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Show In WITH JAPAN 1 iT LOOIiEO FOR Y. M. C. A. SECRETARY DECLARES NO POSSIBLE CHANCE OF CLASH WITH ORI ENTIALS ! Unable to Draw on Bankrupt Europe, Japan Would be Starved Beyond Repair; Monroe Doctrine for Asia Meets Approval of U. S. Chicago. A tight to a finish between be-tween the United States and Japan would result in Japan being "wiped off the mail." says (jeo. Gleason, international interna-tional Y. M. C. A. secretary, who has just returned from a trip through the orient, in addressing the international internation-al disarmament congress here. Mr. Gleason declared, however, that "only those living in the kindergarten kinder-garten of international affairs could picture the possibility of war between this country and Japan," and that combining all the friction growing out of the Vapa, Korea, China and California Cali-fornia questions would not furnish the remotest cause for war. "Even if there were a cause," he continued, "a real fight to a finish be-: tween the two nations would put Ja-' pan off the map. The island empiret might capture the Philippines, Hawaii,! or even a part of our west coast, but wben mighty resources and technical; skill of this vast continent were once; mobilized, Japan, unable to draw oni bankrupt Europe, would be literally starved to her knees. "The Japanese themselves know' It and none better than the army men.; "Japan's Monroe doctrine for Asia,; though often criticized should meet; with American approval. When thej smoke of war' has cleared away and the world's nerves become relaxed, we can see that Japan's policy for Asia is the same ns our stand for the open door of equal opportunity. "Furthermore, Japan is ready to follow America's leadership if she has proof that it is just. Had the Ameri-j can government continued its announc-: ed policies of world service, Japan1 would be following us still." Tap was used by the secretary of state as an excuse to get back into the council of nations, in the opinion ofj Mr. Parker, an insmctor in the Los; Angeles high schools and also secretary secre-tary of the American league of justice. Mr. Parker pleaded for a better understanding un-derstanding of the Japanese question In California, asserting that the Japanese Jap-anese were law-abiding people, anxious to become Americans so far as America Ameri-ca would allow them. "America has denied the Japanese citizenship and should not object to his natural allegance to Japan and his desire to teach his own language to his children," continued Mr. Parker. "Someone has said that when an alien-learns alien-learns to crab at the umpire at a baseball base-ball game he has become Americanized. Americaniz-ed. I have seen the Jap at baseball and football games and I think he Is pretty well Americanized," he declared. declar-ed. He held no brief for Japan, said Mr. Parker in conclusion, but he believed that America should judge the Japanese Jap-anese by a different standard than that of the past. A war between Japan and the United States would tear down much of civilization, he believed. . "The next war will be one of extermination. ex-termination. That is the kind of civilization civi-lization we are preparing for. Instead of geting together as a family of nations, na-tions, we spend our time discussing the future world and whether we will wear asbestos there. Now is the time for the church to redeem, a dying, world. The verdict of history shows that the world is dying of armaments and war." |