The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-02


principle it pervades human history.
The course for a nation to pursue is to
obey the world tendency, to mount
upon 1T, and to guide it. 1t was this
attitude that saved Japan from de-
struction. If Japan, for n reason,
should assume an attitude OF hostility
and opposition to the world tendency
her doom would be sealed.
Count Okurna considers it q matter
Of good fortune that Japan took ad-
vantage Of the world tendency when
the movement was felt pressing at her
door. "The progress Of Japan in the
future" Count .Okuma concludes. will
depend upon the nations success or
failure in effecting intercourse with
foreign nations"
Japan is making important strides in
aviation. Recently a number of young
military officers trained by the army
aviation corps made a series of sue
cessful inter-provihcial flights, over
ing a distance of sixty miles, and quail
flied themselves as experts. The avia-
ton corps has a spacious open ground
at 'T~okorozawa, near Tokyo, where a
group of student aviators is being
trained by Captain Tokugawa. These
military aviators make occasional ex-
cursions to the city of Tokyo, the peo-
pie of which climb up to the house tops
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aeroplanes in use are Japanese hi
planes, devised by Captain Tokugawa
and a number of French machines.
The naval aviators also have been
active recently. They paid a surprise
visit to Yokohama and Tokyo from the
station at Yokosuka. In n OF
these trips Lieutenant Yamada cover
ed a distance of 100 miles in two hours
and ten minutes. The naval aviators
ara nnw Ms IN nxhihif their craft
before the emperor, who Is recuperat-
ing at Hayama, a seaside resort, from
his recent illness.
Aside from army and navy aviators,
Japan has a number of private areo-
nauts, who are making successful
flights at different points in the en-
pire.
The new woman crusade in Japan
is day by day occupying an increas-
ingly prominent place in public dis
cussion. This is due to the COM
paratively radical measures adopted
by the women to further their cause,
and to the fact that this agitation has
ELECTED a counter campaign by
prominent men of Japan, including
officials of the department Of educa-
ton. Although the Japanese crusaders
have in no way approached the radi-
calism of their English sisters and
have not restored to violence, they are
carrying on a determined movement
by means of lectures and literature,
some of which the government has
seen fit to censure. Mr.. Okuda,
minister of education, say he is at a
loss to understand the real motives of
the new woman He declares, so
far as he can gather. that they are
trying to transplant wholesale to
Japan the extreme and unwholesome
doctrines which have had a vogue in
some parts Of the United States and
Europe, without modifying them to
suit the Japanese people. ,
"If their movement is actuated by
consciousness of the necessity of free
ing themselves from the yoke imposed
by men, or by indignation at the at
titude Of some men who regard women
as mere dolls" the minister declares,
II think there is some lease in their
attitude. But if they aim merely at
improving mems conduct toward
women, there are many other way
in which this could be attained with
out taking such steps as are at pres
n contemplated"
The minister admitted that not a
few cases of unhappiness in the home
in Japan are due to the general mis-
conduct of men, and he acknowledged
lid Tic pASSe1lL LSLdt1OL4S pSL"6Su MEN
and women show room for great i'm
provement. He recommended, there
fore, that men pay greater respect to
women. Woman on her part should
practice those virtues upon which
alone happy and healthy households
"a exist. Girls and young women
should be educated with the idea of
making them good wives and wise
mothers.
Mr.. Okuda is not Of the opinion that
the woman's movement for participa-
ton in government will find it's way
into Japan.