The Washington times., 1923-01-19
JAPAN TO RULE.
WORLD, HE
SAYS
Elmer A. Sperry Tells MarveIs
of Science Japanese
Are Developing.
BY JOHN G. KLEIN,
Cosmopolitan News Service.

Cosmopolitan News Service,
NEW YORK, Jan 1S.-"Japan is
approaching world supremacy in
science and is utilizing her best
scientific minds to create the finest
ship Of trade and war;" Elmer A.
Sperry, distinguished America n
scientist, declared in an exclusive in.
terview here today.
Sperry, just returned from Japan,
where he presented credentials OF
greeting from Allied American Engi-
neering Societies to similar societies
In Japan, was permitted to view ex-
amples Of Japanese scientific pro-
gress seldom revealed to foreigners.
These included:
A unique plant for building bat.
tleships, where the concentration Of
forces enables the Japanese to take
raw pig iron and create within the
one plant a monster dreadnaught
with everything on 1t complete. This
concentration Of forces ig unknown
in any other country.
The worlds largest forging presses
for shipbuilding.
Condensors, for use on ships,
which far surpass those manufac-
tured in other countries.
1.-THE japanese" said SpeTTyS by
inventions Of their own and by utiliz.
ing the best equipment that other
nations can offer have raised naval
architecture and transportation facil.
tiles on land and sea to the highest
standards / have ever SEEN
Mentally and physically the jap
anese are the hardest people in the
world. The force Of their unmatched,
homogeneous, national spirit makes
them q people Of destiny. Nothing
can hold them back"
Nothing Can Stop Them"
won't this force, combined with
the growing density Of Japan's pop
ulation, be likely to lead to forced
expansion that may cause war;"
TT makes max no difference he
answered. Nothing can stop them.
The force Of national energy must
break through. believe the United
States can very well learn national
solidarity from Japan.
1.-The strength Of the Japanese, and
it il spiritual az well as material.
can be traced to their age-long con-
1ict with the mountainous country.
The mountains Of Japan have taken
q frightful toll from the race.
1.-THE people have learned to sub
due the land on barren htllsides,
where agriculture seemed impOssi.
BILE. They have been driven to the
sea. The president Of Toxic univer-
sity informed me that the japanese
were the earliest navigators known
to man. They communicated with
the Asiatic mainland from 500 to
], 900 years before the Phoenicians
became sailors.
Four Naval Basins
I'm science the japanese, like the
Americans, are first thinkers. They
have four naval basins where we
have two and many Of their best
scientists are working constantly to
raise the standards OF their ships Of
war.
II saw in Japan the finest plant
for constructing battleshipS that has
ever come under my notice. Nothing
in America or Europe approaches it
for efficiency and completeness.
I'm this plant the japanese take
raw pig iron, imported from Sweden,
and construct the entire bGttleship,
1uCluQAlk kAS OAS SUASs
This could not be done in any
other country. In the United States
and England battleship parts are
made in twenty different places and
then assembled, thus sacrificing time,
money, efficiency and quality.
Il saw in Japan the worlds Iarg.
est forging presses for shipbuilding.
In the United States we have
thirteen-foot forging presses, in Eng
land there are flfteen-f0ot presses.
Those In Japan were much larger.
THE japanese have brought the
condenser to q state approaching
perfection and believe they viii
bring it to absolute perfection in
time. The condenser is a highly
organized machine that transforms
sLeam back into water. 1t not only
generates steam and pushing power
but creates pulling power through
a vacuum 1t is the heart Of the
steam power plant and the steam
power plant 10 the heart Of trans
portation."