Evening star., 1932-03-21
POPULAR JAPANESE
RULE CERTAIN. BUT
REMOTE, SAYS 0GG
Trend Toward Democratiza-
tion Steady, He Tells Far
Eastern Institute.
WASHINGTON SESSIONS
CONTINUE TWO DAYS
Wisconsin University Professor
Cites World Concern Over
Progress in Orient.

American University Graduate School
at the Interior Department that 'popu-
lar government will be a reality in
Japan, though not so soon as some
superficial observers have predicted"
Hornbeck Opens Program.
DR.. Hornbeck opened the program of
the morning with statement concern
ing the Far East and reasons why
he did not explain it until afterward
that he had written it 16 years ago.
Declaring that the statement was as
true today, however, as when it was
written, Dr. Hornbeck pointed out that
the Government of the United States
in 1899 came forward as champion Of
the open door policy.
I'VE forced ourselves upon ASIA" he
declared. I'VE compelled China and
Japan to open their doors; we made
them accept relations with ourselves
and we have driven them to adopt, if
only in self-defense, instruments and
policies patterned on ours. The prob
lens of the Far East are as much OF
making.
There Is some inclination among
Americans to accept the subtle sugges-
ton that these problems do not and
need not concern us. Let the Chinese
and Japanese settle their problems for
and between themselves or, even with
less consideration Let Japan settle the
problems of the Far East This might
be all very well, If the problems could
be thus disposed of. The era of those
who assume this Indifferent attitude
lies in their failure to look far enough
either into the past or into the future.
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by ignoring them, to avoid issues by de-
ferring them. to meet obligations by
repudiating them"
DR.. Ogg was the first speaker of the
opening session of the institute, which
is to run for two days at four different
places in the National Capital. DR..
Stanley K. Hornbeck, chief of the d.
vision of Far Eastern Affairs of the
Department of State, presided and DR..
Boyd Carpenter, professor of interna-
tienal relations Of the School of Foreign
Service, Georgetown University, dis
cuSsed Siam Among the Nations"
Katsuji Debuchi, japanese Ambassa-
dor. and Dr.. Hawking Yen, the Chi
nese charge d'affaires, have accepted
invitations to be guests of honor at the
meeting tonight at the Brookings IN
stitution. The speakers will be DR..
Harold @. Moulton. president Of the
Brookings Institution, and Felix Morley,
also of that institution.
Sees World Concern.
DR.. Ogg, taking up the question of
Representative Government In Japan, I"
declared that NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. a great
amount Of skepticism in Western coun-
tries about the efficacy (and even the
survivaD OF representative government
in the forms In which we know It, the
Western World has good reason to be
deeply concerned about the outlook for
political democracy in Japan.
"The question is," he said, whether
we are to be dealing five. Is, or so
years from now with a japanese nation
in which genuine political power rests
with authorities representing and
speaking for the general body polite,
or with Japan still guided and con-
trolled by aristocratic, militarist, and
imperialist forces. The political sys-
tenn with which the new Japan started
under the constitution of 1889 was not
liberal and was not intended to be,
and, Notwithstanding large claims for
democracy which some Japanese
spokesmen have made, the empire Is
no true democracy today The forces
that control its policy, especially in
international affairs, are not ordinarily
susceptible of popular control
Nevertheless, there are important
evidences Of a steady trend toward
characterization. The suffrage has
within the past decade been extended
to practically all men. Woman suffrage
is being agitated actively, with pros
pect OF success In another decade.
Cabinet Winning Fight.
"The cabinet, which hitherto has
been responsible only to the Emperor,
and in any case wholly subordinated
on large matters Of policy to the Privy
Council and the extraconstitutional
Genro, Is gradually winning its fight for
a position like that Of cabinets in coun-
tries like England and France. The
elder statesmen, formerly so powerful,
have been reduced by death to a lone
survivor. And, altogether, one may be-
ieve that in time popular government
will be a reality though not so soon
as some superficial observers have pre-
dicted."
DR.. Boyd Carpenter of Georgetown
University took up the questions in
volved in the Siamese general election
due next November.
The clash of interests Of France,
China, Britain. Burma, Siam, the wave
of nationalism throughout the Orient,
he declared, do not inspire peaceful
confidence, for Asiatics, like Western
ers. take not kindly to depression OF
trade nor to changes in status"
Three journalists addressed the
luncheon meeting of the institute to-
day at the Cosmos Club.
American interest in the war which
wasn't declared" between China and
Japan, according to Charles Stephen
son Smith of the Washington Bureau
of the Associated Press, rose to such
heights that cable tolls on news from
the Orient often reached Sic, 900 a day
Shanghai, with an American popu-
lation Of $500 under shellflre," he said
the greatest port in the Far East, the
Chinese city best known to foreign
readers, the crossroads of the East
was an ideal background for the fight.
ing from a news point of view. Ameri.
can lives, American property and Amer.
ica's traditional open-door policy were
endangered. American news agencies
and American newspapers jumped al
their opportunity. On single days a.
many as 10000 words Of cable new!
were filed from Shanghai and Toxic X
the United States. The press rate
n cents q word, while the full rate L
$l.43 word. Cable tolls on news X
America often rose to $4,000 day"
Harry Frantx Talks.
Speaking at the luncheon meeting
Harry w. Frantz of the United Press
foreign department discussed the cues.
ton Of Congress and the American Pa.
ctfic lslands. Explaining the operation
@ the washington naval limitation
tReafE 6 1s22, which remains In foecs