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WHY THEY ARE GIVEN OVER THE STORY REVIVED WITH SHANGHAT'S PROGRAMME FOR

TO DETAIL

NIPPONESE SMALLNESS.

It is not surprising, therefore to find the Japanese mind given over rather to detail, concerning itself little with what we might call the weighty things of life.

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[By Neville Whymant, Ph. D., | The Royalists made, the most The programme for the cele Now that the bration of the Fourth of July in Litt. D., Formerly Professor of Joan of Arc. In the University of Tokyo.] procession. from one of her two Shanghai this year includes a Japan is the country of small statues, in front of the church of number of features new to the things small trees, small, rapid St. Augustin, to the other, customary observance of the rivers, little waterfalls, and richly-gilt, in the Place des American holiday in China.

Pyramides, has been authorised Tite celebration for the day will small, dainty women.

the flag-ralaing by the police, instead of being commence with

At 8.30 am. at the organised in defiance of them, the ceremony occasion no longer provokes the American Consulate-General. Ar- of the excitement of the Derouledo daye, I rangements for this function are writes a Paris correspondent to under the direction

American Company and the the "Observer."

In the records af the town of American Troop of the Shanghai assisted the Orleans there is an account of a Volunteer Corps,..........

company from public reception given by the by a town in 1439, eight years after 4th Regiment. United States.

a: de Corps; and the martyrdom, to the wife of a Marine certain Robert des Harmoises, tachment from the United States The address on the and the lady is described as being Navy. La Pucelle herself. She was ac American Flag will be delivered It is no exaggeration to say companied by her brothers, and by Rear Admiral Yates Sterling, that attention to trifles makes was met and recognised not only Commander of the Yangtsze Pa- up Japanese life; therein lles by many people who had known trol Service.

From 11.30 am to 12.30. a re- that measure of success which the real Jeanne, but by the real has attended Japan's efforts to Jeanne's mother, who was living ception will be held by the Westernise herself. Not one manns a pensioner of the town. Consul-General in the Consular. in Japan is wholly Westernised, Those who support this theory of grounds and all officials, Ameri- but the clan system is so strong survival claim to be able to point cans and their friends are cordial- that the united front of a collec- to a document establishing the ly invited to attend.

At 3 p.m. there will be a base- tion of specialists in detail pro-marriage and to be in a position to duces a most convincing illusion. prove that Jeanne escaped the ball game at the Race Course, It is unsafe to generalise about stake by the complicity of Bishop followed by an American Com- The fen- most countries of any size, but it Cauchen, of the Duchess of Bed-munity Lawn party.

American-Com- is especially dangerous to do so ford, and of the Duchess of ture of the with Japan. The native of the Luxemburg. The woman who munity Lawn party, which will interior is much more a country was certainly burnt at Roven be under the direction of the cousin to the townsman than is must therefore have been another Honourable Milton D. Purdy, for the Judge of the United States Court prisoner substituted the case with the English.

The Japanese countryman is sacrifice. It must be remember-for China, will be the Wild West still wrapped in feudaliam, hav-ed, however, that no fewer than Show and Rodeo. The Wild West ing, at first, a semi-superstitious three persons were able, at dif- show is being arranged by the horror of telephones and tele ferent times at the beginning of American Marines now stationed graphs and a profound disbelief the nineteenth century, each to in Shanghai and will be an attrac in the power of steam. To the persuade a

number of people tion which spectators will remem- bucolic mind. however, every-that he was the son of Louis XVI ber for some time.

In the evening, through the thing good is Japanese, while and that another boy had died everything alien is regarded as and been buried in the Temple in courtesy of Messrs. Anderson, inferior and unpleasant.

his name, while there is still a Meyer & Co., Ltd., the Consular The Japanese mind is particu-gentleman of distinguished man- grounds will be illuminated and lar, almost "pernicketty." Theners, living in the suburbs of in the Public Gardens, there will Japanese woman is insufferable Paris, who is believed by some to be a musical entertainment by to a man with an untidy mind. be the direct descendant of Louis the Shanghai Municipal Band.

American residents of Shang- She has firmly imbedded in her XVI. There were probably near- unconscious self the essentially as many people in the fifteenth hal are asked to co-operate with details of the conduct of daily century, who had a political inter- the committee in celebrating the life, and deviation from this est in trying to prove that Jeanne "Glorious Fourth" by displaying standard is inconceivable.

was not a martyr as there were from their residences and places For this reason intercourse be in the early nineteenth of those of business the Stars and Stripes. tween the Japanese and Anglo-who would have liked to find a Saxon peoples is not very satis-dangerous rival to Napoleon. factory; the European has no time to devote to the study of "intricate trifles," as he is apt to call them, and the Japanese can- not feel much sympathy for those who stride roughshod over all his cherished traditions.

Still, the Japanese mind is not consistent in its love of detail. It

is selective, with strong prefer- It is ences and prohibitions. radically intolerant, not only of cirticism but of suggestions not critical, in. nature. This is the Bource of its collective strength--

the Japanese people are us one against anything alien which appears threatening. :

An "Isolation" Mentality. This attitude naturally tends to develop an "isolating" mentality which has carned for the Japan- ese a reputation for insularity and inflexibility far beyond that so often attributed to the Eng- lish,'

was

A good instance of the working of the adult Japanese mind is the story of a student about thirty years of age who learning English. The aubject Was "Idioms," and after the meaning of the term had been duly explained, a few sentences like "It is raining," "It snowa," were put up on the board

Claude G. Bowers, an editorial writer on the New York Evening) World and star oraler the recent Jackson Daytulauer, who has been chosen as temporary-chairman and keynoter of the Democratie con

vention.

After much thought, the stud- ent asked: "In. It is raining," what is it?" Again idioms were explained as irregular locutions, the impersonal pronoun was dealt with learnedly and at length, but for a week thereafter the same student returned with the same query, twice a day: "What is meticulous way. While they do

DISARMAMENT.

MR. BALDWIN'S VIEW.

The Prime Minister, in acknow- ledging the petition signed by near- ly 100,000 British citizens asking for the acceptance of the 1919 standard of disarmament as a basis for general disarmament, has writ- ten to the National Council for Pre- vention of War stating that the whole foreign policy of the Govern ment was inspired by one purpose the maintenance of peace, and the pravention of war.

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"It is the hope of the Government," he continued, "to reduce their armaments .still further by means of -com- action and agreement with other Powers If Great Britain alone were to proceed to further measures of disarmament, there is no guarantee that other Countries would follow her example. This is the risk which no British Government could dare to run; it would make her an easy prey to hostile forces, would be calculated to excite cupidity and hostile inten- tion, and, Instead of pre venting war, would be likely to en- courage I

I think, therefore, that you wILI agree with me that any further steps towards disarmament must be taken as the result of combined action on the part of all countries. In future work of this nature his Majesty's Government will co-oper not comprehend the general sysafe, as they have done in the past, but, in view of the uncertainty of the attitude of other countries, it is clearly impossible to give any pledges in advance that any given standard of disarmament will be adopted."

The Japanese affect to share tem of philosophy, they yet be Western appreciation of the fas- come masters of its intricate cinations of city life, but they are details. poor townsmen, and worse

~~~ Happy-go-Lucky. ******* Bohemiang. The artists wear It does not take an intelligent velvet coats and long hair, young resident in Japan long to discover businessmen put on foreign that the psychology of the Japan- dress, brown boots, and black

ese is the psychology of the child bowlers, while the old men and The easy, happy-go-lucky air, of the women hold the balance by the parents bespeaks the lack of retaining the national costume idea of responsibility, and tlie and many of the old ideas. - ease with which parents, and Throughout the course of her children join toge Sgames. history, Japan has been influene and Uproarious ed by China, Korea, India, and in last doubt se modern times, by the West, and ture of adult all these influences are clearly ssen, not only in the literature of the country, but in the daily life. of the people

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