The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-04-12

sionaries and scamcn's homes through.
out ;he world, signed by Captain Bickcl
and bearing n hundred or more ad.
dresses of potential friends from the
canal to the capcs.
KohnyaShi san speaks English better
than most Japanese, though he has lit.
tie chance To practice. His work Is on
the little island of Yugcshima, whittier
the EngliSh-speaking traveller seldom
comes, but he has kept with him these
40 years the knowledge of English
which he gained from an early mission.
AIRY in Niigata.
With his sweeping panama, his
heavy beard and mCStachc, his vivacl.
Gus manner, he would look rs much
ut home in the Place de rOpcra as IN
this lonely island of the Inland sea,
whore one has storms for companions
and indcScribnbly delicate sunsets for
friends. lie Is like no other Japanese
| have ever seen. Frank, full Of fun,
witty. and. MS he says having "a bit ~
American in his head" he Is rs inter
csting in the way he acts us in the way
he talks.
IN the harbor Of this out-of.the-way
iSlaEd we were discussing the extern.
sion Of the American navy. Imagine u
cowboy in the West giving thought to
whether Japan built one more battle.
ship or adopted II new foreign policy
"Whcn you get these new ships.
whore will you get the men to handle
thcm?" asked this principal OF a school
in which II hundred young men are tax.
ing the first three years of Il nine years
course tn fit them to be captains OF
merchant ships. "You can build ships
In a short time, hut 1t takes much long
or to build officers"
How Captains Are Trained.
He ought TO know, : r in the school
which We had visited, from fencing.
mask to scXtnnt, chrOnometcr, com.
pass and hOwIiuc. the whole equipment
Is for the trimming of officers in Japnn's
constantly growing commercial fleet.
The school grounds are spick and
span. tn" school garden contains M
weed. When Il visitor enters the study
room, there r. n quick command by the
student In charge aud every white.
clad student Is erect f"d at attention.
"PruSsinn methods" yor say. Yes,
ana all directed to the "dcvcinumcnt Of
Individual worth and rcsponst N%ilities.
These students are not to he slttcrs
hut captains. No discipline is too stfist
for the training Of those who are to
command.
After three years of training in one
of the ten schools. or In the college In
Iokyo, the young men go to sea 10
serve three years more. They would
become sim and too old for training II
they stayed In school long. Three years
they serve Us apprentices in active
service, with study every day and FREE
quent examinations. They then have q
second mates certificate. Three years
more of examinations and tests, and
the apt scholar can become a captain
at twenty-eight.
The merchant marine In Japan Is not
n trade or n last resort for drunken
ne'er-do-wells. It Is Il career. tn,
apprentice In training expects to be
treated as n gentleman.
Japan's shipping Is on the boom.
New lines are reaching out for trade
with the continents and islands of the
seas. Japan IL the coming Britain of
the Pacific, the Phocnicia of the fan
East. Heavy subsidies are pourin
profits into the pockets OF ship own
crs, and each vessel, from tug To liner,
Is paying for itself every day the wal
Commercial connections are being
made in new territory. Many say that
markets will revert To those who
held them before the war broke OUT.
But the Japanese are persistent and
\ passenger on one OF their
liners knows what 1t is 10 be looked
after. They ar" branching out in I'm.
and wages ARE almost AS low
rs ever. japan * sacrificing womarf.
lood and manhood - win world mar.
lcts. Other nations will be STOW Ia
nay the same price for gold.