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The Story the Week Has Told

ernmont. If this is true 1t is rea-
sonable inference that he is or soon
will be sure enough premier.
We do not get as much information
as could be wished respecting cur
rent developments in Japan. 1t is
hoped that the following notes care
fully culled from sundry sources, VIII
be found of interest and value.
The peace strength of the Japanese
army is about 216,000; 100000 con-
scripts might be called up yearly
under the law; actually about 10000
are called up. Authorities differ as to
how large a fully trained army Japan
could put into the field at short notice;
the maximum estimate is four and a
half millions. Military drill is obliga-
tory from the earliest years i'll the
primary schools of Japan, and in the
higher schools military uniform is
worn and rifle practice is conducted
with great thoroughneSs. One thou
sand four hundred army officers are
on detail in the higher schools as mill
tary instructors. Japan's expenditure
on her naval and military services is
about a third of the national budget.
1t remains to see how much of a po-
litical change will result from last
years extraordinary extension of the
suffrage "a .000, 900 to $4,000 .000)
VIII "Shinto and Bushido" C'the way
of the warrior" the doctrine develop
ed within the last 80 years, inculcat2d
in the army and in the schools) be
able to hold their own against the new
dangerous thoughts?" In 1920 the
population of Japan proper was So
000, 900 lin 1871 it was 33 5000 ,000): of
Korea, 17.0O0,O00; of F'ormosa, 1000
600: of the Japanese Empire. there
fore, 100000. In 1925 the nppula-
ton of Japan proper was $4,000
an increase of 6.75 per cent in five
years, the average annual increase
being 100000.
According to the Japanese year book
of 1924-25, the birth rate declined from
33.7 per | 900 in 1915 to 1922 in 1918,
and the death rate increased from
POS in 1915 to 26.S in 1918 Hhe lower
of the two is a terrible death rate).
Says Mr.. Ellsworth Huntington: "Ex-
cept for a very few countries Gnclud-
ing Spain. Hungary and Chile Japan
has the worst health among compare
lively advanced nations, and she is
almost unique in the increase of her
death rate
Japan has reason to fear disastrous
reduction of her export of silk (her
chief export item through increase of
production of artificial silk. Should
the Seyukai party recover the power,
no doubt the premier would be Gen.
Baron Tanaka, head of that party.
He is emphatically a man to be reck-
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BY ROBERT UNDERWOOD
JOHNSON,
Former Amh;

Some one has said that the surest
way to expose a fallacious proposition
is to ask the proposer to give par
ticulars. One wishes that Mussolini
had been more specific in the opinion
he expressed the other day that the
democracy of the United States is
more apparent than real and that it
functions well only because of our
immense natural resources which per
nit a huge and constant waste of
energies. And his argument was,
per contra, that Italy. having meager
resources and a rapidly increasing
population, could not afford to lose
any economic battle.
That American democracy functions
we'll is a conclusion from which we
ourselves are always making rebates.
One need not recant his belief that
on the whole the democratic system
is likely to prove in the long run the
best for all peoples in order to admit
that what we attain of security and
happiness by governmental protec-
tion-or. let us say, governmental alb
stinence-is had at frightful ex-
pense of waste. Many years ago in
my ode THE Voice of Webster" ]
spoke of
Greed and Sloth and Waste. The
sateless gorgons of democracy"
With us the shoe of necessity has
not yet begun to pinch, as it has in
Italy, to which nature has denied so
much. Often our administration. by
reason of greed and sloth, is shame
fully "unbusinesslike. conspicuous
" so in the scandalous conduct OF
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toward fitting the Syrians for self
government.
The report of the commission will
be awaited with interest. 1t seems un-
likely that the Syrian policy OF the
BRAND government, or its execution
under Henri de Jouvenel, the high
commissioner, appointed by BRAND
will be found blameworthy in any
respect, and similarly as to the con
duct of Gouraud and Neygand as
high commissioners. What we await
with curiosity is the Judgment OF the
commission on Gen. Sarrall.
1t is not necessary to assume, as
many have done. that the commits
sion's finding will be one of sheer
condemnation. 1t is the general opin-
ion that though a good soldier, Sar
rail proved utterly tactlesS as an al
ministrator. Did he?
The Syrian mandate, il should be
remembered. is one of quite peculiar
difficulty.
The French high commissioner in
SYRIA, Henri de Jouvenel, who visited
Angora for the purpose, has signed,
on behalf of France. treaty with
Angora. According to certain sources,
France has by the treaty stolen a
march on Great Britain. the treaty
Io1ulIR W DIeJuulct ldiINC III ibi'7'
relations in the Near and Middle East
as seriously as did the treaty with
Angora negotiated for France by NJ
Franklin Bouillion in 1921. But some
brief remarks by NJ. De. Jouvenel to
an interviewer fatty contradicted
such an Interpretation. IT is best TO
avoid the subject pending publication
of the agreement, which incidentally
requires to be ratified.
Nothing has been received supple
mentary to the sensational dispatch
of February Is, according to which
Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd. had sent
a force of 10000 Wahhabites to the
assistance of the Hauran Druses
against the French in Syria
which force, according to the dis
patch, was on the date thereof in
Trans jordani9. territory under Brit
iSh mandate) nearing the Syrian Dor
der. 1t would seem proper TO infer
that the report was untrue.
). y j; x
Japan.-I noted several weeks ago
that Reijiro Wakatsuki had been APP
pointed premier ad interim of Japan
on the death Of Premier Kato.
lack information as to whether or
not Wakatsuki Qeader of the Kensei-
kai parity has since been regularly
appointed premier. One learns, how
ever. that he has persuaded the Sci
yuhonto party, previously on the
fence, definitely to support his gov
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During the last Is years Texas, Ari-
zona and California have absorbed
more immigrants than the other As
States, and the Far West today Wit
nesses an increase in its colored popu-
lation far in advance of normal
growth.
This is the announcement of Eliot
G.. Mears. professor of economics and
director of the race relations survey
with headquarters at Stanford Uni
yersity. Prof. MearS has studied race
relations and problems several years.
OF the newcomers to the United
States. 20 per cent of all who re-
manned were MeXicans. During this
period more Japanese. Chinese, Ital-
ians and Greeks left the country than
arrived, while a net gain was shown
nv Canadians, Irish, MeXicans, Scan
dinavians and Scotch
In the past. Prof. MearS pointed out,
Orientals have settled largely in Cali
fornia because of its proximity and
the ease with which they could enter
agricultural occupations. But now
the Japanese and Chinese. while bet
ter truck gardeners than other ma
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Texas, Arizona and California Get More
Aliens Than IS Other States in Is Years

tionals. are moving to the cities be-
cause of their dissatisfaction with low
farm wages.
The Filipino is replacing the two
major Oriental races at a rate surpris-
ingly high.
Prof Mears said that while the
smuggling in of Chinese and Japanese
is being checked, this is of little sig
nificance. 1t means only that those
two sources are being checked, not
that the Illicit entry of other nationals
is being stopped generally. Many
Europeans enter along the Atlantic
seaboard because of the ease with
which they can be landed.
AS a social charge on California
communities the Mexican has proved
the greatest burden. He has no or
ganization and last Winter the Next
can colony at Los Angeles became so
demoralized that other social work
programs were temporarily set aside
while aid was dispensed to the Next
cans. This is in sharp contrast to
Japanese and Chinese communities
which seldom II ever seek aid from
the whites. Etl
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love for all mankind and for all Gre
alton. Here and there In the pagan
world before Him there must have
been those who felt this truth. His
was, however, the first voice that pro-
claimed 1t to the whole world; the first
mind that conceived it as the central
fact of religion.
x + i, X
believe in God; at least. l think,
most of the time. Ones faith would
be q dead, unprogressive thing did 1t
not one tear down the structure to
the ground now and then and build
new. Possibly this belief is merely
an instinct. And yet only God.
whether a personality or an abstrac-
ton. quite explains to me the mystery
of the universe. Meditation over evo-
luton, strangely. perhaps, has done
more than anything else to confirm
this belief by the processes OF reason
suppose that no scientific man of
any standing doubts nowadays that
the evolutionary theory best explains
creation. But the cause for evolution?
One bv one natural selection. muta
tons, heredity of acquired character
istics have lost standing with biologists
as the central explanation. That this
majestic procession from lower to
higher forms happened they feel GER
tain what caused 1t to happen Is much
more a mystery today than when
Darwin announced his confident
theory Now that missing factor-is
it not perhaps the true miracle, the
hand of God?
/ believe by instinct in immortality.
But here. | must speak with even
less certainty: for perhaps my long
ings color my reason. / want so much
to believe in it, All my days-even my
hardest days. have loved life and
this world in which my life has been
set. That | must go out ON frnal
spasm of agony to humiliation seems
an intolerable thought.
\: X !: x
On this point l should like to believe
with the modern spiritualistS. They
hold. / understand, that life here and
hereafter is a continuous chain. We
take to the other world what of grace
and spiritual beauty we have earned
here. If we have grown-and most OF
US have--We keep on growing. 1t Is
a better existence over there; but IN
it's first stages, not yet perfect. There
as here, the sons and daughters or
God have the high privilege OF work
ing to make it perfect. Our beWild-
cred and cropping souls will know at
last what the world and eternity mean.
and have sure reason. where now they
have only hope. In that sense, 1t will
be rest and peace. But we shall also
continue to struggle; and existence
without struggle is in itself annihla-
ton. I should like to believe that;
perhaps. before ! die, l shall.
Copyright. 1926l
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"O most people who practice it
religion is, suppose, matter
of emotion more than of rea-
son or of abstract faith. In
deed. | am not certain but
that what we generally call falth Is
in itself merely an emotion.
Perhaps two-thirds of the Christians
in the United States belong to faiths
which profess the doctrine of an
eternal hell for the wicked and UNI
converted. | doubt if many among
these millions of kindly people believe
such a hideous tenet. | doubt If they
even try to reconcile it with the con-
ception of a gentle Savior and an all
benevolent God. They keep in their
hearts, as they worship, that part OF
the doctrine which harmonizes with
that law of love which is the essence
of Christianity, and give mere lip serv-
ice in their creeds and confessions, to
the rest.
Like most normal people, / know
the religious emotion. And my own
response is to ritualism. The clear,
cold spirituality which is the essence
of Professionalism at it's best. has for
me on the emotional side but little
thrill. On it's worst side. I consider
the antics of Billy Sunday and his
kind a grotesque dissertation. How
ever. emotion is one thing; reason and
sense of divine order in the universe
another. And with Haywood Broun
I hold it tragically unfortunate that
those sects whose practices most ap-
peal to temperaments like mine hold
tenets often most at variance with
nv knowledge OF fact and my con
ception of social justice.
The sense of sim to begin with.
Never since | began to think for my
self have | felt that sense of sin eX-
cept when | have done something UNI
kind or cruel or unfair. That, OF
course. squares with the eleventh ana
greatest commandment given by Jesus
that we love one another
); !: = \
The fallen race. redeemed by the
sacrifice of Gods own son? If the
accumulated wisdom of mankind
proves anything at all. 1t seems TO
prove that man has come up step ny
step from the first cell in which life
stirred. through the creatures OF the
slime, of the sea, of the primeVal
forests; through slug, fish, climbing
brute, caveman. savage. barbarian, TO
what he is; perhaps as yet only a
creature of the slime compared to
what he will be.
Man never fell; he has risen. II
they told US that God sent His son
10 helm lift a rising race. | could be
lieve them. Reason rejects the story
of mans fall And if my intelligence,
such as it is. cannot jndorse these
fundamental tenets, how could 1t &C
cept without reservation such minor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28
BY FRANK W. BALLOU,

Our American school system is
largely traditional in its emphasis and
content We borrowed the elementary
school from Prussia. Our secondary
schools have developed largely as
schools preparing for higher educa-
ton. In response to urgent needs we
have thrown the Junior high school
in between the old elementary school
and the old high school. There has
been a tendency to develop each of
these segments of the school system
somewhat independently of the others.
There has been q tendency to empha-
size each branch of study as thing
in itself, not as closely correlated as
il should be with other subjects of
study and with everyday life outside
the school.
Usnering i'm Of New Day.
The science of education is usher
ing in a new day. At the meeting of
the department of superintendent.
there was careful consideration of our
administrative units of education.
The purpose and work of the ele-
mentary school. consisting Of grades
one to six, was discussed by outstand-
ing leaders in education. Another
group of leaders discussed the objec-
tives and organization of the Junior
high school, consisting of grades
seven, eight and nine. Still another
group gave careful consideration TO
the problems of senior high schools.
consisting of grades ten, eleven and
twelve other sessions of this great
meeting discussed several important
phases of education that relate to the
whole range of the child's life.
The beginnings of a real science of
education has developed almost en-
tireIy during the last quarter of a
century. Developments in other fields
Of science have made possible a great
increase in the knowledge which is
used in everyday life. They have
made possible many human achieve
ments heretofore not considered pos.
sible
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of the same taxpayer. one may ask.
if, after his country had entered the
war. we had slackened in our effort,
become more parsimonious of our
blood, abstained from buying Ameri.
can shells with American borrowed
money. awaiting the action of our as
sociates? No one in France could, of
course. have favored any such plan:
but how many more American lives
and American billions would have had
to be spent?
A thought might, not inappropriate
". be given to those conditions when
the question comes up of the definitive
settlement of a debt contracted under
such circumstances. settlement
which fair minded people will doubt
less hold should be decided Sin
equity"
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most significant life, from it's twelfth
to it's thirty second year. they are 81
lent Written long after the events oft
en- from secondhand sources, mostly
by men unframed in thought and OBJ
servation very likely they misinterpret
some of His most vital sayings. The
corruption of His doctrines which has
marked the whole history of Christian
ity was probably afoot before the first
apostle wrote.
But they did grasp the spirit of Him;
and il regenerated them, as it was
slowly to degenerate the world. That
spirit was love universal; not the old
exclusive love that depended solely on
the lower emotion, but q high, spiritual
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doctrines as an authoritative priest
hood, divinely ordained sacraments on
which salvation depends. the Virgin
birth?
Yet Jesus remains as a fact; the
great fact of history. Man or God.
He remade the world. My wife has in
this series phraSed my thought of Him
better than | can. when she calls
Him the Genius of Goodness.
!. x :;
Perhaps we do not know exactly
what He taught. For all that dignity
of thought and expression which
makes the Gospels supreme eXamplars
of prose literature, they are poor re
porting. Concerning the history of this
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$1OO,OOO,OOO for Bobs.

Englands "bobbing" or "shingling"
bill amounts to f21 900 900 a year
more than 100000, 900. At least
some statisticians charge that amount
to Dame Fashions account as repre-
senting the increas ed amount of bust
ness hair dresSers have done since
shingling became the style. Ii is
estimated that about 80 per cent o.
the women in England have had their
Ahair shingled.
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Continued from First Page)
front. But in spite of the most siren
nous zeal and an admirable ardor on
the part of all. according to Gen.
Pershings final report. only 100000
American troops had been able TO
reach France by the end of March.
1918. and we had in the meantime
continued the fight.
Stress has often been laid, and once
more quite recently. on the.unjust fate
Of the American taxpayer, who, until
the French debts are paid, interest
and all. has himself to carry the load
Of American debt. diminishing from
wear to year. but still heavier to the
extent of the sums lent to France.
But what would have been the fate
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International Control Needed.

@. What is the cure for our dope
plague?
A. Laws strictly enforced against
the dope peddler and an international
regulation of the production of mar
cotics. Get the countries wherein the
plants that make the deadly drugs
are grown to agree to regulate care
fully the sale and distribution of the
drugs that are manufactured Then
let the United States Government
wage unremitting war OH dope SNUG
glerS and treat them on the same
plane as murderers in the severity of
the penalty imposed and soon the evil
will be controlled Drugs must be con-
trolled entirely and exclusively by the
governments themselves, both as re-
CARDS the growth and sale of the raw
products and their manufactured
preparations. Government control to
cover medical prescriptions and Scien-
tific use of the habit-forming drugs
would end the underworld Illicit
traffic. When we remember that the
amount of morphine that is consumed
annually by the people of the United
States is sufficient were it dispensed
in the usual medical doses of one
eighth of a grain to every person in
| America to put the whole Nation to
sleep for over eight days. the serious
ness Of getting as quickly as possible
an international agreement on the
regulation OF opiates is imperative.
q. Have there been any attempts to
| regulate drugs internationally?
A. Yes, many, but every one has
petered out without any definite or
workable understanding We must
begin again and this time bring all
the moral and diplomatic influence of
the United States to bear to make an
agreement successful. The drug evil
Is one that no one can gainsay. The
Justice of its abolition is self-evident.
Downright 1921
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.Jusserand Comes to Defense of French
Financial Policies and Undertakings

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RY HENRY w. BUM.

rHE following is brief sum
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended Febru-
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BY WILLIS j. BALLINGER.

7 UNDREDS of thousands of
drug maniacs callously dis
posed to commit crimes of
Il L every sort to obtain a few
Seward daily gateway., 1926-01-05
MRS. ALEXANDER DIED
 AT SEATTLE, WASH

Mrs. Minnie Alexander, wife of c. J. Alexander, prominent fisheries op- orator of Alaska died recently from injuries received when she was struck by an automobile in Seattle. Advice was received in Juneau, word of the accident preceding the death message stated that little hope was held out for her rcovry.
 Mrs. Alexander was about 46 years of age. She was born in the east. In 1915 she came to Alaska with her husband and has resided in South eastern Alaska at least part of nearly every year since that time.
 She lived in Juneau, Haines and Sitka and spent several summers at Hoonah when MT. Alexander was one of the principal owners in the Hoonah Packing Company Recent ly Mrs. Alexander has been in Ket- chikan where her husband is now engaged in the fisheries business She went south a few wekes ago to spend the Christmas holidays and part of the winter in Seattle. MT. Alexander reached Seattle from AL aska a few days before the accident which took the life of his wife.
 Besides her husband Mrs. Alex ander is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Irene Murray and Donna Gail Alexander, both of Seattle, her moth, Mrs. M. Sullivan and a sis ter, Mrs. Belle Withrow, both of Her. init, Calif., near Los Angeles.
 Mrs. Alexander had many friend in Alaska who have known her and who give their deep sympathy to the sorrowing family.-Empire.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-01-05
Arr;yyaa!! ef e T.. !avey At
 Barrow Be Signal for Second Christmas Tree

Incorporated in the luggage of Mer1 LaVoy, Fox film photographer, who left Seward a few weeks ago for Barrow, where he will secure several thousands of feet of special schemes for Alaska feature film, where approx imately $500 worth of toys and va rious assortment of gifts, ranging all the way from fancy ladies combs to fixtures for the house.
 Among the scenes MT. LaVoy has been instructed to procure is one in which a Christmas tree, among Es- kimo settings, is to be featured. Tho probably it will be sometime in the spring before the moving picture man will be able to make the shot, the Eskimos will no doubt be delighted to participate in second Chris tmas tree affair, for it will certainly be realistic. The Fox Film Company sent MT. LaVoy direct from New York a large box of tree ornaments so the tree, with the gifts added, will no doubt reflect the real Yule- tide spirit. The tree, itself, will be shipped to Barrow in the spring from Nome.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-01-05
TO SPARE ROD SPoILs CHILD VETERAN SCHOOL HEAD THINKS

LYNCHBURG, Va, Jan. 5. P- For forty-seven years E. c. Glass has held continuously the post as su- perrin tendent of schools in this city. Fifty-four years fo teaching and ad- ministrative service has been given exclusively in Lynchburg schools.
 Superintendent Glass, who also was educated as boy in the schools which he came to direct, believes in the principle that to spare the rod spoils the child" He points as evidence to 156 cases of corporal punishment in his schools during the last season.
 That use of the rod is declin- ing, however, was concluded from the fact that although there are now four times as many students in his schools as were enrolled in 1879, when MT. Glass first took the office, there were in his initial year 2,159 eases of corporal punishment. The majority of 'fwhippings" were admin stered to negro children by negro teachers