Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1929, Page 44

= 1g | WOMAN EXPECTS - TOFIGHT LIKE MAN New York Mayoralty Candi- date Asks No Favors Because of Sex. By the Associated Pres: NEW YORK. June 29.—If Mrs. Olive Johnson, Socialist-Labor party's nomi- nee and the first woman candidate for mayor of New York, is elected next Fall, she means to tackle the duties of her office “hammer and tongs like an.” “I don't expect any chivalry ‘from | politicians because I'm a woman,” said Mrs. Johnson, who is only five feet three and wears her sandy grey hair in a close clipped bob. “I've fought a man’s fight ever since I was a girl in Sweden and I expect to go on. Politicians will oppose me because I'm a woman and a Soclalist —I expect it will be a battle, but I don't ask any quarter.” “Persons, Not Sex.” Mrs. Johnson is no feminist. She doesn’t believe a woman would make any better mayor than a man. In her opinion it is a matter of “persons, not_sex.” She hopes, however, to make a change in the educational system, so that “the younger generation will get a clearer idea of the principles of socialism,” and she hopes “to give the transportation system a little joit which will put more speed into it.” Every morning Mrs. Johnson, who at 54 s editor of the Socialist-Labor paper, The Weekly Paper, with her home in Brooklyn and her office in Manhattan, walks across Brook- lyn Bridge to her work, after the fashion of the late Mayor Gaynor. And every morning she “beats the Manhat- tan "transportation system across the bridge.” Once Was Waitress. Mrs. Johnson was reared in a So- cialist home in Sweden and at 19 deter- mined that the place for her and her ambitions was in America. She came to the United States and made her way to Minneapolis. She operated a machine in a factory, washed dishes and waited table in a res- taurant, worked as a housekeeper in private homes and on the side managed to acquire a high school education. After her marriage to Oscar John- son and his subsequent death, she came to New York, entered Hunter College and gained the college degree she had always coveted. Meanwhile she has plunged into the activities of the Socialist-Labor party. Eleven years ago she became editor of The Weekly People. DEAUVILLE FAVORS WASH SILK SUITS Two-Piece Costumes Are Leading for Daytime Wear at French Resort. DEAUVILLE (#).—Two-piece ~cos- tumes again are leading everything else for daytime wear here. But this time the two pieces are’ not skirt and pull- | over as formerly, but one-plece dress and short jacket. Striped and checked wash silk sleeve- less dresses with matching coats are the uniforms of the morning crowds on the boardwalks and tennis courts, In the afternoon one-plece dresses of the same type, except that the dresses are apt to be long sleeved and the | Jackets sleeveless, are worn. White so far leads everything else for evening wear, with black & close second. White frocks are apt to be of chiffon, satin or faille, but, the major- ity of the biack dresses tulle. Against the black and white costumes, diamond jewelry stands out conspicu- ously, and there seems to be more and finer jewelry on display than ever be- e. Quite a few yellow frocks, especiall: | in blended shades of Wturcuppeycellmyv and citron, appear at gala dances. Shaded blue tulle and gowns which combine tints of pansy and petunia, also have created admiring comment. FEAT OF COTTON KING IS TWO BALES TO ACRE Credits Success on Texas Farm to Improved Methods in Use of Fertilizer. PALESTINE, Tex. (#)—Two bales to the acre is the average yleld produced by John W. McFarland, the “cotton king of East Texas.” His 40 acres yleld- ed 80 bales last year, whereas in many sections farmers got only one bale from two or three acres. ‘The winner of several prizes in “more and better cotton on fewer acres” con- tests, McFarland credits his success to improved methods of farming, includ- ing the intelligent use of commercial fertilizer, On his record crop he applied 350 pounds of 4-12-4 fertilizer in the bedded Tows, which were approximately 3 feet apart. After the cotton was planted, he added & side dressing of 150 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre. Later in the season he added another 150 pounds to the acre. Weeds were kept down and proper soll mulch was ntained by cultivation. Most of the plants fruited heavily, some having as many as 180 bolls to the stalk, Birds in “Talkies.” GLENDALE, Calif. (#).—Training ca- naries to “act” in talking pictures 1s one of Mrs. Jean P. Kosht's avocations. She has 100 song birds, one of which, Tinker Bell, has been taught to help feed the fledglings. Tinker Bell mothers 14 young ones. Paris is estimated to have 10,000 res- taurants. 1 Frolie Cream. .. . 1 Wrinkle and Tissue Cream 1.50 1 Face Powder (Sunkist)... 1.00 1 Skin Tonic and Astringent Lotion. ... 1 1 Bath Crystals..... 1 Quinine Tonic (oily or dry hair).. . 5 Special Introductory Offer . Each article has a monev-back tee. Very finest quality Prench ics. Send $1.00 remittance and DAy postman $2.25 upon arriva &00d! CAU! FRENCH LABORATORIES, 1109 O St. N.W., Washingten, D. C. fof the 38-hairpin-turn THE SUNDAY STAR,” WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 30, 1929—PART 3.~ GLIMPSING THE FAR EAST oy By GIDEON A. LYON, Member of American Journalists’ Party Now Touring Orient as Guests of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. MARA, Japan, May 29, 1929. What Henry Ford has been to the motor car in America, Kokidhi Miki. moto has been to the pearl industry of Japen. Ford found n way to make cars in quantity. Mikimoto has found a way to make pearls by the tens of thousan Ford’s cars are real motor cars, Mikl moto's pearls are real, genuine, natural pearls, grown in the oyster. They have been s0 adjudged by a court in Paris Our party just came an hour or zo ago from a trip to the Mikimoto head- quarters of pearl culturing at ‘Toba, which lles on the southern coast of Japan, quite out of the beaten trac This visit was arranged for the purpos of enabling us to see the process wher by pearls are actually implanted in the living oyster and then allowed to de- velop by the natural process during the remainder of the oyster's life, about seven years, We ‘rode by train from Nagoya to Toba, & trip of over four hours. The day was wet and dreary, ill suited for any sort of expedition, but mattering little so long as w= were under shelter. Incidentally, I was rather glad to travel through rural Japan on a rainy ! The nes that flashed past th x windows were precisely such as are to be seen in the old Japanese prinls, which show the farmers at work in ihe rice paddies with the rain slanting down upon them and making ripples in the water in which they are planting the tender young rice sprouts. There they were, just the same as in those old, old prints. with their conical straw hats and their, clumsy straw waterproo just the costume that the ancient ists drew. But for the railroad, the t egraph wires and an occasional adver tising sign this might have been the Japan of a thousand or more years ago. Trip to Gokasho. At Toba we were transferred from the train to motor cars and speeded at once over the road to Gokasho, where oni Mr. Mikimoto's eight culture “farms" is located. The distance is sald to be 16 | opened slightly and a tiny “secd pearl” s first prepared and then placed in a ertain position in the oyster's anat- | omy and the bivalve is then returned to | the sea, encaged, ot course. Two or | thiee times a year it and its immediate companions are raised to the surface and cleaned of seaweeds and slime and returned. ‘This goes on for from five to seven years, or until the oyster is about | at the end of its natural life. It is then brought up and “opened” and examined | for pearl. | I have | ratio of pearl | oysters; but there are enough good pearls forthcoming to justify the con- duct of a very extensive business on a large scale. I do know that yesterday afternoon when we had returned to | shore and had tea at the Gokasho villa |of our host we were summoned to the front of the veranda—I do not know what they call such a thing i Japan, but that is what it is—and asked to select each a shallow basket of oysters, a dozen in a basket. Then men went | along and opened those oysters, and all | the pearis that were found in them be- longed, as a gift, to the persoi whose | name it bore. The “find" :anged from | five to nine pearls, almost il of {hem | beautiful in color and shape and luster |and of good size. My oysters yielded £ . | We saw the workers impregnating | the oysters with seed. It is a most deli- | cate operation—veritable surgery on an | almost microscopic scale. Before the | | expert is a tray of slightly opened oysters, each with a wooden wedge be- tween its shells to keep them zpart. There is also a tray of other oysters and a small dish of seed penrls, each | about a thirty-second of an inch in diameter, perhaps slightly larger. Be- fore the worker lies a fully opened oyster. He takes up a sced pearl be- [ tween tweezers and places it inside the | ( heard several verslons of the yielding for thousand tissue of the fully opened opster in such & way as to cover it with a mem- Then he literally ties that mem- the tiny seed with o silk brane brane on AT TOBA, JAPAN. ARTIST PAINTING CARTOONS OF FISHERMEN ON ISLE OF PEARLS.- miles. It really seemed 60. The road is very narrow, very crooked and, in the rain, very slippery. But our confidence in Japanese drivers h: been ~fully established since our climb and descent road west cf Nikko and our .drives around Miyan- oshito, along the edges of preciples. So we were not disturbed when the mar- gin between us and fooded rice pad- dies or deep ravines was only a matter of halt a dozen inches, with the rain falling steadily. As for the rain, our philosophy as- sured us that it ‘'would not interfere with the work of the pearl culturists or the girl divers, of whose skill we had already heard. A little more water would not disturb anything at a purely aqueous business establishment. So we went ahead confident that the show would be ready for us. And it was. In- deed, I cannot imagine more perfect preparation. Mr. Mikimoto, Who was waiting for us at Gokasho, had done everything possible to make us comfortable despite the rain. He had had finely crushed stone spread over all the walks, at Gokasho and at his villa at Toba. He had had the lJaunches that were to take us out 1o the culture beds fitted up with shelters. He had eyen, at Toba, in preparation for the “tai” fishing foday, had sheet iron fastcned under the railroad tracks under whick we had to pass in an open launch. The wind was whipping the bay at Gokasho into white caps when we put out in & barge that had to be pulled along by wading wen until it could reach water deep enough for sculling. We were thus taken out to the motor launch, which danced around rather briskly as we set out for the beds, a half mile or so distant. Now for & very brief account of this pear] “culturing.” Some 30 years ago Mr. Mikimoto conceived & great idea— that if the oyster can deposit nacre, or pearl-making material, around & grain of sand, or some other Intrusive mat- ter that gets into its shell, it can do so it that bit of matter is put into the shell by man. So he began experi- menting. He got half-round pearls at first, fine large ones, with good luster | and quality, but misshapen. Then b found @ way to get round pearls. he is'turning them opt of the oyster quantity. Catches Young Oysters. First he catches young oysters, very young ones, barely more than spawn, by means of “collectors” lowered into 'th sea in wire baskets. These he develop: into growing oysters. Meanwhile he sends divers into 5 and 6 fathoms of water to get the oyslers from the beds at the bottom. Then when the oystars are about 3 years old, having been carefully preserved in their natural element in cages for that period, they are taken out and gently. carafully Monday is | about 71-and spry as a cricket, and who | the sort of fishin, —Photo by G. A, L. thread and cuts off the thread, and the seed thus prepared is next placed in- side the living oyster at a certain place where it will get the fullest deposit of nacre without harming the creature. The wedge is then removed, the o snaps its jaws tight, and it is placed in water, to be later put into a tray in- closed in & wire cage and sunk in the sen & few feet, there to rest for seven | years, with occasional trips to the rur- face for cleaning. Out in the bay are several “tows” of small houseboals, in pairs, each pair being the headquarters of avout 20 girl divers. These girls, who are from 15 to 20 years of age and are natives of the nearby villages, are expert divers, tapa- ble of going into deeper water than the men. They really do not “dive” for the oysters. They jump into the sea, feet first, from their scows, each with small tub, and each with a pair of ias “‘goggles” over her eves for brotection and better vision. They paddle aro'nd a bit end then suddenly turn over qui and plunge head down, their |legs flipping in the air in a comical manner. They descend by means of their arm strokes. They wear simply a thin white costume, which gives them perfect freedom of action, with white caps. They are jolly girls. In the water they skylark with one another, and when our boat approaclied they ‘whis~ tled cheerily, diving from time .o time and giggling as they chagbered back and forth while p.nduimy arvmd oa the sur- face. They are perfectly at homie in the water. They work for one hour at time and then rest for an hour, and at the end of the perlod of light they come back to shore and go houne, none the worse for their day’s task in the sea. It is said that they are perfectly healthy and that they are thrifty and save their earnings and are much sought after a wives when they have reached the age of retirement from active diving, which is in about 10 yea All this work is perfectly managed— the wire cage makers, the cage placers, the oyster cleaners, the divers, the laboratory workers, those who test the | seeds and who examine the oysters for | diseases and who finally impregnate the ulture pearls, They speak at Toba and at the cul- | ture stations of Mr. Mikimoto with the greatest affection. For he has brought a great industry into being aud las caused prosperity to prevail at all the places where he has taken up land znd water rights and established his remark able enterprise. Some years ago hs bought an island quote close to shore at Toba—he already owns half a Jlozen islands in the bay—and calicd it Peail Island in honor of his industry. He had given it to the people of Toba as a park, and today it was formally “opened” in honor of our visit, we Leing the special guests, T must confess that T do not care for that, was provided for Annual July Dress Sale Just in Time for Independence Day 250 New Summer Frocks ...That ordinarily sell for and up to $15.00. Monday. $10, $12.50 $8 75 You will want several of these Exquisite Dresses. ors and styles. They aré very fashionable, in all col- Beautiful plain and printed chiffons, washable crepes, pririted crepes...de- tails, too, found in higher priced frocks. There are sizes for misses, women and larger women. our delectation at Pear] Island. A about 25 feet long by a dozen wide 1| hook and some were ad | fortune was enjoyed by been constructed of booms and wire | in another pool, artificially formed, on | as house gus netting, and in it were swimming, when | shore, where fish had been placed. This was rathed too much like fishing | cur way about in the diferent environ- fish of all kinds, principally “tal,” the | for the inmates of the glass aquariums | ment. But with the aid and advice of big red snapper, much liked by the |in our houses. I preferred to go camera | Miss Tanaka we managed pretty well, | Japanese as food. There were also lob- | hunting, and found my subjects among sters, a sort of mackerel, sting rays and | the fishermen and the interested towns- other varieties. As soon as we came |folk, who came over in large numbers poles were given out, with shrimp as | to see the new park and the “sport.” we arrived in barges, several score of bait, and in a few minutes 20 or more Mr. Mikimoto was a most perfect host, ? red. Poorer | of Columbia University, speaks perfect 0se who fished | English. This was our first experience ests in a Japanese home, and it was decidedly interesting to find though we hdd to do & great deal of | shoe changing to conform to the rule | of every Japanese house that hard foot- gear must not be worn within doors, on account of the delicate flooring and | lines were in the water. The fish, thus | and Miss Michie Tanaka, his house- | straw mats or tatami that take the| entrapped, were not interested in the | keeper-secretary, was an ideal hostess bait, but a few were caught with the ' He speaks no English. She, a graduate e = 1115-1117 In Coats— All $29.50 Coats . . . . All $45 to $59.50 Coats All $65 to $79.50 Coats All $85 to $98.50 Coats All $110 to $145 Coats All $160 Coats . . . . . In Dresses— All $16.50 Dresses All $25.00 Dresses All $29.50 Dresses All $35.00 Dresses All $39.50 Dresses All $45 and $49.50 Dresses All $55 to $69.50 Dresses . . All $75 to $135 Dresses . In Underwear— piace of carpets and rugs. We left Toba after lunch and drove Another Tremendous Slashing —and you a climaxing opportunity that will cause you to remember the Louvre’s retiring from business sale as the most remarkable event in your experience. The variety of styles and sizes is still good—making selection only a matter of prompt attention—for these last reductions are sure to bring a host of seekers after these sensational bargains. Sale positively ends Wednesday night! Ld L] . LJ L] All $1.95 to $2.50 Garments - All $2.95 Garments All $3.50 to $3.95 Garments All $4.50 to $5.50 Garments All $5.75 to $6.50 Garments All $7.50 to $9.75 Garments All $10.50 to $11.50 Garments That means that we are giving the prices Street, Sports, Afternoon, Evening, Dance and Dinner Louvre fine —plain and fur-trimmed All pure silk—in thé wanted pieces—plain and trimmed . g to Yamada by motor to see two great|place without disturbing the cere- Shinto shrines, first the oldest and most | monials. venerated in Japan, that of “Ise,” from The other shrine, dedicated to the whom the Emperor is lineally descend- | founder of agriculture in Japan, is less ed. This shrine, founded about 2000 | important, s it is likewise less aged, years ago, is, in strict accord *with a | being only 1,500 years old. It, too, is re- tradition originally established, entirely | built every 20 years. These shrines are rebuilt every 20 years, so that although | chiefly interesting to the visitor fer the very ancient, its buildings are never in | giant cryptomerias that surround them disrepair or decrepit. The period is| Also, at Ise shrine is stabled the ho: about to expire, so that building opera- | that the goddess rides whenever peril tions are already in progress. The shrine | menaces the empire. It is a placid- is “duplex”—that is, there are accom- looking steed with highly-polished hoof: modation for all purposes in duplicate,| But here we are at Nara, the city o so that the reconstruction can take shrines, which we will inspect tomorrow F STREET Only3DaysLeft or we must close our doors Wednesday night. $8.75 $10.75 $12.75 $15.75 $18.75 o v oo SANTS o v o w SETS . wine DORID garments $9.50 $15.00 $22.50 $27.50 $37.50 $47.50 95¢c $1.25 $1.55 $1.95 $2.45 $3.25 $4.25 Of course all sales must be for cash; and none can be sent C. O. D.—exchanged or returned.