Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-02 | Page 24 | Japanese Using Wheat in Diet

JAPANESE USING WHEAT IN DIET Statesmen or Oriental Country Looking Ahead to Possible Expansion Needs V 1'ien' number of tlie Far Kulern RevlCW call attention ti the experiments experi-ments being carrlbd out in Japan 10 substitute diet. "Theno experiments," slates this publication. "Would Indicate Indi-cate that the wise old statesmen of Japan are looking far ahead Into the futuie against h ds When Dal Nippon Nip-pon may once more he to battle for her existence. The Increase of Industrie in Ja pan, absorbing nerl 1. 000, 000 new children a vesr. will forie the importation importa-tion of food from abroad. If eirenni- stances should ever nris to compel Japan (o fight for ex'slenoe with a' g.tal naval power, the sea lanes niivji.t be i closed i and unless another source 1 Of food supil became axailable. her ' people nilghi starve o death, ller one '' llOpe would be i 'hlna. but her.' xpel- ' eiu and prudence wnr'is Japan not;' to oank upon Chinese assistance..3 Japan1! one certli;t bf preserving ' life would then be In obtaining bdl food and supplier from anchurla and Siberia alcng easl defi nl. cj lines of communication. s Hut Manchuria and Siberia are not i producing countries. Tns) grow wheat, the best wheal in the world, and there la no limit lo the supply. Boms da) i In e lands will become Mo granary of Asiu, perhaps of the world, ami some da.v Japan m have to take her existence as a nation on the ability of her people to xl8t on i win at diet, rfeif-pretjervatiori l t b. first law of nature. Japan as a wheat consumer has its commercial compensations, it mesjns the opening of Inner Mongolian prftlr- les to cultivation i the Meum plow, to the elaboration f the wheat into flour bv the creation of huge mills it rnegni another epoch making agricultural agri-cultural marvel surpassing in Importance Import-ance the development of the Bbys. bean Industry. It means buSlni BS for American manufaoturera, a new mi- Chlnery market that otherwise might remain unsctatched If left to China or K'ivia. li means a new source of w oi ol fo. ..I Niippl v . i h i musi be ib -v eloped to prov ide for the wants of c rapidl) increasing world population. It Is a sign of progress. 1