Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-02
anti JAPANESE
FEELING STRONG
The People of Australia, New
Zealand and Canada Object.to
~ Jap.
A11EMP11Oo OVERCOME THIS
Commissioners Have Been Sent to
the Capitals to Offset This
Condition.
attempt TO OVERCOME THIS

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spirit that is being cultivated in Aus
tralia, New Zealand and Canada, that
missions have been sent to England
and the DOminiOns named to counter.
act this feeling.
Australians Despise Japs.
In Australia the antagonist
against Asiatic immigration is wen
more bitter than in New Zealand.
Canada or the Western States of
America. 1t is believed that the Japa'
nese have designs on Australia. 1t is
for this and no other reason that con.
ScriptiOn has been introduced into
the Dominion and the start has been
made In building a navy. Among the
stories current in Australia is n to
. the effect that a map Of that country
is hung up In every school room in
Japan, to which the attention of the
students is directed as being that of
a land which should form a part of
the Japanese Empire. The Japanese
deny this and say that the only JUST.
fication for the invention is the cry OF
ITO the South Seas which is often
heard in Japan. but which means
nothing more than a movement of
commercial expansion and has no pc.
iltical significance.
Pacific Continental Meeting Point.
The feeling of %antagOnism of which
the Japanese complain is not confined
to Australians and New Z~ealanders.
tEnglishmen visiting those Dominions
are infected with it. General Sir Ian
Hamilton, Inspector General of Over.
sea Forces, who is paying an official
visit to the Antipodes, referred to it
in a speech that he delivered at Vel
lington, New Iceland. Answering the
question why extraordinary precau-
tiOns were being taken in Australia
and New Zealand, he said it was be.
aus of the shortening of distances
caused by the advent of electricity
and aeroplanes and of high explosives.
The Pacific, he said, was the meeting
ground not of nations, but of CONT
nents, where it might be decided
whether Asiatics or Europeans should
glide the destinies of the world. Other
reasons no less obvious were under
the surface. In the Malay States a
tine people was going down before
cheap coOlie labor, and China showed
signs of breaking up. These were H.
Illustrations of the change-evOlving
chaos, resembling the time of the
French revolution. Foreigners, who
lived on rice and monopolized busi-
ness, were invading British countries.
New Zealand was very close to the
danger zone, and New Zealand was no
less eager, ready and willing to help
her big sister.
SEX HYGIENE NOT TO BE TAUGHT
The Education Committee of the
London County Council has decided
that under no circumstances should
Sex hygiene be introduced into class
teaching in the elementary schools.
This decision was reached after a long
investigation and the examination Of
a large number of teachers.
The evidence was almost unanimous
ly against the proposition. Dealing
with the objections to the inclusion
of such a subject in the curriculum, the
report of the committee mentions, in
the first place, that the knowledge of
such matters amongst children de-
ponds very largely upon the type of
home from which they have been
drawn. 1t is pointed out that where,
as is u%nhappily common in many
districts, the parents and children
live in n Don in which all the
events of life and death take place
the knowledge of the children must
be very different from that of chill.
dren who come from a home where
they are carefully guarded and who
may obtain no information of this
kind until they are over fourteen
years of age. 1t would be a task of
the greatest difficulty to teach the
subject satisfactorily in class, since,
while to some children the facts are
already known, there are others to
whom the knowledge might come as
a shock. Then a method of treatment
of this subject which might benefit
n child might harm another. In the
second place, speaking of these sub
jects in class must tend to break
down the children's natural modesty
and eserve. Nevertheless, the report
agrees that some such instruction
might be given to children Over four
teen in the higher schools and even
ing institutes. and il is suggested
that pamphlets dealing with the sub
ject should be given to girls leaving
the elementary schools.
WOMEN As coNsTA6LEs.
A bill to enable the police authori-
ties to enroll women constaDles is to
be introduced in the House of Com
mons by Lord Henry Cavendish Ben
timex, Unionist member for South
Nottinghamshire.
The officials of Scotland Yard have
declared themselves as opposed to the
measure. A spokesman said bluntly:
1--WE are against the suggestion. We
err ploy special women for special pur-
poses, such as vigilance work, and in
all cases intimately connected with
women or young girls, to a far great
er extent than the public realizes.
Moreover, in all our police stations
women are employed to look after
female prisoners and whenever there
is a female prisoner a woman is n
stantly on the premises. Then, again,
we work in close touch and sympathy
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