Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-05-18 | Page 33 | Japanese Paper Sends Farmers to New Homes

JAPANESE PAPER' SENDS FARMERS TO NEW 'HOMES ' ' By MOTO TAKATA. OSAKA, Japan. Way 17 (By V. P) The Oamka Melnichl puMiahlng company com-pany haa announced a plan of providing provid-ing traveling; axpeaeea to SOf farmere to emigrate to Braatl. The enterpria la undertaken tn commemoration af tha Imperial marriage between H. L , i H. tha crown prince and prtneesa. Tha new eau-rrrtan la to encourage encour-age emigration of farmers to Brastl. Announcing the plan on April 12. the "Ualuichl" editorially remarks: "That Japan la overpopulated and haa no other way to meet the ejueetlon than by aending her natloaale into foreign soil will be admitted. If. therefore, there be any country which i abort of population, our country ahould not netmat to promote mutual benefit by ending her son to such a country, if the situation allows. "Th Brasiilan repubtte. to which the 'Malnicht' 1 proposing ta eend farming fa ml! lew. haa a vast area of more than J.JTt.iOO square mlia with boundleae natur.'ie" reaourcea. but Its Kpulatlon la only 0.tfo0,00d aouia. The aallian goveriunent la In need of a greater population to develop the In-duatry In-duatry of the country attd haa been Importing ltiburrr from out aloe oountrle. "(nir aim fn aending- farmer to Braatl. however. I not purely economic. econom-ic. We believ that the propoaed plan will bring about a harmniaailon of the civilisation of the eaat and the west, which le denied In America and Auetraita. The charge that Japan Is Intending to carry out her mill tart tie I foreign policy by aending her nationals into rorewra countries ie too aenseiea for refutation. We hope that Uie 200 repreeentatrve farmer who eaall cultivate cul-tivate the virgin soil acroee the Pacific will a how the world how the Japaneae can become harmonised and welcomed Immigrant." The eelected applicants ara to leave Kobe on May 29, on board lb Canada Uar-ti