The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 12, 1920, Page 15

f | The Eye That Round the World With Togo Never Sleeps story of Henry grew up here, GREAT détective agency once had for its motto: “The eye that never sleeps.” But compared to the astute Jap the most vigilant agency on earth is a mere feeble loafer, sleeping around the clock. One doesn’t hear much of the Japan- ese campaign to assimilate the Pacific Coast but it goes on every minute in the day, and it goes on craftily, too. And it is aided more by the efforts of certain “American” business firms, who regard the dollar above anything else, than it is by the most_sagacious Orientals. s Here is an instance: Before me is a letter sent out by T. Kambe, of Klyce & Hertzman, produce merchants of Se- attle. It is a letter sent by Mr. Kambe —who is the Japanese agent of the firm—to his compatriots, and it ad- vises local Japanese as follows: The U. S. government exempts from taxation not in excess of 15 per cent of net income ff it is con tributed to religious or charitable institutians. This is*simply due to the fact that the government recognizes the expenditure as indispensable in the execution of one’s obligation to humanity. Let us pay more attention to these undertakings and be able to do our share for social betterment. The standard contribution of real Americans for the cause of religion and charity amounts to 15 per cent of their income, ¢. g., one who has an imeome of $10,000 contributes $1,500, and ane who has an income of $2,000 contributes $300. Are we, however, all contributing at this rate? Let us, men and women, as well as children, tf possible attend Sunday schools. In the U. 8. the of moral culture is vested in the church. To attempt Americanization without teaching the essence of Christianity is predoomed to failure like the expectation of harvest without ng. On the contrary, the harvest is bound to come as the result of proper sowing and care. At present there are about 700 Japanese yo nesters in Seattle public schools and only half of them at tend Sunday school. What are the rest of the children doing Sunday morning and who is re- sponsible for them? . At this period of world reconstruction let us be sufficiently farsighted to judge the future well and ever make our determination steadfast to bury ourselves in this country. Let us raise the significance of life, learn the goad aspects of American customs and manners, improve the con. @ition of our living, promote friendship with Amer- fean citizens, share profit and risk with them, con- tribute our bit for the maintenance of close friendly lationship between America and Japan’ and rentually make ourselves promoters of civiliza tion. All this sounds very pretty, but in plain English it means that the Jap- anese are advised to divert 15 per cent of their income to promote propaganda among public and private organizations rather than pay taxes on it. If this scheme is followed a huge fund will be given each year; and doubtless the sentiment of certain church leaders and pastors, which is already highly favorable to the Jap, will be even more enthusiastic. Can you conceive of a prettier scheme than this to subsidize religion, to crawl under cover of a fat check into the ranks of the “believers” and boost the glory of Nippon? This clever letter from the Jap organ- izer of this good Seattle firm also says, among other things: “They don’t look upon the inconsistent advocates of the anti-Japanese movement as true and loyal Americans.” Here Mr. Kambe is speaking well of those Americans who favor the speedy “assimilation” of the Japanese, and the welcoming of our little brown brother to fillest citizenship, fellowship and opportunity. And right when our wily Mr. Kambe was giving his brethren this neat device to secure American aid for their prop- anda, another story was being told in pan, where the sons of Nippon are free to worship their peculiar gods in their peculiar fashion, without any necessity of hypocrisy or pretense. Let us take Shantung, where the little brown disciples of brotherhood, of Soar EVANSVILLE, “Impossible,” Says Head of Graves Bureau BY CAROLYN VANCE BELL WASHINGTON. March 12—“It 1s “impossible—it will be inexpressibly harrowing if the next of kin insist upon holding the war department to fits promise of bringing back their poldier dead.” Bo says Paul Kaufman, head of| invalid chair and the graves registration bureau of | ever, the Red Cross. Kaufman 1s in a] now permanently position to know more than any-| body outside of the graves registra tion service of the army, the diffi- culties the latter experienced in ew fablishing the identity of the dead, ‘and he knows, too, the difficulties Yo be faced in disinterring these je, and transporting them to jomes. I] those men heroes,” he says, nin the graves registration of the army. There were ot them. Their task was to the bodies of Americans ed all over France and con- je them in one large cemetery | affliction coming paralysis suffered _— oo -™ ie Bl month” was the Paris—and mark “The letters we Just out side conditions.” GANTT IDENTIFY |Persiztic Claims sn enabled him to walk is the belief of William H. Blackman, 83 years old, head of a local floral company, who walked for the firs During all these years he has b | wheeled about in an invalid chair, his A few days ago, when suffering from a bad cold, Blackman called in a physician, who told him he seemed to have a great deal of strength in his legs and he ought to walk. At this Blackman got out of his and he says he believes he 1s Barber’s Service Prize for Woman LONDON, England, March 12.— “Free haircuts and shaves woman at a Hounslow Tombola. left in other areas. ment of the Red Cross asking uv to ald in returning bodies are pathetic in their ignorance of the actual Everybody tn Christian fellowship and_ kindliness, have had full sway, and let us see how the Japanese government loves Chris- tians when it has nothing to gain by such love. “The Christian schools of the Amer- ican Presbyterian Mission are constant- ly invaded by Japanese officials and condemned as black societies of robbers. The Christians dare not make commu- nications of these matters, for letters are always opened, and no matter how innocent the corttents may be it is al- ways turned into an occasion for ac- cusation resulting in fines, tortures and punishments.” That is Mr. Jap at home, not Mr. Jap in Seattle, being “goog Christian” for what there is in it. : Another quotation, this from the of- ficial journal of the Chinese people and written on the spot, not from a Se- attle “mission,” or a produce house, that depends on Jap farmers for its business : “Thruout the province Christians are searched for Bibles, or Christian tracts, the contents of which are falsely twist- ed in meaning and the bearers thereby condemned. “Chinese Christians and evangelists have been, in numerous instances, seized and locked up in barracks of Japanese soldiery, for three days at a time ina dark room with hardly any food or drink, just to scare out the Chinese from associating with the hated United States missionaries.” Facts, showing the Jap doing as he pleases; official Japan on the job of benevolently assimilating Shantung, and foregathering in brotherly love with their white Christian brethren. Want some more? We can give you yards and yards of it, and hardly begin the story of the rapacity, cynical sav- agery, brutality and heathen rancor to all things Christian, all things human, that is Japan’s. “Chinese customs officials are no longer allowed to inspect and appraise cargoes; they cannot even know what is being shipped to the inland Chinese territory. Consequently large quanti- ties of opium, morphine and cocaine are transported in face of solemn treaty obligations to the contrary. The drugs are peddled by Japanese agents all over the province to the remotest village, shops being set up not only in walled cities and market towns but in many small villages. Enormous incomes are derived from these illegitimate traffics. TO GET THE CHINESE PEASANTS INTO THE DRUG HABIT THE JAP- ANESE DRUGGISTS GIVE FREE IN- JECTIONS TO START WITH, each succeeding injection, however, costing more than the preceding.” A wholesale damnation of a people by governmental edict! That’s virtuous, loving, Christian Japan at home! The Hun at his worst was a fairly decent sort of a fellow beside the Jap. And what do you think of an Amer- ican business firm that will plot to give a foothold, aye, plot to give dominion, to such a people, such a government, such a theory of human relations, in its own country? And what do you think of a minister who is so callous, or so ignorant, or so easily purchased, that he will from the pulpit further the advance on civiliza- tion of a savage horde that destroys and defiles whenever it has the power as truly as the Goths, the Visigoths and the Huns defiled? Along with Hasmira, we ask for to know. Henry QUENTIN QUIDNUNC DAILY HE ASKS A QUES. TION OF FIVE PERSONS PICKED RANDOM Ind, March 12— it time In 15 rs. n TODAY’S QUESTION from a stroke of! Who is your favorite movie star? 15 years ago. ANSWERS NEMESIO MENACHO, Poltvian consul, L, Smith building—I like | William Farnum best. pretty good, too. MRS. LULA ZESINGER, 4852 Or cas st—Oh, I’m too old to go to Bill Hart is walked as well as movies. You call up my son; he'll cured, tell you all about them atten SHERIFF JOHN STRINGER, courthouse—That little girl that g the divorce the other day. Yes, Mary Pickford. She acts childish, whole: some parts, true to life. I don’t care much for pictures of robbers, hold- , blood and thunder and the like they're not true to life. MRS. V. LONG, 1323 Ward st.— Haven't any. MRS. C. R. GIBB, 9428 51st ave. S. —I don't see much of the pictures any more, I used to think Mary Pick- ford was pretty for a prize won by a those that were get in this depart SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1920. | They were marrted when Henry |—I see it yet—" came back from France recently |be mighty happy his other name ts Williams took her north to Wrightsville, in|and the Argonne, under fire for 45 New Jersey, to wait until he got out |of the army next June. Pa i | ‘Then there was a fire— “What's left?" | had a lot of dreams and I homecoming and he had $2,000 last] ‘The +hotel was in flames; it was couldn't get theré,” he sobbed. “And [i= | TheSeattle Star Pages 15 to 28 saved quite a bit to make them come week. They |true, Then, dreams and all—even Ruth—just swirled away tn that fire and Ruth. He walked along the path, awny | Weeks ago. from the new-heaped grave, and there were tears on his cneeks. Henry Williams, ly, w St Mihiel Jay thought they'd camp gate, days, cried. Williams was overseas two years. | He wasn't scratched by the war. He planned and he saved against his aid. eried the boy Snappy, distinctive, individual— as worm in New York. Style ‘4 E it on display made from Quality Free sition cisley made from sonally selected by us. 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STORE, PORTLAND I asked if there was any body in the place-—if Ruth was there. played and gone to school here in| They said that everybody was out his bride just a few She was 18 then. They | thru the crowd and shoved my way |in frenzy, went back to Camp Dix and spent | about, but Ruth wasn't there. Then| ment, for Ruth one night in the Salvation Army |I went into the building.” | hotel at, Wrightsville, I went all well |he said, “I could tell by the tip of fire “I went out the next morning to| men and ran thru the smake-choked find a room where we could live un-| halls and struggled thru flames, try-|Camp Dix to Jay. ARCADE BLDG. SECOND AVE. (Over the Rhodes Co.) Largest Clothiers in the Northwest. when I got to the street the build ing came down and I went back to the crowd trying to find her.” All that night he searched, now now in numb bewlider “We found her in the morning,” Jone shoe that ped the fire,” The Red Cross paid the fares from Williams’ colonel “What's left?” Williams asks, R ano