A few weeks ago, one of the police [chiefs of Tokyo took a lengthy trip to Europe and America, studying ostensibly the police forces in those countries. He returned full of admiration for himself and the Japan-exe "bobby". Not only did he hold the Japanese cop to be morally head and shoulder above his European or JAmerican confréree, but also declared that the Japanese junco (cop) was far and away the superior educationally and in intelligence of any other policeman on the face of the globe.
A staggering example of this rare erudition was recently furnished when some policemen sat down to an oral examination. Among the questions asked were: "What is syndi-
Sounds like a bed-time story or a fairy tale, but this, in reality, was. how the Countess Elsa Bernadotte, niece of the King of Sweden, wound up a recital of part of her life to the Tokyo Women's Club.
The Countegs is a very handsome! woman, with big grey eyes that seem None could answer, until the brightest cop of that class declared that "syndicalism" meant "birth Jcontrol" and that the word was derived from "Sanger" (Mrs. Sanger).
The Japanese pronunciation of syndicalism" is" "san-ji-kor-ism"' Now when the inevitable "ism" is
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