Word: hershey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attempting to present my own views regarding the great question of population confronting my country, I undertake to comment upon Professor Hershey's article, not in order to "justify past and possible future aggression on the part of Japan," but for the purpose of putting before the readers of the CRIMSON such information as will aid them in securing a fuller understanding of the complicated situation which Japan is today facing...
Professor Hershey's main thesis seems to be this: Japan's problem of over population is exaggerated. It is "merely an ex post facto explanation intended to justify past and possible future aggressions. Whatever validity it may once have had has largely ceased, and it is no longer applicable to present and future needs and conditions of Japan...
This, in effect, is Professor Hershey's thesis. Yet in spite of his vigorous and elaborate argument in contradicting the generally accepted view with reference to the density of the population in Japan, many readers of his article will be disappointed to learn that there is no sound foundation for his statement except that of more phraseology and rhetoric such as are unlikely to be found in such a paper as the CRIMSON...
Examples of unsound argument abound in Professor Hershey's article. For example, he says that the Japanese people are reacting to new and changed economic conditions; but who can draw the conclusion from this that there is no reason to believe that the Japanese people are suffering from density of population in the country...
...also true as Professor Hershey pointed out that there still remain considerable land for future cultivation and improvement; but this is true too in the case of Boston or Cambridge which have many "idie lots" in the very heart of the city. But everybody knows that the people in Boston or Cambridge do not and will not turn their vacant lots into wheat or corn fields unless and until the price of wheat or corn becomes so high to give them ample remuneration for the production of grain on such valuable plots. In the case of Japan the question...