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Show I INSIDE VIEW OF JAPAN H Salt Lake Travelsr Talks of H , the Wonderful People. i '. H j NATION LIKE A BEE HIVE j I j All, Old and Young, Happy and H industrious. H 1 I ' Readiness of the Nation for War ' Intense Loyalty, Industry and I Simple Living. Some preconceived notions of the Jap-H! Jap-H! anese race are shattered by a Salt "Laker .who recently spent several weeks in the Orient. In view of the threatened war between Japan and Russia his obscrva-H, obscrva-H, tions are of peculiar interest at this Hi time. 1 NO JAPANSES ORDERS. "The Japanese army," he says, "will need no commissariat. Russia has been represented as contracting: for millions of pounds of beef, but you have not Hj heard of Japan ordering anything. If 'necessary the Japanese soldier can put two weeks' rations In his haversack I and cut loose from his base of supplies, i They need only a little rice to live on, , nnd with this simple diet they perform feats of endurance which astonish a ' foreigner. A naval officer told me that Hj I ,he had occasion to travel ninety-four 1 miles in twenty-four hours. He em- 1 ployed two rickshaw' men to transport him and to give.himself some leeway told them he had to be at his destination in ! twenty hours. They got him over the ' ninety-four miles in eighteen hours. They can beat any horse in traveling long distances, and in that particular would be superior to cavalry. . JAPS VERY PATRIOTIC. I "The Japanese are intensely patriotic. 1 You can win your way Into their hearts , and homes by speaking constantly of l 'New Nippon.' That means 'New Ja- 1 pan.' During the war with China, they told me, farmers would come to town and turn every cent they possessed' Into i the war fund. Even women would bring 'the little sa.vlngs of years and give them freely for the same purpose. I IN LEAGUE WITH CHINA, i ' "In my Judgment the future will see a H league of the yellow race. Japan 1b gaining ascendancy over China, and if there is a war with Russia China will H declare war against Russia. This will 1 drag England into It, which is just what Japan is figuring on. Japan will un-doubtedly un-doubtedly bring civilized methods Into China, and it is then that the yellow people will begin to control the manu-facturlng manu-facturlng business of the world. The Japanese are not the most intelligent of the twp peoples. The Chinese are the , real 'Yankees of the East,' and they are becoming more and more important in the business life of Japan. Hj . "WORK IN THEIR HOMES. ."There are very few large manufac-luring manufac-luring establishments In Japan, but they do a vast amount of work at their homes. One reason for their progress Is 1 that everybody works. Even the little toddler only 2 years old will be hand-lng hand-lng screws or tools to his father. When n. little girl is 2 years old a doll is faat-ened faat-ened to her back In order that she may H, bg prepared to carry the baby brother HL or sisters who Is sure to be along In the H' - next year. The other reason Is that L they have no artificial wants. Imagine HT 47.000,000 people with no artificial wants. Give them a little rice, a cheap kimona and some clogs for the feet and the' are perfectly happy. They care for nothing H rnore, not even amusements. A Japa- nfese woman does not think of going to " tne theater or keeping up with the fash-Ions. fash-Ions. She 13 perfectly satisfied to spend Hl1 her time in her home, caring for her Hl children-nnd beautifying the house. PEOPLE ARE HAPPY. "Yet-the people are happy. Play Is al- H1' ways commingled with work. No mat- ter what they are doing they are always Hh laughing and chatting. Children will be Hjj taught to smile from Infancy. The little Hl boy Is told that he may wreck the whole H family by neglecting to smile wHen he is H being corrected by his mother. 'If you do not smile.' he is told, 'your mother will feel bad and she will cease to Hl smile; then, your father coming home, 1 he will find your mother looking sad. H . He will go back to his work looking H sour; his employer will notice his ex- H presslon and discharge him, all because Hi the little boy did not smile.' Under such Hl training It is natural that everybody should smile. Sometimes this perpetual H smile Is an inconvenience. When a Hl' Japanese Is employed by a European Hj and Is censured he smiles. This leads H the employer to think the Jap does not H realize' his offense. The more the Euro- H pcan swears the more broadly the Jap Hj smiles and the madder the employer 1 NO QUARRELS NOR FIGH 1. i "The Japanese are the most polite and H( amiable people I ever saw. I never H heard of a quarrel or a fight on the H streets while I was in Japan. When H people address one another they always H bow at the beginning and end of each H speech. They are inveterate cigarette H; smokers. One cigarette factory cm- Hl ploys 6000 people. Almost every woman H', carries a package of cigarettes in the H- sleeve of her kimona. It was owing to R this liablt that I unintentionally Insult- Hi & Japanese lady. It was the first HJ:': time I saw one of them angry and she H' vas good and mad. Her cigarette had H; gone out and she asked me for my cigar Hjl for a light. Before handing the weed H; hack to me she put It between her lips H,! and puffed It into a bright glow, I took . Hri i the cigar and tossed It away. Bl A SERIOUS INSULT. H: "Now, her act was a mark of the R highest consideration for me. I should H . have felt flattered at the attention, so, Hi; when J threw' the cigar away she was seriously Insulted, as she had a right to H'i e, and I could tell from the way .she 1 H chattered away in Japanese that she i was roasting me. H STRANGE IDEA OF MORALITY. H: "The Japanese Idea of morality is al- H together different from ours. Men, wo- H men and children dress, undress and j . bathe togethei. The thought that there H is anything wrong in exposing the pcr- H son Is utterly beyond theTr comprehen- flon. The result Is that an exposure of H an ankle or bo&om, or even entire nuditj', suggests no evil to a Japanese, and H ( consequently arouses no improper de- sires. On the whole, I believe they are more chaste than the people of the Occident. Occi-dent. It seems true that the more that Is left to the Imagination the more prurient pru-rient the Imagination becomes. Sometimes Some-times married women are divorced for Infidelity, and in such cases the man has a right to cut off the wife's hair, the crowning 'glory of every Japanese matron, ma-tron, and thus brands her as a wanton. FARMERS AT THE TOP. "The highest civil caste In Japan is composed of gentlemen farmers. The lowest class Is the merchant guild. Caste 18 recognized by the number of bows or kowtows exchanged. The speaker will make one. two, three or four bows, according ac-cording to the dignity of the person whom he is addressing, and the latter will respond In the proper form. While I was stopping at a hotel In Yokohama an American friend conferred great distinction dis-tinction on me by bowing four times and addressing me as 'illustrious chief.' "From that time forward I was regarded re-garded with awe and admiration by all the Japanese at the hotel. ARE NEVER BEATEN. "The Japanese will not admit themselves them-selves beaten nnd will undertake anything. any-thing. It makes no difference to an interpreter in-terpreter whether he understands what you are talking about or not he will pay something just as good. One night I was at a grand banquet given by the high olllciais to an American friend who was seeking a canal concession. Several speeches were made and I could see that the interpreter did not have a very clear idea of the English used. Finally they insisted that I should say i something. I got up and used every expression ex-pression and quotation that came into my mind. It was totally irrelevant and Incoherent even to me. I talked as grandiloquently as possible and closd every sentence with 'redepm NnnoWn!' "The interpreter cb-.t,'"v, ' I am sure he must have made an excellent ex-cellent speech, for there was frequent and loud applause A POPULAR LOCOMOTIVE. "The last two words were, of course, understood without cn Interpreter and always brought down the house. At the close I thought I would put in a few words for my friend, so I put In my best English, congratulating Japan on having attracted his attention and closed by alluding to him as 'a steam engine in trousers.' When the Interpreter Interpre-ter finished there was applause out of all proportion to the sentiments expressed ex-pressed and I guessed that he must have said nomethlng much better than I had. I was so curious that I looked him up next day and asked him what he had quoted me as .saying. He insisted in-sisted that he had repeated exactly what I said and assured me that I had made a very fine speech. I told him I had no doubt that he made a very fine speech, but disclaimed all responsibility. responsibil-ity. "Finally I pinned him down to the remarks about my friend and demanded demand-ed that he tell me frankly what he had said to make such a commotion. He tried to evade my questions, but finally admitted that he had said, 'Ho wants me to tell you that his friend is a h 1 of a locomotive. " Returning to the ever-interesting subject sub-ject of Japanese Industry, the traveler 'said: A NATION OF WORKERS. "As the Japanese progress and Increase In-crease their Intercourse with the outside out-side world there is no question that their artificial wants will multiply, but they will still be a great manufacturing nation, for they all work from the baby to the grandfather. At present their great advantage Is In the lack of artificial arti-ficial desirr.s. T can foresee that they will monopolize the carrying trade of the w,prld. I w?nt over In a Japanese vessel ves-sel and we took the trouble to find out i the cost of the voyage and the amount paid for freight. Wo discovered that, at rates which would have brought an American or European steamer out even, they would make $4700. The saving sav-ing was effected in the wages of the crew from the American Captain and Scotch engineer down to the sailors. Intercourse In-tercourse with the world, however, tends to create artificial wants. Young Japanese who live in the United States ' or Europe grow accustomed to our way of living and cannot content themselves them-selves with their former simplicity. Ultimately Ul-timately the Japanese laborer will have to have higher wages; he must, if there Is to be any progress, but he will never be as happy us he is today. ' NO DESIRE FOR WEALTH. I "One of the things that hampers Industrial In-dustrial progress is the lack of a desire for wealth. When the Japanese farmer, far-mer, who Is the nobleman of the country, coun-try, gels 56000 he quits trying to make any more. He quits farming and proceeds pro-ceeds to live on his Income. FILIPINOS MIGHT LEARN. "During my voyage I heard a suggestion sugges-tion which seems to me eminently practical, prac-tical, and that Is that the Filipino should be educated to work as do the Japanese. They are very similar In temperament, and if the United States were to put tho facilities at their disposal dis-posal I believe the Philippine Islands could be made one of the workshops of the world." |