The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-02-26

Nothing reveals the growing modernism of Japan so fully as the fact, which occurred there quite re- gently, that the authorities closed down the Stock Exchange in Tokio because of the pulling tendency that prevailed. Stocks scared to great heights. just like the, war .ba- bies of Wall Street and great for tunes were made.
 h all respects Japan despite its still clinging to many of the GU stoms of ap older day among the people is an essentially modern country. It's industrial growth is phenomenal. It's business. prosperi- sy and methods quite marvellous.
 Tokio is growing at faster rate than any other city in the world except Greater New York, and at it's present rate of development will be running the American metropolis 6 close race for the premier position as far as size, political importance and financial greatness is concerned, very soon.
 The methods Of acquiring wealth in Japan are no different to what they are in America or any Eu- ropean country. They have seizeo upon the capitalist economic system and have directed all their energies to it's development.
 in Japan every industry is foster ed by the state and in Japan accom- panying this growth is q develop ment of proletarian sentiment which . can easily be guaged by the fine ar ticles from radical Japanese which have from time to time been trans. lated in this country.
 No Caucasian approaches the Or, ent with any sort confidence. Soms- how chattering lecturers andsuperfi ciai observers have acquired only the impression which an apparent mysticism leaves behind, and they come away imbued with the notion that the Orientals are some other sort of being. mystic. unintelligible, slnfathomable.
 But they are not. They are human beings who bleed when pricked. who laugh when tickled, who sui fer when injured just like the rest of us. Their brains acquire facts with the same ease and with the same difficulty as the average, and what they have dore and what they are doing any other nation given similar conditions, similar impulses, similar environment would do anu would have done.
 Japan loses out by being mis- understood as the embodiment of that silly notion of the mystic east, with symbolism the rampant note in art, in literature, in music and iD social life. s%
 Their art, despite the beautiful lacquer work, indescribably accurate delineation of tree and flower, is ture symbolistic. But so was the art of all nations in their youth, and Japan in these days of photo graphy and moving pictures, me chanical coloring and at the other reactionary extreme, futurism, is rising right well to the artistic pos litho and the Sunday supplement.
 Critics of Japanese methods sheer at Japan as nation of mimics; that they have copied the western na- tions (only, not excelled them.
 One would have thought that tnc Illuminating facts of their civiliza tion so easily to be observed al Mukden and Liaoyang would have dissipated any such shallow views. Indeed it hardly the proven excellence of such a chemical as shimose powder to demonstrate as far as Japan was concerned, she hadt not only been instructed but had bettered it.
 And we are all mimics, No man could possibly write today a book which would not be in some way a plagiarism, maybe an unconscious one, Old man Solomon quaintiy and. truly said there is nothing new under the sun, and since the days of the Queen of Sheba's lover, the sun has grown older indeed as has the