The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 6, 1932, Page 3

§ !, Editor's Note: This is the fourth ‘of six stories on “Japan’s Skyrocket Rise.” es 2 If you had been born a Japanese And were living in Tokio today— You would be getting the war news from China in newspaper “extras” as modern as those of any American bewspaper, ® You would listen in on the radio in your home just the same as you listen % In here, except that you would pay le government's radio agency a fee for the listening’ privilege. The fact that you had paid your radio tax Would be attested by @ metal sign on Your front door. 7 You would hear no advertising, for fadio advertising is barred in Japan. You would trade at department stores as modern and as large as any in the United States; Mitsukoshi, Japan's biggest’ department store, carries nine floors of merchandise, is equipped with 19 elevators and six escalators, sells everything that you oe expect a department store to fel You would be keenly interested in hews from America about “Babe” Ruth and “Pepper” Martin, for base- ball is the great national pastime in Japan; the new ball park at Osaka looks much like any big league ‘sta- dium here and is only one of the many that have sprung up over Ja- a pan. You could join a Japanese Y. M. C. A. or @ Japanese W. C .T. U., or even buy @ Salvation Army “War Cry”| Printed in Japanese. a 8 ® The ancient island of Nippon has “gone American.” It has not yet completely reached that stage. But {t is getting there fast. There is still a strange mixture of the old and the new. ‘ Taxicabs and street cars dash through the streets. So do jinrik- Ishas, those two-wheeled carts pulled ‘< by coolies. A “moga,” or modern girl, strolls|), bast, looking and acting like a true American flapper. Her old-fashioned sister, in kimono, quaint shimada headdress and wooden-soled san- }-dals, is also seen. Many store signs are painted in both Japanese and English. Cards in show windows prociaim “English Spoken here.” A collegiate-looking young chap, with socks rolled and looking like an American college boy, also drifts by | deaths, with the crowd. Behind him may tome another studious-looking youth in long kimono and sandals and wearing @ felt or straw hat. + On a fine macadam road just out- side the city you may watch a big euto truck roll by, followed by a heavily laden cart to which six to 10 Coolies are harnessed. se * If you lived at Osaka, the “Pitts- burgh of Japan,” the chances are that you would work in one of its modern steel mills. The din of trip hammers would nearly deafen you, giant cranes would be piling tons of stuff into barges on the nearby river. If on the night shift, you would work—and Bweat—under the glare of arc lights. If you were an office worker in Tokio or Yokohama or Kobe or Kyoto, the chances are that would toil in one of their :aodern of- fice buildings. If you wanted night life, you could find plenty—night clubs, cabarets, movies, theaters. When you ‘celebrated, you would Grink sake—made from rice—instead of corn liquor. In the big’ railway depots you would find “red caps” ready to grab ing to swish you to modern hotels| where there are slant-eyed bell-boys| as eager for a tip ag any of their American brethren. _ ei ‘ ee Beyond the great cities the scene |changes. Old Japan—the Japan that. Commodore Perry found in 1853—still jlives in the hinterland. In these quaint villages that cling to the mountainsides and dot the \fertile valleys, the old order remains. Men and women in queer parasol-like bamboo hats toil waters of the rice ‘live largely on a diet of rice; ‘sleep on thick matresses on the mat- |ting-covered floor, # notched wood headrest serving as a pillow. The water buffalo pulls the wooden plow, the handloom comes out after the day's work in the rice field is |done, little wooded places with sacred shrines beckon the Japanese to the gods of his ancestors. . The charm of the ancient seems to linger. Even a rich Tokio manu- jfacturer, after being driven to his {suburban home in his limousine, may exchange his Americanized attire for ‘silk kimono and wooden sandals and squat upon the floor with his family for a cup of tea. a * en * ‘The average Japanese is civil, po-{ lite, secretive, intelligent. Lacking a sense of humor, he is as dumb as an Englishman when it comes to under- standing the point of a joke. Never- theless, he is usually lighthearted and ‘buoyant. Centuries of rigid mental ‘training have masked his feelings, making him imperturable in trouble, stoical in pain or death. He looks upon cow- ardice as the most despicable of vices, and loyalty—particulerly to his em- peror and his country—as the su- preme virtue. Thus he gets his pride of race and his near-fanantical pat- riotism. He is cocky, confident and quite satisfied with himself. He is usually jtruthful—except when the truth . se ® ‘When a young couple marry, it is all arranged for them by family coun- cils. Usually, the girl is 15. Marriages average about 8.31 per thousand units of population. Divor- ces are less than one divorce to every 10 marriages, and occur usually in the lower classes. Babies are frequent; every year there are 700,000 more births than Education is compulstory from six to 13, After that, the boys who de- sire to become army officers—they might as well, for they will be con- ‘scripted—can enter a middle school and then pass to a military school. Higher education is encouraged by the government, which has several big universities. From 17 to 40 every man is liable for military duty. se oe The Jap lives in the most dense- ly populated country on the globe, \but there are great arable areas therein open to him if he would go. However, he doesn’t like the cold climate of the northern omg havea corresponds to that of New ind. He prefers the warmth, the sunshine and the cherry blossoms of his “Flow- Wy ery Kingdom,” even though that area is crowded. As an emigrant, the Japanese thrives in countries where the stan- dard of living is higher than his own, but he doesn’t do so well where the Standard is lower. He is a hard worker, a careful spender. He has never forgotten the blow to jhis pride caused by the exclusion race from America. Nor is it THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY. 6, 1932 What’s Going On In Bismarck High School? Girls Athletic Body Conducts Meeting ‘The Girls’ Athletic assoclation held @ meeting in the high school assem- bly Wednesday, Feb. 3. Marian Wor- .|ner, president, called upon each class captain to give a report on the num- ber of girls who are coming out to practice and how the teams are pro- gressing. The class captains are: freshmen, Lois Tierney; sophomore, Eleanor Kjelstrup; junior, Mary Cowan; and senior, Grace Weinber- ger. Miss Mildred Fried presented the plan which the counsel should fol- low when selecting teams. Ruth Christianson, Donna Jean Davis, Marian Enright, Lillian Hed- strom, and Margaret Rue gave im- Promptu speeches on girls’ ice hock- ey. Helen Parke presented chevrons to the players of the winning senior team in volleyball. The team mem- bers included Helen Parke, Erma Weinberger, Grace Weinberger, Eliza- beth Leach, Marian Worner, Camille Agnew, Dorothy Tiedman Evelyn Wick and Lillian Psilolihnos. The junior team won the volley- ball sportsmanship award. A short talk on sportsmanship was given by Eleanor Kjelstrup. At the close of the meeting copies of the G. A. A. constitution were given to each member. 11 High School Loop Cage Games Played In the Bismarck high school cam- pus basketball league which has been in progress for little more than two weeks, the scores were as follows: Jan. 1 21, Yankees 1; Bobcats 37; Pirates 4. Jan. 19—Sophomores 18, 14; Cubs 17, Freshmen 4. Jan. 20—Seniors 12, Bobcats 2; Yankees 11, Pirates 7. « Jan, 21—Freshmen 15, Sophomores 3;“Cubs 12, Juniors 7. Jan. 22—Bobcats 13, Yankees 9; Seniors 22, Pirates 0. Jan. 25—Cubs 16, Sophomores 11; Juniors 6, Freshmen 5. Jan. %—Seniors 20, Sophomores 15; Juniors 17, Yankees 3. Juniors Jan, 27—Cubs 26, Pirates 3; Fresh- | men 8, Bobcats 6. Jan. 28—Seniors 5, Juniors 3; Sophomores 22, Yankees 1. Jan. 29—Freshmen 11, Pirates 2; Cubs 17, Bobcats 8. Cubs 13, Yankees 3. Junior Playmakers to Present One-Act Play) Under the auspices of the Com- munity Players, the Junior Playmak- ers of Bismarck high school will give ® one-act play, “Stockin’ Money,” soon, The play will be under the di- rection of Miss Pearl Bryant, Play- maker coach. ‘The story takes place in. the mouh- tainous regions of Kentucky. It con- cerns an old woman who has deter- mined that her son shall have the ‘school, only to have it taken from her to pay an old debt. Those taking ‘part in the play are: the father, Harrison Monk; the mother, Dorothy Tiedman; the son, Omer Walla; and either Phyllis Ol- son or Mary Jean Johnson will take the part of the girl in the play. Bismarck High School Has Six New Students Bismarck has six new students this semester, and three who are taking Postgraduate courses. The new students are as follows: seniors, Gaylor Conrad, Mandan, and Herbert Kruger, Pollock, 8. D. Juniors have no new additions to their class but the sophomores have one—Robert Partridge, Mandan. The Middleton hardware store here Fri- day night took about $10 in cash and’ $25 in merchandise, according to the Proprietors, iMatt Moore, Lester Vail and Myrna splendid cast. Heading the cast fairs committee, who said Germany roster are Irene Dunne of “Cimarron” was spending seven times as much on fame, Pat O’Brien, John{ Halliday, her army now as she spent in 1913, Loy. Bill Cunningham, author of the story says: “Probably no one keg Se hu-; ‘4 man life drama enters into the ex-| “The Passionate Plumber” brings 9’ perience of so many adults as con- Sroup of funsters to the Paramount sojiation marriage, or at least temp- | ‘Theatre starting Monday, in what is tation to make’ consolation mar-| said to be the spiciest and most/riages or that gnawing doubt as to! amusing comedy yet turned out by whether, after all, one’s own mar- the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. |riage wasn’t purely of the consola- Buster Keaton has the title role ‘tion variety. and further hilarity is guaranteed by| “ «you love somebody. You are dis- the presence in leading roles of the appointed. You need somebody else. inimitable Jimmy “Schnozzle” Dur-/ they, too, may have been disappoint- ante in a characterization reported toed. Or perhaps your love is first love be even funnier than that of his to him, vital romantic love. Either ‘Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford” and way, what a field for dramatic hap- the rlotous Polly Moran as his con-!nenings, for fine human deeds, and sort, |for dark ones too—for intrigue and Irene Purcell, who scored with sportsmanship, for dealing with ali Robert Mon in “The Man in/the qualities that make life fascinat- Possession,” plays opposite Keaton,’ ing.” . and the cast also includes Gilbert: al iia Roland, Mona Maris, Maude Eburne, | DENIES ARMY RUMOR + Dey a hmetta, Paul Porcasl, Jeat!| Berlin, Feb. 6—(P)—The defense eouthey saa sted by Edward Sedg- | Ministry Saturday issued a formal’ wick who has been associated with jdenial of charges made in Paris that most of Keaton’s recent talkie hits. ‘Germany is building in secret a war anis Parisian bedroom farce con-| machine stronger than that of 1914. cernis a bungling plumber who comes irre charges were made by Deputy oe ee ene te eee broker, Boullloux La Font, of the military af- heart. The madcap Durante of course gets his huge nose into everybody's busi- ag ‘ AT THE MOVIES _AT THE MOVIES PARAMOUNT THEATRE freshmen have three new members: Edward Johnson, Hurdsfield; Ethel Gun, Willow City; and Lily Kruger, Pollock, 8. D. ‘Those taking postgraduate courses re Irene Czeczok, Evelyn Omett, Ethel Sandin, and Marjorie Acker- man, Bismarck high school also has ad- ded six new subjects this semester and they are as follows: debate class II and advanced public speaking taught by Miss Pearl Bryant and psychology, by R. L. Wells; high school grammar and solid geometry are under the direction of Miss Irene Lambertus while M. H, Anderson is: again teaching. Commercial Law. Cooking, sewing II, and related art taught by Miss Margery Morris. ANNEX HAS ‘HOLIDAY’ Last Saturday the hot water pipes; in the annex froze, temporarily dis- rupting the heating system in that portion of the building. 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