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NOME, ALASKA, AUGUST 14, 1916.
The difference between Occidental
and Oriental living standards was
never better illustrated than by the
recent statement of a noted Japanese
scholar to the effect that the earth
would support fully twenty-two bil
lion people if all lived in accordance
with the Oriental standard while but
two billion could find a habitable
abode on the mundane footstool if the
American standard were adopted.
The propounder of this statement is
one of the world's most noted sociolo
gists, u man of great erudition and one
of the faculty of the great imperial
university at Tokio and his assertion
may, therefore, bp accepted as prac
tically authoritative.
The American standard of living,
mvs. is the highest, most ensile
and most wasteful of any nation.
Other Occidental nations, he points
out, consume all the way from one
sixth to one half less of the commo
dities essential to existence than do
the Americans while there is a far
greater disproportion in their demands
for those things which may be prop
erly classed as non-essentials. The
average American demands more and
consumes more than any other hu
man being and is quite head and
shoulders above all the races of earth
as an exponent of high living.
At the opposite end of the scale
stand the Orientals consuming all the
way from fifty to eighty per cent less
than Americans and far below the
average of even the most frugal of the
Occidental races.
The remarks of the professor are
couched in terms indicating an inten
tion to show that the Oriental system
of living is the one best fitted to meet
the conditions of a world that is fast
becoming crowded and also best con
ducive to national advancement.
In support of the contention that
the Oriental way is the best ho points
to his own nation, Japan, as a clear
example of the effects of low living
and high thinking and intimates that
the Japan of today is largely the re
sult of the mode of subsistence of its
people.
The Japanese are, of course, a won
derful race. No sturdier, more virile
or more progressive race of beings
exists Ilian the dwellers of the island
kingdom. Combining frugality, great
strength and mental alertness, they
have assuredly inude a most remark
aide display of human advancement
and national progress during the sixty
°dd years since an American opened
their doors to western ideas and civil
ization.
From an isolated, hermit kingdom,
living in ttie most archaic manner and
absorbed in the ideals and customs
of long dead centuries, the Japanese
have risen with amazing rapidity to a
place among the foremost nations of
the earth and stand today as the
world’s most notable example of na
tional progress. But, withal, it is dif
ficult to reconcile this remarkable
progress with the professor’s view
that it, or most of it, is due to a cer
tain manner or condition of living,
much less that particular standard by
which the citizens of Japan are sup
ported. Except in a remote sense, the
living standard does not appear to the
Occidental mind lo have anything to
do with it. An economical living stan
dard may be of considerable benefit to
"1* ' i* — r
the individual hut It is difficult to see
wherein it may be a considerable fac- I
tor in making a nation great or pros
perous when one remembers that n
nation's prosperity is dependant pri
marily on its commerce and trade. If
an economical living standard has a
material effect in promoting the pros
perity of the nation, then China should
by all odds be the greatest and most
prosperous nation. But it is not and
is, further, the most pitifully ignor
ant and poverty stricken land on the
face of the earth.
The truth of the matter is that the
Oriental races are living the way they
are, not because it is a tietter way or
a way more conducive to progress, en
lightenment and happiness, hut be
cause they have to. The overcrowded
conditions of the far east have, for
centuries, compelled the Oriental races
to adopt the lowest and most econo
mical living standards. There was
little or no choice in the matter. The
very conditions of existence forced
them to ticcept the scantiest fare that
would support life and is doing so to
day no less than in those hundreds
of years that have before passed into
the mists of illimitable eternity. And
with it all has come a race deteriora
tion and individual inefficiency that
has caused them to fall far far be
hind in racial progress toward ad
vancement and enlightenment. That
Japan has escaped this racial deterior
aotion proves nothing at all unless
it is that the people of Japan were a
little less crowded, a little hotter
. a red for. a little better nourished than
the.r neighbors. Comparison of the
h.story of the Occidental and Oriental
races as well as their individual char
acteristics is sufficient to prove the
value of tin Occidental living standard
as a* medium of human advancement.
The Oriental standard has little rec
ommendation beyond that doubtful
one offered by the Tokio professor
that it will enable a far greater num
ber of people to exist on the earth
than is possible under higher living
standards. The Oriental standard may
allow of a vastly increased popula
tion but one ran hardly see wherein
the world will be better or humanity
more content and happy by having
a world peopled with twenty instead
of two billion people.
The American standard of living
may tie excessively high as compared
lo that of other nations but it is in
finitely preferable lo have a world
peopled with two billion well clothed,
well nourished, well housed and happy
people who have plenty of room to
move and breathe in rather than a
world naeked in tha «,uu m
fed and ill nourished humanity living
in poverty and wretchedness.
OVERSTOCKED.
I n I he public.—
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and find tfiar v.-** are heavily overstocked
so arc making enormous reductions in
Hardware—as much ns uU per cent in
certain lines Notwithstanding immense
advances outside, especially In Hard
ware and Meta) Goods, we are still sell
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past two or three years.
We will sill for casli only at these
prices, and for a limile. time, until we
bring our stock down to the require
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If you have an order to be filled, let
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We have proved It to others, we can
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