Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1917 — USE BASEBALL AS CIVILIZER [ARTICLE]

USE BASEBALL AS CIVILIZER

Japanese Government Plans Sending Teams to Manchuria to Get Natives Interested. Here’s a further tribute to baseball as a civilizer U The Japanese government, it is reported, plans to send two college teams In a tour of its territory in Manchuria,-partly to make the Japanese colonists there feel in touch with the home land, und further to get the natives Interested, so that they will have less time to grumble about Japanese governmental policies.