East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-09-28
Student of Japanese Problem
on West Coast, Says More
Vision is Need of Hour.
BY ELLIS II. MARTIN,
International News Service Staff
EnrraqnnndnDf

Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO Sept 2S-More /
character more sense and great deal |
more imagination than was displayed |
at Versailles should enter into the No |
vember disarmament conference in |
Washington If 1t is to be a success, in |
the opinion of Chester Rowel. for
many years leading California editor
and now a member of the state rail-
road commission.
Rowell recently returned from
Grip to the Orient. He found In ia
pan much the same forces working
that were uppermost in Germany be-
fore 1914, but declared that the good
sense of both the United States and
Japan should be able to avert a for
seen calamity.
Unity Of Policy Weak.
Japan is superfic,ally very at
ractive country" Rowell declares.
Mature made it beautiful and every
thing man has done has made it more
so. The only ugly things in Japan are
European houses and European
clothes. Every native thing, even the
humblest. like woodpile or straw
stack, shows the touch of conscious
art The holidays commemorate
usually not the anniversary OF events,
but the blossoming of flowers or the
Ipilgrimages to the famous beauty
spots. 1t is respectable to rave over
beauty in Japan and manly to write
spring poetry. The same artistic sense
prevails in the manners and life Of the
Japanese. They are graceful. attrac-
l tive people who have adorned a beau
tful country 1t is no wonder i'm
questionable travellers bring back a
pOetized conception of Japan.
III "Californians are acutely conscious
that there Is another side and no one
who observes Japanese conditions can
avoid being struck by the analogy be-
tween the present organization and
situation of Japan and that of pre- war
H Germany. Just as there were plenty
Of Germans with sound views before
\ 1914, so there are plenty Of anti-mili-
tarists and liberals in Japan now But
/ Germany was so organized that only
4 the forces which were driving the
| world toward war could make them
selves effective IN government. There
is the same artificial unity of policy
II nv Japan and the same obstruction IN
| the very mechanism of government, &c
II control by the non-militarists even II
|! they were in the majority. The same
/ forces are working toward the same
logical end.
II But the safety is that the world, in
| GLIDING Japan, has had Germany's
/ warning. Forewarned is forearmed
l or better still, forestalled. Long be-
i fore things come to an impa5se tho
II good sense Of both countries should
II be able to avert forseen calamity II
n the international experts who assem-.
II BILE in Washington in November tC
II play on the chess board of diplomacy
|! will but show little more character
II a little more sense and a great dea
more imagination than their pre- leces-
sors at Versailles they may deraon-
| strate that the human race is at leas;
| forces which its Intelligence has tls-
II covered"
II China Over-Populated.
II The tremendous man-power Of Chi
ma principally impresses Rowen
II '"The only thing that there is enough
of in China is men," he said. "Every-
H thing else has to be economical bat
H human muscle Is used with deliberate
extravaganza. All work is done in the
II hardest and most inefficient way, iusi
to make more jobs. what machines
and animals do in America, men do in
II China. The coole is almost The only
- A..
ance ana superstition, the coolie Is not
stupid. And there are four hundred
II million of them
H Rowell, speaking on what ] Saw
II in China and Japan recently, gave
some desultory observations on his re.
cent visit to the Orient. A hasty
/ trip he said, gives mere moving pic.
II ture glimpse but the camera can re.
| cord only what appeals to the sense
of SIGHT. In a city like Canton. where
two million people are crowded. in 4
| space the size OF the CITY Of Fresno
L without sewer al with the only car.
il Ibage collections carried On ~ womer
| with large baskets naturally there are
| other unphoto@ 'aphic sights
Il China" said Rowell, "ie a human
| ocean, for no natter how much you
| pump out of tlis ocean the level Is nm.
changed Similarly. no reasonable
emigration from china, could decrease
its population. The law of substrac-
tion fails when crossed by the law of
multiplication. The birth rate in Chi
ma consists of all the ehild-bearing
power of all its women during all their
child bearing years. Most Of the chill
dren die in infancy and most OF tho
rest die young. These swarminS mil
| lions are the remainder. Export any
conceivable number, even hundreds of
millions. and their places would be
| taken Immediately.
THE only possible policy for Cali
! fornia. as the dike-keepers Of The ra-
clal frontier, is no leakage
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