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Show JAPANESE COPS ! SUFFER SETBACK Sabre Is Taken From Them and Arrogant Authority Is Curtailed NEW YORK, Sept. 29. Of the' many iindCHiocratji institutions oi Japan that of the police Is the most typical. In America a policeman ISj n good servant of the public, politely: and kindly disposed towards the peO- pir. in spit, of the dignified appi ir-, ir-, ance mad. o effective by pie ntasaive and m bsc til In e figure, n n American polic man is a Friend of everybody! i sa criminals, of p'ourse), With n heart as warm a thai Of any one. vearlns the delightful air of a good: humorous Irishman, Not a few Japanese Jap-anese tourists have returned home fallen in love with him." Mr Oka the head of ibe National Bureau of police h Japan; apparently i one of them, for he has now ordered all policemen of Japan to become more demoncratio after th- fashion of the American po-I po-I licemc n. Well, what does the "cop" of .lafi-an .lafi-an look like? lie dons a uniform resembling re-sembling that of a butler, only carry-ling carry-ling i huge sabre hanging oh a girdle. UbservinR to the 1- i the old doctrine doc-trine of political science that the police is die restraining power of the government gov-ernment to be i xcreix'V) on the people. ihe Japanese policeman misses no op portunity to vindicate thai he is n "government official" quite superior" to the people, with authority" to ;coerce and command them. Ill-speech Ill-speech to citizens carries a tone of command his manner toward them is charged with an air of arrogance There is not a siiiRle grain of humor In him he is a Kaiser banished. Only for two reasons have the people peo-ple forborne this absurdity. True to assumed dignity, he is morally upright nas a xcon sens-, or Otlty and ia a stanch defender of public order Moreover, More-over, his pay hardly exceeds that of a scavenger being 40 to 50 yen and yet his sense of duty prevents him from going on strike Hence he needs an outlet for .suppressed complex." -Mr. Oka insists that he must become be-come more democratic, must realize that ho is not a master but "servant' of the people and therefore muct be i polite and friendly toward them So he took away from him his proud three-foot sabre, and now he looks ;llke a mailman without the bag Mr. i ' ka might as well have also suggest - : ed to him that he may crack a Jok'.' . or two once in a while |