Show JAPAN IN ROlE Of STEPMOTHER TO THE KOREANS Statement Scored by Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese Doctor in Address to Missionaries' Missionaries Annual Conference Held at Seoul Conditions In Korea Japan were outlined by Dr R. R Mizuno to missionaries mission mIssion- aries arias assembled In Seoul at the tenth annual conference of federal council councilS of Protestant Evangelical missions of ot Korea Dr address was in part as follows Nothing is BO so essential as religious influence for tor the betterment of social conditions and your work is of ot great help to tho the government S and directly or indirectly promotes the happiness and prosperity of the whole people So we hold Christianity In high regard and give to it every possible facility for Its propagation For this reason tho the regulations regulations regu regu- lations to for l' l private schools were as you know revised In March 1920 and those for tor religious propagation in the month following while the recognition of ot religious bodies as juri Juridical persons was effected in June of tho the same year ear thus greatly relieving you ou I believe of the burden imposed on you OU by the tho complexity of ot the old regulations framed ten years ago to m meet et the conditions con con- then in evidence NO DISCRIMINATION TION ALLOWED Our administration as your our work wort also is HI based upon the tho principle of justice justice jus jus- tice and humanity and no discriminatory tory treatment is allowed to be bo practiced practiced between Koreans and Japanese The abolition of flo flogging the tile revision of the tile educational regulations the Improvement Improvement improvement im Im- Im- Im r provement of ot medical and sanitary organs and the revision of the local administrative system have all been carried out in accordance with this principle and furthermore the educational educational educational ordinance for Chosen is now be beIng beIng be- be ing revised so that the school system in Chos Chosen n may bo be made entirely one with that of Japan proper We Ve heard recently of a sympathetic foreign n critic remarking after his trip in Chosen that ho he had received the impression that Koreans regarded Japan as a a. stepmother step step- mother We Ve do not know whether his impression Is a correct one or not but We wo do know that the idea of playing the part of ot a stepmother has never nevet Once been entertained by us and that though Koreans may take up the attitude attitude attitude atti atti- tude of stepchildren we shall ever betrue betrue be betrue true to that of a real mother It is a matter of great regret however however how how- ev ever r. r that in spite of our efforts to tomake tomake tomake make our ideas thoroughly known to toan all an government officials mistakes and blunders by them have not been entirely entirely en entirely en- en avoided As we cannot expect allOUr all allour allour our men to be p pir r cent right we weare weare weare are ever ready to redress the faults they may commit In this tIllS respect we owe much and I wish hero to express my thanks for or it to many of you for your zeal in calling our attention to what has appeared to you to be bo wrong and have frankly given s us suggestions and advice The Tile resolutions adopted and presented by you to tho tile governor general in 1919 were also received with deep appreciation and I am glad to say that nearly all the ideas in them which were possible of realization have since been carried out NOT ALWAYS CORRECT It must of or course be admitted that r r. S S S II your conclusions have not always alwa's been correct but havo have at times Umes been based upon sheer misunderstanding or upon stories maliciously fabricated still your action gave us to say the tile least opportunity time and again to make malte el clear Jar the tile fact and bring about better understanding between us One of your well known critics for instance called on me one ono day last year and In the course of conversation made the tile assertion assertion assertion asser asser- tion that there still existed In Seoul prison discriminatory treatment between between be be- tween Japanese and Korean prisoners in the matter of clothing and food This if correct was contrary to the tile guiding principle of the administration so the next day I went ent without previous previous previous pre pre- notice to the prison to ascertain ln for myself whether such was tile the practice tice Uce or not and to my great pleasure found that no such discrimination existed existed ex ex- isted between the tile two classes in the least I at once made known this fact to the gentleman in question and added that if he so desired he was free freeto freeto freeto to visit the prison himself and draw his own conclusions This he did and andI I heard later that he was quite satisfied satisfied satis- satis fied fled his assertion had been based on ignorance of the facts and that he lIe had spoken of me as a very honest man |