The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-09
WISDOM MUST BE
PARLEYS GUIDE
Californian Says More
Vision Is Needed Of
the Hour
ny ELI.fg H. MATHIS.

SAN FRANClStb, cal, oct S.
More character. more sense ana
great deal more Imagination than
vus displayed al Versailles should
enter into the November disirma-
W"ut conference IN Washington II
it is io bee success. In the opinion
~ Ghott,r EuWoil Tor many yeats
10 leading California editor aud now
h member Uf the state railroad COM
mission.
Rowou recently returned from a
trip to the orient Ne found 900 Ja-
pan much the same forces working
that were upUcrmOst 100 Germany
before tI9li, but declared that tn
good sens, Of both the United
states and Japan should be able 90
avert forosceu calamity
Japan is supcrucialiy very at.
trHctivc country Huwcll d,ular,s.
'Natur, made 10 beautiful and
everything man has done 90 IL has
madr II moro sn Tho. only uvly
things iu Japan are European
houses aud European clothes. Every
native thing even the humblcsj, Ike
q wOodpi.o or a straw stack, shows
tho touch uf conscious art The
holidays commemorate usually not
I the anniversary OF events. but the
biossomingOf flowers or the plgnm-
ages To- tho famous beauty spots. II
is respectable To- rave over beauty ln
Japan and many to- write spring
poetry. The same artistic sense pre-
wallis iu the manners aud life Of the
Japanese. They are graceful. at
tra.tivc people who have adorned a
beautiful country. II is mo- wonder
imprcssiOnablo travellers bring back
IA poctizcd conception Of Japan.
CalifDrulaus are acutcly conscious
that there rs another side and no
one who observes Japanese condi
tlons can avoid being struck by the
analogy between the present orBanl-
zation and situation Of Japan and
that ~ pro-war Germany Just as
there Wcrc plenty OF Germans with
sound views before 1914. So are
there plenty Of Hntl-militnrIsts aud
liberals lu Japan now. But Ger
many WAS So organized that only
the forces which were driving the
world toward war could make
themselves effective IN government,
! There is the same artificial unity OF
policy by Japan and the same OBJ
structlun IN the very, meC hauism of
government. to control hy the nom
miiitariats even it they were In the
majority. Tho same forces are
working toward tho same logical
end.
But the safety is that the world
including Japan, has had Ger
many's warning Forewarnod is
forcarmcd, or better stu, fore
stalled. Long before things come to
an impasse thD good sense of both
countries should be able to avert a
fOroseen calamity II the intcrna-
| tioual experts who assemble in
| Washington in November to play on
| the chess board of diplomacy will
/ but show little more character, "A
! little more sense and a great deal
more imagination than their prcdc-
I Cessors az Versailles, they may dema
| unstratc that the human race Ia at
| least morally III to be trusted with
| forces which It's intelligence has dis
covered
China Ovcr-POpulatcd.
The tremendous man-pOwer Of
| China principally impressed Rowell.
Tho only thing that there is
enough OF in China is men," he said.
/ Everything else has to be econo-
mNzed, but human muscle is used
with deliberate extravaganza. All
work Is done In the hardest and
most Inefficient way just to make
moro Jobs. what machines and
animals do In America, men do in
/ China. The cuolie is almost the only
beast OF burden. But though ignor-
ant and supcrstiuous, the coole Is
/ not stgpid And there are four hun
dred million OF them"
Rowell, speaking on what !
Saw in China and Japan" recently,
gave some desultory observations on
/ his recent visit to the orient. \
| nasty trip, he said, gives mere
moving picture glimpse, but the
camera can record only what ap-
/ peals to the sense OF sight In "A
/ city like Canton, whore two million
/ people are crowded in a space the
/ size Of the city OF Fresno, without a
sewer and with the only garbage
collections carried on by women
with large bask cts. naturally there
are other unphotographic sights.
/ China said Rowell, lis a hu-
! man ocean, for no matter how much