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Show iSEES SPIT OP WAR LEAVING JAPAN S YOUTH i . , ! Boys No Longer Eager forj i Military Training, Says Missionary TALKS AT METHODIST I GENERAL CONFERENCE I . . Living Cost, Labor Problems, Bolshevism and Suffrage Agitating Peo'ple DES MOINES. la'., May S. Dr. Frank Herron Smith, of Seoul, Korea,1, speaking tonight as the fraternal dole-, gale from (he Japanese . Methodist j church to the Methodist general cou- ference, stated that Japan isnotamili-j tary menace, giving as his reason thei fact that the boys no longer are anx- j iotis lo enter either the military or naval academy. I T)r SniHh envfl nc fiiWliri- pvirlonpn J that Japan is turning from militaristic' tendencies, the fact Xhat the enormpus! .war-profits of that-, natiojv are "being! psqd; by.thp gpvyj.h'mqnlsto bnild tVrefifrJ Hhuo'-'ne?' cwegiss; Tehri'unii'eii- lies and to. educate hundreds of Jap.-j anese young men both at home and-abroad, and-abroad, to assume professorships in! these Institutions, j Suffrage Election. j lie slated further that the most pop-1 ular word in Japan today is "demo-f kurasie," which is the Japanese equivalent equiv-alent for democracy. The four great! problems in Japan today, said Dr. j Smith, are the high cost of living,! labor agitation, Bolshevism and universal uni-versal suffrage. An election to be held throughout the empire next Monday i has lo do with the matter of suffrage. ' and bids fair to mean great things for, Japan. Dr. Smith stated that in , twelve years the membership pf the Methodist church of Japan has doubled, and contributions are twice as much per capita as in America, j Hopes for Unity. Greetings from the Methodist Episcopal Epis-copal church south, were brought to the general conference by Dr. Charles W. Tadlock, who expressed a strong hope that the two groat Methodisms of America be soon united. He urged . that b.olh churches take up the present challenge of the world to Christianity the solution of social and industrial problems of present day civilization according to Christian ideals. Memorial services for bishops and a few other church leaders who died in the last four years will be held tomorrow tomor-row by the conference. nn i |