Show KOREA tN EDITORS EDITOR'S PAPER TUlliS By Chester TI n. Rowell Tactfulness depends on cIrcum- cIrcum been In stances Have Haye you OU ever jail the writer asked n a ello newspaper roan man to whom he had Just been presented Yes as lie reply rathe el J r pr gl given Three h years al tol tolI l and I 1 have he b been en suppressed 18 lImes I think that Is Is' the 1 orld record The unabashed jail bIrd was lr C C. tJ C. Sorg Sora editor ot of the I ot of Seoul Korea the Nationalist paper ot of the Korean people hIs crime was loyalty to 10 the Independence or of his peo- peo pie pIc and his treason was to a for or foreign eign conqueror the much sup pre pressed ed editor was proud ot of Jt it And Antl In a tree free country y on neu- neu neutral trill soil he could say It safely It If now when he returns home h 1 should get et Into trouble by rca rea- reason son of nf thIs trouble quotation Is just where ho lives Its ancIent We Ye gave Japan civilization and culture say the Koreans Now because they are arc ahead ot of us In modern guns and the Japanese pretend I we are not fit for self govern ment and seek to abolish our nit nit- naI lion by annexation and extinguish I our race by intermarriage We hac ha submitted but not surrendered Korea will live lI This ot of course is 15 only the side There Is a Japan Japan- Japanese ese one But Dut the point Is that the Korean sIde seeks and finds ut- ut terance I CO CONFLICT l bT ChiNA AND D JAPAN China and Japan are arc presumably ably too Intelligent to come Into But It if there were ere a a. clash which would win 1 Japan of course it It were a a. amere mere matt flatter r ot of battle While the ChInese provincial armies are arc the largest larget In the world they are also about the tho loosest and the he most useless Their only unction function is to fight Ight each other and to disturb the peace and eat up the substance of 0 China Against a modern arm army like the Japanese they would be helpless But Dut the tho ChInese have ha other weapons more oriental and more effective than any trial by bat bat- battIe tIe tle China Is the one country In the world where resistant lon pacifism really works Let Japanese trOops march I where her th they y please c they say and set let up flags and govern govern- governments ments it if they will Why hy bother to tight fight them Why bother to todo todo do anything when we can be more effective e by just doing nothing Japan needs our coal and Iron We Ve sImply sit still and do not mine It Japan needs our trade We e sit sH and buy nor sell Japan needs our food tood toode We e eat It ourselves A year ten years ears I a thousand years ears if I necessary we just do nothing but raise and eat cat our ou own rood food as our ancestors did We Ve could stand that forever torner Japan would be paralyzed In III a year ear We Ve are not afraId PAX JALAN CUINI Everybody In Japan except a afew few ew jingoes and real real- realizes izes Izea this Therefore the Issue will not be raised For the safet safety ot of Japan Its rela- rela relations to ChIna must be construe construe- constructive Live tive and helpful Sometimes Chinese and Japan Japan- eso will not agree on what La 18 help help- tul Lul 1 sometImes they wilt will distrust each other sometimes neither will trust the western powers some sometimes LImes the Investment ot of capi- capi capital tai tal with its stake slake In peace and order ordel will seem Invasion or tX cx- All these thIngs have hae happened and Ire are happenIng between the United States and MexIco whose Interests are aro nevertheless bound by bythe bythe the closest ties tics They are bound to happen between ChIna and Japan But Dut In the long run the theIon thelong Ion long truth prevaiLs And An the lonG truth Is that It Is Isto isto to Japans Japan's Interest to treat China fairly and that on the show show- showdown showdown down ChIna Is stronger than Japan |