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Show Just History By Albert F. Philips Eleven year ago today Japan' waa paaalng through Juat what tha United State la doing, mourning over th death- of Muteu Hlto, who died on July St. After a reign a empcro of forty-eight-year. HI burial did not take place until September Sep-tember 2d. It waa .on Auguat IS, ltl, that Prealdent William Howard How-ard Taft made Secretary of State Philander C. Knox apeclul amoea-aador amoea-aador and hla peraonal representative representa-tive at th funeral ot th Japan emperor. - Like th late President Warren O. Harding, th Japanese ruler waa beloved be-loved by hla people and their grief waa like that of tha American people peo-ple for Harding. Reprroentatlveg i from all nation ot th world united ' In their expraealona of sympathy j and love for the dead ruler: Muteu t Hlto assumed the throne of Japan 4 in 1147, but he waa not crowned , emperor an til uetooer si. is, the coronation taking place at Osaka. On hi acceealun to the throne h proclaimed flv artlclee In th Imperial Im-perial oath, on of which marked the course of th Imperial government govern-ment for the future. He aald: "We shall henceforth aeek knowledge and wisdom In an outside world and establish the national assembly where the Important affaire of atate ahall be decided by public opinion." He waa the first constitutional consti-tutional monarch In the Far Kas:. In lttl an lrr perls 1 edict waa issued' is-sued' thttt constitutional government govern-ment be .established at th end ot ten years, and It was don. A .-in administrator he w successful. 11 trusted state ifutlra to loyal leader lead-er Ilk Iwakuura, Kido, Okulo and I I'o. all etatennv.il, nn.1 w'th these j four he made the New Japan, the ' Japan of today. They called In the j outaide world and the United Statea ' educatora reorganised the educational educa-tional ayatam of tha empire; French offlsers remodeled the army; British Brit-ish engineers mads the navy, and Dutch engineers th Internal improvement. im-provement. . . When In 1UT Muslu Hlto was acknowledged sol emperor, the organisation or-ganisation of Japan aa a modern state followed. Th feudal princes surrendered their powers, their military follower were disbanded and on August T, lit. Issued a decree de-cree dividing the country info itrt-l under th direct control of tha central government. Like the genu of th Arabian Knights. Jftpan beckoned and as If by tiie magie of ths wand of ths genii ra'iwsys, telegranhv, postal system! custom service and a constitiiilonji government caini In a night, and tr.. little brown people -were freed frrm restrain! a of eenturiea and took their place umong thj powers pow-ers of the world. Unc.ommon -o- Sense -o- CAPITALIZS YOOH CUSIOtlTV. Ml curiosity la aa futile as m anything any-thing eiie t'r-t la Idle. The vt.Tin who watchss a neighbor move tn for the purp.ne cf i,sX!i.g q'lesflrrs later oa about wi-re ane go? her furniture and w!itlhr her stive.- .S stv'llng or olxt d. )i.i.t not the kin. ot a mind tha. -un be im tiOV.'l. Neither le the man wlo Is nlwaTS wondering bow much ssls-y Vm acquaintances ac-quaintances receive, snd eosre th-y go at night, and whether taey a.-e lond of thotr wive or not. Yet curiosity exists always. One of the greatest of American magaslnes waa founded on It. Its editor, an exceptionally brllllsnt young man, asked himself eountlees questions, and got ether people to answer them la the magasine. The answsrs told the readere many things that they had always waated te grow-useful things, particularly relating re-lating to how meu have bate succeed suc-ceed -d in busrnesa. Curiosity, when capitalised Is one of the roost vnluabls of humsa assets Hut it must be employed Intelligently, Intelli-gently, se must every other mental quality if It I t prove valuable. The college atudent who uses his curiosity so get Information comes out of eolleg with th bast training that the place aaa give. The boy In an office who I curious about the buslneee will find out about it la time, aad by and by a will either own the business or be getting a very aaeeUent salary for managing manag-ing It. put a nun with the rltrht kind of curiosity into a library and he will come out with aa education. Fut a man who haa been trained to science In a laboratory and If he has the right kind of eurloetty ae will a very likely to make some discovery thst will benefit msnklnd. A Canadiaa phyelcia waa enrioUB to know hoa? diabetes, which is one of man'a most dreadful enemies, could be cured. k. He enswered hie own queatkm 1 a long aerie of experiments Today the answer ta know to everybody and thousnnde of live will be aaved la consequence. Inasmuch aa we are bora curious, end could not eradicate even If w would, we might aa well make th most of It. ktskrng the wiosr of H mean getting get-ting all the education we are capable of holdlna, and doing far greater work thsn If we had consistently ' maintained that nothing but eur own ti; t .e private affairs coacemea as la tha least. .... tCopyrlght. IKt. by John Blaks.) |