaeans
Club in the Great Central Hotel. Mr.. NJ
H. Spielmann will preside and Mr.. Lucen
Wolf will speak.
\ 4
London can now boast of yet another ar
tistic body. The Society of Twenty-Five
English Painters. which has Just opened
It's first show, is somewhat oddly named,
because 1t includes at least five Scotsmen,
and two Of them--Mr. E. A. Hornet of
Glasgow and Mr. D. T. Cameron-count
among Scotlands leading artists.
1t Is little difficult to ascertain the pre-
else raison d'etre of this new society, ex-
cept that 1t adds one to the already numer-
Gus bands of associations that arrange reg
ular exhibitions. With the exception Of
Miss Mary Cameron. each of the twenty
two artists SO far elected is represented.
But II one asks how many of them may be
studied to advantage the reply must come