The sun., 1916-12-07
Mmsro Ssto.


York will welcome a new envoy from
the Empire not Of the Rising but Of
the Risen Sun. He stands accredited
not merely from the Foreign Office In
Toxic, nor ever from his country as
swayed by party politics. A,MARo
SATO Is the direct personal represent
tative Of his sovereign, the Mikado.
His Majesty YosHIHITo Is the con-
stitutiOnal ruler Of over O., q 600
people. His nation is the leader of
progress In Asia, the mother CONT
nent.
After long diplomatic service. In
States as varied In form as England.
Russia, Germany, Mexico and our
own republic. Mr.. SAro has by sheer
merit risen to the rank Of Ambassa.
dor. He holds therefore a post as
high as the highest In the Diplomatic
Corps In Washington.
This modern Japanese gentleman Is
not a stranger to Americans and their
ways. He Is n graduate of an In.
diana university. He was In Wash.
Ington as Secretary Of Legation in
1888 and sat in the treaty room ut
Portsmouth In 1905. Born IN the
years between Commodore PERRY and
TOWNSEND HARRIS, his education has
been In the world Of to-day. He be-
longs to the newer school OF Japanese
statesman. Would that Americans.
and especially II public men. knew
japan as thoroughly as the educated
men Of Dai Nippon know us. Such
knowledge would be a national asset
In the first order Of values. II would
be worth millions to our expanding
commerce In what are to be the rich.
est markets of the world. 1t would
be potent In our future career. for the
time Is drawing near when Stewards
prophecy. made In the Senate, shall
be common knowledge on the worlds
%hOusetops. The Pacific and the
Orient are to be the chief fields Of
political activity In the future, even
as the Far East has been for CEN
turtles the goal Of commercial ambi.
tion and the nOblest theatre OF the
altruistic endeavors Of Americans.
ATMARO SATO Is n man of the north.
He comes from that end of Japnn's
main island which Is nearer the pole
star than were the %birthplaces of
most OF his predecessors. In Awo-
mort, his native town, a thousand
years ago the Mlkado's armies won
their Anal victories over the aborIgI-
nal tribes. Then the culture OF Kloto
replaced Alnu rudeness and the Cos.
pei OF BUDDHA sOftened manners and
sweetened life. SATo was a samurai.
Whatever that word connotes to the
mind Of the alien, especially as fed
on stage s~pectacles. romnnces, carica-
lures and a window studies of the
soul OF Japan, the comprehensive as
ISOLATION OF ideas at home Is summed
up In word. service. "Samurai"
means servant. 1t tells Of a man conse.
Grated In loyalty to his lord and En-
perOr. In modern days, when feudnl-
ism Is dead and pseudO.mikadclsm is
n fad sure to pass away, the nation
Is supreme, and the samurai knows
1t. The old term now takes on in
crement Of meaning. Because "life
greatens In these later years" the
ancient Significance of the samurai IS
intensified.
Certain 1t Is that a servant OF
servants SATO has been, not only to
his brethren but also to the aliens
within Japan's gates. His adult life
began in drudgery Mt the Foreign
Office, followed by secretary's work
abroad; but when the Russian war
storm broke In 1904 he was sum-
Loned home for labOrs much heavier
than those Of legation routine. Even
to-day a hundred thousand Russians
who were prisoners In Japan call him
blessed. Educated In the American
way, knowing LiNcoLN's spirit un,i
GRANTS methods In victory, Japan SGT
her HOOsler o to surpnss even the
American record by showing to the
world how prisoners of war should be
treated.
Since Mt this moment there are Ave
Or six millions Of able bodied men held
In prison camps In Europe, II may be
well to look a little ut this point, as
illustrating the real temper and polit.