Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1923, Page 4

Japanese Electrical Indusiry l Fostered on American Model Plant Now Standard for Orient—En- gages in Welfare Work and Educa- tion of Employes and Public. TThe following orticle is one of wpon the industrialisation and entire re- construction of Japan, Adachi Kinosuke, is probably the foremost writer upon Jap- anese matters in Ameriea.) BY ADACHI KINNOSUKE. Nowadays America has too much humor to play the role of a hero on | an international stage. But now and then she forgets herself when the drama gets really too big even for the far-tamed American sense of humor. That is precisely what must have hap- pened in the case of building up the electrical enterprises in Japan. Amer- ica s pot only playing the star role in it, but also she is making a one- man show of it. I wished to see with my own eves| a striking example of this star per- formance of America. So on an early summer morning this year I took a train out of Toklo. I stepped off at Kawasaki, and stood literally face to face with perhaps the most modern enterprise in the whole of the empire. It was an American- Japanese joint enterprise. This is in- teresting, for, as all the world knows, there i6 a good deal of blue talk about this sort of International busi- ness marrlage. And this Kawasaki ncern is still more Interesting works. It is ner which make song and story look like the ch of the make-believe rich. The » of the corporation is the Toklo E! tric Company. Americans at Helm. For years and years it prosp under the presidency and man ment of the late Dr. I Fujio his Japanese stafft. Today @n Ame: can whose Ameriea does - y v dent of it, Mr. J. e: American 'vice president alsc. these gentlemen leave the munige- ment of the 10,000,000-yen plant (and | the actual value of the property 1 unquestionably four or five tim nominal capitalization) entirely to the Japanese staff. “They do not doings even of an ey conducted me through the pl interfere with our| by so much as the lifting 80 one of the officers who | At t me. To the right, as you enter the plant, there are two tennispcourts and & base ball field. The tennis courts electrically lighted for night pl They would do credit to the West 8ide Tennis Club at Forest Hills, and the towering frame of steel tubing which serves as the back stop is effective as that at the Polo grounds To the left, as one passes through ands the brand new million yen warehouse of the com- pany. of reinforced concrete over steel skeleton. It is up to date and American from the overhe fraveling crane to its cement floor. | In fact, it is sald to be an exact re- production of a Ford warehouse at Detroit. 1 passed from one floor to another of their factory buildings. They are more modern than most of | the American plants. The workrooms were models of sanitation, with all {he light and air that the heart of the most militant of reformers could demand. American Machinery. All the machinery in the factory wore the familiar crest of “G. B." f¢ T had been imported from Amerlca. The company manufactures electric buibs, 1ignt fixtures, electric meters, X-ray tube reless radiotrons an many other thing output of clecs tric light bulb: 0 25,000, @ year: This company i1 Japan manu. factures about one h tlol,a Gutput of all the American shopy in that particular line of goods. Th Company has the exclusive Tighis 1o E atents of the Genel Ce A Conipany of America, for Japan. is equally (mponnn‘ ok foefinical men from this Kawasakl factory are being trained In flll: hf’;" of the General Electric Company in farge numbers, so that they may have the advantage of learning at firs hamd all the fine and intricate detalls of ‘the electrical Industry in Americ When I came to Japan in % Mr. Geary sald, “I became acquainte ¥lin the late Dr. Fujioka, who may TatGalled the father of Japaneso elec- trical enterprises, since he \Nafltro"‘ strumental in bringing to Japan fro United Stat 8 e 3 ihe first electrical apparatus used in thia country. The doctor explaine small_lamp to me the de S Tokio And what and e nfcal Information regarding the facture of lamps from the Gen- e lectric Company in America. Helped Infant Industcy. Vi the beginning o he o At Geary was then the resi- font representative in Japan of the Gohoral Electric Company. He per- Siaded the American corporation to | dents. ‘ing farmer communities. true prophet honored about his home public square. I mentioned this to an expert of the company. “Oh, ‘the university boys? They look on us as a lot of easy uncles. And they are not a bit timid about anything around here. It's not al- together their fault. We do our part in spoiling them. As a matter of fact, more than forty of the officers and technical staff ‘of the company are Imperial University men. On the ground floor of the build- ing, which houses offices and research laboratories of the company, there was a lecture room. It was full when I visited it. There, daily lectures are glven by some of the leading experts of the company to its technical stu- The audience come from all over the empire. I counted more han a dozen of gray-haired engineers who had traveled half the length of the country for light on a technical theme, the light such as they cannot get elsewhere. For this free, factory school room does not teach from text books on electricity. It simply re- ports the successes and fallures of scientific experiments in its own re- search laboratory. And a fallure is quite as valuable as a success. _Visitors are not confined to tech- nical men. Officials interested in fac- tory come here to see with their OWR eves what a model factory looks like, how the factory girls are treated ot 8o long a go the repre- s e women of the China prefec- ture, headed by Viscountess Kano, the wife of the present head of the old mily which has been the lord of the 1 in the old days. visited the fac- tory that they might get the first hand information of a modern fac- tory at work. Girl Workers Happy. The general appearance of the fac- tory girls working here is one of the first things which catch the eye of the visitor. They are different from their sisters in other factories. Tl\pyl | are healthier, happier and full of life. They seem to be higher in intelli- Ken was told that one reason for all this was that the girls all | come from good families in neighbor- They are | not the regular class of factory | workers. They come and work for a | few years to help out the family fi- | nances in these trying days for the | Japanese farmer. Some of them are getting enough saved to purchase II more pretentious trousseau than the parential pocketbooks would allow them. These girls do not live In dor- mitories, they live with their familles in their home: But they have their meals at the factory dining room. It was so clean that it attracted com- ment even in that original home of otlessness. For the prime em- phasis everywhere about this factory seemed to be on the health of the workers, In the rear of their grounds the company Installed a sewage disposal plant. There is no sewage system In Kawasaki. People for miles around come to see the plant. It is one of the outstanding object lessons the country I8 getting in public hygiene Just how much money this com. pany is making for its American stockholders 1 do not know, but have been given to understand that they are happy and satisfied. This is important. Future supply of cheap American capital for the industriali- zation of Japan is a big problem. In- deed, upon this American supply of cheap capital hangs the future of the industrialization of Japan. Educating the Women. The Tokio Electric Company is a John the Baptist in that fiela. Its showing is bound to have an impres- sive and very happy result in the fu- ture financial allfance of the two Pa- cific powers. From this aspect, this American-Japanese enterprise is much bigger than a mere successful {ndus- trial corporation. It seems as though it is destined to light the way to that ultimate peace among nations which diplomacy and politics seem to have failed to find so long and so utterly. America’s part in the evolution of electrical Japan does mot stop with merely setting up big factories or merely installing electrical machinery ¥made in United States of America.” It does not stop with the big fund mental work of flnancing industrial Japan with cheap capital. It goes further—much further. The other day Mr. H. F. Hawle the American consul at Nagoya, re- ported a little event the like of which the ancient castle city had never seen since time out of mind A local electric company, an entirely Japa-! nese concern, engaged the services of an American lady. The company hired | a hall and invited a large number of leading women of the city to attend an educational exhibit. And the com- pany asked the American woman to demonstrate before the audience the use of an electrical iron and a® electrically driven sewing machine. A news item of this sort does not get a front page space of metro- politan dailies of America. It s a pity that it doesn't. For right here is the seed of a revolution before which - & mere political revolution takes on the proportions of a peanut. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGION, D. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1923. . ’lm. o o : RETIREMENT RULE | ghmic Retaion| RIGID, IT 1S HELD Employe’s Age to Govern Separation From Service, Attorney General Rules. ‘When they reach the retirement age, regardless of whether they have served the requisite fifteen years to entitlé them to annuity, employes of the civil service must be separated from the service, according to an opinfon just handed down by the At- torney General. The ruling was given in response to a roquest from the Civil ervice Commission that employes of lesa than fifteen years' service who attain the retirement age be retained to en- able them to quality for en annuity. Age Limit Is Cited. Retirement age is seventy years, with the exception of sixty-two years for rallway postal elerks and sixty- five for mechanics and post office clerks and carriers, In his opinlon, the Attorney General holds that the retirement act of May 22, 1920, has a twofold purpose; first, the separation from the classified service of all those employes Who by reason of age or other infirmities are no longer able to render satisfactory service; and, second, to pay an an- nulty to those employes retired, under the provisions of the act, who have rendered at least fifteen years of service With these purposes in mind, the Artists’ Church By the Amociated Press. NEW YORK, October 29.—Ded- fcated to the religion of Rhythm, the Church of the Artists came into being yesterday amid the color- ful surroundings of a studio in Car- negle Hall. Ultra-modern dance movements accompanied the reading of the twenty-third Psalm by John Bov- ington, psychologist an Musiclan, who led the services, and who sald his interpretation was in- apired by the rythmic mood. Mu- sic suggestive of a tom-tom was played and the shoulders of the isteners swayed to the rhythm of cadence words s a woman member of the congregation read nnet to the sons. “The object of the art church,” Mr. Bovington told the handful of selt-styled artlsts who attended the services, “ls to express devo- tion and worship through the technique of art and to create in the participants the mastery of creative moods. In the service that will spring from this idea all the arts will be used—musie, painting, dancing, acting. The re- sult to be attained is a spiritual discipline that will give control of creative moods and organize this _technique into disciplinary rhythmic ritual.” Attorney General interprets the act as requiring the automatic separa- tion from the service of all persons who have reached the retirement age fixed by the law. Those who have rendered less than fifteen years of vice, In the view of the Attorney eneral, are automatically separated from the service without annuity. Former Attorney General Palmer rendered an opinion cofnciding with the one just rendered by Attorney General Daugherty. Investment Bankers Do you realize that delightful and beneficial COASTWISE OCEAN TRIPS can be enjoyed through Port of Baltimore or Norfolk of the steamship lines of the MERCHANTS AND MINERS TRANSPORTATION COMPANY? FREQUENT SAILINGS TO BOSTON Sailings Each Tuesday and Friday, Baltimore to Jacksonville, Fla. (via Savannah) Try the tonic of erisp salt air. 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The three faotories cover more than 343 acres of land and_the factory buildings have more than 664,000 sauare feet of floor space. Its eight sales offices at Toklo, Osaka, Mojl, Magoya, Sap- Doro, Sendai, Darien, Manchuria, 2nd_Shanghai. China, handle not only its own manufacturés but also those of the General Electric Company in Japan, China and the south seas. Training Future Engineers. The Tokio Electric Company is the super-university for the future elec- trical engineers of Japan. That is the one crowning fact about this concern of which the men connected with it are exceedingly proud. When I visited the factory I saw many impressive things—the type of Wworking men and girls, the manner in which they went about their business, their cleanliness and their healthfu ness and. of course, their efliciency, which stood out like a crane in the compuny of crows, in comparison with the general lack of it among the other Japanese working classes. 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