Evening star., 1923-10-29

true prophet honored ABOUT his nome
mentioned this to an expert of the
company.
"Oh, the university boys? They
look on us as a lot of easy uncles.
And they are not bit timid about
together their fault. We do our part
in spelling them. As a matter Of fact,
more than forty of the officers and
technical staff Of the company are
Imperial University men,"
On the ground floor of the build
Ing, which houses offices and research
laboratories of the company. there
was lecture room. 1t was full when
l visited it. There, daily lectures are
given by some of the leading experts
or the company to its technical stu
dents. The audience come from all
over the empire. I counted more
than dozen of gray-haired engineers
who had travelled half the length of
the country for light on a technical
theme. the light such as they cannot
get elsewhere. For this free. factory
school room does not teach from text
books on electricity. 1t simply re-
ports the successes and failures of
scientific experiments in its own re-
search laboratory. And a failure is
quite as valuable as a success
Visitors are not confined to tech
nical men. Officials interested in fac
tory laws come here to see with their
own eyes what model factory looks
like, how the factory girls are treated
mere. Not so long go the repre-
sentative women of the China prefec-
ture, headed by Viscountess Kano, the
wife of the present head of the old
family which has been the lord of the
clan in the old days, visited the fac
tory that they might get the first
hand information of a modern fac
tory at work.
Girl Xyarkers Hanox
/ The general appearance of the fac
tory girls working here is one of the
first things which catch the eve of
the visitor. They are different from
their sisters in other factories They
are healthier. happier and full of life
They seem to be higher in intelli-
gence. l was told that one reason
for all this was that the girls all
come from good families in neighbor-
Ing farmer communities. They are
not the regular class of factory
workers. They come and work for a
few years to help out the family A.
nances in these trying days for the
Japanese farmer Some of them are
getting enough saved to purchase a
more pretentious trousseau than the
parental pocketbookS would allow
them. These girls do not live in DOR
mitories, they live with their families
in their homes. But they have their
meals at the factory dining room. 1t
was so clean that it attracted COM
ment even in that original home Of
spotlessness. For the prime en-
phasis everywhere about this factory
seemed to be on the health of the
workers.
In the rear Of their grounds the
company Installed a sewage disposal
plant There is no sewage system in
Kawasaki. People for miles around
come to see the plant. 1t is one Of
the outstanding object lessons the
country Is getting in public hygiene.
Just how much money this COM
stockholders 1 do not know, but
have been given to understand that
they are happy and satisfied. This Is
important. Future supply of cheap
American capital for the industriali-
Zation of Japan is a big problem. In
deed. upon this American supply of
cheap capital hangs the future of the
industrialization of Japan.
Educating the Women.
The Toxic Electric Company is a
John the Baptist in that field. It's
I showing is bound to have an impress
| sive and very happy result in the fu-
| ture financial alliance of the two Pa
, cific powers. From this aspect, this
American-Japanese enterprise is much
bigger than a mere successful indus
trial corporation. 1t seems as though
i 1t Is destined to light the way to that
uItlmaLe peace among nations wniCn
| diplomacy and politics seem to have
failed to find so long and SO utterly
Americas part in the evolution of
electrical Japan does not stop with
merely setting up big factories or
merely installing electrical machinery
| t'made in United States Of America"
1t does not stop with the big funda-
! mental work Of financing industrial
Japan with cheap capital. 1t goes
further-much further.
The other day Mr.. III. F. Hawley.
the American consul at Nagoya, re-
ported little event the like of which
the ancient castle city had never
seen since time out of mind A local
electric company, an. entirely Japa-
nese concern, engaged the services of
an American lady. The company hired
a hall and invited large number Of
leading women of the city to attend
an educational exhibit. And the COM
pany asked the American woman to
demonstrate before the audience the
use of an electrical iron and al
electrically driven sewing machine.
A news item of this sort does not
get a front page space of metro
politan dailies OF America. It is a
pity that it doesn't. For right here
is the seed of revolution before
which q mere political revolution
takes on the proportions Of peanut
Copyright, 1923.)