Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1923, Page 37

: THE EVENING STAR, ‘WASHINGTON, D. (. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1928 Vaunted Militarism f J s the soldler fallen i’ the eves of [thalr backs on the )lapi candidate, | @8 they stepped out of the class- |of Jupancse youns omen o loday Not qy q ' 0 v 2 ! (/) apan T RoEAe Saoni i the feas | thn ek than a ghneration ago [rooms. One of them was what |cerne | the membej 7 R e T R A nembers of a gradgating class of | sort profession or business men Would Be Insane to Fight. one of the 1 7] - ok = 3 let a Myth Leaders Decl re\l "There 15 1o’ question |t roni’ wictding ladie’ s “““‘"‘""“‘-‘ would choose for husbands. A| pyen gs its-youthrand it women again: Does Japan. want war with | $390,000,000,000 to her credit? ‘Why. man added: in Tokio were asked t i 4 & & {hat all this deplorable condition has | black ana’ white their fahowern o & | FAn &vmy. o6 naval oficers e, | dream 5o also is the nation. In Japan | 5o United . States? ° Was that it?|that is about three-gfths of ithe en- i o e ot or cur] of today militarism is about as fa<h-| Does it look to vou as though she | tre world's wealth; that is twenty I e omen Rolngdruskovit i orally lonabld” as hoop skirts are on_5th wanted war with the islanders of avenue: - After telling ' me all these| Yap, lot alone ‘with the mightiept things, my old schoolmate turned to|country on the face of *the :globe, me and added: | with the greatest store of essential “Now et me hear your question|Taw materials and. with more, than women are con- L army or naval office ‘an number of Vory serigus - questions hyears have created a new heaven and which théy were sure 1 face as s0on | a new earth as far as the dreamings (Continued on Page 42.) Army and Navy Life Losing Appeal Girls Spurn Marriage With Service | Men—~Idea of U. S. War Is Scorned. * The tollowing article is the lant of a weries by Adachi Kinnosuke, probably the most writer :pon erica. He ‘as recently the United States after making a long and careful investigation in Japan and his statements may be considered as au- thoritative, se matters in returned to BY ADACHI KINNOSUKE. A quarter of a century is apt to change a man a bit. And I had been away from Nippon a trifle longer than that. Many a dear beloved country- man of mine accused me of being an “outer countryman.” Therefore, In- stead of donning brocade, as historic usage prescribes, I literally clothed myselt with interrogation points in visiting the land of my birth. The first man I fired upon was an old schoolmate of mine In Tokio. “Strictly between you and mé, now, what about all this war talk—the American-Japanese war talk? Does Japan really want war with Ameri- ca?" You said you were JAway some ars, didn't you——away from he retorted as he looked out on Maruno-uchl and to the moated castle palace beyond. It was not the words of my schoolmate which offended me. It as his looks. An up-to-date New Yorker looking down on Rip Van Winkle could not have packed so much pity and distilled essence of “Oh, what's the use”' into a single look as did my friend. “Well,” said 1, my face coloring old from a heat that did mot come from | summer weather, “in_America you hear that question quite often. It is considered to be a sane and rather important question. In fact, the Americans don't ask any other ques- tion, but that when they really get serious over forelgn affairs.” Written by a Schoolboy. | by Nitobe, is taken quite seriously over | there,” T told him. | “Is that so?" He opener his narrow |eves widely. “That schoolboy gra uation essay, advertising his grammar |of our old-time samurai read it, he rather than anything else? Why, if one |of our old-time samural read’ it, he would be the most astounded person you ever saw. You know that. Thi |years ago, just about the time you 8hook the land of the gods in the rear of you, to be a soldier or a sailor aboard a fighting ship was the dream of 100 per cent of the coming generation of { Japan, but now all that is the menu of last New Yeai's feast. About the most unpopular thing on the street of Tokio today is the uniform of the soldier.” M friend told me the following story out |0f the book of Tokio' | _In the Yotsu | Tokio on_the s name of | street), the | Takasdgo | monial bureau. X | tionable about ¢ | monial bureaus in Japan are reputable | institutions and about as far from their | American counterfeits as the moon is from the mud-turtle. A gendarme from | the Akasaka station called on_the r ager of the bureau, Mr. Tsunekichi Kano. - “Will you not deign to let me know e tender (Love-abiding 1 establishment called . a | the inner side of the thoughts of young | | women in general on marrying a mili- | tary man?" | Mr. Kano is a serlous man, “rich in | springs and summers,” and no admirer {of the flash and flippancy of the new woman. He sat silent a moment before | answering, as if he were emphasizing | the solemnity of the theme Soldiers Con't Find Brides. “One or two out of 100 girls of to- | day may say that they are willing to | marry a military man,” he said. “But even with them it Is usually the case that they have certaln peculiar rea- sons for such a step. With some of them their lovers had gone and mar- ried other girls; then with another. v | the question. That surprised him to the point of |she wishes to ‘show’ her friends or | silly floss of animal excitement th | mistake for life.” "It was poor conse w|lation for the young gendarme, all the same. There Is Admiral Togo and then there is Gen. Kuroki. They are the | two outstanding figures of the two | branches of the service. Not one | the daughters of either of them has | married_a soldler or a sallor. In Japan, this spells one thin, neither the admiral nor the ge is too keen for their daughte | marry military men. For the paren lover there, have a good deal to s: about the matter of such magnitude as the marriages of their children. It spells another thing: Both | general and the admiral | posed to know the army and navy fairly well. They are supposed to have expert inside Information of And the action of their own daughters in the serfous exp: |rience of marriage is somewhat & | different thing from a guotation of | Aheir public speeches at the unveilin of o monument. It is the truest an | the most definite funeral oration over | the grave of militarism in Japan they | could pronounce. Military Marriages Unhappy. Mme. Sugl. wife of Col. Sugl, and {a director of the Agsociation of the Vives of the Army and Navy Officers, ame out flatly not so long ago and said that she would not dream of letting ‘one of her daughters marry a military man. From the stand- point of income alone, the situation is intolerable—100 yen a month or %0 for a lleutenant and 130 yen for a captain. No wife, however good and wise, can ever manage house- holds on such incomes, for no one requires so much social expense as the military men. She has too much affection and pity for her daughters to permit them to marry soldiers. Taka-ko Ohzuma numbers military men among her rela- She is the head of the Ohzuma | Higher \Girls' School. She declared the other day that in recent times she does not know a single instance where a marriage with a milita {man turned out happy and satisfa tory. My schoolmate told me of a son of @ major general in the Japan army. He military college year before last with distinetfon. The young man s in the aviation corps now and is num- bered among the most promising of the coming officers. His parents have been looking for a suitable wife for him for these two years. They have met with no success whatever. Mme The very mention of the fact that he the | was graduated from a | 1 stopping his breath for a few seconds. 1| family that she can marry if is in the army is enough to make siezed my advantage: “‘The Bushido,” wished. 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