Show Heroic Age 0 of Japan Is Pest P st Noted Japanese anese Writer Decla Declares s By DR S. S WASH 10 Of the Japan Advertiser Staff Written for the United Unite Press Oct 9 0 United Press Press Press- The common saying is three generations generations generations genera genera- from shirt sleeves to shirt shirtsleeves shirtsleeves shirtsleeves sleeves but in s scarcely arcely a generation generation generation genera genera- tion Japans Japan's wonderful progress seems to be reversed The men of ot the Meiji era who grew up and began lifes life's career in that constructive period of the country country coun coun- try tTY of ot rising sun men now in their forties and feel most keenly I this passage of fortune Their life is half finished but it is a a. common observation among them t that they look into the future of their children children chil chil- dren with a a. shudder I they were young oung and Maru- Maru I now the heart of ot Tokio was I still a wilderness which the Mitsubishi Mitsubishi Mitsu Mitsu- I family is said aid to have acquired from the government at the rate of ot two sen per the civilization of modern Japan was was- young also marching marching- freshly among pines and cherries W We e had an unbounded ro romantic romantic ro- ro mantic mantle faith in Its progress and thought of Its reverse no more than I we tive thought of the tho rivet rivet- flowing upward Progress was axiomatic ax ax- it was In textbooks textbooks' and lips Ups of all aU children and was not only proved by two successful foreign foreign for for- eign ign wars but demonstrated by the career of many unknown young oung men It was an epic period of or our our national national national na na- na- na history Exploits of military officers were celebrated ted i In popular songs And rising industrialists industrialists were marvels of successful careers which were tho thought to be within the reach of any poor ambitious boy Both were respected and adm admired ad ad- m mired red empire builders The country grew richer every year cities larger and women prettier The population and the cost of living increased at atan atan an unprecedented ratio I M Men n who grew up in that period can never forget it while living in inthe inthe In the present They have the knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge of ot that period to compare with the present tendencies which face them with overwhelming evidence of the reverse of progress Men who had only yesterday esterday an absolute ta faith th thIn in progress feel now that the world is near an end In those days when the horse car carline carline line running from to fo I was just replaced by the electric electrIc electric elec elec- tram murder of which we read now two or three cases in every eve- eve ning paper and f forget the next moment moment mo mo mo- ment occurred only once in several years Jears It was so rate and nd unusual that every case created a sensation and was remembered and and- talked about for many years ears afterward So efficient and respected d were the authorities for the maintenance of public ord order that the word policeman policeman police poUce- m man n was habitually used to stop children from crying Apparently the maintenance of order was not difficult because people were faithful faithful faithful faith faith- ful loyal chaste confiding and nd hopeful But what Is the present state of public order Policemen are often found to be conspirators In criminal acts Mail Mall carriers rob the bags bag hey carry catty and even bur bury them whole to get rid of t the burden The Trie act is less significant than the fact is sensibly passed over by the public Discipline is impossible when people peo pen pie are skeptical irresponsible hopeless and licentious In short they no longer believe in progress which has been the driving force of modern civilization I say men of the Meiji era feel the change They know In their v o personal experience what I ogres ss meant and understand its sentiment n so that they feel all the more convincingly convincingly con con- the reverse th that t has set In As practical men they have to live lire according to the decayed standard standard stand stand- ard but they know also how to con- con the civilization that forces forces' J JI such practice practice I But what hat about o our r young men to whom the Meiji 1 era is a a history which they have not not lived and to whom the reverse of progress with the collapse of all discipline is a heritage a a. common and r quite ordinary ordinary ordinary nary run of ot life It is these young men who have ha haet t to succeed s 's us The Japanese that constitute vitally the bulk of this nation are no longer the same Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese anes that made up Japan of the theM Meiji M era They live under different different different differ differ- ent circumstances and have a different different different dif dif- dif dif- ferent cultural standard of which there can y yet t be found no other v fresh revelation than cafe civilization civilization civilization tion and 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