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Show WAR WITH JAPAN NOT LOOKED FOR Y. M. C. A. SECRETARY DECLARES NO POSSIBLE CHANCE OF CLASH WITH ORIENTIALS Unable to Draw on Bankrupt Eu'ope, Japan Would be Starved Beyond Repair; Monroe Doctrine for Asia Meets Approval of U. S. Chicago. A fight to a finish between be-tween the United States and Japan would result in Japan being "wiped off the map," says Geo. 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. Qleason 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 Yapa. 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 between be-tween the two nations would put Japan Ja-pan off the map. The island empire might capture the Phillippines, Hawaii, or even a part of our west coast, but when mighty resources and technical skill of this vast continent were once mobilized. Japan, unable to draw on 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 the 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 as 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 American Ameri-can government continued ltg sjHiomjo ed policies of world service, Japan would be following us still." Yap was ued by the secretary , of state as an excuse to get back into the council of nations, In the opinion of Mr. Parker, an insructor 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 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. S. L. Gulick of New York, secretary of the oriental relations committe of the federated council of churches, speaking this afternoon, declared that the armament program of both the United States and Japan Is due to suspicion and fear. He said that, according ac-cording to information given him, the anti-Japanese feeling In California was welcomed, because the federal government govern-ment had expended $60,000,000 on Pacific coast defenses in 1920 and that he understood some politicians planned expenditure of $100,000,00 In 1921. Reading from Japanese newspapers, he quotedpassages showing that they advocated a small army and a large navy. "The next war will be one of extermination. ex-termination. That Is the kind of civilisation civi-lisation 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." |