HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1914-6-4, Page 7OCEAN SHIPS VE ROWING
:ORANGES IN LA14T TWENTY.
FIVE YEARS.
The Sze Is Compelled to )Vail fo
Engine Power to •Make
Adyniieenleut,
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T!]led+e algia nee living teeley wh
sear remeanber crossung'the Atenti
on schooner -rigged site ani hips,
which depended as much upon thei
sails as their c•igines for propel
Mon, and clic. not exceed 5;000 ton
dtlsplaosinenb. Those were the day
of long voyages in wintry weaklier
with the haiteihes battened• down en
passengers cooped up in stuffy
cramped cabins. The food nu
have been sumptuous callipered •
the salt pork and hardtack that
were the lot of .eighteenth centur
immigrants, but the ocean travelle
of to -day would !turn up his nose a
it. Take a step farther back,
the period of twenty yeare befor
the Civil War, when the steamshi
was still a novelty, and you find th
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oceclacks ouch cockle -shells a
the original Cunarder Britannia,
1,154 ' Ores tonnage, 740 horse
power, acrd a speed of 8X knots a
hour, under favorable conditions,
with smile spread, says the Nes
York Peet.Compare this with the Maxie
feria, plunging along thrangh heavy
weather, four screws thrusting her
33,000 tons along at 24 knots am
hour, her 775 feet of length =sib-
ling her to rids over many a mons-
trous wave that tossed the poor lit-
tle B•rtitan.eia. And remember that,
as ships are rated nowadays, elleMauretania, which mamadeher first
run in 1907, has become a compara-
tively moderate-sized liner, _ Her
33,000 tons are surpaeeed by the
Olympic's 45,000 tans, and the
Olympic, in turn, has been sur-
passed by the Heroburg-Amerioan
Lime's giant In1perator• of 50,000
tans. The Cunard Line is building
a still terser steamship, the Aqui-
tanks, and it is repented than• the
North Gelman Lloyd is planning a
vessel of 45,000 tons. The latest is
a suggestion of 60,000 -ton White
Star steamships, which will surpass
anything yet known,
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\Shrine White Elephants.
I•n tracing the development of
ocean steamships; et is interesting
to recall the vague ambitions of the
designers and builders in the 'first
generation of steamship men. They
were far ahead of their day—or, to
speak more accurately, they were
far ahead of their engines. Several
times you will comb ,across a sue -
den jump in tonnage in some par-
ticula•r vessel, a jump which was not
bettered for ten Ar twenty years af-
terward. That meant that the ship
in question proved a white , ele-
phant, too expensive to be profita-
ble, or too bulky to be efficient.
The Great Eastern, of course, is
the most famous of the marine
white elephants. She wee 690 feet
long, land it was not until a decade
or so age that her bulk was sur-
passed. The trouble with her Was
that, at that time, there were not
engines of 'suff_cient power to pro-
pel her at a speed that would make
hos wovyth running, and ,she was so
enormous and teeming: arrange-
meets were then ser primitive that
she was difficult to handle: But in
many way's she was one of the best-
constructet] ships that ever put to
sea, end : she had a double skin
which once saved her from sinking,
when her side was pierced—this labs
bier an improvemenk which marine
engineers neglected for flew yeses,
until the Titanic disaster taught
diem a much-needed lesson.
Other 01d Steamers.
Going over another lest of odd
Sibeatmiships, we ooans upon the Per-
sia, of the Canard Line, which
started running in 1855. Between
the Britannia mad the Persia, the
Cunard fleet showed small increases
in
either tonnage or horse -power,
In 1843 the Hibernia and Cambria
were rent 'to. sea, each with a ton-
nage of 1,422 and a horse -power of
1,040, Then carne the American
anise in 1848. These vessels were
of 1,825 tons and 2,000 horsepower.
It will be noted that the develop-
ewIt fn „horse -power had fee out-
d.sta•n•oed the inoaease in tonnage
in the intervening eight years. And
j1 -ally the same entmo of in.-
(neve
•n.area.. wan maintained in the Asia
aaicl A frica, planted in service
1850. They were u•t 2,225 tons 'amid
2,400 .;horse -power„ The Arabia,
which followed them in 1825, was
simply an improvement upon them,
eilb a tonnage of 2,402 aqui, a horse-
power of 3,250.
There was e radical increase in
tl Persia, which was quite a colos-
sus for those days, being of 3,300
eors and 4400 noise• -power
ltton 1,0 this, she weal nearly's h.ula-
deed feet Langer than the vessoTs
which had preeedee herr. The Seo-
tea, which follo'tr'ed the Persia in.
1862, was practically a' sister drip.
But thereaafter, until 1874, the Cu-
need Line found it profitable to
build vessels much smaller than
either' the• P'ereite oe the Scotia,
The Bothnia . and •Scetela; • which
macre ewe- •first runs in 1874, were
only .a. ;iihopssnd t `ns larger .th-e
fee Scottie, and were a knot slo't'cr,
The A1141100 flreyhounds.
It WAS in the seventies that the
modern ocean liner, the "grey-
hound of the :Atlantic," as it was
called, really began to Dome into its
own. Modern engineering was be-
ginning to • solve the problem of
combining weight an'd speed, and
the development of creature -eerie
forts ashore was cleating 55 clement]
for increased comforts, afloat, The
Cunard Line in 1881 put in service
She Sercia., whieih was a :record-
rnaker an hew. taste --;7,392 tons,, 9,000
horse -power, 815 feet long. After
tut•er, for ten year's, smaller vessels
were built, bust in 1890 the begin-
nings of the :preemie Cunard fleet
were zi.11 the conlsertiction of the
Iver'atia and Saxonia, which are still
duh eerviee, They are of 14,000 tons,
but were not intended, for speed.
Mho Campania and L' ueenia, which
went into service in 1893, ,ware con-
apiouous as the first expresssteene
ships than combined great size, for
their day, with speed, Of 13,000
tons, they developed 26,000 horse-
power, and made 22 knots an hour.
They were the •senisa•tesit furnished
boasts afloat in their time, and some
people tstill'thsnk that Iho public sa-
loons of the Campania have never
been improved upon. Her smoking-
room.
mokingroom. was one of the Cosiest and.
haindraonrest rooms afloat. The Lu-
cania was burned ab her dock some
years ego, and ]ester sold for junk,
and the Campania is 50 be sold off
this summer. Her peeping will be
a real ocean tragedy. Long and
.slim, with a single huge, raking
funnel, she used to peek like a. big
torpedo boat as she swathed
through the North Atlanic rollers,
steady as a clock to the end. With-
al she was a good sea boat for her
size, and more comfortable than
=ay newer ones.
Recent Developmentss.
It is in the last ten yee,rs that the
big developments in point of ton-
nage have been made. As far as
speed is concerned, the Mauretania
is good for only ferrite knots more
than the Campania at her best, but
she is eonsiderabiy more than twice
the older boat's size. And the de-
velopments in the fleets of other
lines have more or less paralleled
the Cunard Line. As has been said,
the L' usitenia and Mauretania are
no longer big by comparison with
the giants placed in commission by
the German lines and, the White
Star, although the new Aquitaatia
will be the peer of any of the later
monsters. There is an indisputa-
ble tendency, nowadays, towards
ships of 40,000 tons or more and
moderate spied,'wide large passeie-
ger-easrying capacity.
A typical recent instance is the
Columbus, of the North German
Lloyd, which will make her madden
trip late this conning summer. She
is of 37,000 registered tonnage, 42,-
000 tons' displacement, and 20 knots
speed. In addition to all the'edher
modern innprevemeants of ocean era-
vel—palm-rooms, gymnasiums, nur-
series, tennis courts, etc,—she
have electrically propelled deck
chairs, such as are Sawed at seaside
re•sarts, for the use of passengers
who do not ogre eo tramp on their
promenade.
The big ship of the future will
peob.ably be a itliousand feet long or
longer, 60,000 tons displacement;,
and, beyond question, will contain
an autonhobile speedway.
VANITY IN ARMY OFFICERS.
A Woman Who Changed the Dress
of a Regimehit.
• . Lady Mester Lucy Stanhope,
when staying at Walmer 'Castle in
1804, quite unwittingly accomplish-
ed the feat of ehasiging the uniform
of a regilient of the county militia.
The anecdote, which illustrates a
curious streak of vanity in old-time
army officers, appears in an aeeount
of Lady Stanhope's life by Mr.•
Frank Hamel.
Somebody asked me before a
-great many officers what I thought
of them, said Lady Stanhope, and I
said that they looked like so many
tinned harlequins., One, day, soon
after, I was' r'icling through Weimer
village, when wee ehould pop out
upon me but the colonel, dressed in
entirely new regimentals, with die
ferule facings; more like those of a
regimregiment of the line.
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pardon me, Lady Hes
ter," he began, So I stopped; and
he addressed nie. "Pray, pardon
mc," said the colonel, "but I with
eo knee, .ifu.,
yoappreve of our' new
uniform." 0'f course I made him
turn about and a inspected him
round and, rounfl,-pointed: witlrnly
whip as I sat on horseback, first
here and there, --told him the waist
was too short and wanted half a
button more,—the collar was too
high, and so on, And in a short
time the whole regimeneturnee out,
with new clothes.
What Is It?
The teacher, questioning her class
about; the graduation in the scale of
existence, . asked : "What :comes
next to man?"
Little :rctlnniy raised his hand
anxiously
"Well, 7omee," int.remceed the
teacher,• what is it that. comes nett
to man l" •
Tommy, g brn51ibill g to ler a peeve
aryl de£eatt r5s ollded; "]:fins tbncler-
uirt, eieeture 1
PROOF POS1'1'11=1;.
Os. Norris 'thought 1t Would Be
Well to Wait Until ,Saturday,
'ening Mrs ,Sydney was a great-
friend
reatfriend of Dueler• Norris, and she
did not thesitabe to Call hint up on
the telehune when the. needed ad-
vice.
"Dueler," she deneueled, one
morning, is it sale for my Rachel
to play with, the Crockett children
yet None of them: have ever haul
whooping cough,•• and. I wouldn't
have little Paul take it for the
world," •
"IIow long has Rachel had i4,?"
asked the doctor.
' `Nearly seven weeks," ,,Said Mrs,
Sydney, "She doesn't Whoop a
particle, but sti11----'
"Proof positive that she'sall over
it," broke in the loot hastily, "1
should' say it was ail right to let her
play with the other children."
"'Thank you," chirped Mrs. Syd-
ney ; but she hung u. the receiver
with a meditative air, -nil shook her
head When Rachel teased to go over
to the Crocicetts', "No; you Are to
stay in your own yard this morning.
You can't play with arjorie until
mother gives you permission."
An hour or two later she went
again to the telephon . "I would-:
n't have Baby Crockett •catch
whooping cough for anything," she
said to herself, and re called up
De: Norris again "Oh, Doctor
Norms, could you tell Mrs. Norris
that Rachel and I willdrop in for
a few minutes 'this afternoon'? Ra -
the] is very anxious to show her big
doll to your Edith."
"Very well," responded the doc-
tor, without any visibleshow of en-
thusiasm.
"Thank you ever so much," said
Mrs. Sydney, politely. "I'll wait a
few minutes before let Rachel
out," she decided. "I shouldn't be
exactly surprised if the doctor
changed his mind."
Then her telephone eng. "Mrs.
Sydney," said a very polite voice,
"perhaps it would be wiser to wait
until next Saturday before Edith
and Radiel have theirlittle visit.
There's no doubt in mind that
Rachel is all over, ati it's always
wise to take precautio s, and Edith
is so very susceptible that per-
haps—"
"We'll make it nextSaturday,"
said Mrs. Sydney, good-naturedly.
Then she turned to her well daugh-
ter.
"By next Saturday, ear, it will
be per'fectle safe for you to play
with the Crockettts."
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When an Eskimo is dying you will
notice the inmates of the house
moving everything out of doors,
otherwise it would be contaminated
by the presence of the dead man
and rendered unfit for use, Among
some tribes the dying man himself
is borne outside, He is never taken
out through the entrance tunnel,
but always through the smoke -hole,
or baelc of the house, and the pas-
sage is then closed so that his spi-
rit will not find its way back. The
Eskimos appear to have an un-
canny presentiment of the approach
of that dread .spirit who comes to
one and all. When you see thein
preparing the graveclothes of one
of their number who is ID you may
know that Ms end is near. It is not
often that they do anything to
hasten the end, although they may
stall or hang the hopelessly infirm
at their own request. It appears
to be an instinctive feeling whit.. is
=meson to primitive people, aril
which is often noticed hi the lower
animals,
DID rip WORK
Grew Strong on Right Food.
You can't grow strong by merely
exercising, You must have food—
the kind you can digest and =sine -
late.
Unless the food you eat is digest-
ed it adds to the burden the•diges
five organs have naturally to carry.
Tris often meains a, nervous break-
down.
"About` a yeas ago," writes an
Eastern lady, "I had quite a seri-
005 nervous breakdown caused, as
I believed, by overwork and worry,
I also suffered untold misery from
dyspepsia„
'First I gave up my position,
then •I tried t•o find a remedy for my
troubles, itonweeng that woad
make me well and strong, some-
thing to rest my tired stomach and
build up my worn-out nervsa and
brain. •
"I tried bene kind of wediej to af-
ter another, but nothing deemed to
help me,
"Finally a friend suggested
Owego of food and recommen'lded
G11.ape-Nuts, With little or no faith
in it, I tried a pecipago. Thee was
eight months ago anti I have never
been without it einem
"Grape -Nuts diel the work. 14
helped me grow strong and well.
Grape -Nuts put new life into ane,
Milt up my whole system and made
aneeher svpnian of me rye
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I- NOTES OF SCIENCE
French dairymen Erre t`*xlre.rimen't-
ing with cocoa shells as fodder for
their cattle.
A recently patented steely has a
slut along its length to prevent it
working loose in woad.
Peat fw'.nis about one-third of the
fuel assed in the central industrial
districts of Russia,
A German paper -manufacturing
plant to utilize rice straw is being
erected in China by Japanese,
tweet spirits of mitre, wiped off
with eaten when rt turns white,
will remove ink spots from wood.
So rich it Argentine tribade in.
nicotine that much of it le used in
the manufacture of insecticide.
A windmill in England furnishes
eleoboio light for a ohuroh and ree-
tory and power to blow a. church
organ.
A pistol se small that it cam be
held in the mouth and clisoharged
with the teeth is the invention of a
Berlin artist.
In Singapore motion -picture thea-
tre seats are provided for the poor-
er native elaasee behind the screens
at reduced prices.
London scdentiets are investigate
ing a rare mineral found in rocks
Wailes that radiates a faint light in
its natural state,'
For reaching plants on high
shelves a new watering pot. hs
mounted on pivots sit the end of a
pole and tilted by pulling a cord.
Agriculturists in Egypt have suc-
ceeded m raising a new cotton,
brown in color and stronger than
any heretofore produced there.
01(1 rails,erected in pairs, are
used by a Brazilian railroad for
telegraph poles in a region where
insects destroy wood rapidly.
Two Austrian engineers have in-
vented a process for casting false.
teeth in metal by which the nem -
sate, uniform,den:sity is obtained,
In Germany tinfoil is cheaply imi-
tated by mating paper with a mix-
ture of finely powdered metal and
rosin and subjecting it to friction.
White shoes tan be• dyed brown
with ten drops of saffron mixed
with ,three teaspoonfuls of olive oil,
two coats being applied with a run-
nel.
That direct conrnittndcation with
the spirit world has been estab-
lished by instrumental'means is the
claim of two Dutch scientists of high
repute.
A reek to be fastened to a bed-
stead has been patented which
bolds a book in just the right posi-
tion for a. person to read while ly-
ing on his back.
A French perfume manufacturing
firm has constructed a portable dis-
tillery to distill extracts from wild
flowers in the regions in which they
grow.
An English scientist who raises
wheat in record-breaking time says
that he treats the seed with elec-
tricity so that be trebles the life
force within it.
• A solution of soft seep instead el
water was used in making a water-
proof concrete in building the foun-
datioine of a grain elevator on a
river batik in Budapest.
The harbor of Hamburg has been
equipped with -floating dry-docks of
two types which permit them. to
raise Pram the water vessels longer
than the docks themselves,.
Japan by law prohibits the em-
ployment of any person less then
twelve years of age at any time and
of women and children less than
fifteen years old more than twelve
hours a day.
Spectacles with white spots in the
centers of black disks on the Lenses
brave been invented by an Einglssh
doet&m t0. •cswe ineos nnda by induc-
ing drowsiness in a wearer.
German army officers are expert-
menting with rubber foot pontoons
to enable soldiers to walk on sem-
ter, carrying heavy loads and using
their rifles freely at the same time.
For military purposes an Eng-
lishman is building su aeroplane
with 240 -horse -power motors, 100
horse -power more than any now in
uee, and than will carry a gun,
wireless equipment axial four or five
men.
BERESFORD'S DILEMMA.
Why He Did ':vol, Appear at Ban-
quet in Proper Dress.
Lord Charles ,Beresford; the Eng-
lish naval officer, once landed: at
New York, and was immediately
asked to dinner by a' deputation of
prominent men, whe would take no
denial. He appeared at: the ban-
quet in morning dress, his hosts all
being oti'fectly attired, and he be-
gan
egan this speech by apologizing for
he apparent lack of good manners,
He had confided has difficulty, he
sal], n1 being at the eleventh 'hour
without evening clothes, to the ho-
tel manager, who told him that the
matter was quite easyl and that he
bad only to start as :trifle early and
call in ab Messrs. So -and' -so, 962
Something Avenue, off 4952nd
Street, where he would be aecora-
100datedin no time..
To his dismay, however, the shop-
keeper expressed his regret and le -
incl s o r Th1i act is, .sir, Ie mete ttilavi
,
sells of
etre. a� seine twenty-five u
e : iit lot hes on.hire,hitt there's
OVCn1 �", e t
a big dinner ;in the city to -night to
Admiral Lord Chivies Bercaford,
end they hnve?ail been teamed out I"
OLDEST RIVER 1N TUE WORLD.
When and flow the St. Lawrence
River Was Born.
What, is 4he oldest river in the
world 1 The St, Lawrence. le e:
also one of the fess rivet;s that did
not have to hake its own bed, and
lee remained ancltanged sines the
very beginning of the Anxsricen
eon tine 05,
Try :to think of at time when the
earth was severed by a plass of pa. -
ter, lrot•, steaming, and often •are-
mendously disturbed by the throes
of o, globe beneath it that was
shrinking because it was becoming
cooler. As the globe shrunk, every
particle of the outside was natur-
ally pulled in toward the centre,
and the hardening cruet, which
oouid not be pecked any more sol-
idly than it was, had to wrinkle,
sinking down here, and bulging up
somewhere cine. After a time, cer-
tain of these rising wrinkles, or
fo,lda, the thicker, or firmer, parts
of the earth's crust, stood the
strain, and became permanent
ridges. The oldest of them that
geologists know, and apparently the
first that bulged up above the uni-
versal ocean and remained high and
dry, rtes the broad mass on which
Canada naw rests. It is a part of
the original crust of the earth, and
we can see it to -day, wherever it is
not covered by newer rocks or soil,
just as it crystallized and eooledi out
of the primeval molten material,
'Phis mare formed a broad V from
Labrador down to Lake Huron, and
thence northwestward 10 Alaska.; on
account of its shape, geologists call
it tee Canadian Shield, It is the
oldest land known, and apparently
the strongest, for there are no signs
of any extensive changes in it (ex-
cept the wearing away of the sur-
face) since it first rolled the ocean
off its shoulders.
Off the eastern coast of this
primitive continent lay a chain of
lofty islands, about on the line of
the Blue Ridge, the White Moun-
tains, the Maine coast and Nova
Scotia. Between these islands end
the mainland was a trough-like
space that ran frown eastern Que-
bec southwestward to Ohio. It was
two or three hundred miles wide,
and filled with a shallow sea; and
just outside the island chain was
FOR
MAKING SOAP
SOFTENING
WATER
DISINFECTING
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the soft rocks were set on edge,
overturned and splintered against
the solid continent. Very early in
the struggle a great fracture of the
earth's crust occurred here along
a curving northeast and southwest
line: It left a deep and broad
trench between the crushed and
displaced rocks of the trough and
the granite shore of the Canadian
Shield. Into this trench rushed all
the interior waters of the continent,
draining away to the sea, and the
St. Lawrence River was born I
There, no doubt, it will remain es
the great hollow that held the At- long as the earth keeps its present
lantic Ocean, form.
At that time there was no Gulf of
St. Lawrence. The land extended
out to a toast line that stretched
unbroken from Nova Soota•a to Lab-
raxlor. The present gulf is the re-
sult of a sinking of the coast region.
Mast of it is very shallow, but a
chart of soundings shows the an-
cient river bed as, a channel laird
ing out between Newfoundland and
Cape Breton to the deep ocean
Time went on. For ages the
straining and cracking of the
shrinking globe, earthquakes, sun
and frost, pounding surf, running
water, blowing gales, ice—all labor-
ed to tear down the mountains and
carry the wreckage of reeks and
dust away into the valleys and seas.
In this way vast masses of rock,
in layers of shales, sandstones, and
what not, were laid down in that
narrow trough-like sea between the
chain of islands and the continent.
.9.11 theses "sedimentary" rocks were
soft and week, as compared with
the solid old granites deeply rooted
on either side of them.; and the
trough itself, it sagging fold, was a
line of weakness in the crust. As
the load of deposits became. heavier
and heavier and heavier, the floor
of this trough slowly yielded, and
es it sank toward the heated region
below; the under side melted, and
grew thinner and thinner.
Thatcould not go on -forever, and
soon the continual ahsinkin'g of the
globe and the enormous pressure of
the .weight of the ocean became it
resistible. The Canadian Shield
was immovable, so the rock in the
though began to bulge or crumple
all along its length. Gradually,
not all at. once, but by slow end
varying movements, those Toads
were squeezed up, wSieoh in their
broken and worn-down form, we
know as the Appalachian Moun-
tains.
Toward the south there was room
for this action to be rather gentle
and regular, but in the far north-
east the trough was narrow; and
INFORMATION FOR INVENTORS
Messrs, Pigeon, Pigeon & Davis,
the patent solicitors of 71A St.
James Street, Montreal, report
that 115 Canadian patents were
issued for the week ending May
5th, 19141 80 of which were granted
to Ameneans, 16 to Comedians, 12
to residents of foreign countries
and 7 to residents of Great Britain
and Colonies.
Of the Canadians 7 were of the
Province of Ontario, 3 of British
Columbia, 2 of Manitoba, 2 of Sas-
katchewan, 1 of Nova Scotia and
1 of Quebec.
Gay 001 Dog.
Higgine: "Twiggins is always
bragging about his don et home."
Wiggins : "And yet he got mad
when I spoke of it as a kennel,"
She Wondered.
She: "I wonder where those
clouds are going?"
He: "I think they are going to
thunder,"
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YELLOW PERIL. AND .WHITE
ASIATIC EXCLUSION AAURAe
VA'1'ES HATRED.
Missionary }Lints at Evil Cense..
termites of Present Anti-
Why,
Rev, Sidney L. Gulick, American'
missionary, who lived for 27 years
in Japan, has this to say of ":f9ie
Yellow Peril and the White"
The Yellow Peril.
Asia is a sleeping gsaaht," said
Napoleon, "let her slecp, for when
she awakens she will shake the
world." Asia is awaking. She is
mastering western science and arm-
ing herself with western bayonets
and battleships. When fully awake,
ar¢rned, equipped and united, whab
will 'be her attitude to Christen-
dom a At the point of the bayonet
will she demand open doors for her
emigrants, equal treatee ent with'
the "•most favored hations" ? Will
she contest the present supremvsay
of the white race? This is the milt.
they "Yellow Peril" which many
are now foretelling.
But the white map's economic su-
premacy is also threatened, say She
prophets. When Asia masters our
science and develops her own indus-
trial system on western lines, she
will not only manufacture her own
wares but our also, at prices with
which we cannot compete. Our
trade will be lost, our entire indus-
trial system ruined, our working
classes reduced to starvation. In •
a word, the teeming millions of
Asia will pull Christendom down to
her own low level.
Black indeed are the clouds hang
ing over the west --if the prophets
speak truly.
Asia looks on the other side of
the shield. She sees how the white
race has for 400 years been sweep-
ing over the earth, ruthlessly des-
troying the peoples, seizing their
lands, exploiting their wealth.
To escape the .White Peril Japan
shut up her land two hundredd and
fifty years.No longer able to keep
out the white man, she has adopted
a new poliey with which to meet the
white peril; namely, mastery of the
white inan's knowledge and requi-
sition of his power.
The white peril in the Orient hat
bean, not only military and econo-
mic, but civiliized, inaral and reli-
gious, To cope with the white Cean
Japan has had to undergo complete
reorganization of her national life,
alike painful and 'humiliating.
China is now starting om the same
process.
How Japan feels.
If you want to see how Japan
feels on this question listen to this
utterance of Professor Nagai in hie
recent article on the "White
Peril" :
If one race assumes the right
to appropi'ieite all the wealth, why
should not the other races feel ill '
used, and preterit? If the yellow
races are pr'esscd by the white races .
and have to ray•odt to avoid con-
gestion and . maintain existence,
whose fault is it but the aggres-
sor's? 15 the white races truly love
peace and wish to deserve the name
of Christian nations they will prac-
tice what they preach, ,and will
soon restore to us the rights so long
withheld, They will rise to the
generosity of welcoming our citizens
among them as heartily es we do
theirs among us. We appeal 50 the
white races to put aside their raoe
prejudice and meet us on equal
terms in brotherly eo-operation."
Causes Indignntion.
With growoing population due to
the adoption of western science and
ideals, Japan and China. find th•em-
selvice rigidly excluded from vast
territories where lie undeveloped
natural resources. The white races
'have seized continents and hold
them for exclusive white ownership
and uses,
Moreover; ,developing national
consciousness and ambitions by the
peoples of Asda, discover tent the
West regards all Asiatics as infer-
iors, as undesirable, and treats
them as eta, not only in oonflneb
with solemn treaties, but out of
harmony with their national dig-
nity, This treatment onuses indig- •
nation, It i.e evolving solidarity of
Asiatic conecialtanese against the
white m.an,
Evil Consequences.
This growing race consciousness
and antipathy, ettust a•nd west,
threaiten& tragic results; vast but
needless military preparations on
both aides, entirely for defensive
Purposes, of ceure0. They prevent
the normal development of trade,
and, what is still more digestives,
they istei,ler•o with the muttoal ex-
cllange of the best treasures of the
east and west. How can ave hope
to raise Asia to our co:m n et incl
normal level on a basis of meters!
'suspicion, hatred and ennhity? limb
unless so 1'atig.O: Asia to one levet
ahe'ivvill eventually pull re down tis
hers,
The widely advocated policy of
cemplele Astatic exclusion only per,
peewees, and eyes aggravates, the
soil,, for it breeds more and more
mu:t.ura snepicrions and hatred, with
all their inevitable r nsequancea,