The Monticellonian., 1917-03-29

with Russia; with prosperous
~ America buying her silk at good
prices; with good crops already reaped
and promising. and last but not least.
with the banner of the Japanese mer-
chant marine reaching an ever-inereas-
ing number of ports, Japan is for the
first time in many years, if not in his
tory, leading nation, writes Maynard
Owen Williams To the Christian Her
aid.
Full speed ahead" is the order of
the day in industrial and shipping cir
cles and what has brought death and
destruction to Europe has brought ac-
tivity and prosperity to the japanese,
whose part in the war has been done.
From Tsingtau to Tsinanfu, the mill
tary flag of Japan boldly waves above
many's Pacific paradise are being
boosted in the tourist centers OF Mix
ko, Hakone, Tokyo and Kyoto. They
are under japanese management now.
The tiny japanese cat is playing
with the ungainly Chinese rat, wonder
friends. In many newspapers there
are articles urging the ACCESSIBILITY of
making friends with China, but with no
other motive than eventually to reap
larger profits by such methods. No
where is there thought of danger from
China in Il direct way. If the open
door promises profits, open door let 1t
be. But there Is no consideration for
the opinion of America or Europe in
the argument. Japan has the envied
but not enviable habit of looking out
for number one" whether it be in pub
licity, diplomacy or commerce.
Here in the beautiful Inland sea
Vulcan sweats and tolls that Neptune
may be conquered. The scene is one of
enhancing beauty. Awkward sampans
and white-winged sailing ships dot the
blue. Green hills shoot down TO the
waters edge, and detached rocks, sur
mounted by grotesque pines which
cling with barred roots to naked stone,
1ut from many promontory.
Around the Inland Sea.
In the hollows between the hills lie
the villages, almost hidden in the deep
green of stately trees over heather
temple and humble home. Terraced
fields representing months of patient
toll. Chamber up the towering hillsides.
Reforestation has kept mother earth
from being denuded here as she has
been behind the ill-smelling smelter at
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every direction, pointing heavenward
in some part of every fair prospect in
which hazy hills melt away into the
soft distance.
white lighthouse casts its Polyphe-
mus glance from a sugar-loaf of wood
ed rock, and from shady points of van
tage a summer home or picturesque
shrine dominates the view of curving
bay and craggy rock. But man has
conquered nature. In several small
harbors the rattle of compassionate
riveters beats an agoniZed tattoo on
the hollow bulls of building ships. The
scent of soft-coal FORCES robs the air
of its freshness and adds n smudge TO
the blue of the vaulted sky Through
the dark smoke the hot ugly glare of
forge fires adds dramatic red to the
picture. The idyllic scene has been
touched with the call for ships to
carry the worlds commerce, and the
fair countryside frowns at the twenti-
eth century order, Full speed ahead
At Kobe and Nagasaki giant cranes
cut the skyline in jagged contour, and
the English-speaking tourist is greet.
I'd with signs blind man could read
"7,0o0-ton floating dock" 1t is the way
that the artistic japanese in his fair
land has responded to commerce and