Tokio, May 24.
The annual Conference of Prefectural Governors opened yester-lay.
In the course of his speech the Premier, Viscount Takahashi, referring to the post-war tendency of national thought and labour problems, counselled prudence and Judicious contro] of the people by the local authorities with due regard to the national character, national circumstances and traditional customs.
The Premier emphasized the importance of improving the national education as the safest means of realizing required improvements in_ all directions, including the suffrage system.
Count Ogi, the Minister of Justice, spoke on the control of objectionable alien thought and the application of the revised criminal acts. He advised the Governors to be sincere and judicious in observing the new acts and controlling foreign ideas of dangerous tendency. He invited the special ce-operation of the Governors in the successful application of the newly enacted Juvenile Court Law, which has in view the care of the so-called ''state children."—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.