Show THE STRENGTH OF JAPAN GARDEN FARMS THE TUB FOUNDATION FOUNDATION TION OF NIPPON'S POWER POWEll People Sustained In Comfort Comfort Comfort Com Com- fort on Only Square Miles Mlles of Cultivated Land From Chicago The Tho Great Central Market July 1905 1805 A hundred years hen hence e leaving China out of the question there will willbe willbe willbe be two colossal powers In the world beside which Germany England France and Italy will be as pygmies pygmies- the United States and Russia Russa If any anyone one had told Emile de Lavel La- La vel eye when he made mado this prophecy some years ago that within a few years the power of ot Russia on the sea would be annihilated and her land laud forces defeated again and again by the pygmy nation of Japan would ho he have believed It No No neither he nor any anyone one else at that time would ve h-ve credited It The Incredible the unbelievable has actually happened There Is no result without a cause What Is the underlying underlying underlying ing cause of this marvelous strength of Japan It Is not In battle ships or siege guns guna not In torpedo boats or field artillery not not In arms or armor not armor not in munitions munitions munitions muni muni- of war or equipment for battles battIes battleson on land or sea Russia had all these thes and yet et she has suffered crushing humiliating humiliating humiliating hu hu- and overwhelming defeat What then is the secret of Japans Japan's strength Efficiency of the Unit It Is In Just one thing and that Is men menI It Is In the efficiency of the unit It is In the physical and mental power pow pow- er in er-in in the health s strength gence of the Japanese people as a whole and as a consequence of every Individual soldier and sailor And this this- physical and mental em- em clency of an entire people people people-of of the entire entire entire en- en p tire citizenship of ot the Japanese nation I Imode is is a plain I and distinct result of their then mode of life The rhe Japanese people are strong because because be be- cause they live as the human animal must live to be mentally and physically physIcally physically cally strong strong next next to nature They breathe the fresh air They eat plain food They neither starve nor gf go Q o. They are mentally and physically physically- active They are an out ont of ot door people They understand the laws of health and obey them Their children draw their strength from the bosom of mother earth arth And above and beyond all they are area a nation of homes and home owne owners Each family Is In a home and each home is in a 11 garden where health and strength are gained by the labor of cultivating that garden for tor a living livin And In these garden Burden homes the people people people peo peo- of Japan have far more of real pleasure and happiness and the genuIne genuine genuine ine enjoyments of life Ufe than the average average aver aver- age wage wor worker er In our country The White Plague ue Unknown We have tall fallen en Into a smug and self complacent and wretchedly superficial superficial superficial super super- habit of thought which loses sI sight ht of the life that a people lead and measures everything by a money wage a a totally false and deceptive standard stand stand- I ard and of measurement of the best thing j that human buman life J affords In the United States two hundred J i jIn and fifty thousand of our people are 1 J j being annually destroyed by the great white plague tuberculosis I In Japan the disease Is practically unknown Why Because the Japanese breathe fresh air nir j What would th the Japanese think If j 1 they were told that their people could J not have fresh air because they did i y not have more money Or could not have exercise because they could not afford to belong to athletic clubs Or must go without food because they lacked money to buy it at a butcher or a grocery store when every Japanese gardener has the lan land from which he knows how how- with his own labor to get all the food he needs for the abundant nourishment for himself and family The Garden Carde Farm y Of the population of Japan are farmers or more correctly speaking gardeners The Japanese farm Is a garden Irrigated and fertilized and scientifically and intensively tilled And a recent writer describing the life of the Japanese farmer says says says- Measured in money he Is not rich But he dwells In a comfortable and Inviting inviting In In- home purged of every taint of dirt and dust The transparent paper walls of his house made of bark from his shrubs flood his dwelling dwell dwell- r ing lag with light and keep out the wind He enjoys good food served served served-in In dainty but inexpensive dishes made of native woods Even In the homes of the I poorest there are no visible signs of poverty There Is no squalor In agricultural agri agricultural cultural Japan Tb The humblest peasant peasant peas peas- ant farmer Is clean Industrious and comfortable The area of fence corners abandoned on many American farms to wild mustard fennel and pig weed would furnish comfortable living to a whole family in rural Japan Some Idea of the trifling cost of living in agricultural Japan was given by byan aan j a jan an American who has spent fifteen years in in inthe the Empire Frequently he be takes a vacation In the farming re reo t gions glens He hap has good food sleeps on clean and comfortable quilts In Impeccable impeccable impeccable cable houses is carried about in country country coun coun- try carts and at the end of t two weeks finds that his total expenses have not exceeded ten yen or five dollars And from the garden farms the farms the Home Acres Acres ot of agricultural Japan ha have hae e come the soldiers who have faced death to drive the Russians from Manchuria Man Man- Manchuria churia and leaped Into eternity In or- or der might wIpe the menace of or Navy from the seas thaw that wash the shores of ot their Home Land A Nation of Home Acres cres It is an old saying that a man will not fight for a boarding house bouse but the Japanese have proved that they will fight like demons to defend the Institutions Institutions of a nation of Home Acres We Instinctively think of the victories victories victo victo- j ries ries of Japan as the victories of h her r leaders S We are naturally hero But th there re again we are superficial Our military men were loud in their praises of the masterly way In which played the game of war And must have the credit due him for sailing salling his fleet four foUl thousand miles and planning so ell cillo to provide it with coal and pro pro- visions But Oyama and Togo had bad the men and every J Japanese soldier and sailor Is not only a hero bero but a leader If It every officer In the Japanese army and navy above the rank of Captain were stricken dead tomorrow their places would be filled and nd Japan would continue continue continue con con- to prosecute the war to final vic vic- tory The secret of her power lies In Inthe inthe the fact that In Intelligence in mental and physical strength In individual initiative In patriotism In all that goes to make up a fighting unit every Japanese soldier and sailor Is an Oyma or a Togo In embryo You might destroy every ship that Japan possesses destroy all her arms and munitions of war take away even the clothes on their backs and transport transport transport trans trans- port every avery soldier In her army and every sailor In her navy back to the shores of ot Japan as naked as th the day he were born and leave the nation to its own devices and in a few years they would completely reproduce their naval and military power and be stronger than ever j But destroy the men of Japan and substitute for them the witted dull peasantry of Russia or the factory operatives operatives- of England and you have destroyed Japan Men Before Battleships True to his warlike Impulses and Instincts instincts instincts In in- President Roosevelt catches up the echo from the gr great at naval battle which has Just been fought and callson calls callson on the country for more battle ships had battle ships He had more of them than Togo But he lie didn't have hav the men And he couldn't get them Russian Institutions could not produce them Now would It not be wise for tor the people of ot this country to wake up to the fact that the foundation of ot our strength as a nation Is not in an army or a navy but in our citizenship And also wake up to the appalling fact filet powerfully portrayed by Robert Hunter In Poverty his recent book that we are deliberately following inthe In Inthe inthe the footsteps of ot England and degenerating degenerating degener degener- our citizenship by crowding our working people into cities where they live in an unhealthful environment environ environ- ment meat and are weakened by poor food and inadequate nourishment The lesson to b be learned by this na- na |