Evening star., 1951-09-07

Labor Making Strides.
Labor, through the protection
of modern laws has come into a
new and heretofore unknown dig
nifty and is making rapid strides
along the course of a sound and
healthy movement. The schools
have been rid of the structures
upon academic freedom and pub
lie education is provided to all of
the youth of the land. Universal
suffrage has been established and
the women of Japan have assumed
their rightful role in the political
life of the nation. With dignity
and resolution they have brought
to bear upon public affairs the
morality which centers in the
home and are progressively as
Serting strong and healthy in
fiuence upon the course of Japan's
political destiny. The courts are
proceeding in their administrative
and judicial roles with univer-
sally accepted principles of justice
firmly implanted in the norm of
their procedure, The police have
ceased to be masters and have be-
come instead servants of the
people with decentralization in
organization which permits exer-
else of their functions at the COM
munity, rather than national, level
OF government.
+ The economy Of Japan has
made rapid and effective advances
toward the full restoration of sta
Ebility and self elf-suficiency and has
achieved sound basis for frugal
public administration. For the
past three years, the national
budget has been in complete bal
Iance with savings to permit SUBJ
stantial reductions in the tax
load upon the people and cor
responding raises In their living
standard. Japan's present course
in the economy of public admin
istration follows closely the pat
tern sagely advised by Thomas
Jefferson when he warned in
speaking of our own Government:
Il place economy among the
first and most important virtues
and public debt as the greatest
|of dangers to be feared. To pre-
serve our independence, we must
mot let our leaders load us with
perpetual debt. We must make
our choice between economy and
liberty. or profusion and servitude.
The same prudence which in pri--
vate life would forbid our paying
our money for unexplained prof.
ectS, forbids it in the disposition
OF public money. We are en-
deavoring to reduce the Govern
ment to the practice of rigid
economy to avoid burdening the
people and arming the magistrate
with patronage of money which
might be used to corrupt the prin-
ciple of Government"
Warns of Loss of Liberties.
If Japan continues to heed this
far-sighted warning and our own
leaders who pretend to be dis
ciples of the Jeffersonian teach
ingS continue to ignore it, the
time may well come when the
japanese people will be firmly es-
tablished within the protective
folds of our own cherished liber-
ties, while we ourselves shall have
lost them because of the assump-
tion by our leaders of that
patronage of money" with its
consequent corruption of govern
ment against which Jefferson so
clearly warned. In such a tragic
eventuality. we would be hard put
to it indeed to answer the charge
Iof our children and our children's S
lchildren that we had recklessly
squandered their rightful heritage
Iof liberty, resources and oppor-
tunity.
Can Defend Homeland.
/ This is but a brief outline of the
1 new Japan which is about to be
restored to a position of inter-
national dignity and equality
under a peace treaty which as
presently proposed while far from
Ifiawless embodies much of human
Justice and enlightenment. It is
la Japan which may now assume
|, the burden of preparing its own
ground defense against predatory
'Iattack and thus in short time re-
lease our own beloved divisions
for return home. With our air
and naval support, Japan can with
no great difficulty defend its own
homeland which forms so vital a
sector of the island defense sys-
tenn buttressing freedom and peace
on the Pacific. It is a Japan in
which we of the free world may
find an alliance which shall merit
! our full faith.
!. J realize well that there are ma
e tions who fought with us to victory
I while suffering grievous hurt from
e Japanese depreciation who under
4 standably disagree in whole or in
sIpart. It is hard for them to ac-
: cept the realistic but tragic fact
0 that in modern war the victor is
/. also the loser. He suffers ma
with the vanQuished-oft-
: times more than does the van
n quished. Indeed our own country