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Show I jniliaria tlieorj with this wonderful sjsteu of self-1 self-1 defense that makes it possible for & small, .slig-t r man to overpower or disable an antagonist of many ; times his strength. , A great deal has been printed concerning the system and everyone has a chance to gain some information about it Jin jitsu has been practicedjn Japan for some time."- It is of.ompara-tively of.ompara-tively modern origin, however, we believe. Wrest-; ling was a great Japanese sport in the old days, but , within a-comparatively few-years ; everything has changed in Nippon. A decade or more ago a Japanese Japa-nese wrestler came to this country, but he was not euccessf ul in meeting the wrestlers of America. 'Jiu jitsu, however, seems to make one who has mastered ; it able to combat anyone who does not know its details. de-tails. For that reason we believe it is comparatively comparative-ly new. Had the Jap wrestler of whom we spoke been an-expert at it the chances are he would have been victorious In this country. v The Japs are not imitators. They take the best things they find in Occidental civilization, BUT THEY HAVE THEIK OWN IDEAS. THEY THINK FOR THEMSELVES AND THEY ABE NOT-AWED OR CARRIED AWAY BY 'WHAT THEY SEE OTHERS DO. They have & forceful and original way of fighting that does not eeem to have been copied from any other nation. THE JAPS ARE SELF-RELIANT. THEY ADOPT GOOD WHEREVER THEY FIND IT, HUT. THEY ARE RESOURCEFUL. THEIR DE-1 DE-1 VELOPMENT IS FROM WITHIN. . , ' We can learn a lesson from them. We are hot self-reliant enough. x tike sheep we follow a leader. We often do not think for ourselves. As in the case of our opinion of the Japs we repeat what someone else has said without asking ourselves if it be so, WE DO NOT REASON OUT OUR PROBLEMS; BUT ACCEPT THE SOLUTION ANOTHER OFFERS. OF-FERS. -. .. a " Employers often know to their sorrow that eni-ployees eni-ployees upon whom they can depend are rare. UNLESS UN-LESS THE DIRECTING HAND IS ALWAYS THERE THEY ARE HELPLESS. ; The man who can do what he is told to or what he sees done, is a good man, BUT THE MAN WHO CAN DO THAT AND A LITTLE BETTER IS THE BEST MAN OF ALL. He is self reliant . and ; he thinks for himself, . ' f We are to adopt jiu jitsu from the Japs. LET US ADOPT THEIR SELF-RELIANCE AS WELL. Lctrnia; From tb Jipr Those unthinking persons whose nearest approach ap-proach to an opinion is repeating what some one else haa said have for years told us that the Japa-! Japa-! nese are merely imitators. So persistently have they made the assertion that in a general way we v?ard the Japanese as-being without originality. , Jn tefaee of the belief it comes rather as a uurp.ise to read that jiu jitsu, the Japanese science of wrestling, is to be introduced as part of the course' of training at the Naval academy at Annapolis. It is. also likely to be taught to the members of the police force of New York. . v v. -1 We take it for granted that our readers are fa- |