Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-06-10
STATES
: men TO VISIT,
The JAPANESE
Score of Business Men
Pledge Themselves to
Make Trip in April.

Toxic. Japan. May 16.-(Associat-
ed Press Correspondence)-As the re-
suit OF a banquet given here last night
by Wallace M. Alexander and Robert
Newton Lynch of the San Francisco
chamber of commerce., between .fif-
teen and twenty business men of the
United States were pledged to visit ia
pan during next April with a view
to meet and take up with their Japan
S business colleagues the various
coPmercial problems affecting both
countries.
The banquet given by Messrs. Alex
ander and Lynch was a "sayonara"
(goodbye) affair on the eve Of their
return to the United States and was
attended by many Japanese high in
the nations various activities. Co
operation in the effort to solve the
mutual problems confronting the two
races was pledged by the speakers.
One hundred persons YER present.
Mr.. Alexander >who acted as toast
master. opened the speech-making by
saying:
II am going to return next April.
bringing back other friends to seek
the friendship of Japan. that friend
snip that stands on so broad a founda-
ton. k a mighty mountain. Around
the mountain at times might come the
mists Of misunderstanding and the
thunder of the storm. but always. the
weather cleared and revealed the
mountain, standing erect and firm
and to endure forever"
V1scount Kaneko referred to the
Japanese-American committee formed
to discuss questions at issue between
the nations, and his pleasure at the
decision arrived at to go ahead with
the plan.
The questions pending between
America and Japan are not American
problems or Japanese problems" he
said. They are world problems. Of
most vital nature. The question is
whether the white races and the yell
low come into contact with
safety and meet the comingle for the
common benefit of the world. After
the war this question will come more
and more before America. Europe and
Asia and it is a question that must be
solved before it can be said hat the
world is on a permanently peaceful
basis.
Can East meet West on an equal
footing? Must the two civilizations
remain forever separate. never to
meet in harmony? This is the vital
question of the future. and it can be
settled by only two powers, America
and Japan"
Reviewing the possibilities of the
coming conference in Toxic next
April, Viscount Kaneko said in cbn-
clusion: If W. have free and frank
talk, America and Japan can come to
a peaceable> solution of what difference
exist and long years of friendship will
follow"
Baron Shibusawa. who was arbitra-
tor between the American shipping
board and the Jauanese shipbuilders,
said in part:
I'VE r now passing through one of
the great crises of human history and
it is natural that men cannot take
the same careful survey of all around
them as.in normal times. and they
are led to say apd do things without
due knowledge. You have probably
heard conferences or read in the press
things that may not be Pheasant to
the United States.> II You have noted
such, I need not ask you to take these
only as expressions OF -bewildered
minds, bewildered because Of the
vast events which are now going on.
When we emerge we win pass out of
the present STORM into the clear
weather of understanding.
II am convinced that. the two civ
ilizations are Of such real character
and genius that they are destined to
harmonize.n