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

> tionaries. They also trained the In
, tellectuals, and introduced likewls
. photography and the finer arts.
The third, G. F. Verbeck, was ,
marine engineer and master of sever
or eight languages For years. wheI
the Gospel was still unpalatable he
taught the Japanese everything they
wished to know. Then he organized
their university, taught them the spirit
of occidental law and custom, ex-
planned the freedom of the press and
how church trustees held property.
He also proposed the great embassy
Of 1924 around the world to study
the details of Western civilization, half
the personnel being chosen from his
pupils.
Quick to Follow Their Guides.
Back Of all was the nations youth,
with its vigor, its innate capacity to
select, adopt adapt, and become
adopts. Both geologically and in hui
man history Japan is the youngest
country in Asia.
From 1859 to 1868 not a few for
eign helpers on the soil gave their
time and talents to aid Japan; but
after 1870 and until 1900 and later,
Argonauts from the West came In
fleets to cover Japan with golden
fleece No fewer than 5000 yatoi
(salaried foreigners), experts In every
line and field of human endeavor were
called out and employed. These men
started the first railways telegraphs,
lighthouses, navy yards, foundries.
mercantile projects, mechanical inven-
tions, appliances. and agencies.
Yet the Japanese already had the |
capacity and ambition. The aliens
were only the guides, helpers, and
servants. An American missionary,
Jonathan Goble, invented the jinriki-
sha, that has rolled round the world.
Nevertheless the yatoi did but teach
the rudiments and point the way. 1t
was the Japanese who made the New
Japan.
When feudalism had been abolished,
IN 1871, and the once-despised me--
chant was given honor and oppor-
unity, he unfolded the pinions of a
covering ambition and looked abroad
o capture the markets Of Asia. 1t
vas like giving wings to a tiger"
AS early as 1860 young men had
'een sent to Holland for naval educa-
ion but 1t was under British officers {
hat the imperial navy was recon
tructed, while French first, and then '
iermans, recreated the military sys- I
EN-. admiral Togo was for - !
ears under British naval Instruction.. !
o Americans was given the task of r
ational education. methods of finance q
cling borrowed from Belgium. +
Only the learned Japanese, In 1870,
ould by ear or eye read anything
lgher than shop accounts or fiction.
II erudition was in the hieroglyphics :
China. 1t was said by aliens first =
cklins the japanese script and style q
speech that there were seven dis. y
net languages in one. At times jan u
lese gentlemen In conversation *
emed to have graduated from an old. Z
ne school for the deaf for they used tn
cir fingers and the palms of their 81
nds most industriously to show lust til
nat ideographs they were using or &C
e meaning they wished to convey. 81
Their New Education. M
A reform in this direction meant the on
lift of humanity and the manifold at
'rease of the nations resources d.
rough productive individual ability. "a
ese facts seem to explain the na- WIS
nal renaissance better than official
t!stics, imposing rs these figures of
lions are, or even the present-day
'orts of trained allen Journalists, ,,le
e new education uplifted a whole a.,
ion. Almost every village and ham, ~.
pulses with new life. The victories N'
h over China and Russia and in the po'
rld's markets. were won first in Gu
'an's public schools. In 1920 these III
nbered 25.G44. with l7S.4aO teach. ma
and 1862, 992 pupils-an almost nm. Scn
alleled record. even In the Occident rat
n all this there Is a living parable. Dol
Old Japan man was too much like So'
east, while the beast was too much of'
man. Herein are the parent
to. For ages, and even until to-
=, japan has suffered from too much 1
d labor She needs more live anil sey
8 at the pillow and in the fields. the lie
ets and the mills, while she needs he
lplift her men and women. as
hat has really made the New cleo
an Is this emergence in social life the
he ses spirit OF personality and of givi
viduality. The old civilization was 100
The new national life ia Par
ID, IN the main, on the assertion will
he inherent powers Of tie indi. ed
al, yet In unity Of purpose with con,
commonwealth WIN