The Washington herald., 1921-11-06
ARBITRATION PACT
WITH JAPAN URGED
BY SIDNEY CULICK
Asks America to Let
Japan Overthrow Her
Militarists.
By DIR. SIDNEY L. GULIcK.


There are two primary problems
In the Far East-China and Japan.
They are somewhat complicated by
the needs and ambitions OF Euro
pean powers. There must be a
free and frank discussion OF them
at the international conference on
the Limitation Of Armament IL a
real reduction Is TO De brought
about.
China's problems include such
matters as the Shantung question.
She has made multitudinous treat
les granting to many western ma
lions and to Japan special rights"
Concessions" and Interests" Her
administrative impotence has led
foreign nations to assume control
Of the customs. of the salt taxes
and other necessities. By treaties
her tariff rates are fixed by for
eign governments. There are sew
eraI foreign settlements with rights
Of Enthusiastically for the var
ious nationalities. Foreign SOL
diers and police, British. French
American and japanese. are found
in a number off strategic places,
And then there is the difficulty of
establishing a national government,
There are really two governments
in China today.
Japan,s Problem Different.
Japan's problems are of a wholly
different kind. In 1868 she began
vigorously to adjust herself to the
Industrial. commercial and miIitar-
istic system of the modern world.
By 1905 she had extricated herself
from the clutches of Europe's ag-
gressive ambitions. Her adoption
of modern science. education, gov
ernmental methods and laws, medi-
cine, hygiene, Ideals of the sacred
ness Of human life has produced
a new Jajan. vigorous, able, ann
bilious, rapidly growing in popu-
lation. and we'll acquainted with
the world and its ways. In self
protection she adopted the milftar-
ism and diplomacy of Europe.
japan is now becoming a great
Industrial nation. Her population
is larger than she can well sup
port. She possesses only slight
natural resources and is now de-
pendent for her living and her in
dustry, for food and raw material
brought from China and Siberia and
bought by goods sold to China and
Siberia. Japan has been anxiously
asking how she can insure a gov
eminent in China that will guar
antee to her uninterrupted and I'M
hampered trade. And Japan has
her viewpoint about the Shantung
question.
Japan is a proud nation and SEN
sitive to insult or humiliation. The
refusal of several countries to give
her people in their lands the same
treatment granted to other for
eigners is q matter OF keen con-
Germ.
Doors Partly Closed.
America also has her Pacific and
Far Eastern problems American
traders md the doors OF opportun-
fly in East Asia not so free and
open as they desire. They md OBJ
noxious Japanese competition and
Japanese methods. Along with Eu-
ropean merchants and Chinese pa
triots they look upon Japan's ris-
ing power and expansion with ap-
prehension. They are appealing to
the American government for pro-
lection for the. rights" Of trade
for insistence on the open door"
The American government Is APP
prehensive of Japan's rising naval
power. 1t is a possible threat to
the safety of the Philippines. Guam
and Hawaiian Islands, and possibly
even TO the Pacific Coast. Due to
these apprehensions powerful forti-
fications and naval bases have been
developed on the coast and far
across the Pacific Ocean.
The American people, particularly
on the aPcific Coast, fear flood Of
Japanese immigration. Some aC
insisting that FIRST by peaceful
penetration" and later by military
power japan plans to annex our
Western States to her expanding
empire.
There are many thorny problems.
How can they possibly be solved ?
Are not the demands of each ra
ana people absolutely incompa tible
Things to Remember.
Here are ten Things that Ameri-
cans and Japanese and Chinese
should always remember:
1. The problems are real and Sc
rious. They cannot be solved bv
preparations and threats of war,
nor even by war.
2, The cost and the damage Of
war would be far greater than any
pronts of trade even to the victor.
A very short war between America
ana Japan would cost America vast
" more than the net profits OF a
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