The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 14, 1947, Page 3

- ad hig Stews sie eat ep aur” s REVIVING INDUSTRY is a big inspects Japanese penicillin production, subsidized by the Tokyo THE KEY West rvey CITIZEN Hidden. Job. task. Here an American officer ae government, yet falling far short of needs. . a WELFARE PROBLEM is gigantic. This nenniinn Japanese mother with four fatherless children lives in a converted bar- racks where she is visited ve By DUANE AP Newsteatures by a U. S. social worker. HENNESSY KY¥O.—When South Central Japan was rocked by a devas- tating earthquake last December, Sccupation authorities had to. rout from their beds.slumbering. Japanese welfare officials | at’s a yell Obs joe most nme t h quite picture. O istt patrolling with packinet guns. It’s trying to get-a-dazed, oa economically - “aye nd le back on their feet so call. take care of er tet SAAD ide tare here means that everyon rae té@-eat, that ‘the Teh all’ the freedoms: of 7 4 democracy, that the natural re- sources of the four home islands are explored and used to their utmost in the wavs of peace and development. Our experts have come here to show the Japanese thé way, i Americans are planning Japan’s foreign’ trade program today. We. are.telling them how many ships théy’can have and where they can saithem, We are worrying about their health and sanitation in a way Japan has never known. Japan hasn’t the necessities that will*put her back into stride in- dustrially. Furthermore ,a lot of her. big industrialists won’t start working. They fear that theft |, plants ‘would: be snatched away) % for reparat ions. When t e° earthquake ‘struct the: national government show- ed lit le’ interest in the ‘tatas,, trophe. As: occupation officaale® putiit, the Japanese have a ferent, philosophy than we do they .were going. to “let the'1o- cal® people worry about them- . selves as they had for centuries past.” - “The Tokyo officials figure that the_local' people: would scream to ba bier pign to <a) > Aap alae acs ae to help the stricken, homeless t heYoccupa a Ee their town governments and then, § the * local governments would} scream to the prefectural gover-/ nor~and pretty soon he would scream to the national govern-|] ment,” said Col. Crawford F. Sams of Tracy, Calif., public health of- | ficer. of MacArthur’s headquar ters “Then the national gover a ment would hope there would be| enough delay so it would be all ovér: and nothing would have to be done. AHied headquarters didn’t see it that way. When positive figures shawed the tremendous lpss of life;:the injured and ‘destroyed houses, Col. Sams’ staff routed the: national welfare officials out of bed;'summoned others back from week-end rest in the egumiry. The Japanese had fo Setup for coping with a disaster be- cause they never had such a program in the past. Central- ized and co-ordinated effort was something they never had con- sidered. The Japanese watched in} amazement as the occupation forces within 24 hours had eight railway carloads of medicine and lothing on the move from Yoko- ama. They found it hard to be- | ieve that a ship had been loaded bee Sry y i been taken to ti aif. | t i lg : iKébe and isgctdy ri stnicken islands. | But they were eager to learn. They tried to help, to enter figs way of doing things in Hid } of emergency. They also With the British occupa- ag" forces. Mig every ‘iidld of Pt ¥ thd Samé has been true. the ‘more ‘publicized policies of democratization oc- cupation authorities are. prod- ding, wheedling and bludgeon- ing Japanese officials into ac- tion. For instance, Ameriean fiscal | experts blue - printed the plan which prevented an ecdnomic crisis when banks began the diffi- cult job of. jettisoning the bad loans they made to now. defunct munitions companies. Allied au- | thorities are consulted on each of the complex steps which have attack inflation. 'Other headquarters authorities are pushing industrial reconver- sion and the country’s vital, if limited; export trade. Japan taday is full-of, American as. ie aast ‘most recent waetancd gis: MIAMI and re Since Ae eras Transpartation’ Company, Inc. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Seevion Between t 3 ce i rate te oe tine ot a rene TORRINGTON, ag ye ge ng his overcoat and hat imto vault just before the bank p atery in, order toget, them out of the way of a paint crew, Albert E, . Wellman, bank employe, found the time-lock vault closed when ; LOCKS UF HAT AND COAT: _ one could open it until next’ morning, Wellman had to borrow a coat and hat to wear home. that of raising money in time of disaster. Col. Sams’ crew tried to show the Japanese how to ap- peal to the public for help—that — everyone should help those in dis- © tress. The program was a failure. Col. Sams said, ruefully, that the | Japanese got only 100,000 yen in three days but that “it was a start ° and another good lesson.’ Col. Sams is convinced that . now that the Japanese have seen how the American and British pitch in ona disaster that they will do better by themselves. ng time. a The occupation of Japan is a. lot different than that in Ger- many, as. any army officer who has served in both areas will state emphatically. In Germany the zones are divided, but here MacArthur and his unified com- The United States Army trained military government teams against the day when Japan would be conquered and they could be sent in to take over every prefecture— a prefecture is a little larger than an American county. Then the war ended suddenly and Gen. Douglas MacArthur de- eided to use the emperor and the established government instead of his military teams. There are some military denink in Jaapn today but they are small. They roam the prefectures to see that the directives handed down from Allied headquarters to the “*| Japanese government are carried out. They are mostly concentrated in the larger cities. Abeut a year ago there was a lot of talk that Gen. MacArthur as Supreme Commander. for Al- lied Powers was in control of the Russian occupied areas. The state department said so, then with- drew the comment. MacArthur has nothing to do with Northern Korea, the Sakhalin peninsula (Karafuto) and the Kuries. In Tokyo the Russians have an estimated 600 military and civilian personnel attached to . the staff of the Russian member of the Allied Council for Japan, - Lt, Gen. Kuzma Derevyanko. © Fos dintels Tagi the: only. to that:of ‘the Americans, - The British have 40,000 troops in’*| the country. We have 120,000, . = which is supposed to be a secret.” As the year opened the British commonwealth disposition was. 12,000 Australians, 9,000,from the ; United Kingdom—England, Scot- land, Wales and North Ireland; . 12,000 from India and 5,000 from New Zealand. The United King- dom and Indian troops are, leav- ing Japan. They will be replac- ed by Australians and New Zea- landers in accordance with deci- sions of the Inter-dominion de- fense conference in London. American troop strength is. being reduced to 98,000. Unlike Germany, where there are separate Allied zones, the whole operation here is controlled by the Eighth army. The British take their orders from Lt. Gen: Robert L. 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