Show JAPAN R REALLY ALL Y BACK NUMBER NUMBER 1 Writer Brings Forward Arguments to Prove rove That the Chinese Are the theMore theMore theMore More Progressive It mn may strike stilLe the western re dor as simply funn funny but more more than one Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- Chinese nese friend has lias assured me that It Is the Japanese people who are arc really conservative And they back up their assertion by evidence other than the way In which Japan has clung through all h historic vicissitudes to a primitive theocracy John Dewey Dev writes In n Asia Magazine They Ibey point out for tor example exam exam- pIe that n a thousand years ago the Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese borrowed the thc present style of clothing and of ot household furnishing of sitting and sleeping on mats from China that China ChInn has changed several sev oral eral times tunes moving constantly In the direction direction di dl of or practical utility of oC Ingeni Ingenious oils ous adaptation of or means menns to needs The fhe Chinese cuisine is Is' another argument It Is doubtless the most extensive e In Inthe Inthe inthe the world i In tit l the variety of material employed etl for fol food and also the most varied In Its combinations Academic annl analysis sis m may drawn from food clothing shelter and find fur fur- nl hh 5 Rut But Ruthen ut when hen one notes the Ole variety variety va and ingenuity of ot the processes anti and appliances used in doll dally daily life and In Inthe Inthe Inthe the crafts one Is certain that the thc Chinese Chi Chi- Chinese nese mind Is naturally observant and adaptive But It seems unnecessary to labor the qu question sUon Many Ian charges have ha been brought against the Chinese but I of stu stu- them Item no one orie has hils ever accused Their undoubted conservatism consel Is something to be he explained rather than an explanation of or on anything thing |