The Washington herald., 1920-12-14
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Visitors in
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Interviews with Guests
From All Parts of
The United States.

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Increased trans-Pacific cable ia
cilities will do much to promote
American-Japanese amity, in the
opinion of Senzaburo Kageyama, of
Tokyo. now at the Shoreham.
Mr.. Kageyama. who is inspector
general of the Japanese Ministry Of
Communications, came to the United
States to attend the International
Communications Conference. This
is his second visit to Washington
and he plans to study communities
tions and general conditions in
Europe.
Japan needs improved cable COM
munications with the United States"
Mr.. Kageyama declared, "and 1 hope
that steps will soon be taken to lay
another cable across the Pacific. The
original cable. the laying Of which
in 1906 was considered such an
achievement, is no longer equal to
the task imposed upon 1t by the
growth in Importance of Japanese
relations with the Western world"
The Ministry of Communications.
which Mr.. Kageyama has been rep
resenting here, is one of the most
important departments of the Jap
anese government. The Minister is
charged with the administration OF
telephones, telegraphs. post roads,
the postal service. and even postal
savings banks, which Mr.. Kageyama
declares have been in existence in
Japan for the last forty-six years.
HOW TO BEAUTIFY
WASHINGTON SPEEDWAY.
Mr.. Kageyama has some hints for
Washington for the improvement of
the appearance of the cherry trees
which make our Speedway gay with
color every spring.
vThey are planted a little too
close together" said Mr.. Kageyama.
"If farther apart they would not only
thrive, but would look much better.
.I take the liberty to make this
suggestion" he explained. because
1 realize that the Japanese are more
familiar with this tree than Ameri.
cans"
In his opinion the trees should be
planted at intervals Just twice the
distance they are at present. He
pointed out that the trees are now
so numerous that IL transplanted
and placed at the proper intervals,
they would provide the entire Speed
way with the attractive embellish-
ment which every spring excites the
wonder and admiration of the tour
ist.
I'm Japan" he said, these trees
grow to a height of from twenty to
thirty feet II Washington's trees
are left as they are at present, they
will never attain much more than
their present height"
Mr.. Kageyama also points out that
from the Japanese point of view an
ether problem involved was that of
proper arrangement AS is we'll
known, in the subtleties Of flower
and plant arrangement the Japanese
are past masters.
AGAINST CROwDING
OBJECTS OF BEAUTY.
"You must have room for your
trees to spread out SO that you can
appreciate their Individual beauty"
he explained. Just as in our best
Japanese homes and buildings we
do not crowd a room with vases and
objets dart Instead, as in China.
we display rev wisely SeleCIeO
things of beauty. often we put a
bit of. porcelain away for a while,
lest we tire of 1t, only to bring it
out again at a later time"
Mr.. kageyama is also Interested in
newspapers and publishing in gen.
| eral. His father he said, had found
ed the Shimotsuke daily about forty
years ago in the province of that
name. This paper now has a circu-
| lation of $4,000 and is considered
one of the foremost dailies of Japan
As inspector general of communi-
cations Mr.. Kageyama is greatly in
terested in all mechanical devices
for the rapid transmission of news.
He spoke of device whose adoption
he was urging on the Japanese gov
| ernment.
1T is a pneumatic tube to connect
the postoffice with the newspaper
| office In order to save time in the
| transmission Of mails" he said
He also plans to install a branch
postoffice in each newspaper Office
| to take care of the papers mail
alone. In this way the papers might
be dispatched from the newspaper
office to the railroad yard with a
great saving in time. All of these
improved methods he expects to in
troduce in Japan.
F.. VIC.