The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 9, 1922, Page 17

oe FRE 25E BFPREE — ( sBd54i3 | paiitica! district (and it should be no- B. H. HURST THE LOCUSTS 2 S"s Coprright, 1998, Seattle mar «and the Wowsts Went wp ever the land, ond rested in all the : ed reuimes wore they; Defore them there wore ne buch loowete nes Fer they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land darkened; and thay did eat every herd of the land, Wine treea"—Reodus wy 14-15. om Sates tren ‘The foreword Introduces ur to a sipper of tea in faraway Japan, who sits fn his home and directs the conquest of the United States. It ts a Peaceful conquest, made under the law and without violence, It is made posit by the American law, which gives citizenship to Japanese children born this country, even tho thelr parents cannot be naturalised. Those ‘Ameri can citizens,” the first of whom are coming of age now, are concentrating their efforts on the Columbia basin—whieh is presumed to have been, Feclaimed under the existing plan, And, acting on orders from the sipper | ‘of tea, they are well on the road to complete supremacy tn the great inland | empire that white ingenuity had salvaged from the desert | ‘The story opens in 1945, the scene being laid tn the Columbia basin. The Columbia Basin project has been carried thru and a million and a quarter acres have been transformed into fertile farm land, just an was dreamed in 1922, But Americans have not profited, One by one they have been driven eat by the Japs of American citizenship, until now only two familes rematn— /OHN HAMMOND, @ veteran of the world war, and neighbor, Carlson's son, ARLSON, ix cagaged to Hammond's daughter, MARY HAMMOND. Jack and Mary are waiki GREN TAKAHTRA, eldest son ~ ad We? joey ya sng TAKAHIRNA, (he Japanese boss of the community, makes Insulting faces @t Mary. Jack strikes him in the nose, knocking him down, and te tmme- @ately arrested for assault, the authorities holding that the Jap was seri ously Mary rushes to her father and together they call on Carlson, Ge, He is in poor health and the blow kills him. Hammond and his daugh. | fer then Ko to seo TOM JENKINS, « white attorney. Arriving in Neppel, the Hammonds are surprised to rea * that Uren Takahira has died from the blow "They cannot gh tendiryen Because Mary says Jack didn't hit him hard. The papers falsely accus: Jack of using brass knuckles and say his action was the result of @ care ty laid plot. Jenkins is worrted, but goes to jail with the Hammonds to see Jack. Jack realizes that an attempt i# being made to “frame” him for the gallows, but he is #0 concerned over the fate of the country that his fore fathers fought for that he doesn't think much of his own Predicament He happens to read in the 10th chapter of Exodus: “And the locusts went Up over the land, and rested on all the coasts, very grievour were they before them were no such locusts as they. For they covered the face of the whole carth, so that the land was darkened, and they did eat of every herd of the land all the fruit of the trees.” The Japs were the locusts, Mack thought NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY (Continued From Yesterday) down on the sidewalk with great Meanwhile, In the home of Taka-| falls; and the police and the doctor, id alk the gang that I hi bira, senior, the boss of the entire |“ wang wad put there come running to my son, who is fall om the sidewalk and who is much teed that America had been out uD / bleed from his nose. Creat bleed Jato political districts by the emperor | does he bieed. Much shout ie shout “And the policeman he find @ brass SFB? © Fasdre See | @f Japan and his advisers, acting pen the suggestion of the late gen- deman who had sipped that useful fea and cach district bad been put Be oharge of some one man of strong @aracter, who was also successful tn ‘g dusiness way. This boss was re- wpensible for the working out of lane and orders sent him from Ja- failing had failed his emperor, and that bare kiri could alone atone; so house i : E & i HSE Hit iff Ht ? Hi i i ge inns z i az ite rls PRT gE rE Hl i of new land, and only of land. Japan come word that Hi FEste re I f unless all white men go I dingraced. “Then I think, and remember what teacher told me « long time ago, he make me a Christian. About Abraham and his son. How Abra ham was told by God to prove his love for God by offering his son as 4d + “Only this is different, and I am cleverer than old Abraham. Besides, 1 am political boss, and the coroner, and the judge, and all of them do ‘what I tell them to. Also, my em- Deror say that all the Hammonds and Carisons must go. So, first, I fix the coroner and the police, and all. Then we wait. And I tell my fon, Uren, to wait also, for the honor of hig emperor, my emperor. Then does young Carlson come to the store of Tanaka with his girl, and my son makes faces at the girl, as I told him to make faces. He makes nasty faces untt! young Carlson sees those faces. He sees these faces, and says to my son, he say: “Take off that face, or I knock it offr “But my wm do not take off that face, becnune I tell him to keep It on. An4, ag I knew he would, young Carlson try to knock off that face of ‘my son Tren. Then do my son fall erento al TO~NIGHT Tomorrow Alright KEEPING WELL— As Mf Tabiet (eo vegetable aperient} taken at Aight will help keep you weil, by L |lengthe that fight had been carried. i | aishonesty. Japanens apologists had a STN ae |s0n hae @ nowe-dieed which is a con OP |that was mcrificed ike the son of pa himeel¢ to wink. my father. knuckle that I buy for $1 a long time 40; and the doctor he find that my cussion of his brain. So, the police | he run in this Carlson with the brass | knuckle; and the ambulance run with my son and his nose-bleed to the hos pital, But at the door of the hoapt tal my eon he slip away, and the doo tor he take upstairs to the hospital @ne Japanese gentioman who died falling off his Abraham, who was not as clever as me, I sacrifice my son—only my God Rot know how I do It. But this wo bga% sacrificing my son. If they not it bring big dingrace upon me; to save me from dingrace I would anything. Now great honor come to me. “What $ have you to say, oh son, old Abraham? What do you say to your father, who in so more clever than that old man the teacher told me about when he make me a Chris: tan?” And the old man permitted With that gravity and respect to parents which, as an ethical law, has had so much to do with the rise of modern Japan—with deep respect— Uren Takahira bowed and spoke: “Oh, honorable parent, in whose great wisdom I am permitted to re- Joicet Tonight do I leave for Japan, maybe to become married, and thus beget grandsons to bear thine honor- able name! But, most important f« it that I make report and say that the great wisdom of my father has beaten the white men, until in the| Columbia basin not one white man remains! Neither in the adjacent lands do any remain. We have beaten them, under the leadership of Thus do I make report!’ “Good,” replied the father, now speaking Japanese. “And also let it be known how we beat them. Say that the convenient religion taught me long ago showed mo the way And that I improved upon the win. dom of Abraham. For by the time you make your report in Japan there will be no Hammonds or Carisons in the basin; and, also, their lands will be my lands, oh, my son!” Uren Takahira bowed “In it permitted to know, oh my father, how this will be actually ac- complished; or, being dead, am I to remain ignorant?” The elder Takahira laughed. t but ft is very simple! Do thou amuse thyself, while on the way to the homeland of thy fathers and thyself, by thinking out just how I shall make this thing perfect. It will be good exercise for you—better even than making faces!" And the elder frowned slightly. |> The lack of intelligence shown by his | eldest son tmd long been a source of discomfort. .In every sort of vice Uren Takahira was~a leader; but| when It came to doing work which needed intelligence he “was not there,” to use an excellent American descriptive phrase. fo Uren Takahira, for whose mur- der Jack Carlson languished in fall, | started for Japan, troubling himself little about thinking, but «reatly concerned over the various coming pleasures he intended to enjoy. Neither was he greatly interested in the fight which his father was winning: but even he might hav been startled had he known to what The big gun had been intellectual ‘written books concerning “The real Japanese question.” ignoring the real question, which ts: “Why do the Japs persist in coming to Amer fea and taking up land, when they know that the people whom they de sire to call ‘fellow citizens’ do not want them?" Yen, even Uren would have heen surprised—acecustomed as he was to his unscrupulous father—had he known that books had been written PR ETE feat OUR BOARDING HOUSE THIS MAKES “TENTH SEASON FoR GOSH MATOR=\ 4 WHERE DID YIGET AH’ DRieD BUFFALO 2 = You Look LIKE A HoRSE CHESNUTSINAT Ses! FELL OFF | \OTH ree! HIS SPEC! “THE SKINIG SIBERIAN URSA & OTHERWISE KNOWN AS\BEAR = LT SHOT THE BEAST MYSELF W SIBERIA <THE FUR WAS SUCH A SPLENDID ash aioe tp Baa <a attnist-t eelemapstiime nine heer THE SEATTLE STAR COAT; BUGTER~ MBN, L “TOOK GREAT CARE “Td SHOOT “We HIDE SO “THAT “THE BULLET PENETRATIONS GOULD BE USED FoR ; 2. BUTTON HOLES ! rie ae “ a fs 4% AY i Hh Wy ah ih ty | } {iin HIS ZOO COAT WELL, I'LL BE GOING ALONG- WHAT TIME WILL You BE Home? ie BY AHERN Ha-HA= HOW ae & BRIDGE ?- I S'POGE IF He HAD OTHER BULLET HE'D MOTH RANCH « [| “THAT'S BEAR SKIN, AJoR” DRAGS OUT OH BOYS, THAT'S SOME SHOWER! 0 HATE To BE ADVENTURES — y Clee Beaks Set veton ALL CROOKED Zhe door of the house opened and a crooked man appeared. Nancy and Nick were still bunt ing for Mother Goose's broom Along the road they went, search. ing and inquiring of every one they met By and by Naney exclaimed, “I declare, Nick, This road ts getting as crooked as @—as & corkscrew, I r saw so many twists and turns in my life.” “Neither did 1," agreed Nick, look ing up and down in a puzzled sort I feel like the soldier who met himself coming back. We'll never get anywhere this way.” But the little Green Shoes trudged bravely on and before many minutes the Twins found themselves in front of a very crooked house house was so crooked that the front steps went up to the back door and the cellar windows were on the roof. “Well of all things!” declared both children together, “This is craziest thing yet.” But they were of way wrong. There Indeed the | the were more wonders to be seen. barn beyond a crooked fence was |quite as crooked as the house, and the cows an chickens looked worse Humpty Dumpty Circus after the |baby has been playing with it. As they were gnzing open-mouthed at all these wonders, the door of the | house opened and a crooked man ap: peared. “Come in, friends,” he in vited. you would like to rest. Besides T like to talk to travelers as they usually bring news, 1 am, as you may’ have guessed, the |Man - Who-Went-a-Crooked-Mileand | Found-a-Crooked.Six-Pence - Against | a-Crooked-Stile “But here's a secret, lis no good, No on I keep ft for a jnow you know jand tell me Loreen the six-penoe 1 take ft. So scket-piece. And about me, come about yourselves.” ‘ancy and Nick Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, Seattle Star) which claimed that anyone who pro- tested against the Japanese invasion was “lacking in {denls,” “full of baseness and preuriency,” “self-seok- ing agitators,” and what not. That such books, printed tn the English language and in the United States, had been allowed to circulate had surprised’ many; altho a moment's thought should have shown that in| unheeded by the people? a free country no book should be suppressed as these “admit,” with a charming Oriental condescension, that they “do not expect Americans to be super: ea BNO And when such writers! human, but merely human,” the wonder had been that such imperti- nent spouting had not met with more notice, What would the fath- ers of America have thought had they known that the country of free- dom, which they were fostering, would some day #ee the extraordi nary spectacle of an actual invasion And what would they have thought had they known that certain books calculated to appeal to the less thoughtful vot ers—-hooks which contained distor*sd facta, and the tmpertinence of tne The | and pigs and | than a} “You look tired and perhaps | Crooked | <page ate THE OLD) HOME TOWN eo OTEY WALKER CAME DOWN Td HIS Se ar ear nome greet OFFICE AND CAUGHT AUNT SARAH PEABODY ¥ THIS IN THE VERY ACT OF PUTTING A FRESH BUNCH OF Posigs MY WIFE LEFT H WORRIED SER RS A I A STS rage | » * + or By Mabel Cleland _»% i 4) THE JUDGE'S STORY CHAPTER 8. “Along in 1859," the judge's story went on, “congress con- firmed the Walla Walla treaties, and the Indians began to under. stand, and even obstreperous old Chief Looking Glass, and Chief Joseph, sald they were glad the treaties were all signed and sealed “But Chief Joseph—now this ts the part you must remember— Chief Joseph went to the Indian agent and said, ‘It is well that the white fathers in Washington have setthed this matter. But I~ 1 am Joseph, a great chief, and I would have you set aside for me such and such a portion of coun- try—for me, and for my children forever.” “You see, he was « chief, and he thought he had only to men- tion this matter to have it fixed up as be liked. And he taught his sons to b © the treaty, ratified by congress, guve his chil- dren that land. So Chief Joseph and his sons and his tribe roamed about, dis- satisfied, angry, troublesome, re- fusing to go to the reservation the United States government gave them, until 1876. “Then they sent out six con missioners al! the way from Wash- ington to see about Old Chief Joseph, and what he thought he had to complain about. He kept RMeMadatal Orfent, which only one who had studied the Oriental type of mind can appreciate—what would the fathers have thought had they known that such books would some day be pre- sented to the public libraries by Jap- anese societies, and placed conspiou- ously upon thelr shelves? Just ag the locusts of the plagues of Egypt left nothing untouched, so did the conquering Japanese leave nothing untouched, They worked like a cunning machine But Uren Takahira was on his way to Japan, that dear country—so dear that one wonders why any Jap wants to leave itl Does anyone wou the white men waiting a whole week after they reached Lapwat, and then) came stalking tn, haughtily as any king. “The white men explained pa tlently and kindly about the land, how suchand such land was to belong to the white settlers and such and such land to the In dians. ® “Then the chief threw back his head, and waved them aside and said, ‘I came not here to talk of land. The earth is my mother, and too precious to be sold. The maker of the earth has set no partitions so men have no right to do it. You say you will teach me to farm? I do not wish to jearn to farm. I will live as my fathers lived before me, upon such fruits as the earth gives me, withput effort on my part. More over, oh, foolish men, I am a by the earth I own and Jeot my will who says “Jomeph, you shall stay here, not there.” 1 submit to NO law not my panies in Wallowa valley, them persuade the Indians to move on the reservation. “Finally, m May, Joseph and White meh, Sarees to OS See, Sher See move in 80 days. And on the 20th day, instead of ‘To ‘Be Continued) oving they sounded A FEW MINUTES AGO WITHOUT AN UMBRELLA AND ITS POURING On HIS DESK. BY ALLMAN (OW SHE'LL STOP mw SOME SHOP OR DEPARTMENT STORE UNTIL IT’S OVER -, —y eRe Do You KNOW WHAT THe eR J STANDS POR ¢ der? But even such as he—had he read Japanese books—would have won dered at the toleration of the Amer. ican people, who allowed @ Japanese to attribute sinister motives to his| hosts—because this Japanese author was nothing else but @ guest of the American people, whose government | and activities he so rudely criticised. | No doubt he dreamed of the time | when @ government of Jap-Ameri-| cang would control the press, and free speech would be a thing of the past in America, Something which | Urea Takahira lved to seol (To Be Continued) CORN MEAL BATTER BREAD 2 tablespoons butter or bacon fat 2 esse 1 cup white or yellow corn meal 2 cups hot milk 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder Pour the hot milk over the corn and salt. Let stend until cool Add@ the butter or bacon fat, melted, the eggs well beaten and lastly sift in the baking powder. Beat for a few seconds and turn into a well-greased, deep baking lish. Bake 30 minutes in a moderately hot oven. Serve from the lish in which it is baked 4 This bread is very good with meat and gravy instead of potatoes or rice,