Show it ft SAYS SA YS CHINAMAN 4 IS 11 THE TilE ORIENTAL JE JEW Traveler Declares He Is Keen kee Far Seeing Frugal and I if Capable I JAPANESE BORN MIMICS MIMIC L German Traders Are Beating Beatin the Americans in Japanese Japanese Jap- Jap anese Trade y That Japan i is In every sense n friendly rJ to the United States anI an and hUng nUnS and I L anxious to retain Iii the th friendship politically and commercially commer commer- of this country cannily is the opinion C of or G G. G S. S who reached Salt Lako Lak last m t evening from Kyoto Koto Japan whew whet he tie has haa beet been for tor the past 51 six years t Mr Phelps is the secreta secretary of th the tho International committee of or the tho Y M. M l C. C A A. with headquarters in New York Ills His work during Ills his residence In Jalan Ja Ja- pan lan wa was waB that of advisor to th the leader of ot the Japanese Y M. M i. i C. C A. A movement mo and aud hI his duties have o necessitated hI his traveling over O a large part or of th the Orient including Japan China Chino and Manchuria urla The rhe Japanese 11 Mr Phelps says SAS SA'S are area Q Qa a a a progressive 1 10 0 race wH with h a an n e eye e ever evex everto to the main mati chance and with wih a a In full ful realization of or the thc advantages to b bo le gained through a continuance of r 1 friendly relations with wih America Th American said sll Mr r Phelps at the tho Cullen n last evening Is ls er e everywhere i welcome His Ills business ability Is re- re sp anti and his methods emulated It 1 In hi however a regrettable fact act that the very tery methods employed lI by the tho aver aver- age American age American business man mn in fn Japan at are arc not conducive to the be het t results In tn business and as 8 a matter muter of fact the German Gorman merchant In comparison h has s all aJ the lOSt host hot or I. I Germans Beall Americans Mr Hr tells of or an on Incident which came caine to his notice while traveling trav trav- eling In Manchuria which I lends point L to fo t his hs statement It I Is the lie cu custom lom of oC the Chinese he s said d to wear A p peculiar kind of boot which Is usually designated a n pussy boot Those These Thes arc are made rado or of louthEr loather leather and an and in II Manchuria during the UIO rall rainy season the wet pla playa L I havoc havo with the footgear One OnE da day I J noticed ed there a number of 1 wearing the tc regulation pussy lUssy US boot i durin during the tilO rain rainy season but made of L rubb rubber r instead ad of ot leather Inquiry elicited d the Information that a a. large lano consignment 1 had a 11 just reached th the tho Country from torn a n G Gorman German linn The had hatI s iCet the necessity of r something of the tho kind hind and proceeded to 8 supply ppl it f. f Thc Tho Am American and En Eng Eng- merchants merchant had the sm same but fatted failed utterly to tal take ad atI- advantage vantage of oC it H. 1 In Iii dozens of or other things it ft is th the tho same way Tho Thu Germans cater to ih th needs of the country In both hoth China and Japan and provide pro a class of r goods suitable to the tho uses to which I the they arc are put nut and similar to the article ar- ar tide that centuries of or custom has en- en cleared to the heart of the nati These rhe the thc they sell el iii ever Increasing a in quantities while tho tw American or dealer contents himself with calling attention to the excellence of t 1 hi his 11 goods oos an and endeavoring endeavoring- to argue that because thc they are 10 goo good In America I.- I. 0 t bo good thore i I p nj ilo not ork CI Ot 0 h IHa Vf UI nr lo r CO Hank Story 1 Asked d ae as to whether r or not 1 It I WitS was n. n fact that nt li Chinese clerks cerks were th rule rulen in n Japanese baul banking and mercantile institutions Mr Mt Ir Phelps plated fluted that such was WU tot not the the- CUBe cuso There mav be I Isolated cases of thi this he said but butI I J personally lm have havo never f scon n a I Japanese Jap Jap- anc anese altese e bank banh which employed ed China ln men in Its Is counting house Many al aTe are employed In English 1 antI and American banks and are arc arC said sull to tomake tonial nial make o vcr very good tod dorks clerks Referring to tu I tho he financial con condition ion Mr that thai th P of Japan My r. r Phelps says fYS Is very cry bad Taxes are arc l exceedingly ly high and are apparently with n lh no flu indication indi The rite cost of or living hiving cation of or a let Zet-til let has Just in mal many Japanese t doubled in Iii the pa past patt l yeL lh and Interest vales rates on un mOI money ore are ale very high There bo Is 18 however no question In n his mind hilt but hit what the lie country will vIll wi successfully rUny weather the thc storm but for some time timeto it will bo lIo hard sledding The t to 10 conic come i wJ o has commo commenced ced a a. t S mas ma's cutting down of or expenses s Im I'm i i I ever every nonproductive c branch and t i Jg de devoting d'- d' de- de I voting err e UH itS JM entire energy to g getting th countr into shape to pay oft off or its is national national na na- na- na count debt Th The recent ll o ii in Japanese Jap Jap- anese consuls in America he lie saje s s. s to a statement nl isi la- la due clue entirely It- It was HUt as L to Japanese government i sued b by tho the effect that from front indications at tho time It would be po possible to do this ut lit a u time 15 i 1 years earlier earler than titan was wasat t J at first supposed U U-t U e c More tOie 00 American 11 Wheat Regarding commercial conditions in the tho empire Mr AIr Ir has the following fol 01 oh- oh lowing to say fay At AI this time the prin principal the tile countr Into cipal importations and kerosene front from America aro arc oil The u use ue e of American wheat flour flouri four fourtH 01 trade s MI n tho i tH is steadily Increasing II and this alone promises to reach enormous Kerosene oil 01 Is 15 also us used l proportions for lighting Un purposes el and anti largely fot very cIT luge has almost entirely superseded the old oil wh which thIch leh had bad on be-on used tI by the bean n l natives 01 from frum ruin limp lime Immemorial J light is nearly as cour course c the electric a It i Is 18 In America In lii Japan Jalan a as common 11 hero kero kerosene claE li ro- ro the tIme poorer but among amolS is b used sene C no flO Eventually America may develop clop dc with Japan In lumber tulLe oulie a trade as the forests of ot that country countr are UIe disappearing This his was tas sparse rapidly enough h ut at the lIest best and the rapid development de d- de- de has hns lines building along 4 ins ld exhausted tIme the timber r re ru- ru of or f all kinds Kinus Is is us Machinery sources l but bul the trade shipped In lapi rapidly trall being ha have It might lur large e as I la is not Ot nearly as a I shippers been wise been heen had Iad th the In the place to protect enough ant and register IJ by hi patents their Ideas AsIt Asi As Asil trademarks in the country il It their I Is a now floWS the Japan Japanese te are alC perhaps i It best belt mimics In Iii th the country an ana the actually take almost al any th they can Y machinery and duplicate du tIu du- du American merlan piece piccO of or When finished tIn fin it piece b by piece fn- fn plicate i all an anth with quite work U It may not orl wih quie I of the time r roal al th the but bU it 11 smoothness will vill do the work Printing wi few s l-s are arc a rifles and I. I I presses rH 1 treated been bren 50 so hut ha t hu of the things s that thai hat t fO of r matu-r by th Iho cm In lii the matlI trade marks I 1 have hare known of eases cases cael would register register regis regis- where one Japanese firm ter twenty aid and thirty American and British tra trade marks malks le with wih vl tim the tho resu result resul It that If It the firm firm owning o them theft desired to do thu business in 11 Japan the they did II It I I who thus titus agent through a Japanese a secured a Ji JU 3 Are 10 Quick Quid to 10 l quick u tt The Tho Japanese people are arc learn and tal take e rapidly to new Idi-ae Idi and n new w methods They are arc willing and anti seldom and anti anxious unIous to be Il shown fall fail to LO prom by lIy what tIme they learn lear Your real fal business man maim of ot the Orient how how- real ever evea Is 18 th the Chinaman With er c he Ito is today what tho lb lo to the far tar East Easl 11 J Jew cw is to America Turn a n thousand tousand loose In America given gl a customs cus cus- knowledge of American manners and language and amI thc they thea would turns toms number of ot Jews clear equal cr crout put lut an al business They are shrewd of out om and peeing far to a degree clover and their own way and as careful care care- capable in a ful UI and economical as could be le wished have plenty of or brains and considering con They tho thu handicap un under er which labored for rOl hundreds o of have they hU their to date has te been n progress years lart nothing short C t f r remarkable will vIll leave for tor NewYork New NewYork ew Mr Phelps wl York on and expects to ti l' l time In the tito East before spend some om t O returning to take up UI his labor labors i In Accompanying him are are his Itt Japan and two chU children the eldest eles ol ot wife which ant a u child of or 1 s 1 or G v years speaKs Japanese like a. a a native I. 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