The Washington times., 1921-11-19


safety from the obsolete fort
modern, cheaper weapons, it v
while display of American inn
and self-restrained by treaties and as.
sociations against aggression on the
mainland Of Asia. would. nevertheless.
reap enormous benefits from the libsr-
alton of China.
Given just and reasonable treaties.
she can do very well without arma-
ments. Her geographical position
would make her naturally and prop
erly the first merchant and the first
customer of q renascsnt China. She
would have the first bid for all the
coal and ore and foodstuffs she needed.
American goods and European goods
would have to come past her over
thousands of miles Of sea. Chinese
goods that did not come to her would
go elsewhere up a steep hill OF freight
charges. 1t is preposterous imagina-
ton that China would refuse to sell
to her nearest and best customer.
Moreover. Japan's artistic and liter.
ary culture. at once 30 distinctive and
80 sympathetic with that of China.
would receive enormous stimulation,
as II has done In the past. by q Chi
nese revival.
Japan would be able to keep In the
van Of nations, not by that headlong
imitation and adoption Of European
devices into which circumstances have
forced her hitherto, but by natural
and orderly development Of her own
idiosyncracies in the face Of the en-
hanced power that modern resources
supply. An association OF Japan with
other nations to insure uninterrupted
development to China would insure
that to Japan also. II would be q
mutual assurance Of peace and secur-
ity.
one only that initiates against this
idea Of a pacific and progressive
Japan, a splendid leader in civiliza-
ton amidst q brotherhood Of nations,
and that is this. that Japan Is al.
ready over-pOpulated. she has to i'm
port not only food but Industrial raw
material, and that her population In
creases now by the tremendous figure
of half a million a year.
Teens With Population.
That is the reality that gives sub
stance to the aggressive Imperialism
Of Japan. That js why she casts about
for such regions for expansion as
Siberia-a region not represented at
the conference and 50 beyond its pur-
view. and that Is why she covets
some preferential control in Chinese
metals and minerals and food.
Were it not for this steady invasion
Of the world by hungry lives. the
China for the Chinese, England for
the English, Eastern Siberia Cor its
own people. would give US the sim
plest, most satisfactory principle for
international peace. But Japan
teens!
Has any country a right to slop its
population over and beyond its bound
aries or to claim trade and food be-
cause Of its heedless self-congestion!
Diplomacy is curiously mealy-mouthed
about many things.
Birth Control Solution.
l have made q British official here
blush at the words birth control. but
1t is a fact that this aggressive fecun-
dity Of peoples is something that can
be changed and restrained within a
country, and that this sort of modesty
and innocence that leads to a NOR bid
development Of population and 90 to
great wars calls for intelligent dis
couragement in international rela-
tions.
Japan has modernized itself In many
respects. but Its social organization,
Its family system, ts q very ancient
and primitive one, involving an ex-
treme domestication Of women and q
maximum of babies.
While the sanitation and hygiene Of
Japan were still medieval. a sufficient
proportion Of these babies died soon
and prevented any over-pressure of
population. but now that Japan has
modernized itself in most respects, it
needs to modernize itself in this re-
spect also.
| 1 submit that the troubles arising
from excessive fecundity within q
country justify not an aggressive i'm
perialism on the part Of that country
but sufficient amount Of birth con.
troll within its proper boundaries.