The sun., 1919-07-23

lean in management. has a corps Of
bellboys, walters and roomboys. who are
natives. They are obliged to speak Eng
lish: they naturally understand what Is
being said about their people by the
British and American guests. and when
their reports are read as they appear
in the Japanese Police Department you
are persuaded to believe that here at
least our friends have shown some abil-
ty-for these reports are voluminous,
and while written In Japanese show
their reporters have been painfully
faithful in their work.
You at once think something must
be done to prevent all this, that you
must hasten and tell your American
and British friends how they are heap.
ing Goals on the fire and embarrassing
their respective Governments in their
political and diplomatic dealings with
these people. Your attempt to do this
Is. however. doomed to worse than fall
ure, since 1t is next to impossible to
find any who are willing to think or
hear anything on this subject unless you
have found some new epithet to huri
! or special form OF intrigue to impute.
So you, too, give 1t up and walt for an
opportunity to tell your friends at home
how those OF US travelling or residing
In the Orient are continually upsetting
| all the good work our state Department.
has been trying for so long to do, and
you wonder whether 1t will not be pos.
sible to have this thought brought home
so forcibly that laws will be enacted
| giving the State Department moro au.
thority to look into and determine tho
status Of a proposed traveller in the
| Orient.
1t is even suggested that a book of
suggestions as to conduct while abroad
would rot be out OF place and per-
chance might do n great deal toward
removing this most fruitful source of
perpetual and insidious trouble and
misunderstanding. If the Government
ever assumes a definite foreign policy
as affecting the Orient this. too, should
be made known to the unofficial repre-
sentative.
The reflex action OF the unfounded
talk OF the foreign inhabitants OF the
principal cities of China and Japan 10
being seen just now. and Is persistently
manifesting itself here. In fact. we
have been fed up on so much of this
diseased Far Eastern Review" type Of
ignorant criticism concerning every move
made by Japan In China that to-dS,1 We
are inclined to think 1t impossible for
that country to plan anything for any
| ones good anywhere, and we have
soakeu up so mucn OF the Hiram john
son and Phelan political bombast that
we are ready to go to any lengths rather
than TO Join with Japan in her ende avors
to bring order out OF chaos in the shan
tung Peninsula.
Even the Chinese who reflect the
Western attitude as Interpreted by un.
official ambassadors from Great Britain
and the United States who happen TO
be in Shanghai are being deluded by this
same International nuisance. II is a
shameful fact that we have In this mas
ner so misrepresented these people TO
both ourselves and to their brothers 10
China that they. like we, are cropping Il
their own wise stupidity.
The ruling class in China is not 40
blissfully sincere In its grand stand oper-
atlons concerning Japan. This class I'M
derstands full we'll how futile 1t would
be TO let us know that underneath all
this ANTI" talk was perfectly smooth
working basis between themselves and
Japan. Nothing at this juncture could
convince the higherups in China that
America would ever countenance any
thing like harmony between them; no,
J indeed.
We must withdraw n few of our trou-
Bile making publicists from China and
set up another order OF work-genuine
cooperative work-embracing the Jana
nese and proclaim to the world our hon.
est friendship for these who have never
neglected an opportunity to prove theirs
to us. before we can expect China. who
. wants and needs our assistance in so
many departments, to likewise make
known her real position.