New-York tribune., 1921-02-22

and am taken by the usher to the first
row right under the screen, where I
can see nothing. When | complain
they tell me / can cave, because am
Japanese. Ny intellectual convictions
cannot stand against that"
At luncheon | met young govern
ment secretary, Harvard man, who
had just returned from an official mis-
sion in the United States. He asked
me where was my home in America.
Colorado, | told him.
"Ah!" he said; II have memories of
Colorado. have been insulted on the
streets of Denver and called foul
names in Office buildings"
a few days later chanced to 20 in
to the Hibiya library to consult some
work Of reference. &c IA al japanese
buildings, had TO remove my shoes
and was given a sort Of straw sandal.
Dut, as ] cannot manage these things,
which are pads rather than sandals,
with string around with which t.
clamp the toes, had to walk on the cold
stone floors in my stockinged feet.
One of the librarians, seeing my plight,
called me to the entrance, hunted up
pair of cloth covers used to 20 over
shoes and told me to put on my shoes.
AS was doing so the man who had
came in. He, too, wore foreign clothes,
with foreign shoes. He asked also for
snoe covers He was told there were
none, that it was the rule to remove
shoes. l had been gwen the only COW
ers there were, because | could not
manage the sandals. And he took off
his shoes and went about on the cold
floors on thin straw pads.
Rcceiyes Courtesv i'm Tanar
The contrast needed no words. He
q stranger in the city of my home, had
been publicly insulted. /, n stranger
III the city of his home, was given q
courtesy not shown to native. He
said nothing, but he looked at my feet
and smiled. | WINGED under the smile
And can narrate many such incidents.
Now, | have never lived in California
and | am not competent to discuss
whether it is justified in the measures
1t has taken. DO not know local con-
ditions. Nor do | know whether the
other Western states are justified in
following it. They may be within their
moral rights. But were l Japanese,
even the most liberal Japanese, ]
might detest my country's foreign ag-
gressions, / might hate its domestic
aespotism, but also. / think, | should
NC dHCl-&1ueIlCaH. ana SnOQIQ resent
from Americans the same criticism OF
my countrys actions in Corea and
Shantung that l should be willing to
make myself. Which is the attitude
of the majority Of intelligent Japan
ese.
1t is in that attitude the danger lies,
Certainly immigration alone is not
enough to cause war. ReAentful as
the Japanese are, they are not foolish
enough to go to war for their pride,
They know full we'll the balance of
strength is on Americas side
But the i'll feeling over discrimina-
ton has created a condition of mutual
resentment which will make more
difficult of settlement the more vital
ol.. erences of policy between the two
nations and out of which any incident
- ..afe lnto an explosion. This
has been shown by the seriousness that
the dispute over the zap cables as
sumed. 1t has been shown even better
by the feeling ever the killing of Lieu
tenant Langdon in Vladivostok.
Both would have been minor matters
had they involved any other two ma
tions. And let it be realized that even
more serious subjects of dispute are
destined to arise between Japan and
the United States. There is a radical