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NOR FOLK Portsmouth Virginia Beach Saturday thru SKCouday July 22-24 $3.00 TtokvUcooil VfMmy Hater <i?y train*, asofpt Numijar* 10, 100 Uotuioinc Uava Portsmouth m Ut; ? 9.04 l*. M., Monday avauin*. rickets rood In ooaohos only. No 1 >*?***<> otieckod. Consult your Soahoard n*?wit (or other detail*. . .round trip adult faro to Portsmouth. Fares to Virginia Beach 76c higher. Children 5 and under 12 half fare. Plan a glorious weekend at the seashore - via Seaboard - at these drastically cut fares. Japs.Weary as War Enters Third Year Waning enthusiasm inurked the at It licit* of the Japanese people toward tho war in China us it isune to the end of 11h second year Friday The resignation with which they moot any great natural catastrophe mingled with the growing perplexity over Chiiia'w continued ability to ro-l Hist the armies they have been taught to consider Invincible. Hero aro some snapshots of Japan's | common people two years after tho first shot near Polplng: The colorful, lilting days of brass bands, crlmson-and-whlte flags and gold braid glinting in tho sun have gone. When a soldier Is called, his friends and relatives and the local patriotic association still parade with him to the railway stations us In tho beginning, but tho tone is different now. ?? ? I JCxeltement gives place to weariness War songs have worn thin, like music on tin* radio too often. The station scene Is old and an ulr of pain und perplexity pervades It. Old Mr. Kato bends over a ledger and tries to focus on columns of llg-j ores He for o tin* war. he was a small-1 time Importer, bringing dried fruit' from California. He wasn't rich, but lie was comfortable, and his sons wero in the university. | With the war. dried fruit went oil the luxury list. It was banned. In six months his stock was gone. Three months later he was out of business. Now he Is a bookkeeper In a factory. And Mr. Kato's eyes are old ami growing dimmer. Two soldiers on a train are talking animatedly. One wears a white Kimono, moaning he is under treatment at a military hospital, but no wound is a ppa ren r. He starts to light a cigarette and drops the pa? kage Trying to pick it I up. he almost falls off the seat The other steadies him. and the white kimono slips apart. He has lli< legs. The attitude of th" people to tho war is that with which they would meet a natural catastrophe, an earthquake or a great -derm They have a phrase which means "It cannot bo helped." implying resignation, acceptance. Seeing no sign of peace, thev plod otoad. >Mitd!>. tiymg not to think of t heir Inc i eased taxes, higher living i ibis, restrictions <mi manners and i a.- tuni.-.. ur th. death ile-u sell The .-.ani ls of the <;"> eius to a> . e: 11 I: -: 1 e i u ':; '! l -' a * i >: l platto! 111. Lines of soldiers St.Ill 1 at ligld itte)iii,.ii It- hind 'h<'tti are masses . it p. o; ]. 1 to- : .tin - .ps and an oftlii! s t p - d ' W ! 1. W . I . is S I i i ft j t e r - in front ot :iie : :-oi i ps ami salutes smurtlv | hell. o tie 11 \ otlC, soldiers CO mo out of the i a:- I'.ach carries a white box. with a white .-liken sash houud behind his in k Kni li !>o\ contains the ashes (tf a Japuueso soldier killed ' in China. There Is a rustle as civilians crowd closer to see, hut their faces show J not it lux Only the black eyes, curiously uIIvq and burning. tell the emotion that lies behind. Kadi company of ash-bearers is small :??. 100, or 200. The total killed. the war office says, Is less than 00,000 ? neut nil exports believe that it Is much higher. Cater the scene Is repeated at reglmental headquarters over the country. There, a box marked with a name Is handed over to the nearest relatives. Those who wont to the station long ago to cheer a departing man now assemble to receive ills ashes in a little white box. Here, too, the control of feeling is so rigid It could almost be mistaken J for Indifference. I There has been only one reported Instance of the delivery of ashes! causing a scene. A widow and her other child take the 1k)X which bore the name of her eldest sen. When his name was called, she stepped forward. The officer I bowed, saluted, and bunded It to iter. She held it in her arms for a moment as though It were an infant. Then her mouth opened with a soundless scream. Her eyes glared. ! She threw the box' at_ the officer's head. 1 A surgeon was rushed to the front In the first days of July, 1937. His wife has not seen him since, and all she knows from censor-filtered letters 'is that he Is "somewhere near Hun< kow." ! He never has seen a boy born soon after ho left. The first child, a girl, (lied last year. "I haven't told him," the wife says, "I want his mind to be free for his work. Hut sometimes, in his letters, lie inculdes a special page for her; I then I think my heart will break." I China's continued resistance greatly perplexes the Japanese people. Since childhood they have been told the Japanese army is Invincible. They still got stories of one soldier hurling hiiivself impetuously into a whole comI pany of Chinese and killing most of II hem. Newspapers recently told of one Japanese airplane attacking 22 Russian planes in the border fighting in Mongolia. shooting down two and driving elT 'lie |OSt China remains on h?*r feet, still ke' pr:i-' more than l.O'Mi.omi Japanese soldi- rs on the continent. And a controlled press - xplains that Russia, l-.'ngland ami France are preventing the long expeeti | t oil.I pse. <)11 all -ides you hear the -ton We arc lighting thr four nation1 * cni> the third powers would with ,i:aw their assistance. China would collapse tomorrow " The poison of certain spiders is used as a cure for various human ail meltts. j Nobody's Business I Written fur 'i'h? Chronicle by Mrtiee, Copyright, 1928. [THE LATEST NEWS FROM FLAT HOCK . Jack i???tt?. formerly of ftat rock, bui now of the u. ?. navy has returned homo on u furlough, he thinks he will he a admiral In a few yeura. he wants to sail ucrost the pacjtlc ocean and put Jappan hack In her place where she belong* he think# hia boat and two other boats could turn the trick, he has a pitcher of u girl engraved on hla chlst. ..rev, will walte, the pasture of rehober church, la down In hla buck, he tried to lift hla son-in-law the other day and that's how he got hurt, he Is being rubbed by a cowropractor and Ills wife believes that ho will either kill him or cure him In a week or ao. his hollering outloud keeps main street stirred up a right smart. ..miss Jennie veuve smith, tho world's fair chapperono, returned from her II rat buss trip to new york cltty a few days ago. she and all her 20 guesses enjoyed thelrselves good, nobuddy ketched unnythlng while away, and no one got hurt except slllle aiiupkina. she stepped on something that slipped and fell on the pavement, but she will recover with only minor bruises unsoforth. the puvement was not hurt allso. . .hon. holsum mooru Is planning to build hlsself and famlley a nice f. h. a. house. his grammaw who Is verry sick at this riling has willed him a lot, so he says, and right after the fuuneral, he will apply for 80 porcent of the monney and his lot will take care of the other 20 percent, he wants oak floors, lightning rods, a bath-room, and 2 plizzas. they hopes they can soon start on this project as the present! L house leaks pretty bad and tho feddoral land baiik won't kivver it. j ..no weddings are In sight for this | month, skinny green had counted on marrying his p'ressent sweethart, miss ctitle Ion perkins, but she has I changed her mind and is now going with slim chance, the third, he has I bought hlsself a nice moddel "a" with ! no top on it and she and him can be saw most anny time of day or night skipping thru the ozone in a hell-ter skell-tcr manner, that cooked skinny's goose. yores trulie, mike lark, rfd, corrv spondent POLITICAL VIEWS FOR THE YEAR OF 1940 deer mr. eddltor:?,.mr. slim chance, sh., agrees with hon. robt. Jackson that pres. ro3ey-i veil has not served but one term asj ! Man la 104 Because He Didn't Die ) Bethel, O ? An amazing vitality brought 1 >r. William Thompson, dean of "practicing physicians Wednesday to 1 the eve of Ills 104 birthday. Appar?| cully recovering from serious Illness that beset him less than u week ago, the frail little man disclaimed any "recipe for longevity" as ho looked forward to a quiet anniversary tomorrow. "It's only because 1 haven't died," he affirmed I>r Thompson was bora not so far from the house where he has lived and practiced for seveuty-j nine years Ho still aorvos u small number of patlenta. l'olaml has the world's smallest national aea coast, forty miles of ocean frontage. One-third of all the deaths uu.oftg North American Indians in 1915, were due to tuberculosis. president, only ho goes further than mr. Jackson do. he claims that the, suppremo court acted us presldont of the u. s. for 1933 and 1934 and 1935 and 1936. (It undone all he done). . .mr. chance contends that John 1. lewis took charge where the sup preino court left off In 1936 and served as president hissolf enduring 1937 and a big portion of 193S. therefoar. franklin dellano roseyvelt has hell offls for only aboty 1 year and 6 mouths, and' that will make him elligible for re'Vloctlon In 1940. I., the recalcitrant dimmercrats and thu libberty league republicans of coarse aided and abetted the coart and Jhoji 1. the "purged at" dimmercrats have made fairly good republicans since they got back into offls, but of coarse they aint as well off financially as they were befoar the race took place, according to mr. holsum moore, our local smart aleck. . .mr. art square who has run for offls verry frequent hlsself says that mr. roseyvelt Is too smart to offer hlsself for president In 1940. it aint good polliticks to try to break a presi-l dent ansoforth. mr. landon mought be the strongest man the republicans can get up for 1940. If so, it wont be much trouble to elect a good dimmercrat. ..if the govverment employees can all vote, and will carry the frieuds i who have et at uncle sam's table one I way and a nother for the past 6 years to the poles, and get them to vote as they feel. It wont be no trouble to keep the Ins in and outs out. it reI mains to be saw, so says dr. hubbert I green, who the dimmercrats will run out as a dark boss; but up to now it sounds like garner or hull, and mebbe both. | yores trulie. j mike lark, rfd, I prognosticate*. 1 ^ J FARMERS DO MORE REPAIR WORK ON OWN MACHINERY The passing of the blacksmith shop in many farm communities has made it necessary for farmers themselves to do much of the repair ahd maintenance work on their machinery. Many of them have sought practical Instruction from their county agent or other workers In the federal and | state extension service. Some com* I iminities have held machinery repair 1 schools. ^ Farmers In 30,000 communities last year sought assistance along this line and in the field of agricultural engineering. County agents report the subjects of most importance to farmers are those of machinery repair, irrigation, terracing and farm build' lng. Almost 80,000 farmers reported that they followed extension service recommendations in constructing new build Inga, while 85,000 were assisted bv county agents and engineers in planning repairs and remodeling. In cooperation with the bureau of Agricultural Engineering, the extension service has compiled building plans suit" able to the Middle West and the Northeast. These plans are available through county agents. Similar'publications are being prepared for the South and West. County extension agents gave information or assistance on installation of 8,800 sewage systems, 15,000 water systems, and 101,300 lighting systems, principally in farm homes. Work of this type is a part of the broad extension program to improve rurxl health and living conditions. Oak furniture can be renovated with hot linseed oil applied with a flannel cloth. The twisted tube of a French horn contains from 16 to 23 feet of brass tubing. 'Tavsn^AH JACKSONVILLE r Over Sunday \ August 6ih j Lv. 9 40 P. M Sat. Aug. 5th $2.00 ^ - . . . round trip ndtilf faro in coaches to Savanna >1, >1 00 higher to Jacksonville. Children 5 and under 12 half faro. Enjoy a full dar at thrsrfimo'is South At lantic lioarhen at ( he*e unusually low fares via Seaboard. BWS? TiciMt ir. c *?.-> ++ oaly touts or.ly oo train Nuniixr 3 irrn.i? Snvirish and Jarl?onvittf. Sunday. A n (V. returning - from iaclcxonviite aame n.gM, from Savannah early Monday morning No baggngr rherkod Aak your Seaboard JMcrr.t lor 'ufthcr information. ; LET'S GO FISHING! Don't just think about it. Go! The sun has warmed up the waters, and the "big babies" are galavanting around in search of bait. 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