The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-23
WOODBURY.
POINTS OUT
JAP CRISIS
Enumerates Reasons for Fear
Of Japan--Discusses Cali
fornia Problem Touches
Root of Controversy.
COMPARES SOLUTIONS

were discussed by DR.. James A. Wood
burn of Indiana university in his ad
dress on America and Japan" before
the civics department of the Womans S
club at the Morrisson-Reeves library
Tuesday afternoon.
"A critical situation the speaker
said, "is said to exist in the foreign
relations of the United States arisinL
from the ambition of Japan and un
friendly attitude of that nation toward
America. Because Of this, yellow peril
warnings are given tnat war with
Japan is only a question of time and
the senate is being urged constantly
to prepare for a crisis but has not
yielded to the scare" On the other
hand DR.. Woodburn pointed out, that
during the closing hours before March
resolution providing for confer
ence on naval reduction between the
United States, England and Japan was
passed in the senate by unanimous
vote.
Reasons For Fear
Reasons for fear of Japan to which
the attention of the senate has been
called were enumerated by DR.. Wood
burn and the fact brought out by Sen
ator Borah that 1.-The navy of the Unit
ed States will be two and a quarter
times greater than that of Japan with
the completion of the present program
of construction" Tin 1929, was men
toned by the speaker along with the
fact that Japan's navy at present is
three-quarters as large as ours.
That competitive building would be
carried on by England and Japan in
the event that we carried on big
naval construction plan was pointed
hNy fbn II hn
What is the end of competitive build
ing? Evidently, it is international
bankruptcy"
Discusses Forces.
Forces making for peace and forces
making for war were named and dis
cussed by DR.. Woodburn, naming as
forces making for peace:
1. Widespread disapprovai of war.
2. The growing solidarity of the in
tellectual classes and their organized
and concerted efforts to prevent, an
international crisis.
8. The shaky financial condition
of the world This is especially
SO of Japan. Europe is insolvent or
bankrupt, from the Bordeaux to the
Urals. International bankers are solid
1y against war" and he added, babes
now in arms when they become gray
boards will be paying for the madness
of 1914. Do we wish to launch into
another mad career"
4. Dependence of Japan on the
United States for raw materials. The
most profitable industry of that coun-
try, DR.. Woodburn pointed out, is the
production of raw silk. OF the $780,
100000 worth she exported in 1919, he
stated, $500, 100000 was bought by the
United States, which means that the
United States bought $96 worth out
of every 500 worth that Japan sold.
For textiles, which is her next largest
industry, the speaker continued. JAP
an obtains her fibre chiefly from the
United States. "In 1919" he declared
the United States sold her $42 900, 900
worth of raw cotton" and he expressed
the opinion that "a cotton blockade
would ruin Japan in 80 days and drive
the miltarists from power
War Not impossible
"On the other hand Dr. Woodburn
said, strong as these forces are they
are not sufficient to make war an i'm.
possibility. Forces making for war
which might prove stronger than those
making for peace were named by the
speaker as Il. Ja-on's expansion in
Siberia conflicts sharply with Ameri
can international policies. Japan re.
CARDS this as thwarting her natural
expansion on the mainland of Asia
Her surplus population must over
flow or perish. Here is one cause OF
the Japanese distrust and dislike of US
20. Japan is insisting upon her con
tro.. or mandate, over the cable sta
tion on the island Of Yap This has
disturbed our state department which
has protested. We hold that Var
cbo,,11 ba ~ po,,,
and cable purposes.
80 Japanese aggressions in China
conflict with American shipping and
commercial interests; also with oul
sense of right and with our policy oi
the open door While japan sus
poets us of trying TO ALLEVIATE China
from her the United States suspects
Japan of organizing the power OF
China as force to use against the
western world. the speaker explained
a. The enormous influx of Japan
csc into Hawaii, it is claimed, means
that in another decade the island:
will be politically dominated by the
Japanese.
IS. Japan feels, also. that we were
unfriendly to her at the peace confer
ence, and she bitterly resents some O
the positions which the United State:
felt were very much against her
Discusses immigration.
The sixth and greatest snbject, anC
the one which has brought a crisis
DR.. Woodburn maintained, is "tht
Japanese immigration into California
and the land law enacted there by
an overwhelming referendum vote
that will drive thousands of Japanest
farmers out of California. The Jap
anese children We're not allowed Al
education in California. The insult
ing activities of Americans on the Pa
cific coast in their treatment of the
Japanese as an inferior race is gallins
to the spirit of proud and sensitive
people.
1T is difficult" the speaker con
ceded, for the people this side of the
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