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Show I DEVELOPMENTS I IN THE FN EAST B He took me to his house for tiffin-- B the lunch at mid-day. His wife whs M visiting friends in Kobe. A Japanese H woman in n sombre kimono served a B four-course Anglo-Saxon meal. He H talked to her in Japanese while I won- M dered how nhe kept her butterfly B i-leevcs out of the food. m "I note that you speak the lang- M uage," I remarked. "To what extent H la it necessary for our salesmen com- Bl ing out here to learn the Japanese Bi language before they can do busi-H busi-H B "With the big business houses, not M nt all. Talk alout Ksperanto, or a HI universal tongue! Man, we've got one M already. Praise (iotl it's 'English as M she is spoke!' If you arc going to do M business with the little fellows you HI Mty find your ignoranre of Jananese m a liandicnp. Rut the big Arms just M now in Japan are the most progresses progress-es ive on earth. They're wise to the nd-B nd-B vantages of knowing English. You H don't have to beg their officials or cm-B cm-B ployees to come to our missionary 1 schools to learn it. It's cash in their B pockets." H "One of the fold notions you fellows B bring out here from the states - -one I B brought myself until I got over it- M is that these Asiatic people are infer- M ior races, I've seen salesmen come 1 out here and try to talk their goods, m acting about the same as they'd con- M duct themselves if they were called m on to entertain a kindcrgartetn nnd B sell the children peanut enndy. In M ferior tommy rot! The Chinese and m the Japanese are past-masters in the H art of business. We can show them H new and improved machinery and H efficient cuts in management. But as H traders arid accountants, we white H folks are mere infants. China cspec- H ially had her Rockefellers and Wnn- H amakers long before Columbus dis- H covered the West Indies for the New H York steamship companies. The H Chinaman is the cleverest accountant H of any race on earth. That's why H you find him behind the wickets of so H many counting rooms out here. The H Japanese were highly and righteously H incensed a few years ago by a re- H port carried back by tourists that the H Chinese were employed even in Jap- H anese counting rooms and banks be- H cause the Japanese were dishonest L and couldn't be trusted even by em- H ployers of their own race. It was an H unfortunate slander. There is abso- lutely no truth in it. The China-1 H man handles the coin liecnuse he is H the stnr bookkeeper of the world and don't you let anyone tell you any dif- ferently."- William Dudley Pelley in the March Sunset. |