San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
BY T.. X. FGGER.

Special Cable TO The san Antonio Ligh
and the Chicago Daily News.
| Copyright, 1928.
following is the fourth and last O.
Mr.. Egger's series OF articles review
ing and analyzjng the results OF TN
Japanese earthquaEe)
Toxic, Japan. Oct. e..-The wori.
is prone 10 measure a disaster by TN
extent OF the material and human los.
and let 1t go at that. But there are
| problems following such catastroph'
as that which Japan has suffered tina
are as great as those of reconstruction
and rehabilitation. One OF these Of
vast Importance TO the future OF tn,
japanese nation is the social problem
The proStratiOn Of Toxic. Yokohama
and many other cities, towns and vii
lagos has brought to a SiandStill many
of the agencies working for the upliit
| of humanity and the betterment pi
the nation. Churches. schools. social
welfare centers and many other organ
izations have suffered the same as
have individuals and commercial inter
eSts.
Two-thirds of the primary schools
and institutions OF higher learning in
Toxic, the educational center of Japan,
lie in ruins. The schools in Yokohama
and several other communities are
gone. Thousands Of growing minds and
bodies are thus left without educa-
tiOnal guidance. True. many of the
universities are opening in temporary
quarters. but they are without equip
ment for carrying on as before. More
over. only a limited number of stu
dents can be Accommodated, meaning
that thousands are left educationally
at standstill
NOshiwara First Reconstructed.
The great Quakes and subsequent
fires wiped out in twinkling sections
of vice and squalor which otherwise
could not have been eliminated in de-
cadeS. Witness the complete deStruc-
ton of the notorious Yoshiwara of
Toxic and the terrible death of hum
dreds Of its imprisoned inmates. Wit
ness also the destruction of NO. @"
in Yokohama But has the destruction
of these eliminated the vice which
there flourished? 1t has not. The
NOShiwara was one OF the first places
10 be reconstructed in Toxic.
Vice is licensed and legalized in
Japan. IL stands to reason that the
government will continue to protect
what it protected before. Moreover.
consider the thousands of japanese
girls left homeless and alone as 4 re-
suit of the great tragedy. II all the
girls in the Noshiwara were sacrificed
on the funeral pyre of shame there
are thousands ready to take their
places through sheer force Of neces.
sity.
The great work OF reconstruction
and rehabilitation is well under way.
The imperial japanese government
has taken hold Of the situation with
q firm hand. eyidencing its strength
and power over its subjects. The
people Of other countries have re
sponded with generosity in aiding
stricken japan.
Many New Forces at Work.
However, new forces are at work
throughout the nation and forces hith-
erto well suppressed with autocratic
alacrity have been given new lease
on life. If the vast task of bringing
the country back to normal could be
accomplished in a year or two there Is
little doubt that everything would go
well. But it must be realized that what
was destroyed in hours can be re-
placed only in decades Some say it
will take so years to rebuild and re-
organize Toxic. while the general be-
lief is that Yokohama will never rise
from her ruins to her former place OF
Importance in domestic and foreign
commerce. These persons may be over
pessimistic. but many years mus
elapse before the final scars Of this
great wound are healed.
In the meantime what will take
place in the national fabric: Already
the working classes are showing q
new spirit of independence ami class
activity. While the great majority %
the quake victims were Of the labor
ing class this has only stimulated their
brothers 10 greater activity. lowered
the available forces for the tasks of
reconstruction and forced wages sky