Evening star., 1908-01-25
JlPAu's CAMPA|sN HERE
1T Is A PEACEFUL ONE OF IN
DUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES.
Forces of Flowery Kingdom Are
Scattered Throughout the World
Getting Business Ideas.


when the United States is dispatching its
feet to the Pacific is stra;ning every
nerve to create vast army and navy to
wrest supremacy from the United States
These Japanese forces. however. are not
being drilled for a war OF smokeless DOW
der and shell. In over 500 Industrial ar
senals. over CO.OOo Japanese are being
drilled for a struggle far more significant
than WARRIOR the Industrial battle OF COM
merc;al supremacy OF the world. The
weapons employed are industrial education.
modern tools and machinery and perfect
ed scientific systems of manufacturing and
transportation.
The scouts OF this industrial army arc
already scattered throughout the civiilzed
world, and particularly at every nous
triaiiy strategic point I'm America. IN eV-
cry larg university. in the shops OF almost
every leading American industry. the Ut
tie brown men OF Nippon are busted At
their national mission. seeing everything.
hearing everything. doing everything anu
saying nothing These scouts care little
for our batt!eships and standing army. pay
scant attention to Annapolis and west
Point. They are preparing to fight with
their own weapons our captains of lhuua-
try. and they had far rather know what
goes into a new perfected steel ran OF ~
new form Of bui ding tile. or the process
ingredients of some secret high explosive.
What they want is ammunition for the cd
ucation guns of Japan's $40 government.
aided schools and colleges.
Japan Keen on Inventions.
Let the American university IN which
one of these unobstrusive occidental stu
dents is studying introduce some new
method of teaching engineering. chem's-
try biology. medicine. agriculture. vet
Urinary surgery or commerce. instantly
the oriental mails are full of IT. As
fast as a stamp can travel. the IniVer-
sty- of Toxic knows Cf 1t, and begins
to try the same system In ms techhica
colleges If our Few trade high schools
find effective met thOds OF developing
workers for new industries. the japanese
minister of education is sure TO hear OF
Ii sooner or later and prepares TO give
Japan the benefit of it in $50 industrial
schools. Let an American manufactures
perfect some new process, introduce some
inuuually effective machine. and III
many cases the technical schools at TOXIC
are notified. or a Japanese manufactured
supplied with information. II. the new
machine is on the market one VIII
shortly start on. its t-anspacitc trip. 70
be experimental with and later d,ipii-
Gated in Japanese foundries and machine
shops. in such numbers as are needed lor
the island industries.
But the method the japanese govern
ment is pun suing Is chiefly through edu-
cational channels. Ii finds out all that
it can about industries in which Japan
may compete and then teaches what II
has discovered In industrial schools speei-
ally designed to use just such information
about trade rivals. And because pro-
ducts when made. must In quality and
price compete with those of Germany.
France. England and the United States it
has also established colleges in which men
will be so trained in science and mechan-
ics that they will be able to duplicate or
improve on the chemical processes. ma
chinery and composition of goods from
foreign factories Such goods. when
made in Japan. must be transported. and
the government has seen to 1t that seven
nautical schools to train men for the
merchant marine are in active operation.
Japan Ahead of United States.
According to information recently -e-
ceived by the National Society for the Pro-
motion of Industrial Education. Japan has
got a heavy lead on the United States III
the field Of education that prepares for In
telligent and effective direction of her in
dustries With a population of only 39.-
100000. Japan has probably fifty times as
many state-aided industrial schools as are
to be found in the United States. More
over the industrial education movement.
which is new in this country, and has not
yet been made the subject of any national
legislation, or granted any national sub
sidy. has been under government aid in
Japan for over seventeen years. Today
Japan each year grants 1.13s 99S wen. or
over $530.GGO, to the support of public and
private industrial schools. exclusive of the
Imperial University and the technical de-
partment of the Fifth Higher School.
Moreover. tn students In these Industrial
schools Japan grants postponement OF
conscr:ption. shorter term of military
service and preference in civil service ap-
pointments. The first Japanese legisla-
tion in favor of industrial education was
In 1890. when apprentice schools were
classed with regular schools But TO quote
the report of the japanese department of
education:
1.-The change brought about by the China
Japan war us94-0 in the status of this
empire and its International responsible
ties. together with the development of
new industries. made the necessity of in
dustrial education very pressing. To en-
courage such education. law was passed
in 1894 for the granting of state subsidies
10 technical schools"
Japans Industrial Schools.
In 1890 steps were taken in Japan to
establish normal schools which should
train teachers for industrial schools. and
to encourage these the government grant
ed support to students condition that
they agreed to teach for as many years
they were supported. The Japanese, how
ever. we're not content with ordinary In
dustrial schools. and in 1902 improved a
system of supplementary, or after-school
industrial classes. These are held On Sum
days. holidays. or In the evening or at
other convenient times. In these classes
students are trained in physics. chemistry.
modelling. drawing and use of implements
and tools in various trades: in scientific
agriculture and stock raising and in
marine industry. from fishing and the
handling of fishing boats to fish Matching
and canning. There are also courses in
commercial subjects. languages and aritll-
metic. In all. there are over $40 Of these
supplementary schools for training skilled
Workmen
Urder this government aid the indus
trial and apprentice schools have grown
since 1898 from twenty-eight. with 1884
dition, there are seven institutions Of
higher rank with others projected and
a nautical school not counted with the
rest because it is under the department
of communication. In all, at the time
of the last report printed in English
thers were $50 industrial and technical
schools and colleges. all bent on making
the Japanese people the hest trained en-
gineers. chemists. agriculturalists. fishery
experts, foresterS, marine architects in
the world, the most skfliful artisans.
sailors or assistants in trades. or the
besr-trained business men and trade
schools, particularly the fhirty-two inst!-
tutions for apprentices. aim to give direct
skill in handicraft. although the elemen-
tary science anG the theories OF the diff
ferent trades are touched upon. The
higher schools aim to make chronological