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While Walter Winchell is on temporary
active duty with the U. S. navy his column
is being conducted by guest columnists.
This week’s column is written:
By JAMES R. YOUNG
/. N. S. Correspondent 13 Years in Japan
and Author, “Behind the Rising Sun.”
UNFINISHED STORIES
What has become of the Em
peror’s brother. Prince Chichibu?
His failure to appear at the Em
pire’s 2600th mythological anniver
sary of the founding of the Sun God
dess’ country aroused queries. What
will become of Japan’s puppet Em
peror of Manchuria, Henry Pu Yi,
who rides a bicycle and plays ten
nis under “protection”? Not hav
ing an heir, the Japanese some
how will put the skids under him to
favor his Manchu brother, whom
militarists married off to a Japanese
girl. How will the Japanese handle
their puppet Wang Ching Wei at
Nanking? Japanese guards sur
round him for two purposes: Keep
enemy hand grenades from being
tossed at him and keep him from
running away. His wife, notorious
in Chinese politics, stays in Shang
hai selling government jobs and opi
um licenses.
• • • —
The President’s freezing order of
Japanese business means: NO
MORE lily bulbs for Easter, gold
fish by the tankfuls for five and
dime stores, oyster bed seedlings,
camphor for methol products or
pyretheum seeds for bug powder.
• • • —
Japan faces economic ruin. Her
Manchurian market depended on
soy bean cake exports to Europe.
That business is finished. No more
silk market means Japan’s second
great agriculture upset and farm
problem—rice and its shortage is
No. 1. Next problem is shortage of
fish which is Japan’s staple. Min
ing the island kingdom’s waters to
keep out Russian submarines from
Vladivostok will restrict tens of
thousands of tiny fishing junks.
• • • —
The Japanese are always kidding
themselves and their people. One
inventor claims sardines will pro
duce an oil convertible to gasoline.
But first they need the sardines. In
quantities prohibitive. Another Jap
anese announced Tokyo is protected
from air attacks by the use of fish
ing nets strung over the city, sus
pended by balloons—the net catches
the blitz bombs. Actually, Tokyo
has but one bomb proof shelter, for
« the emperor and his family.
• • • —
The Nipponese think they can
overcome the acute shortage of
scrap and iron ore which months
ago stopped their entire heavy in
dustry output. By salvaging old
ships. Salvage available from four
ships, including the President
Hoover, would be sufficient for a
locomotive and a string of cars.
• • • —
Bob Haeun, Richmond, Ind.,
helped build China’s railways with
Japanese ties—years ago he logged
nearly a million ties a year. Now
the Japanese army runs its trains
over those ties.
• • • —
E. W. Frazar, the oldest American
Japan had, now resides in New
York. He introduced to Japan the
, first automobile, the first phono
graph, the first locomotive. He’d
be;en in Japan nearly 70 years—just
a few short of the days when Com
modore Perry opened Japan to for
eign trade.
• • • —
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Air-conditioning which became
popular, has closed down. Insuffi
cient water. Milk rations, which
' were cut 50 per cent a year ago,
have been reduced another 50 per
cent—no more cows or dairy fod
der. Ditto on eggs and potatoes.
• • • —
QUESTION:
Lfent. Commander Walter Win
chell, you are in the navy now on
reserve service. If you have time,
check with fellow officers why the
State Department forced the navy's
hand and permitted two Japanese
spies to be released and why others
remain here with diplomatic immu
nity, including one who is in hiding
in Washington? How many Amer
ican missionaries remain in Japa
nese prisons in Korea? Why not
trade them for Japanese spies in
this country?
• • • —
IT’S A LAUGH
The State Department permits the
Japanese Government news agency,
Domei, to operate here without reg
istering. Why? The Japanese re
ply is that it is not a propaganda
organ! The agency is financed by
the Foreign Office, the army, the
navy and the Communications Min
istry for an annual propaganda def
icit of near 2,000,000 Japanese yen.
• • • —
Japan lacks precision tool ma
chine oil. Only a few companies in
the world make this special oil. If
we had stopped shipments two years
ago it would have wrecked her great
armaments production.
• • • —
The week Acting Secretary of
State Welles condemned Japan for !
her seizure of Indo-China, which the '
Japanese planned several years
back but which the silk hats refused i
to believe, you read of 55 transports, j
30 warships, three aircraft carriers
speeding south. '
by Clma Scott WatdOH
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
His Songs Helped Win a War
EIGHTY years ago the United
States was about to plunge into
the greatest civil war in history. Not
only was it a nation vided against
itself, but even in the North there
was a division of opinion as to how
to deal with the seceding Southern
states.
Then a Massachusetts-born music
teacher and composer, who had set
himself up in the song publishing
business in Chicago, wrote the
words and music of a stirring sorig.
First sung at a great patriotic rally
in Union square in New York city
by the then-famous brothers and sis
ters of the Hutchinson Family of
New Hampshire, this song soon
swept the country. It was “The
Battle-Cry of Freedom,” or, as it is
sometimes known from one of the
phrases in the chorus, “Rally
'Round the Flag.” The man who
wrote it was George Frederick Root.
Northern boys, responding to
President Lincoln’s call for volun
teers, sang it as they marched to
camp and its words poured from
their parched throats and powder-
blackened lips as they went into bat
tle. As the war settled down to its
dreary, bloody course and the first
flush of patriotic fervor wore off,
there was another song by Root
which became immensely popular
with the soldiers, both North and
South. It was the mournful “Just
GEORGE F. ROOT
(From a photograph by Carbutt, 1868.)
Before the Battle, Mother,” sung
in many a camp on the eve of many
a battle during the four years of
the war.
Equally mournful and equally pop
ular among the “folks back home,”
as the casualty lists mounted, was #
another of Root’s songs—“The Va-*
cant Chair.” By 1864, which found
the North grimly determined to
fight through to victory despite the
terrible loss of life resulting from
Grant’s campaign in the Wilderness
and around Richmond, they were
singing another of Root’s stirring
songs that was almost as popular
as his “Battle Cry of Freedom.” It
was “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the
Boys Are Marching.”
Altogether Root composed 56 war
songs during these four years and,
as a recent writer says, “If tne
War Between the States had its mu
nitions barons, it also had its music
barons. Song writing was a big busi
ness and the three outstanding ty
coons of the melodic industry were
George F. Root, Charles Carroll
Sawyer and Henry Clay Work. The
latter’s ‘Marching Through Georgia’
sold 500,000 copies in two years and
recalling that Root also had among
his ‘hits’ the ‘Battle Cry of Free
dom,’ the ‘Vacant Chair’ and
‘Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,’ his income
was doubtless of large proportions.”
Root was born in Sheffield, Mass.,
August 30, 1820, and from 1840 to
1859 had a successful career as a
choir director, music teacher and
composer in Boston and New York
city. His first song, “Hazel Dell”
appeared in 1853 and was very popu
lar, as were his “Rosalie, the Prai
rie Flower,” and “There’s Music in
the Air.” In 1859 he moved to Chi
cago* where he established the pub
lishing house of Root and Cady.
Then came the great conflict of 1861-
65 and he began writing the war
songs which not only did a great
deal to inspire the North and help
make it victorious, but also made
him rich. Evidence of that is shown
by the fact that when the Chicago
fire of 1871 wiped out the firm its
losses were more than a quarter of
a million dollars. After that Root
sold out to John Church and Com
pany of Cincinnati but continued to
write songs of all kinds—cantatas,
religious music, etc.—until his death
on August 6, 1895. • •
• * *
Concerning “The Battle Cry of
Freedom” a contemporary writer
says: “Dashed off when the iron
was at white heat and sent forth in
a crisis of the nation, it carried with
it the power of a battalion of strong
arms. It aroused the drooped spir
its of the people. It was the rally
ing cry of all patriotic gatherings.
It was sung everywhere from Maine
to Oregon. Its power was irresisti
ble. Its influence was immense. He
touched with his finger the para
lyzed public spirit and it sprang
into resistless activity.”
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Eleanor Roosevelt
GIRL SCOUT ENCAMPMENT
We had a lovely drive one day.
The roads through the Berkshires
are always pleasant, and not too
frequented. The Western Hemi
sphere Girl Scout Encampment,
near Otis, Mass., is situated on a
lake, with plenty of trees to shade
the tents and cabins. When we ar
rived, the girls, representing 24
states and 16 countries, greeted us
through three of their representa
tives and then everyone passed by
and shook hands.
After this, we started an inspec
tion of the whole camp, which meant
walking for nearly an hour and a
half, a pleasant activity after the
long drive.
My cousin, Mrs. Lyman Delano,
went with me, which made the
whole day especially enjoyable. She
recently resigned as chairman of the
committee which arranges for these
international encampments, but she
is still vice chairman and has a
keen interest in scouting. My
friends, Mrs. Arthur Choate and Mrs.
Frederick Brooke, were both there
and I saw many other familiar
faces. .
• • •
PLENTY OF ACTIVITY
Craft work is carried on in all the
tents and the girls do a great deal
of swimming, boating and hiking.
I thought it particularly good that
each unit cooked at least one meal
a day and ate it in their own open
air dining room, for this gives a
chance for familiarity with outdoor
cooking conditions. The girls who
live in what they call the enchanted
forest, which is a lovely grove of
hemlock trees some distance from
the main building, cook their own
breakfast and supper.
Camp Bonnie Brae has a stable
and a number of horses with a very
able teacher in attendance. I think
this is the only Girl Scout camp I
have ever visited where the girls
could learn to ride. It has proved
so popular that nearly a hundred
girls signed up for this particular
activity.
None of them have had as many
hours on horseback as would be re
quired for really adequate training,
but most of them have learned
something about the handling and
care of horses, a very good founda
tion on which to build for future
horsemanship*
We all lunched together in the
main building and I was glad to see
again Mrs. Leigh-White from Eng
land, who has visited many of the
other countries in this hemisphere
since we met last year. Mayor Put
nam of Springfield, Mass., was very
kind and drove Mrs. Delano and me
to the city, while a state trooper
drove my car. At the broadcasting
station, I was presented with a beau
tiful wooden key to the city. I took
part in the broadcast which went
out to the other groups of Girl
Scouts throughout the country, and
which I think was later repeated to
South and Central American coun
tries.
The drive home into a most beau
tiful sunset sky, was unforgettable.
I arrived a little after eight, some
what weary, but very happy to have
taken part in this celebration.
* * •
PLEASANT VISIT
When I reached Hyde Park one
evening, I found Mrs. Dorothy
Roosevelt and her youngest daugh
ter, Janet, had driven from Ver
mont to spend the night with us.
The/ had visited the library and had
a swim, in spite of the chilly weath
er which persisted through this
week.
We talked all evening. Next morn
ing, in spite of the rain, I sent my
little niece over to the stables to
try to get a ride, for she is very
fond of horses. They left us at
noon to take a plane back to De
troit, Mich.
Again we had to shift a party over
to the big house, which I had
planned to have out of doors at the
cottage. The rainy weather is mak
ing this a habit with us. This party
was given by a group of Democratic
workers in honor of Mrs. Edward
Conger, who has been vice president
of our Democratic county committee
for a long while.
She has given active and devoted
service, not only doing work here
in this county, but being called upon
often to speak in nearby counties
and to help with organization. Mrs.
Conger has many loyal friends and,
since she feels she must resign be
cause of ill health, we felt we want
ed to do something to show our
appreciation of her services.
The party was a great success and
I hope she enjoyed it as much
as we enjoyed having an opportuni
ty to see her and thank her for
the inspiration she has given us over
a long period.
• * *
BACK TO WASHINGTON
A little after five, Miss Thompson
and I were on our way to New
York city. We had dinner at our
little apartment and then drove out
to La Guardia field to take the 10
o’clock plane to Washington. The
difference between standard time
and daylight time makes it very
pleasant when one is going south
ward. I reached the White House
a little before 11 o’clock and was
able to have a real chat with the
President.
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