The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 19, 1920, Page 7

PRESS AGENT ELPS ROBBERY ‘Admits Fake Wound in Spo- kane Station Theft 19 Admitting himself to “beaned to give verisimi!i Tebbery story, Henry 4 Great Northern EB The Japanese Invasion ‘Shinto, the Way of the Gods’ Editor's Note—Much has b ence to the Japanese invasion N, Mills, presents the Shintoism, the in a new worship by Japanese of their dece stors, and he draws from their fatalistic attitude, | een said and written im refer- of America, However, George light. He deseribes sed an- the con- ction that they are essentially the product of a different civilization than ours. ° us, they have the advantage is accused of rm money, also a Seven thou Pecovered. r $26 for his part in the affat ing to his story LEVY’S ORPHEUM Third and Madison TODAY Thursday ~ and Friday Only ? oscar GERARD CUPD'S: ROUND-UP" The biggest and greatest Musical _ Comedy hit of the season LEW WHITE And the largest company of musical stars ever assembled on our big stage NOT TO MENTION that big Beauty Chorus of 22 GIRLS individualism, and that in any event, they Oriental in inspiration and action; 1 | ieanized, The first installment of Mr. . mpla, Wash ment of this subject I al more truth, tho along a somewhat different line than I n presented in the oot umna of 1 Star by others who have written on important have yet # this all to impress more emphatic mind of the Ame © certain diana’ rican the past 50 it is more to the point that I should consider the Zacts as cael really are in the present day Japan unchanged in the spirft of ite old forms, and where changes have been made they indicate changes of expediency, insincerity and of super ficial character. | to interpret in a small measure Japan and the Japanese people to terms of American comprehension. ‘Volumes could be written on the sub- feet and the purpose of this brief essay will be served if I only suc: | loeed in the encouragement of the | reader to further investigation. During the latter part of the year, | 4918, and the early months of 1919 |it waa my privilege to visit for short periods of time various places in the} | Orient, including Japan, China, the | Bast Indies and on thru the Shes tb southern France. I formed some tm pressions of the East-—impressions that are more lasting and vivid than I could ever have gained by reading | whole libraries of books, Out of all that I learned in the cruise around the world, (I returned to America across the Atlantic), two fundament af ideas have erystalized—the gener a} character of a people or pation is determined more by their religion than by any other one thing, and, since I have to live out of the pro. ceeds of my labor. I must conclude At America offers the best oppor- tu tee. I saw no man that works for a living that I thought I would care to trade places with after hav ing duly considered the essential con: | ditions in each case. 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He concludes that in competing with of pitting ore effort against nust ever remain that they cannot be Amer- Mills’ article follows: © of military st ma. « ‘angeness of all {hin essentially native from tea gardens to funeral processions—from life to death wide differences hav ing no mutual bonds that could in them with Amer me and American institu mysteriousness of Japa mind of the ecome their deity; the live in and for death with the. sir cerity of 4 perfect faith, ‘Thin ix interpretation of ancestral wor or Shinto, (The Way of the Shintoiam or ancestral wor been the religion of the cartiest history ‘modigied xtent with nature worship Buddhism religion of of the Japanene Briefly stated of Japanese anges The domesatic cult, the comm 1 eult and the atate ult. The first is the religion of the home and family, the second, that of the clan and the last, the national | religion or worship of the imperial | ancestors where all the ¢ grown all their law toms; a few similar to o of them strange and vas! The privilége of becoming a god jafter death does not imply that it im necessary to be virtuous in life. | [There are both good and evil gods Jand it becomes equally necessary to make sacrificial and food offering» | to all alike; to the beneficent gods! |to insure the continuance of all good things in life and to the malevolent gods as a guarantees against misfor-| | tune of all kinds. All human actions, | whether good or bad to be controtied by t seasons and bount flood and famine, tempest and earth quake, disease and health are all the work of the déad. Thus the inter. [dependency imagined between the dead and the living unites them with bonds of mutual necessity which can not be broken without the most fatal | |consequences. Such has been the re Ngion of Japan until the most recent | times, and so tt still remains today | tho in a somewhat softened form In their full significance thene be lets are terrible, and ina land where Ratural forces frequently apread des olation they must hang like the | weight of an endless nightmare |RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT COMBINED IN JAPAN A significant fact in this connec tion t* that the ancient Japanese term for government—matauri goto signifies literally “matters of wor ship” and that for the greater part religion and government in Japan have been one and the same in the} past as well ax the present Everything of consequence in Japanese life can be t cestral worship, material progress years, and that the the living have been main the real rulers. The same statement could be made} about the national lite of white races, but with nothing like the same de aree ¥ truth. We brake away com. | pietel¥ and abruptly from the old] Greek and Roman ideas and lave left them in the dim past of 20 cen: turies, Japan presents ample of the ma shackled to the o primitive. Her history cannot written without including the reli-| gion, and as T have previously tm plied, the kgowledge so gained is ex ‘sential to an understanding of the modern race. This strange belief has, in its elab oration and application to human| conduct, produced somes remarkable qualities of mind and profound dit. | erences of social ethics and customs in which all t teachings and ex periences have nev made any but the most # Considering the 4 and piety in its # under Shinto, .we and still re turn to the| of the “Forty-seven Rouin” (retainers), Briefly told, it is the] story of forty-seven servants of a feudal lord, who avenged his death by killing the man who slew him. | The servants, thinking themeelves necessary to the happiness of their] master in the wld beyond the} ar then pe: a “harikiri® in| manner of disembowelment. | story and the faithful] re buried le their Sengakuji their amoke of ince offered miring visitors, has been as cending daily for two hundred years In more recent times, take note of the fanatical heroiam displayed on} board the Kinshu Maru during the} Russe Japanese war where a large | number of Japanese officers and| men destroyed their lives previoys to the sinking of the transport. RELIGIOUS FANATICISM, 1S NOT OUR “PATRIOT story Still another ¢ where hundreds of Japa jimpaled themselves on shar stakes planted in the bottom of F sion entrenchments, the advance | iw thus making a human bridge |aver otherwixe impassable ground |The complete and ignominious de feat of the Russians on the Yalu ows how grossly they ated the: Japanenc A girl likes to show her teeth when she has her photograph taken, #0 that strangers who see it will think] that she has a good temper, | Sports skirt—sizes 36 to 42. THE SEATTLE STAR - FREDERICK &6 NELSON | FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET DOWNSTAIRS STORE Women’s Black Kidskin Oxfords 108 Pairs to sell at $4 45 this price, Thursday A SHARPLY reduced price on these grace- fully modeled, comfortable Walking Ox- fords, in soft black kidskip, with welt soles and Cuban heels. 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