Fundamental Cause of the Great War As of Other Ills to Which Flesh is Heir "Who drives fat cattle should himself be fat." Surely there must be " natural'corollary, that whoever is fat and well-liking must ha instinctive sympathy for fat cattle and thence for all beasts of farm and vonerie;- with a sympathy which boggles at the idea of killing and eating then (though at meal times uch feelings are prove to evanesce).
We have just received a pamphlet written by the "Hermit of Tot Shu," translated by Mr. Chang Yue cheng, entitled "An Exhortation to Repair from Animal-slaughter, in Chinese and Englis! ie ribald man say that animals are usually, Killed in a slaughter-house, But the hermit is right in his exhortation and many will agree with him, they have done with many other exhorters on the same theme; but the subject to them is an "uncome fortable" one and therefore. fore gotten.
The hermit holds strong views as to meat-eating being the funda~ mental reason for the great European wars, as is shown by the, following extract:
"So there occurred in, Euro sandy problems." Bat bet rud uring the past
for oP are (ete ved larfesm tried. bob failed to: bring end to wary the recent Years the: war per Being a Buddhist, the hermit bee "That the wicked have. to go to the nether world-or be Feborn as. Deastsy roan really nothing. but the Micked" people "after This bein Which belief would be rather embarrassing to foreign butch or Chinese butchers in foreign settlements, might write a book on Kobe atte Some sociological student
the "Japan Chronicl yanese paper reports that there some 500 in the Sane foomiya district, employing over three waitresses on an average, cafe is a simple affair. A' table, two chairs, and a couple of bottles of beer and "cider" seem to be enough stock in trade for a starts But the police are said to be worried about them, because they are detrimental to public morals, Tb6 trouble is, of course, that. the immorality of the girls robs the authorities of revenue, for im+ morality i @ national industry on h|which "a pretty heavy excise is levied.
AW old woman who collapsed on the roadside near the boundary ber tween the Kyoto and Osaka fu dite trate some mouthy ago 0 was shifted from one district to the other until the died in the process. The police tended that "the rerponsibiity of each side of the boundary" con
caring for her belonged. to. the ther side. From the reports pub lished "at the "time. it appeared that both parties had acted. with hearts ervelty, but the blame waa placed chieBy on Kusuo'Koyoshi, Policeman of Osskacta, He was Fismiseed from the force and since then has been undergoing a trial With the usual protracted: proceed-Ings. On November. 19 he was sentenced by the Osaka Appeal Court to a term of wrobationpre+ ively to six months' penal servic fade' with suspension of the paniah= ment for two years, The proceed Ings hardly amounted to the much= peeded lesson in prompt action, says Moco, Orion will be on the meridian the biplenaid brillinaey sand beautys prods te sly of te Grote
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