Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-04-25
ARMAMENT CUT
PROPOSAL FINDS
FAVOR IN JAP AN
Business Men Endorse Plan
to Reduce Expenditures;
Fewer WarShipS and More
Education Needed.

the strength of which is understood
! to have created perturbation fl
army and naval circles. IL also
\ finding vigorous expression II
Toxic through the leadership OF
Rihei Hyuga. managing director oil
! the Oriental Sugar Manufacturing
company. n man Of progressive ano
| liberal ideas.
Mr.. Hyuga has astonished the
| japanese people by publishing d
| paid advertisement in the leading
metropolitan dailies labelling mill
tarism and excessive arma ments as
Japan's greatest folly. The letter
is really an indictment of Prince
Yamagata. head OF the military
party, to whom it is addressed.
The writer contends that foreign
prejudice against Japanese is due
to the belief abroad that hide
bound militarists like you interfere
with the affairs OF the nation" He
continues:
Lay Aside Your Sabre"
III you sincerely wish TO see
yourself loved and revered you
bAAOAfA PAl eloioC yOol CthDlN' IL
Japan wishes 70 see herself liked
by other nations, the only way is
TO cut down ornaments" Mr..
Hyuga declared that the United
States was determined to reduce
prices at home and to promote en-
ports and that meant a serious
menace to japanese industry and
commerce. Yet the government
had taken no counter measures and
was strangling industry by eSpend-
ing the national funds for battle
ships.
Mr.. Hyuga, like the former Min
lister Yukio Ozaki and Sanji MutO,
the foremost Industrial leader OF
Osaka, is attracting national at
tention in the disarmament cam
paign which is noticeably gather
ing force, He has been twice to
the United States and speaks Eng
fish easily.
school Conditions.
What Japan needs is fewer
dreadnaughts and more education"
he said to tile correspondent. DO
you realize" he went on, that So
per cent of the boys who want to
study in our middle schools, which
correspond TO your upper gram
mar school grades. are unable 10
do so because there is no room and
that in the higher schools condi-
tons are even worse? How can
Japan hope to enter into CONNER
cial competition with the people of
the west when her teeming new
generations are not. and cannot be,
sufficiently educated? This is so
fundamental a truth that 1t is
scarcely worth dwelling upon, yet
Japan is ignoring it. hoping to sue
coed without the essential funda-
mentals.
Do You know why universal
suffrage would not. perhaps. solve
the problem IT is because our
people are not educated up to the
responsibilities of suffrage. And
our elected diet does not represent
the will Of the people.
DO you know why in northern
Japan the disarmament campaign
has not gone forward. SO much as
in the south? 1t is because so
many firms and individuals in and
about Toxic depend for their very
existence upon the building up Of
the Japanese navy. which means
contracts to shipbuilders and dock
companies and profit to the thou
sand and one interests which fatten
on swollen navy and on increased
ornaments generally.
Boy Praises Harding.
the following which he calls an
appeal to the American children
from a Japanese boy" and Mr.,
Hyuga gave the correspondent the
following letter:
L am glad to hear from papa
you now have a very good and
kind president Papa says your
new president can really do lots Of
good things for the world.
before ! saw the Polish Or
phans | liked to see big guns and
batt'eships. But when hundreds
Of Polish children came to Japan
from Siberia | went to see them,
as they stayed in the Red Cross
hospital near my house. They
looked very unhappy, very thin
and dirty and had no boots and
proper clothes. OF course our peo-
Pile gave them all things they want
ed and they are all right now.
Papa told me their fathers
were Killed by guns and battleships
and NAT their mothers died OF
sickness because they had no doc
tors and medicine,
[" Since then, I do not like guns
and battleships any more and !
chucked all my toy guns and tin
gunboats away. | think you will
do the same If you only saw these
Polish children yourself.
"Papa told me our people are
building very big battleships. l
asked him why they make them
now that the kaiser is no more.
But here papa cannot make me
Understand. Only he says America
started building them and Japan
must do the same. l think this is
very foolish, as the guns some
times goes off by mistake and hurts
lots of people. Is it not better not
to have them built?
"fIf you think just as | do, will
you ask all the boys of your class
If they think the same way and
If they do, will you tell your mama
that you do not want new battle
ships? Then your mama will talk
to your president and he will stop
il all, and Japan will help. too. and
the whole world will be lovely and
peaceful.
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