Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1924, Page 29

ATTACK UPON HIROHITO STIRS JAPAN TO DEPTHS Reaches Vast Sum Political and Social Outlook Sure to Be Beclouded by Attempt to Slay Prince Regent. BY SIDNEY ¥. MASHBIR. Recently of the nernl Staff of the | United States Army on Special Duty in Japan. T may safely be said that no sin- gle act within the past 2,40 vears, marking the period of re- | corded history in Japan. will bo found to have as profound an | cffect on the internal, and in some ways the external, relations of that | ition as the recent attempt on the | life of Hirohito, the prince regent of the Japuness empire. { Although for hundreds of years | vrior to the restoration of the Em- | peror Meiji, during the latter part of last century, the actual power of! government was exercised by the varfous shoguns, there has never been the slightest attempt or hint of such ®t attempt upon the life of or the L (although at times of the empe i o vor or o il tamily has Leen ¢ fore last 8 aking eve vast multi- tudo which had (hled to witness s return broke precedents of | silence in the jmperial presenc < heering as ssed. 1t was s th 10 i hat th ave-like arently long supersti- | Hirohito as) ruler of the i Held In Veneration and Awe. impossi for the 1 the ven- | the almost ind to unders exs un_ at- m the Jap- he fol- arly in r<t Emperor of to be the nporal ruler of the em- Iso more ti earth e spiritual head of | the Greck : Church; the kai- ser purpor n _amicable working with nis G but at no time ha citasr of ther 7 1 erection, a raised dais to be used as a by the emp: should is Take Articles ns “Sacred.” At imperial garden parties and oth- er imperial functions, 1 have seen members of the hest and wealth- icst famil Im secrete, in their kim lottles of caslon _even reely on the fac son” had carricd ehicken in his high lous as these actlon us there Is & very defin them.. Nome of these peuple but nave purchased the thin g svho would have st et dishon but were “bestowed™ by the emperor and t only they ! talners partook of them as of ramenr Within the past vear one of the highest generals of the Japanese army was relleved of command and viaced on the retired 1 known that he geisha few of a gift of a packuge of cigarettes v D) had been be- stowed u b the emperor. Until recent years, u the pass- | ing of an imperial pro . the | yeoplo fell prone upon the earth and | stared not 1aisc their faces o> look, ss than given to a the police en- ars and pulled Llinds, in crder that no might zaze down on the pri gent, who was Teturning tng. ver light these things n ippear to us they must be regarde .8 matters of thé most profound im- s the result of centuries of a definite wortance to the Japanese mind undi trend of thought, and I have therc- {fore emphasized them at the risk of redundancy, fn order that a clear con- ception may be had of the awesome and agelong veneration with which the tmperfal femily has been regardel —without exception—from the time of remote antiquity to the present day and in the present state of en- ughtenment. Only by grasping this typ psychological state of the Japunc: mind can we begin to underst that such an unheard-of thing attempt on the person of the pri regent can be regarded by the nese as an wct for tratscend lese majeste, nothing less than a uct of sacrilege. Results Held Obvious. The tangible and visible results are obvious to any student of Japan, and may be safely predicted First. The cabinet will tender its resignation Second. he is In direct control of the metro- politan police bureau Third. The chief of the metropol- 1 all that di; fiais jund disgra v cun expiate their crime | committing suicide Powsible Farther E The intangible reaching resuits o be ars in int 1 characteristics f the Jupanese nation but recently returned four years of r ce in Japan, I may venture that they wil cipally as . ent will be use ) mmediate nunhood bill, now before the diet, ground that the people have not vet become able to govern themselves ise of the ballot would ¢ license rather than Lven . Sterner measures than heretofore used will be adopted th attempting to stamp out the sociul unrest whicl the ' cau: 14 disquietud id i what is knowr Zerous thoughts Third. There wiil rostponement of th nd s v Goto been opposed that durlng th late negotiatl compelled to a bodyguard w case of saverely the -t he went. The also been Japan recent catastrophe were k by the Jupanese officials the ground that all supplies were to have bean wrapped in propa- anda literature, | —_— WILL TALK TO STUDENTS. Dr. Willoughby to Address Y. M. C. A. Accountancy School. Dr. W. F. Willoughby, director of the Institute for Government Research, wiil address the students of the W hington School of Accountaney Men's Christi oo S the biennial Tuesday, Januar, He will' falk on counting and Budget Control, time examination grades will tributeéd to the students. will be served. The examinations in the hool law will be held January 28 to Febry 2, inclusive. Classes in the preparators - school will resume January 2s and in | the school of accountancy January 3t. A freshman class in ountancy” and business administration will also begin on January 81, well clal courses in publie . _practical auditing, nd comiposition, busi nesy s vestment securits mathematies accountancy, industrial management, income tax and a course in practical Certified public ac countancy problems, in which will he problems given In cert d public ac- exuminutions throughout tha country during the vears. Examinations for advanced anding and make-up exuminations are sched- uled as follows: Accounting, February conomics, February 7; law subjects, February 9. Requests for these examinations must be in the office before February 2. VIRGIL’S TOMB FOR PUBLIC Mussolini Orders Plot Made Into Garden as Shrine. NAPLES, Ttaly, January 26:—Pre- mier Mussolini has ordered the pur- chase of the tomb of Virgll, which now {s private property. The surrounding plot will be trans- formed Into a garden of Greco- Roman style, with roses, laurel and | becoming a sort of | myrtle, thus shrine for lovers of the classical poet. Henry C. Stein Announces His Connection With the Taylor-Korman Oil Company Distributors I ot o A s Al Refreshments | THE SUNDAY STAK, WASHINGTON, D. C. e ICongress Printing | i The Congressional Record, the most costly publication issued by the government, required an expenditure of § 8 for printing and bind- ng 1t pages fn 1923, as com- Pared with $713,085.79 in 1922. This was & decrease of §$15,188.51 for the vear., although 19,200 mére volumes of the Record were bound in 1923 than in the preceding year. The de- ed cost of the Record in 1923 Que lareely to 1,816 fewer pages d a drop in the price of ¢ the daily cdition of the Record approximately 33,000 coples are printed, and of the permanent edition about 6,000 sets are bound at the end of each session. Congress also caused an expendi- Iture of $121.4 fof its bilis las againsi $14 irame purpose in 1 The two years re [show the total cost of printing bills ! i d resolutions for the to be 82644 659 separate % and reso- tnted in making 2 of 33,155 type s, as eom- pared wi i bills und resolu- tlons, cousisting of 42,767 type pages, in 192 The committees of Congress had ings printed at a cost of 45.53 in 1 as compared with making the tatal .35 for the Sixty-seventh eventh There of $188,0 Congress. printing for Con- was $1,794,821.64, which less than for the pre- hen the total reached Tor the two nelude congressin individual members, the government received $53,330.18 ¢ {from members of Congress for print- Ing copies of their speeches; in 1922 they pald _$69,853.20 for _similar printing. Even when members of Congress pay for their printing the government ~ printing office is re- stricted by law to the reprinting of only such speeches as have been in- |serted in the Congressional Record. SR TENNESSEANS TO MEET. [ The Tennessee State Soclety of ! Washington plans to have as its guests the entire dele tion In Congress from | that state, promi ‘Washlington Jurists and others to be given at L' i Mills road, next jo'clock. Senator Eilison D. Smith of | South Carolina is to make the principal iaddr?rs, [} Those on the_ reception committee : are: John A. Chumberly, chai {Joseph Baker, Guil Barber, Miss Mamia Burkhart, Col. Wade H. Cooper, Mrs Myrtle Pohlmgn and Mrs. B. Carrol) | Reece. Dr. B. M. Eilison { the soctety, will preside. Notice—to Builders For Sale Plot of ground 150x200: 50,000 square fest; 34th and Q streets, two blocks from Georgetown University znd Western HIRh School. Good ing and sell- ing location. ble for three fifty-foot apariments or a row of or twelve houses. Price, €00 a foot—submit offer. Call MR. 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