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Speaking at the Highway Engineers con- nce Thursday night, the Governor told his au- ice that the legislators would return for a spe- session determined .to save money and cut n on road building. t has been a common idea in the past for gov- rs of states to endear themselves to the vot- public by liunching a vast road building pro- n. Comparatively few residents in any state these roads but the idea ;,has been successful has always been a tangible something which executive can point to. the state of Michigan already stands high in' ranking of those states with good roads. The enditure of millions of dollars for more roads .ld be foolish and unnecessary and apparently cker has realized this. What the special session of the legislature will s problematical as far as economizing is con-. ed but at least the members will not be mak- asses out of themselves which is so easy to n these days. Already in this session Congress has appro- ted money for roads which has been widely cized because of its futility and utter waste- ess. Because the national governent has i fit to draw attention to itself by spending the >ayer's money for something which is unnec- ry at a time when the money could be put to nuch better use is no reason for state legisla- s to follow the example especially when they closer to the people's pocket book. [he legislature, when it convenes for its spe- session, will have many problems facing it in matter of saving money. One of the ways in :h it will do this 'is to cut down on the road ding which is, all will agree, a wise move. We e that it will be just as sane when it considers r expenses. SCREEN REFLECTIONS COMING TO THE WHITNEY Fears of silence since the advent of talking pic- s have finally been broken-by Anna May Wong, ninent for her work in the silents, with the pro- ion of "Der Weg zur Schande" (The Road to me), scheduled to open at the Whitney Sunday he latest offering under its German all-talking y. bundant press notices assure us that "Der Weg Schande" is dramatically of the highest charac- attained by German-produced, films, Miss Wong ng the part of a Chinese dancer in a Russian near the Russo-Chinese border. Miss Wong is to speak German with equal facility as English Chinese. 'he story, which is laid about the year 1912, deals the attempt of the dancer, Hai Tang, to pre- the execution of her brother for his attack on Russian governor-general of the province in re- From The Japanese Viewpoint It is unfortunate that students who ought to ' study international problems with a spirit of con il- iation, should engage in airing irrd ponsibie opdiois' which not only becloud the real Issues but arouse I feelings of antagonism. Mr. Robert Suez's artcles are a case in point. Some time ago, inan artiler which appeared in the Ann Arbor Daily NWs, he * put forth the claim that Japan's occupation of Main- churia was the result of a calculated policy of terri-I torial aggrandizement launched without provoa- tion at a time when China was suffering from the effects of flood and the rest of the world from the ravages of economic ills. Such an account presents a picture grotesque in its bias. It produces no good, and reveals no truth save that prejudice and imag.. ination can easily out run one's intelligence., Yet when Mr. Miwa, a Japanese student, comesc forth with a reasonable allegation that Japan is mis understood and that Chinese carry on a propagandat to spread a "lot of misinformation," he is at once confronted with a deluge of ire. Though I have re.: mained silent to the present under the conviction that heated arguments are productive only of' ilt feelings, I feel it incumbent upon me to answer some of the grossly unfair charges.: To Mr. Wilfred Smith, who inquires of Mr. Miwa whether his knowledge "has been gained solely from c a religious reading" of the Japanese press, I wouldr like to :point out that he, Mr. Smith, is himself aa shining example of those who have received a "lot of misinformdation." Mr. Smith says that the Man- churian "tangle" seems to be similar to the "trainP of events" which led to the annexation of Korea by i Japan, Mr. Smith is not only misinformed but im-t pertinent. He would have been at least less impolitec had he said that the Manchurian situation resemblesI American punitive expeditions into Mexico or inter-. n vention in the internal affairs of Nicaragua. Con-. ing more directly to the cruial issues, Mr. Smith . writes that Japan is "ethically wrong in attempingS to acquire from her weaker neighbor interests to I which she has neither historical nor moral claim." F If Mr. Smith would take a little trouble to readJ the modern history of the Orient-a far more profi-d table avocation than that of consuming "a lot of misinformation"-he would find that as a result of the Sino-Japanese War, the Liaotung Peninsula waso ceded to Japan in perpetuity. but Russia, Germany,. and France intervened, "advising" Japan to return t the territory to China within fifteen days. Soon af.,o ter the return of the peninsula to China, it wasC leased to Russia. This led to the Russo-Japanese f War, as a result of which the unexpired portion of V the twenty-five year Russian lease on the Liaotung v Peninsula was ceded to Japan. The lease was ex- tended to 99 years as a result of the Twenty-One De- C mands of 1915. If the trety of 1915 was. signed by ' China under duress and therefore invalid, then by 1 the same argument, the formal Convention of Nov w 8, 1895, under which Japan was compelled by Russia; o Germany, and France, to return what she rightly regarded as the fruit of war, must also be invalid. t We must then go back to the Treaty of Shimonoseki e under the terms of which the Liaotung Peninsula 1 was ceded in perpetuity to Japan. What bettet "his. a torical claim" could there be? But perhaps Mi;Sinit L weuld stress moral claims and disoite the validity t of all treaties signed as a result of war. If so, then as a matter of good manners, let him start by advo- je cating the return of Philippines on the part of the J United States to Spain. So long as the Versailles and t other treaties signed as the result of wars are held c to be valid by the nations of the world including the J United States, so long has Japan more than a "his- o torical claim to the lease and other rights on the o Liaotung Peninsula. t Turning to Japan's rights in southern Manchuria, o we find that her rights are based on "historical a claims" equally substantial. At the time of the Rus- p so-Japanese War, China was a secret ally of Russia. m pledging herself to support Russia "by all land and m sea forces against any aggression directed by Japan e against Russian territory." Had this fact been t known, Japan would have obtained much norethan k what she did receive as a result of the treaties of C 1905 and 1915. u Mr. Suez, unlike Mr. Smith, cannot be ignorant B of these historical facts. Unless he is an American- o born Chinese, he ought to possess a fairly accurate s knowledge of the major issues and events in the o present situation.. Yet in his article which appeared i in this Daily (Jan. 23), he denies the charge of Mr. h Miwa that Chinese have been engaged in propa- bi ganda, and quotes from the New York Times and u others to show that Japan has maintained a strict g censorshi in Manchuria and that there were no b bandits i Manchuria prior to the present Japanese f occupation. Mr. Suez must realize himself that it is k possible to quote the New York Times or any other y paper in such a way as to present a very favorable f case for Japan. The whole matter depends on selec- tion, and when Mr. Suez carefully selected only those a which gave accounts favorable to China, he must h have known that he was engaged in the very propa- o ganda which, he denies, is being carried on by s Chinese.a To employ Mr. Suez's tactics and confront him t with an overwhelming amount of quotations which c would flatly deny his statements, is indeed an easy i task. The following are given as examples, confinedE more judiciously to articles and reports which carry t a greater degree of reliability than those quoted by1 c Mr. Suez. (Mr. Suez's quotation from the New York 1i Times of Nov. 10, for instance, is really a quotation + r from an Ameridan-owned but very anti-Japanese A Shanghai Post-Mercury). The New York Times in t its editorial of Jan. 31, while deploring-the Japanese A measures in Shanghai, says: "No impartial person t who has followed the Japanese course in China since e the sudden seizure of Mukden last Autumn can fail u to conclude that Japan has lacked what .is called e good publicity." In a situation like the present, it is w obvious that propaganda be carried on by b6th s Chinese and Japanese. But if Mr. Suez would count r the number of articles by Chinese and compare it s methods which have brought he into controversy with the Leagu of Naticnis and the Briand-Kellog pa t poWers, but it has also beer unfortunate that China, while un- derning one set of treaties, was permitted to claim the protectio: of a different set." The Mail and Empire, Tdronto, of October 27 says: "The provocation attitude of th Chinese is too well known to the British colonies in that part of the world to admit of a doubt that the Japanese, too, have had to suf- fer from it." (The same dispatch appears in the New York Times of Oct. 26). The most tenatiously followed policy of the Chinese authorities to haibass the Japanese to the lim- it, to dry up the South Manchurian Railway, and to curb the whole of ,Japan's economic life in Manchur- ia, is a matter of public record. The Nationalist party of China came into power on the crest of a wave of anti-foreignism. F i r s t, Great Britain was the victim. Next, the Chinese Eastern Railway was the source of conflict. And then, with a degree of persistence surprizing even among Chinese, the Na- tionalist party in co-operation with Shiang-heuh-liang who, unlike his crafty bandit father, could play tennis and talk English' but who could understand no diplomacy, di- rected the policy of extermination against Japan, using all methods short of actual warfare. A railway was built parallel to and in com- petition with the S. M. R., in flag- rant :violation of treaty stipula- tions; the harbour at Huutao was constructed anew to compete with Dairen, and discrimination in the matter of import duties was insti- tited against the latter port which is the southern terminus of the S. M. R.; a new export duty was levied on coal coming from the Fushun mines. The right of the Japanese subjects to lease land was denied, and thousands of Koreans were forcibly evicted from their farms. These are but few examples of the way in which the Chinese authorities blazenly violated the treaty rights of Japan. The list of anti-Japanese decrees issued by Chinese authorities at Mukden, in force in Sept. 1931, numbered over three hundred. Japan protested in vain. The story in Shanghai is no ex- ception to the rule. The New York Times of Jan. 29 carries a dispatch rom London by Chas. A. Selden, in which it is stated: "In the killing f her nationals by Chinese and >ther violence in con ction with the boycott, Japan consiiers she has exactly the same grievance Eng- and had in 1926-1927. Evidently .teat Bhitain thinks so too." The London Times in its, editorial on he Shanghai situation s a i d: Doubts about the expediency and fficacy of measures taken by the apanese must not obscure the fact1 hat they have had serious provo- ation in the shape of attacks on apanese subjects and the boycott] f Japanese goods." The recent ccurences in Shanghai are regret-; able, but the Japanese are not the nly ones to be blamed. The Jap- nese marines were proceeding to; osts assigned to them by arrange-o ment with the International Settle-] ment authorities. But they were fir- d upon by Chinese soldiers.. It was hen a choice of letting the Chinese ill Japanese or of attacking the ,hinese. The latter course was nat- rally followed. Stanley Baldwin, 3ritish prime minister at the time f anti-British outbreak in China, aid in aHouse of Commons debate on Feb. 7, 1927, that "the danger s not only from the mob in Shang- hai. If it were only that, it might be that such forces as have accum- lated there internationally, to- gether with the local forces, would e sufficient; but there was the earful possibility, shown at Han- kow, that if bloodshed was begun you might have Chinese- troops ighting with the mob." That some of the Japanese policy at the present in China is high- handed isnot denied. But the crux of the whole situation is that what she has, done is no more than what ny other dpower in identical situa- ion would do. Why should Ameri- cans who lose their head on hear- # ng that Japan has violated the Kellog pact, and who have no hesi- ancy in advocating a warlike boy- cott, accuse the Japanese for tak- ng measures to safeguard her ights in Manchuria? Why should Americans who reveal willingness. o go to war when they hear of an American consul being beaten by hree Japanese, accuse the Japan- ese for taking high-handed meas- ures to protect the lives of Japan- ese after more than forty of them were killed by the Chinese? Why should those Americans who are! eady to fight when their flag is in- sulted, accuse the Jananese for Music I/ Among mediocre pianists certain ly the honest ones are the more distinguished. A good, honestly drab mediocre pianist gives one a fairly impartial view of the music and the purity of his drabness sets l into relief the qualities which dis- tinguish the supreme pianists. A mediocre pianist who thinks him- self rather delightfully colorful is lgenerally something of a nuisance; for if he is confident ei'ough he is liable to convince a good many that he is one of the supreme pianists. * * * Percy Grainger-technically one of the most competent of the me- diocre pianists on the concert stage -is one of the nuisances. He is quite fond of the dashing qualities which have given him the title of "playboy"; and always satisfied to find and exhibit the great compos- ers as "playboys" too. His favorite composers,by public statement, are Bach and Greig (which sort of rad- icai electicism would seem to indi- cate insanity); he validates this unthinkable position undoubtedly by relating them both to himself. * * * Last night it was Bachand Brahims who suffered in this pro- cess. The Toccata became for Grainger a piece oftfairly dazzling, rather amusing bravura. He plays it with a lively, inconsequential vigour which carries it through. He is utterly indifferent to whatever lyrcal earnestness there is in the melodic lines, whatever gravity there is in the harmonic progres- sions. Similarly in the Fugue, whole portions of it were just "played," in no sense comprehend- ed. The climactic points he pound- ed out rather effectively. But the whole significance of the climactic points (their significance as points where the accumulating richness of the ordered compleity suddenly becomes most apparent) was lost because he played the progressions to them so insensitively. * * * But Grainger's really amazing sterility (which his bounding vig- our occasionally conceals) came out more clearly in the smaller pieces of the first Bach Partita. The fact is, apparently, that he has no feel- ings to direct his performances. That is, I submit that in the Sara- bande, Grainger with confident in- difference, perhaps made more mis- takes of feeling (or, if you like, of phrasing) than there are notes in the composition. And that is an achievement any playboy could be proud of. (Harold Samuels' record is the point of reference for; this judgment.) The second iflhuet Grainger distorted into a sort of ad\ lib intermezzo by 'ignoring .the dance-pattern. Bach's achievement in such things is to have got,. so much feeling into a rigid pattern of movement; Grainger ignored the pattern and went after the feling, so that he wasn't really playing the second Minuet At all. Similarly, in the Gigue, the rigidity of the type- movement was ignored and retards were indulged. Also, he had little feeling for the quality of that long suspension in the middle of the second section. The conclusion is that Grainger lacks both the intel- lect and the sensibility to play Bach and that it is surprising that his fund of "dash" gets him through Bach so well. Grainger was right in announc- ing that the Brahms F Minor Son- ata is romantic music. But, as a local pianist remarked, it was es- pecially silly to make that an- nouncement and then precedeato play it with such dullness, such un- inspired monotony. Such an unfeel- i n g, unintegrated performance from a supposedly "major" pianist should have been hissed; but the few loud and nimble spots and then the fact that he is playing all the notes are, I suppose, deceptive. How rash and empty his dash really is may be understood if one can re- call Horowitz's incisive, finely tem- pered performance of the Scherzo and compare with it Grainger's silly lunges at it. / * * * One would have liked to have stayed for the "Ramble." The "Ramble" is Grainger's invented form. He is evidentlr fond nf thpm PERCY GRAINGER A 'Review.