The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 21, 1939, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
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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*.
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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.
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