Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 19, 1924, Page 12

u utane nameel — PAGE TWELV=e ankee Fliers View Japan’s Island Empire Marvel at Volcanoes and Sleep at Ban- quet Following Great Feat of Crossing the Pacific By LOWELL THOMAS be Chi Clure Newspa Coryright, By o Tribune Newspaper Syndicate and the’ Mec: per Syndicate.) “When we flew across the Pacific and landed at Para- mushiru it seemed as though we suddenly had descended from the clouds into a new world. Of couree, there isn’t much difference between the. and the islands near Siberi islands off the coast of Alaska a,’ says Lieut. Leigh Wade. “Both are away up north, at the edg@of the Bering sea. Roth fire as barren as islands can And both are the home of ho i bditzzards. - ‘Just the same, we were, mighty tickled to have Alaska, the Aleutian slands, and the ific ocean be hind us. The presence of the Jap- anese destroyers with their smart coking little sailors partly may ex- pla’n our feeling that we were new world. The long names 4 nd which we had difficulty twisting our tongues helped too. He Rolls With the Ship. “The gale that blew the first night we were Paramushiru was a stem-winder, with @ storm howling nd a high sea running. The offi- ers insisted on giving us their bunks, and the one I occupied must have been a little wider than usual, any rate nothing I uld brace myself against When the ship rolled, I rolled with it. My recollection is that the hip never stopped rolling. Tho cabin was full of trunks, shoes, and all sorts. of things that kept slarm- ming back and forth from one end to the other. On one side was a bookcase. Once, when the destroy: er gave a luch, the books all tum- bled out on top of me. I got up and put them back carefully “A moment later, however, there was another lurch, and Webster's unabridged dictionaw hit me on the jaw and nearly brdke it. Robert service's ‘novel. ‘The Roughneck," nearly cracked my collar bone. Mark in's ‘Innocents Abroad’ plumped (my stomach. Harry Franck's ‘A. Vagabond Journey Around the World’ cracked me on the shins, while a lttle volume of Shakespeare's ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ nearly put out one eye. Tust as T reached up to switch on the ight Irvin Cobb's ‘Roughing It De Luxe’ caught me in the ear. “Nexer in my life have I been so intimately in touch with Hterature as that night! Almost Lose Two Pines, “The sea remained rough all Sun- day. It was not until late in the afternoon that Jack and Hank could even get out to the planes, to look them over. But it was most fortun- ate that they reached them when ATARRH of head or throat is usually benefited by the Vapors of— VICKS there was If the Reindeers Play Out Old Santa Would Choose | ANASH they did, because as far as the Bos ton and New Orleans were concern: ed the world flight nearly ended right there. The gale had blown them back and forth until two of the mooring bridles had been almost sawed away. The Boston was hang- ing by one strand, and in a few minutes the last strand would have been chafed through “That night we all went over tc one of the Japaneso dest Ae party given tn c Ik . |a. m. Mohday snort y k la terns and rowed + to the plan: Until then the sea had been to rough for us to service up. At 7:10 we took off for Hitokappu, and made the coldest flight of the entire trip since leaving Seattle—colder than anywhere along the Alaskan coast "We kept plunging in and out of snow squalls and hopping over one Japanese island after another, each a bit more forest clad than the last Climate From Alaska to Cuba: We were amazed to, discover that there are more than 4,000 islands be. longing to the empire of Japan, ex- tending all the way from the lati- tude of Alaska to the latitude of Cuba. They are inhabited by more than 66,000,000 neople, but as we flew above the islands and looked down on mountain ranges, active voleanoes, and }rimeval. forests we realized how true was the remark the captain of the Ford had made that only a small portion of them ‘were or could be populated. “After the desolate stretches of country we had been flying over up to this time {t was mighty nice to at least look down and see villages and human being occasionally. We also passed over herds of sea lions sun- ning themselves on rocks or swim- ming about. Half way down to Ye- torofu we passed over Shimushiru, Uruppu, and innumerable smaller islands. But even more mteresting than the herds of sea Hons and vil- lages were the voleances we passed. Until we started on this trip we nev- er realized that there were so many active volcanoes in the whole world as there are over here in Japan: There are over a hundred cones at Present extinct, but which look as though they might explode any time, and about elghteen that still are on fire Where Quakes Are Commonplace. We also were laboring under the delusion that the recent great earth- quake, which nearly wived out Tokio and Yokohama, was a rare. occur- ence. But to our astonishment we learned that there had ‘been 13,750 of them recorded during the last thirteen years. or approximately three and one-half shocks dally. “In fact, during our short stay Mr. Vulean's battering average was fully 1.000 per cent, a: we were shocked more than three times per day—nor am I referring to Japanese bathing costumes either. “On Untshiru island we flew over an ‘active volcano, and a village that we were told afterwards had been Every Day a GROCERIES 129 W. 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FOR Tae MoRGuG - IM SORRY IT Gor MYSELF INTA The island of Paramushir was the first Japanese outpost visited hy the flyers. deserted for:many years. Then, af ter diving down for a close view of the perpendicular cliffs of the moun- tainous island of Keto!, we looked down into the smoking crater of a volcano on Shimushiru, and a half hour later saw clouds of steam com- ing from two cores on the littl {sland of Rebuntsirbot { “Only ‘one large island, Uruppa, now remained between us and Ye- torofu, where we were to land, Ur. uppa, incidentally, possesses two more mountains where Vulcan ts busy at his forge. The sland is ut terly deserted, excepting during the fishing ‘season, when the: primitive folk from nearby islands come here to fish in the bays facing the Sea of Okhotsk Five Volcanoes on Istand. “Yetorofu, one of the largest is: lands of the Kurile group, is 110 miles long, from two to twenty miles wide, and has five steaming volcanoes, one of which has been in. violent eruption quite recently Arrangements had been made for us to come down and refuel on the shore of a lake 4 mile inland from Hitokappu bay, on the Pacific ocean side of Yetorofu. “As we passed over the bay, which {s just a little over half way down the island, we saw the Amer ican and Japanese destroyers wait- ing for us. On the shore of the lake Children Show Respect. “The little boys have black caps and kimonos, while the little girls wear the trousers and carry parasols. As we walked past them they sucked in their breath with a whistling sound as a mark of respect, and put out their hands to touch our flying sults just as the Hindus in India reverently touch the sacred cow. ‘One of the teachers, bespectacled | and wearing a dark gray gown, clat tered up to us on his wooden sand y ponse to our que told us many interesting thi about the schools of Japan. He s that, much the same as in America, all children are obliged to attend schoo! until they are 14, He also said that there are more than 30,000 schools, attended by nearly 10,000,- 000 children “One thing that impressed us was the sturdiness of those 200 young: sters who had trudged twenty seven miles on their wooden shoes to see us descend from the clouds and land on their island. Keep Physically Fit. “The teacher to!d us thatiall of them go through rigorous exercises every day and that the boys are n only taught to fence with swe to swim like seals, and to master jiu- | were several: hun school chil- dren who had walk twenty-seven miles to see us arrive. That is, they had walked nine miles to the lakt and home, again on three succes- sive days, expecting cach dayto see us fly down from Paramushjru. They were from the town of Fure- betsu, the capital of Yetorofu. “It was easy enough for us to tel! that they were school kiddies be- cause the government insists that they wear uniforms. . BUILDING A TOOTH Good teeth are built out of vital foods. Building a tooth is not the simple pro- cessitseems. Nature regards it so important that she takes a long time to perfect one. Scott's Emulsion jitsu, but that ‘they ‘© put through courses in military drill before they even enter high school “When we asked him what sub. jects the children studied he named over the usual things that we are taught in America, then added that English is the most puzzling to them because we of America have such a quaint custom of writing backwards from left to right, while they do it the way it should be done and write and read from right to left‘ ‘They also think we are dumb- bel’s because we take off our hats and keep on our shoes when we en ter a house. It isn't your hat that's dirty, it’s your shoes, say these spot Tessly clean little people Fall Asleep at Dinner, ‘We were completely worn out us 2 result of having slept only an hour or so the previous night when the Japanese 1 folks had given’ the party for us at Kashiwabara bay The 580-mile flight we had made through the cold upper “air had kept us awake and alert, but now we were all in, and that night sev of fell asleep at dinner. The boys said they caught me sound asleep withea fork load of peas sus pended in mid-air, “One advantage we had on this aérial trip around the world was that a considerable part of the time we ral (mM TOO OLD FOR THaT FOOLISHNESS, WALTER, of the Japanese Empire, live a race of people a mere remnantynow, who once ruled over all of what is now Japan, They are utterly different from th® ruling race of, the islands today. Their eyes are not set aslant. They are brown instead of yellow. | And they are far stronger physical- ly than the Japanese whom the rest of the world know. “They are shaggy, primitive men who «wear clothes made out of the bark of trees. The ‘hairy men’ of Japan’ is what they are commonly called by the few outsiders who ever come this far north. Ainos.is the name by which they are known to the other inhabitants of Japana. “These hairy: men are great hunt- ers like the hairy Essau, and’ they crawl into the dens of grizzly bears and kill then’ in’ hand to hand com- bat with knives. In fact, according to the myths of this ancient race they are the aboriginal people of Ja and_are descended from a. ITs NO OSE -- L. Cant cater ANY: SLEEP = THos€ 1.0.05 S « ARE DRINING ME cRaey-- NOU TOO OLD ? Kui TOO OLD FoR ANIY ANY MORE JUST AS You! “e beautiful princésssand a grizzly bear. 4 “Some people seeni to think’ that they look like a mixture of Mongol and European. We saw a few of them and could see why this theory dias arisen. : Much Like “They live-in. primitive huts and are no more civilized than the Es- ‘kimo of. Siberia-and northern Alas- en : “Only about 18,000 of them still survive, and a large proportion of these live along Volcano -bay,on the Islahd of Yeza, although there are a few of them sprinkled up and down the Kuriles, The ‘men 2 ied long hair which they cut off at the shoulders. Their beards and mustaches are exceedingly long also, and give them a patriarchal gppear- ance. ‘The common salutation, con- sists. of stroking the beard. . “The -women of this hairy race are unable to raise a growth on their faces so they do the next best. AS ANVBODY. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1924 By Billey De Beck SA¥. JUDGE AswT, SOME PHONEY 1.0.05 WuuaT Cans THEY Oc To ws t© LT MANAGE Te GET OVER THE IOBODY’ s GLASS. NOW NOW DONT You TRY TO SOFT-SOAD yOuR mMoTHER! } \ mG thing and tatoo mustaches on their upper lips. Cireled World First. “Next morning, May 20, we roll- ed out, of our bunks aboard the de- stroyer at Hitokappu, before dawn. It was just 3:30 a. m. when we sat down to breakfast in the ward room. We then walked inland to the lake where the cruisers were mooted, got the planes ready, and hoped to fly off south before sunrise. We were anxious to get on, because we knew the lands of mystery, romance and adventure lay ahead. of us. “We had just about enough of the Arctic for a while and wanted to fly on to the exotic lands of the lotns- eaters, of which Erik Nelson, our much traveled sea rover, had told us so much as we sat around the sheet iron stove in the cannery at Chignik, Alaska, where each night we circumnavigated the world two or three times by map.” (To Be Continued) ‘ fe = THING LOOK IN THE “OURT 3 HONESTLY MOTHER, ) PECOLE THAT DION | KNow OS WOULD } \ THInk Us FATHER AND DAUGHTER WALTER, YOU'RE sUSsT AS FULL OF BLARNEY AS EVER. 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