The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-07-06
SAYS JAPS WILL
NEVER FIGHT us.
CHAUTAUQUA SPEAKER GIVES
INSIGHT INTO QUESTION
OF FAR EAST
APPALLING CONDITIONS EXIST N KOREA
Howard Quintette Of Musicians Share
Honors With Dr.. Hubert in
Opening Day

DR.. II. b. Hubert, envoy e%Xtraordin-
airy OF the Emperor of Korea, and the
Howard Quintette, a company of must
clans of the highest type, opened the
Brookings Chautauqua yesterday in a
manner which gives promise of being
n OF the best programs ever given
in the city. The attendance the first
day was very good and the sale Of
season tickets is being pushed avidly
by he members of the American
Legion auxiliary.
The Howard quintette filled the en-
tire afternoon program and thoroughly
pleased the large audience. To add to
the interest and appreciation of the
music, Mr.. Howard, the director, gen.
tally introduced each number and told
something about the composer and
about the piece they were to play. The
quintette consisted of two violins,
piano, flute and cello. The same group
opened the evening program as a pre-
lude to the address of DR.. Hubert.
If every Chinaman were to add six
inches to his shirt tail it would re-
Quire every yard of cotton goods in
the United States today. In that man
ner DR.. Hubert illustrated the vast
Importance to China and her ability
to absorb American surplus manufac-
lures. The great future market for
the United States lies not in Europe or
South America but in the Far East.
He stated that there was not a spot
in the remotest part of China where
American goods were not in the great
est demand but the demand is still un-
supplied.
In order to understand the far east
ern question, he stated, it would be
necessary to know that China and
Japan are as much different as two ma
tiOns could possibly be. The people
and the language are utterly different.
For. 5000 years China has been devel-
oping an aristOcracy Of merchants. The
merchant in China stands at the top of
the social scale. The soldier ranks at
the bottom. Everybody in China de-
tests the soldier. They have long ago
discovered the futility of war. They
have eve encroached on any country
although they could have conquered
the most of Asia at any time in the
last 5000 years. The Japanese are
just the opposite. The soldier is at
the top Of the social ladder. The mer-
chant is the lowest in the social rank.
The soldier of samurai can exert his
~tyrannical will over the common peO-
pie without fear. The law of the
sword is the only law the Japanese I'M
derstand. In addition e this fact they
never enter a war until they are abso-
lutely certain that they will win by an
easy margin. For this reason, the
speaker said, Japan will never make
war on the United States.
He told of the almost unbelievable
conditions which now exist and have
existed in Korea and Shantung under
Korean who utters the name of George
Washington, Abraham Lincoln or
speaks of the United States in favor
able tones is killed or imprisoned by
the japanese. No American book or
magazine, no book or any printed mat
ter concerning America is permitted to
be in the possession of the Koreans.
All that were there have been burned.
The Japanese burned up DR.. Hulbert's
library. American citizens in Korea
and Shantung are treated with the
grossest indignities by the Japanese.
He further stated that il the United
States or Great Britain did not inter
M and stop the militaristic domin-
ion of Japan owe Korea and Shan
tung that the nations of China and
Korea would join forces with the boil
shevists Of Russia who have offered
them help and start the most awful
revolution the world has ever seen.