AS AMERICANS SEE US.

Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1210, 25 February 1922, Page 2

AS AMERICANS SEE US.

In preparation for the nation's reception of the Prince of Wales, 10,000,000 Japanese children are rehearsing daily the British National Anthem. As the New York Sun puts it, "they are go.'ng to spring it on the Prince of Wales, wherever he goes in Japan. School children will be lined up along -the railroad tracks and city street wherever the English Crown Prince travels, singing the song they have been practising for months. Japanese court circles (says the Sun) are ruled most rigidly by formula of undeviating and extremely elaborate character. There has been a great deal of speculation and wondering how Hirohito could mill around in Japan with hi» visitor as democratically as the Prince of Wales did with him in England. If President Harding were to put on minstrel clothes and turn handsprings up and down Pennsylvania Avenue it could not seem as undignified to the soberest American as informal appearances of the lEonperor before the people would be to the Japanese court circle.

With the people it's another story. They're all for being able to have a look at Hirohito now and then, buy picture post cards of him, even cheer him a little when he passes. The Prince of Wales will have several palaces at his disposal in Japan, to say nothing of private railroad trains and elaborate official escorts everywhere. His coming will be hard, however, on all the "dangerous malcontents." They will be put in gaol in advance, probably, just for safety's sake. The police are preparing for more than ordinary precautions to guard against individual fanatics.