The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 8, 1932, Page 2

(7a Gee See Rise” rairn S.: Thre aas°S BR oBRS THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1932 _ Editor’s Note: This is the fifth of six stories on “Japan’s Skyrock- et Rise.” Behind Japan’s vast war machine 4s @ tiny cluster of islands, constitut- ing Old Japan, whose area in square miles is slightly smaller than that Ks the state of Nevada. ‘There are 91,000 people in Nevada. ‘There are approximately 60,000,000 People in Old Japan, or just about! helf the population States by comparison. of the United ‘These principal islands of Old Jap-| an are three in number, plus their fringes of small adjacent islands. ‘There is another large island to the north, but it is cold and sparsely in- habited. On the average each Japanese owns | about one-third as much as an Ameri- can owns, owes about one-third as much in national debt, pays taxes of about one-fourth as much, ‘These figures tell the fiscal story: United States National Debt—$16,800,000,000 Per Capita Debt—$125 Per Capita Tax—$26.25 National Wealth—$300,000,000,000 Per Capita Wealth—$2400 | 1932 Budget—$3,995,000,000 Japan National Debt—$3,000,000,000 Per Capita Debt—s46 Per Capita Tax—$6.50 National Wealth—$50,000,000,000 Per Capita Wealth—s3860 1932 Budget—$740,000,000 But while figures are statistically correct, they hardly present the whole picture, for Japan proper—meaning! Old Japan—enjoys a rich commercial | return from its profitable domains in Manchuria, Korea and Formosa. In Korea, for example, Japanese mer- chants control 8 per cent of the busi- ness and Japanese farmers own one- half of the cultivated land. In For- mosa, the Japanese government has a monopoly on the world’s chief source of camphor. All three domains were acquired by war. The Japanese have their own way of doing things. From a tax collect- ing standpoint, Korea has been a drain on the Japanese treasury for many years. But the commercial profits pay handsomely. The population of Japan proper, according to the latest census, was 64,450,005, but more th: 90,000,000 persons are Japanese or live under the Japanese flag. Here is what the latest population records show: | 64,450,005 21,058,305 4,594,161 221,243 Formosa ... H Jap. Sakhalin ciated Press Photo The cruiser, Houston, shown here, flagship of Rear Adm. Montgomery M. Taylor, com- manding the Asiatic fleet, and seven destroyers rushed from ~ Manila to protect imperiled American citizens In battle-torn Shanghal. The Houston has a complement of 53 officers and 512 men. Adm. Taylor (left) and his aides, Capt. F. J. Fletcher and Lieut. Comm. Q. C. Moore, jr., are shown below. reaches 1,500,000 tons a year, but there is not much hope for the future of her industry unless the supplies of raw material are assured. Japan's imports of iron amount to about 7 per cent of her total imports. Official estimates show five billion metric tons of coal in Japan's mines, though about half of this is below workable depths. Iron deposits are found in Japan, Korea and Formosa, an optimistic lion metric tons. The nation’s real iron resources, however, are along its railway in Manchuria. a principal item of her trade, amount- Total for Empire 90,395,041 Leased Kwantung terri- tory in Manchuria... Mandated territory (is- lands in North Pacific) 882,788 Total under flag -. 91,337,635 “apanese residing abroad: Metela ........... in Europe .. im America . in Oceania in Africa 299,694 2,992 267,606 | 147,151 Grand Tetal ... » 92,055,164 The total area of Japan and all its Possessions is 261,567 square miles. The total area of continental United States is more than 3,000,000 miles and the total U. S. population is approxi- mately 120,000,000. Aside from its army and navy, Jap- an has built up in recent years great industrial plants with equipment as! modern as any found in Pittsburgh, Chicago or Cincinnati. That these can! policy is costly and breeds serious/ quickly be converted from the making | of such things as sewing machines, enamels, locomotives, cotton cloth, etc., was demonstrated during the ‘World War when a new crop of mil- Uonaires rose in Japan from the prof-| its of munitions making for the allies. | Though the nature of Japan’s eco- nomic system limits great wealth to ® few men, the number of incomes in excess of $50,000 jumped from 22 in 1914 to 336 in 1918. | The Rockefellers of Japan are the/ Mitsuis. They employ nearly 100,000| persons in their vast chain of mills,! mines, ocean shipping and banking| which has agencies on every continent | and big offices on Broadway in New| York. The House of Mitsui has run things financially in Japan for 200; years and often financially aided the | government. It is composed of 11 re-| lated wealthy families who function! co-operatively under their own written family constitution and share in the vast profits. The nation’s chief industrial city is, Osaka, “the Pittsburgh of Japan,”! where thousands toil in the steel mills | and kindred industries. Nearby Kobe might be likened to New York, being the most important! port in Japan and equally famous for its shipbuilding yards. Yokohama is the cotton and silk mill center. Japan's powerful navy is no acci- dent. These industrial islands do not, and cannot, grow enough food to sup- port themselves and therefore the seas to Korea, Manchuria and Forma- 80, must be kept open at all costs. ‘They are the granaries of Japan and the source of raw materials for her factories. The nation’s production of steel now Eastern War Zone Ports, as compared with 3 per cent for wheat. In the past months, Japan has become the world’s largest purchaser of raw cotton. She has bought 1,- 069,000 bales, which is 579,000 more 58.816 bales than she bought in the same! seth period last year. Strangely enough, these huge purchases come at a time when Japan's textile mills are suf- fering heavily from the Chinese boy- cott, many mills being closed. That cotton fiber, in addition to its other uses, is an essential in the manufac- ture of many kinds of explosives may explain something. Simultaneously, there has been a big recent increase in lead exports to Japan. In view of this situation, there have long been two conflicting trends of thought in Japan. One crowd insists that Japan must, by military force if necessary, keep open to her trade certain markets in China to supply the island with coal, iron, beans and wheat. The other insists that this military economic boycotts; that it would be better to control markets in open com- Petition with superior economic or- ganization. At the present, however, the mili- tarists—and not the economists—are running things in Japan, People’s Forum Tribune wel- ‘3 di gious su’ individuals i to th 8. All tetters MUST be signed. If y.u wish to use a pseudonym, sign the pseudonym first and your own name beneath it. We will re- rs as may Necessary to conform to this policy. UNSPANKED” Bismarck, N. Dak., Jan. 28, 1932. Editor, Tribune: I should like to express my most enthusiastic approval of the pioto- play, “Way Back Home,” shown wm Bismarck recently, featuring tue radio sti Seth Parker, and his ‘“Jonesport neighbors.” In so domg I believe I am expressing an opinion jheld in common with a very large| majority of both movie patrons and | the radio audience. Seth Parker is, perhaps, the best beloved character of radio-land to- y. A most incongruous, illogical | thing—this popularity of a fictitious | backwoods rustic, | home-loving, religious—in this era of jultra sophistication. Can these Seth Parker enthusiasts be the same peo- | ple who took such diabolic delight in the merciless debunking to which the bugaboos and illusions of the Victor- ians were subjected? Are the young people who congregate about the ra- dios in Bismarck homes in rapt at- tention at every broadcast of the Parker program, part and parcel of that much ballyhooed younger gen- eration with whom we have been taught to connect hip-flasks, petting parties, and general promiscuous- ness? You may answer these ques- tions for yourselves. Speaking for the “unspanked gen- eration,” of which the writer is a junior member, let me say that the time is now more than ripe for a resenting homes from all over the United States, in a vain, unsuccess- have found occasional groups of col- every lar. Theirs was a strenuous existence and net one estimate placing the total at 130 mil-/ ‘The soy bean of Manchuria becomes | simple-min de d,| ful quest for “flaming youth.” 1) H led, but in their social exclusiveness. In spite of their pose of cynicism these young people were not funda- imentally bad, nor were they, for the {most part, driven by force of circum- \stances to seek forgetfulness in gin, |or relief for thwarted impulses in pre- marital sex relationships. They were simply tsying to live up to a cari- ‘cature of themselves whose prototype never existed in real life. For this |much-advertised caricature we may thank the warped minds of such | writers as H. L. Mencken, Theodore | Dreiser, Oswald Spengler, and Joseph | Wood Krutch, not to mention hordes of cheap imitators. The public has too long submitted ling to nearly 8 per cent of her im-/ to the intellectual dictatorship of the jeynic. In the movies, the theatre, ,in art, in letters—we have allowed ourselves to be cheapened by the cynical assumption that the public wants nothing but dirt, and the dirt- lier the better. The popularity of Parker attests loudly to the jfalsity of that assumption. The re- action from Victorianism was a little too violent. Freedom from all con- ntion created, in itself, a new set of shackles. The wallowing in intel- lectual filth has begun to pall. It is my belief, and I hope I am; inot too optimistic, that Seth Parker and his neighbors have done much to recreate a general respect for the| simple, fireside virtues. They have shown us that the cloak of the scof- fer is painted in colors as false as| ;the cloak of the too, too, virtuous} Victorian. I hope, and may I say | | that I believe, that the soft, sweet) |melody of the Seth Parker hymns will prove to be the swan song of the Jazz Age. Sincerely yours, | AN INTERESTED SPECTATOR. | | ARCHITECTURE AND LOCATION | Washburn, N. D., Jan. 29, 1932. | Editor, Tribune: | Some of our citizens seem to think that our new capitol building should be a tall many-storied structure. As a native son of this state I am giv- ing my honest opinion. I think that our new capitol should be a low built | substantial building, amply roomy, |but conservative in lines, a building jespecially suited to grace this beau- tiful, gently sloping prairie lookout. Is there not an architect who could design a building, beautiful, wide spread, but plain in style except for a dash of color here and there in the brick work. As if to reflect the white and red strata of our Bad Lands, |,and to brighten the gray of our prairies? Let us have a building with wide sunny windows, where official or em- ployee can view the shrubs. the grass, and the flowers, right before their windows. From the very wall to the foot of the grassy slope. Why should we have a tall build-| ing, where the state servants will! be elevated up to work on floors two and three hundred feet above the ground level, to work like city cliff! dwellers? | Do we have to copy the city sky- scraper? “Surely not!” In spite of my poor attempt to ex- press my views, I believe there are a multitude who feel as I do in regard |to these differing types of architec- |ture, but let that be as it may. Our efforts at this time must be; | turned toward keeping the capitol site where it rightfully belongs at BAKING to be envied. Their chief happiness seemed to lie, not in the lives they, columns, something may be done at Bismarck. The old historic home of the state government. No finer site can ever be found than the site chosen by our honest pioneer fathers. It is hardly believable that any group of men would seek to rob, to plunder this old valued historic ground of its sacred heritage. We must be- lieve because that is the very danger confronting us now. We are forced to ask for statewide help and sup- port, so that we may keep the capi- tal where our pioneer fathers willed that it should stand. HENRY LORENTZEN PREFERENCE FOR BREAD- WINNERS Hebron, N. D., Jan. 28, 1932. Editor, Tribune: these hard times one hears ® lot of ideas for lessening unemploy- ment. The writer believes something | should be done to keep heads of fam- | ilies employed in preference to others. A law should be passed by both the federal and state governments to employ only those who have others dependent on them in federal, state and county offices with the excep- tion of educational positions where necessary. Such a law should be! enacted in North Dakota. If the leg- { islature will not do so, they should} put it up to a vote of the people. If North Dakota had such a law other states would follow suit. If you readers who feel like I do! will declare ourselves through these the next session of the legislature. 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