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TUESDAY, Artit. 20, 1837,
LABOUR'S MARCH
The
理材御
Japanese
get a lot
for a little money
APAN to-day is one of
the strongest countries in the world.
By
H. VERE REDMAN, "Daily Mail" Correspondeat,
Tokio
Her Navy has 301 ships and a total tonnage of 1,138,250. his wife. Three halfpence for Her Army at peace strength the pair of them! consists of 260,000 men, with a for trained reserve a cam- times that number.
three
At present, the Air Force is composed of separate units at- tached to the Army and Navy. The Naval Air Force numbers
The evening meal of vegetable soup, fish-or sometimes ment- vegetables, rice, pickles, and ten will cost 74d. His working clothes cost him 11s. 8d. new.
Mr. Mitchell Hepburn, On- tario's fiery Premier, was once known as a champion of lost causes. For years,
Liberals had fought to win power in the Ontario Legislature, and years Mr. Hepburn had paigned against the uninter- rupted Conservative sway, without success, And then, for no
reason Mr. Hepburn 10,000 and is believed to have could put his finger on, there about 800 'planes. The Army Air came a landslide and he found Force has approximately 1,000 himself
one of the youngest planes and a strength of 14,000 Premiers Canada's most popul- men.
and progressive province No military establishments had ever had. It is not by any tive industrial structure behind can be strong without an effec- means certain that in his fight it. Japan has that structure. against the encroachment of All Japanese warships are now American labour "bosses" and built in Japanese yards. The SO much for necessities. Let their influence on Canadian same applies to equipment for luxuries. Here are, cigarettes, workers, he is championing the Army,
ous
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. another lost cause; and it would
York Building.
PRESENTING
Chater Road.
Home Production
be no surprise to the people of Ontario if, having ousted his AS to raw materials, 95 per Minister for Labour and his cent. of these for warship Attorney-General because they building are produced at home. news did not agree with his labour This brings us to another policy, Mr. Hepburn won the measure of national strength, that of industry as a whole. To- day. But a victory over the Canadian strikers presupposes production to a greater or lesser day Japan is in every kind of the defeat of the increasingly degree. powerful Committee of Indus-
She produces toxtiles to the trial Organisation, that mighty value of £176,000,000 a year, an international fabour body which industry employing just under
duces paper to the value of £11,750,000, cellaphane to the
BEAUTY. WITH ECONOMY IN MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN Simplicity of line, utility and sturdiness in construction, yet at a price that makes instant appeal.
ARTS & CRAFTS
SHOWROOMS AND FACTORY 734. King's Road, Phone 24173,
has sprung from American 1,000,000 operatives. She pro-
roots, tended by the burly John
Lewis, ex-miner, That body value of £200,000. She pro- has enormous power in the duces 6,000,000 metric tons of Canadian automobile industry, cement, 59,000,000 tons of glass,
because that industry, al-43,000,000 tons of soap, 103,
of
The furniture in his house-a table, six cushions, three mat- tressca, three padded covers, six pillows, porcelain, cooking utensils, and a charcoal brazier for winter costs £2. Electric light will come to 1s. 2d. a month, and fuel about the same.
Cinema Scats 3d.
us take a look at a few
sold by the Government Mono- poly Bureau, a mixture of For- mosan and Virginian tobacco at 6d. for 50, a better quality at 8d. for 60 (very good, too; I always smoke them myself!), and the
best at 1s. for 50.
be
a
Sake (rice wine) can bought at 8d. a quart, and light lager at 41d, a pint.
And then there is fruit. Home. grown tangerines ten for 1d., apples three a penny, bananas ad. each, peaches in season ten for 1
TO-DAY IN THE
THE
marine.
Both vessels were beneath the the North Bea at the surface of timet The British submarine was
the
E50, which on the cold grey morning of April 19, 1917, slipped unobtrusive- y away from Parkeston Quay, Har- wich.
A sent at the cinema to see American talkies with Japanese explanations on the side costa 3d. Entirely Japanese films can be seen for 2d, and less.
These prices surely go to show that Japan's low labour costs are due not alone to the fact that the worker "lives mean they are also due to the fact that he him- self can get a lot of goods and services for a little money.
all?
Together these facts are the foundation of Japan's well-known progress in the export market.
What about the finance of it Let us begin by admitting that this would not carn a good conduct prize in the City of London. Japan's foreign debt is small, a mere £630,000,000, and the service on it is paid on the nail. No tricks there. Japan's domestic debt is £617,500,000, which is large in proportion to a national wealth of roughly £6, 765,000,000. And the domestic borrowing is still going on.
Few Out of Work
THE pessimists say:
"It will
not continue much longer. You cannot go on balancing your Budget by issuing more bonds. People will get scared of the bonds, and the Government will only be able to get more money by printing it. That means another drop of the pen and all the evils of inflation."
They may be right, although Japan cannot suffer all the evils
PAST
continuing our course to the eastward scope and hydrophone watch. at about two knots and keeping peri-
"In other words, we raised the peri- scope about every five minutes for 30 seconds and took a good look round the horizon. Hydrophone watch to detect nolces was kept continuously.
"Terrific Bump”.
"At 5.15 p.m. we were still beneath the surface-25 feet on the gauge, and
speed about two and a half knots..
"The commanding officer was keep Ing periscope watch. The first lleu- tenant was resting. I was peacefully pouring hot water into the teapot.
"Suddenly, without
received a terrifle
|
The
are
Japanese: cheerful, frugal, and hard-: working. Those smiling Birls: above are going; to start their 10- hours shift at a cotton mill in: Osaka. The fe
and costumes of
past
linger, however.; Note the Geisha? Girl in the centre:
the
and and
street
i Kyoto on the left. The: fine white build- Inga are in Tokyo.
the
of inflation for the very good" reason that she produces a large percentage of the food she con sumes. Anyhow, dangerous in- flation is not with us yet.
The Japanese, willy-nilly, are Investing in Japan. High bud- gets are spent on materials sup- plied by industry. Industry pays wages out of those Budgets, and puts its profits back into the bonds that balance the high Budgets.
It is not very sound; there are not many reserves; but industry is producing and the people are working. Unemployment is at a minimum.
Frugal Living
JAPAN'S greatest strength is in her people. They are cheerful, frugal, and hardwork- ing; and they work together. The frugality of their living appals the parlour Socialist who occasionally comes our way,
Such is Japan to-day. Japan to-morrow may well be the same story writ larger. It will be, if its present leaders have their way.
It may in the meantime be turned into a "democratic" de- bating society, or even a Com munist shambles.
But the leaders of to-day are doing their best to see that it is not. And if it is not, then every. nation in the world which con-
siders itself a Power, politically or economically, will have to keep its eye on Japan.
INCIDENT 1914-1918
"We had collided with Fritz, who must have been diving at 30ft, and bound for our own coast on the oppo- site course.
Full Speed To Disaster
"The final crash saw us torn clear of the enemy, but diving at full speed towards the bottom, 150ft. of. It would have meant disaster if we had strucic.
"But as quickly na the rudders had been put hard-a-dive,' so they were elevated, and with uncanny skill, that that captain had straightened the boat only comes from years of experience, trimmed, and reduced speed.
STRANGEST WAR-TIME most entirely, is afliated with 000,000 tons of rubber manu-
So American concerns.
the factures, 28,000,000 tons C.I:O, can bring the Canadian celluloid and 27,000,000 tons of
IN THE HISTORY OF synthetic dye-stuffs. plants into line by calling a strike in the United States; and she is, also, producing cheaply anniversary of what may, without
Not only is Japan producing: EVERY day is an anniversary of were in the enemy's hunting ground,
something. To-day is the 20th that is what is threatening at People in England know what exaggeration, be called one of the the moment. Mr. Hepburn that cheapness means in terms most amazing incidents of the war- cannot fight that sort of thing. of goods for export. They the only collision that ever occurred He is the type of man who know it to their cost. What between a British and an enemy sub- would rather have payrolls than they probably hear less about is what it means in terms of breadlines, morcover, and while consumers' goods for the peo- he detests the mere suggestion ple right here in this country. that American Labour can dic-Let us follow an average indus- tate Canadian industrial policy, trial worker through his day it is unlikely that he will at-and see what he gets and what
it costs him. tempt by more than argument
Here he is in a two-room to stop the march of Labour wond-and-paper house, with his towards close international wife and, say, four children, affiliation in North America, and for this home he pays 148. and even further afield. But a month. The breakfast for the "we picked up the trawler-mine- what he will prevent is the family, of bean-soup, rice, pic-sweepers and tatted on them at about interference by pickets with kles, and ten, costs a little under before us in case the Germans had knots, while they swept a path those who want to work, and 4d. Before he leaves home, his laid mines the previous night, the occupation by sit-down wife will make him up a lunch. strikers of property which does box containing rice, fish, or egg, not belong to them. If neces- and picklos costing a little less
he will bary,
use ]] the than 3d. He may have to take resources at his command, in the tram to his work, but he cluding municipal provincini can go anywhere within the old and federal police the latter, city limits (nn area of 40 square the Royal Canadian Mounted, miles), and a good deal beyond, having already won a reputation for a flat-rate fare of three for efficiency where violent | farthings. pickets have tried to take the
His day's work done, he will Inw into their own hands. go to the public bath-house with
The vessel's subsequent adventures are best told in the words of Capt. R. Freshfield Road, Brighton, navigating Adam
(ex-Lieutenant, R.N.R.), of officer of the submarine.
"Outside the harbour," he relates,
"We were bound for a patrol
position somewhere in the North Sea, and the trawler accompanied us until 9.45 am, when we were about five miles east of the Ship wash light vessel.
"After our farewell to the mine- sweepers the lost friends we would
see from the surface for about ten days we headed cast at 12 knots, everybody going below into the sub- marino except myself, all handa say-
good-bye to sun and daylight.
"We steamed for an hour on the surface, and then dived to 23ft, as wo
Our
"In an instant every man aprang to his station. At first we thought n Zep was bombing us, but then the bump was followed by crashes along the part side.
"The boat heeled over and rose to 13 feet, although within three acconds of the first crash the order had been given to 'hard-a-dive and group up, meaning put the diving rudders down and connect all electric batteries so as to get the greatest electric power possible to the motors..
"We had been going at full speed, a tank had been flooded, and the rud- der kept hard a divo' for one minute
of 20ft. Then came a Anal mighty crash.
40 seconds before we reached a depth
"The captain had the periscope up, and we saw an enemy submarine a few feet away from our own!
"Then we turned to search for our enemy, with torpedoes ready. But we saw nothing more of him. Although it was evident that some- rudders, we kept below for three thing had gone wrong with our diving hours more. Then we surfaced and headed for homo as fast as we could.
"An examination showed that one of the diving rudders had Been ripped clean of its shafts. There were also bump marks along the port side and conning tower.
"Subsequently I heard that the Germans bad reported as missing one of their submarines that should have been in about our position at the time. I also heard that sho had imped back to Holland. "The captain, first Heutenant, and myself left EBD some months after the crash, a week or so before the sub- marine sailed, on a voyage, never, to Lreturn."
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