The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-12-03

prepared by the National Geographic 8
ciety. Washington, D. CO.
There Is q marked background
American influence In the rise Of Japa
one of the most rapid and strikin
national developments recorded in hi
tory.
In half century Japan's popult
ton has more than doubled, her wealt
has increased twenty-fold, and she ha
been transformed from an almost fol
gotten hermit nation into a world pow
er, leader in industry and com
merce, with an ambition to be secon,
to none in capturing the markets O
the world.
For Japan's development, there ar,
reasons both Internal and external
First and greatest of all was the new
mind created long ago by the Oyome
philosophy, which threw the reaction
airy COnfucian cult into comparative
shadow.
In this mental discipline 1t should
be noted that every one, without ex-
ception, of "the fifty-fve creators" of
the New Japan was trained, and some
proved to be past masters. Without
this element, the Japan we now know
would not. could not, have been. In
troduced from China, in the Seven
teenth century, the philosophy of
Wang Yang-ming tOyomei in Jap
anese) was developed and taught by
books and expounders In fifty differ
ent centers.
Two hundred and fifty years of
peace sufficed for tile accumulation of
the nations potencies In preparation
for emergence. when the opportunity
should come.
During all this period there was I'M
broken contact with Europe through
the Dutch at Nagasaki Even the
Portuguese and Spanish contacts of
seventy years, with merchants, mill
tary men, and engineers, had left their
mark on the Japanese language, archi-
lecture, music, military science, and
dietetics Then, from the Dutch, with
their mechanics, physicians, language, |
books, apparatus. and hospitals, such
results were wrought In art, /
science invention and trade, in Ideas I;
ind commodities. that Swift. through |
lis knowledge of Holland, was able to
zen his extravaganza, "Gulliver's
Travels" Dutch culture had been like
eed sown everywhere.
A thousand spots of light foretold
he coming dawn of long bright day.
hundreds of native physicians read the
oble Dutch language and in meas
re practiced European medicine. At
'agasaki, Dr. Pompe van Merdervoort
ad established hospital and trained
hysicians.- while Dutch mechanics.
18th the aid Of Japanese workmen.
nd built a steam yacht.
"Blaek Ships" From America
In word, Japan was as a rich I
over field already pollenized from 1
e Occident. Like steady line of {
'es, the Dutch ships had been bring t
g the vtalizing influences for more q
an two centuries. Yet TO the jap t
lese, the modern revelations, on a n
rye scale. were the ''black ships of s
e American whalers that gathered II
their waters What the islanders II
,rned both from honestly ship h
rocked sailors and from the vol W
tary waits (chlefly mutineers) quick Il
cd the national temperament
President Fiilmore's fleet, which was
Tered to sail for the East In 1852, III
the same day that Japans greatest IN
porer, Mutsuhit@ was born, con- +,
ted largely of store ships, which IT
re loaded with American inventions II,
! products. ct
After Commodore Perry had COM m
ted his treaty-maklng, there was re
d In 1854 on the strand at Yoko- II
ma, Japan's first industrial exposi- ne
4. In 1872 the more ornamental lei
sents were in a storehouse at BIO
zuoka. the place of the last sho- W,
Is Punishment. The things of use, in
agriculture and the arts, had al nu
dy been widely distributed and er,
led, especially In that new part of pa
empire called the Hokkaldo
10Y, which throughout bears a In
? American aspect; and the reason n
this Is clear. A commission Of Ink
ntlfic snd practical men, sent out fat
n Washington, was active in the do
nd between 1870 and 1880. In
ven more impressive to the student ma
apan's evolution were the personnel str
equipment Of at least five Of the to
American missionaries Three, '
des being mature In experience, Jay
been long before in China, or Of
E men of science and technical ind
ty. DIR. j. G. Hepburn opened q con
'ital and dlspensary and trained has
frst surgeons and physicians, and of
md s. R. Brown built the bridges vid
ming the gulf between the Two Ian the