Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-02-08 | Page 1 | Y. M. C. A. Secretary on the Jap Situation

Y. M. C. A. SECRETARY ON THE JAP SITUATION COT.OKADO SPRINGS, Feb. 7. "It Is my firm conviction that noiio but tho 'most cowardly insult and unrighteous discrimination dis-crimination could bring the Japanese nation na-tion to the point, of breaking tho tlnic-honored tlnic-honored relations of friendship with our people. Japan looks to us with utmost friendliness as an elder brother In the family of nations." In those words G. S. Phelps, secretary of the international committee of the Y. M. C. A., who for years has been sta- j Honed at Kyoto. Japan. cxpreaHcd his opinion of Japan's attitude toward tho I United States. "The criticism of many F.uropcan nations na-tions that wo aro conceited, narrow and j provincial," he continued, "is partly Justified Jus-tified by our attitude toward other nations. na-tions. The now world civilization Is not to be Anglo-Sax ton, German, Slav, l.atln or Mongolian, but it will be cosmopolitan."