Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 164, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1926 — Page 25

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JAPAN TOO SMALL ■ FOR POPULATION; HUGEBIRTHRATE Nears Million Births Each Year —Emigration Limited. Jill T'tlifrd PriKK TOKIO, Oct. 15.—Japan’s birth rate threatens to reach a million a year within flve years. What to do with these children is the greatest problem of the empire. This statement, by a well informed foreigner who has lived in Japan nearly a quarter of a century and Is widely respected for the sanity of his opinions, is essential to any understanding of present Japanese policies and the state of public opinion in the counry. During 1925 Japan’s population increased by 875,385, according to the Official Gazette. The birth rate showed a strong upward surge and the death rate an almost equ,ally great decline. The gain in popula-

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tion for 1925 over the previous year was about 130,000. In thirty years the average annual increase in population has nearly doubled. As it nears the million a year mark it is evident a most serious problem faces the empire. Emigration to desirable foreign countries for Japanese either is limited to very small numbers or cut off entirely. The islands of the main empire already are nearing the saturation point. New babies come every hour and the food production at home already is insufficient. No Birth Control With this condition prevailing, and church and state both inclined to oppose measures of birth control, thoughtful Japanese feel something must be done. One school, and it represents only a very small minority of the public, sees the empire as facing “birth control of war." If space, work and food are to be found for the thousands of new Japanese born every week, these thinkers argue, the empire simply must have more territory. And the acquisition of territory may mean war. Another school, one which represents a far greater part of the thinking public, believes the population problem can be controlled through industrialization, in accordance with the program of the present government, and redistribution of the existing population. These people picture Japan as a huge factory with millions of workers making goods which Japan will sell throughout the world. They see the Empire as a great carrying nation like England, with Japanese goods in Japanese ships going to the remotest parts of the world where they will be traded for food and raw materials. They see a great part of the population cared for through internal emigration to the comparatively sparsely settled islands of Ilokksido and Formoss, and the conquered land of Korea. Maritime Power Members of the present Cabinet belong largely to this latter school and their industralixation and internal emigration plan already is well under way. The Government is granting every possible aid to export industry and thousands of farmers are being moved from the _densely settled areas to the outlying parts of the Empire. Shipping is encouraged through liberal subsidies and favorable laws. Japan already has become one of the great maritime powers, with regular steamship lines running to practically every port in the world. Meantime, however, babies come with increasing rapidity, putting the Empire in the position of a family whose children’s children multiply so rapidly that the traditional rice bowl of the East always threatens hunger with a well scraped bottom constantly looming before reaching chop sticks. It is this basic situation which caused much of the popular outcry in the Japanese press when a spokesman of the Foreign Office recently reiterated to foreign correspondents in Tokio the government’s policy of abandoning assisted emigration to

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TM GLAD I SHOT him; is wronged SLAYER’S REMARK Killing Planned in Prison — Victim Swindled His Murderer. Hu NEA Service, PORTLAND, Me., Oct. 15.—More than three years of fateful pursuit taken up when Benjamin 11. Turner walked free from the misery of a Mexican jail—move rapidly toward a climax now as Turner goes on trial here for murder. Turner with his brooded revenge on James D. Hallen is in fact a true Monte Cristo. There is a difference from the romance of fiction, however,- in that wealth has avoided Turner's path and that Instead of a

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subtle, secure vengeance, he killed his victim on a sun-swept front porch and waited for arrest. But Turner in his cell Is satisfied. He Doesn’t Care "I’m glad I shot him,” he says. “I trusted that man more than I would trust my father, and he ruined me. NobodV can blame me. I am satisfied, no matter how the trial turns out." Six years ago it all started. Turner was 2D then, a bright and adventurous young accountant, working for a corporation In Mexico City. One Ramon Arkielles, a local confidence man, talked him into a bad investment and got away with most of his savings. Turner met the Mexican later, they argued and Turner shot him. For that the American was held in a- vermin-ridden, noisome, crowded- carcel nearly three years, awaiting trlqj. Hallen. a>£ellow-Amerlcan in Mexico. came to see him in the prison. Hallen was about 60 then. He had the glib tongue of his native Ireland. He was distinguished looking, had been all over the world, claimed to speak fourteen languages, was a lawyer, writer, scholar. He lectured

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on Dante and international law, sold guns to Mexican revolutionists and promoted high financial schemes. There was a bond in that both Hallen and Turner had worked on a San Francisco newspaper. Hallen captured the young man’s confidence. Took His Money Turner gave Hallen all the money he had left—about $1,200. Hallen assured him that he would released. The prisoner waited. A promising letter occasionally came from Hallen. Turner wrote often to him —pitiful appeals, some of which have been found among the dead man's papers. As months passed, Hallen became entirely silent. But there were other Americans in Mexico who became interested. Due to their charitable interest, lawyers were employed, Turner obatined a trial and in March, 1923, was acquited. Just as Monte Cristo sharpened his hate and planned his revenge in prison, so it was with Turner. The American’s, confidence in Hallen changed through disappointment to an overmastering will to he the instrument of justice. From the courtroom door, he turned his steps

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In Monte Cristow's story touches Turner’s revenge only incidentally, But there is a woman now in thq c*ftse. It is Mrs. Constance Ktlboril of Portland. She also is a victim ot Hallen’s swindling, she says, and she is paying for a lawyer to defend Turner. ’ j NEW GAME AT SCHOOL ••> j ‘Tolyball” Combination of Basketball an 4 Mathematics. ‘Tolyball, 1 ’ a combination of mathematics and basketball. Is a new game which the Junior and senior mathematics clubs of Shortrldge High School aro playing nowadays. It was originated by Walter H. Carnahan of the Shortrldge mathematics department. Seven miniature basketball goals and a number of geometric figures, a square, triangles and polygons, are mounted on a large board. The players receive points for the polygons or many-sided geometric figures formed by the baskets In which they are able to throw tho ball.

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