Tokyo, May 22.
Special articles in the newspapers on the question of the construction of auxiliary naval craft would suggest that the Navy people are engag-fed in a propaganda to make gute of the appropriation of ¥.325,000,000 promised in the next Budget as 2 counter to the endeavours of the Department of Finance to have the Jappropriation reduced. It is eontinually pointed out that naval ships get old and out of commission from time to time and must constantly be replaced by new and up-to-date vessels. Even before tie Y.25,000,000 programme is finished the navy ubi cists say the country must be prepared to vote similarly large cums to keep the naval defence of the Empire in an efficient condition. To fent down or postpone—appropria-us, it is contended, can only result larger the future ai ions.
movement is afoot in Jagan to)
yerease the pay of elementary teachers" so says the "Japan Times and Mail"—an Engligh written daily newspaper published in Tokyo. Just how the increase is to be secured does not appear but, the news paper tells its readers, the pay of these elementary school teachers anges "from ¥.85 to Y.175 a month." It calls for 47 cents to buy lone yen, so it if not difficult to figure jour the pay of the pedagogue who is charged with the early culture of Japanese children.
The figures appear small indeed, wring the responsibility of the er, but a minimum of ten gold slollars a week is @ princely income] to the Japanese young woman wh lives in the country where rents and reasonable. In the cities the]
is larger, but here the cost of living is high, a§ high by comparison as Chicago is to in the old home "down on the farm" in the old So while it is always to be hoped that the teacher will get more pay, hho or she is not in such dire distress Jus the leaders of the—movement] would have the public believe.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.