The Nome daily nugget., 1936-07-11
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And the thing that started the whole trouble that confronts us today was an American admiral's nose!
 In that year Admiral Perry landed on the island empire and gave the sons of Nippon their first introduction to American practices and habits. The Mitsui, which was then as now the Japanese family which represents to their business Morgan, Rockefeller and Ford all rolled into one, sent an artist, who might be compared to the photographer of today, to sketch a portrait of Admiral Perry. The DOT trait is still on exhibition at the Mitsui museum in Tokyo.
 An Admiral's Nose.
 The artist accentuated the admiral's sharp features and gave him an ex- tremely long and ridiculous nose. It looked much like one of our over exaggerated caricatures of the present day, but 1t was not a caricature. The artist was simply so amazed at an or dinary occidental nose that he drew 1t all out of proportion.
 Admiral Perry's nose Immediately became the sensation of Japan. IL provoked an unsuitable curiosity re- garding people who could have noses like that. The artist was hurried down to the ship to make sketch Of that, and of the tools and other be- longings of the Americans. The imi- tative ability of the Japanese imme- diately began to make itself apparent, as the islanders began making things like those of the admiral and his con- panions for themselves.
 These few American ideas became so popular that it was not long before wealthy Japanese were sending the young hopefuls of their families to | the United States, clad at first Tn | kimonos, to study at American uniVer- sities. They brought home with them the American banking system and scores of revolutionary ideas from American industrial institutions. Employed in the now great Japa- | nese industrial plants are workers,
 both men and women, who nave learned to practice an economy that | WOulu put luc oCOto tO >S
 live in fiimsy houses to a standard 1 that seems unbelievable.
 l Workers Are Skilled.
 It must not be supposed that be- l cause the average workers income is
 about 50 to $50 month he IS a poor
 worker. He is more likely to be high
 ly intelligent, very fast and we'll
 skilled, with a hunger for education
 seldom matched on this earth. And
 his money has a vastly greater pur-
 chasing power than it would appear
 to have. His production is always up
 to the utmost because the entire Jap
 anese industrial system works on a
 bonus basis that allows extra pay for
 high efficiency, economy, safety and
 production.
 The food the Japanese workers
 family eats would look sorry, indeed,
 to the red-blooded American appetite
 But the lowly Japanese Is not disc0n'
 tented, for his more well-to-do broth
 CTS and their families eat much the
 same menu as he does.
 For what you and would pay for
 hat, the Japanese man or woman car
 buy a complete outfit of summer cloth
 ing for what we might pay for a pail
 of shoes, he can get winter suit ant
 overcoat; his monthly rent costs hin
 about as much as our monthly bill fol
 gas and electricity. That one-timt
 American institution, the nickel movie has become Japanese institution with the children admitted for hal
 price. : Japanese exports climb. And so d our relief rolls.
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