Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1945 — Page 3
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3,
JAPAN MAY 10 SHOGUN RULE
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System Abandoned In 1867 Can Be Restored After . Democratic Reconditioning.
By EDWARD J. BYNG
Japan's reconditioning along democratic lines might be “hastened by reviving ‘on & new; electoral basis the ancient Japanese institution
of shoguns. —* For centuries the shoguns were
tration, reducing the emperor's status to that of a politically impotent
religious institution. Like their predecessors, the modern shoguns could be nominally under the emperor, Actually they would be de facto-presidents, elected by democratic processes for a fouryear term. ‘The emperor would revert to his former status of a mere religious symbol without temporal . power, » This solution of the Japanese problem may prove less difficult than it seems because few Americans are aware that the Japanese emperors have enjoyed temporal power only during the past 78 years. But whatever Japan's future political set-up may be, America must realize without any illusion that if the Japanese masses can become democratic at all ii can happen only through a slow process of evolution.
Ruled Thousand Years
For over a thousand years, right up to 1867, when the institution of shoguns was abolished, Japanese feudalism held sway even over the emperor. He was a glorified pris-
as a mere puppet in Kyoto, while the shogun ruled the country from his own capital, Kamakura, and later Yedo, the Tokyo of today.
“Shogun” means “generalissimo.” _ The shoguns were known also as meaning “great lord,” a term. which in the form of “tycoon” has become part of our American voeabulary, For generations the shoguns of the Fugiwara clan compelled the emperors to marry their daughters. Besides, as soon As an-emperor came of age he was forced to abdicate and become a Buddhist monk. Deposed Shoguns The pattern of Japanese feudalism became actually gretesque when the powerful Hojo clan subjected the shoguns to the same treatment which the shoguns had inflicted upon the emperors.
Assuming the hereditary title and stafus of “shikken” or “constable” of the empire and seizing the supreme power of the country, the heads of the Hojo family turned the shoguns into their glorified prisoners. They forced them to marry Hojo girls; and deposed each shogun as he reached maturity. : After 1600 the shoguns were again the undisputed temporal rulers of Japan, while the population had long crystallized into iron-bound castes. Owing to proteatted. wars against the aborigines of present-day Nippon—the so-called Ainu, who still inhabit the Japanese island of Hokkaido—eventually every able-bodied Japanese was drafted for military service, only the weaker men being left in other walks of life.
Soldiers Took Rank
In the 10th century A. D., the military conscripts began to usurp a social status to which they had no right, by constituting themselves hereditary soldiers with the rank of nobles and the designation of samurai of bushi, and enforcing their
the real heads of Japan’s adminis-
usurpation many of their leaders kept for themselves huge stretches of land which they had taken from the aborigines, constituting themselves hereditary feudal lords or daimyo, which means “great name.”
The commoners, "being, descendants of those originally ‘unfit for military service, were held in utter contempt by the samurai. Commonsers were divided into three classes: husbandmen, artisans and tradesmen, In addition, up to 1867 the feudal pattern of Japan included even two official castes of pariahs, the eta (defiled people) and the hinin (outcasts). Feudal System . Up to Japan's “modernization” in 1867 the samurai lived on the estates of their local fendal lords, the daimyo, from whom they drew a life pension in kind. A samurai owed allegiance neither to the emperor+nor the shogun but solely to his daimyo, for whom he fought in the almost uninterrupted civil wars which these feudal lords waged against one another for centuries,
supreme court, justice ‘of the United States.
Senator Harold H. Burton of Ohio poses, above, in his judicial robes shortly before taking oath as an associate justice of the U. 8
In the background is a bust of John Jay, first chief
The life of the samurai or “bushi”
known as Bushido, meaning “the way of the bushi.”
istic of the mentality of the Japanese warrior class than the rules of conduct which Kato Kiyomasa, a famous military leader of the 16th | century, incorporated into the Bush-
to compose poetry. “To be addicted to such forms of amusement,” they stipulated, “is to resemble a woman, For the soldier military amusements alone are suitable. The penalty for violating this provision is death by suicide.”
Made Commoners Bow
puku, as the warrior’s age-old priviing executed for a crime.
eling inside Japan, he was accompanied by hundreds of his samurai tenants armed to the teeth. Up to 1867 every commoner such a band met on the way had to get off the road, 'go down on his knees, take off his ha remaining in’that position until the procession had passed.
execution on the spot.
of samurai escorting the feudal lord
Britisher who tried to make his way through the procession.
college.
ment for him.
was strictly regulated by the code| YOUR G. I. RIGHTS... By Douglas Larsen Nothing could be more character- Veterans May Buy Surplus
Property Through SWPC
WASHINGTON, Oct, 3.—Here are an army post about 13 miles from ido code. They forbade the samuraiisome general questions from G. 1's here there are about a dozen trucks and their relatives:
Q—My son was drafted out o ‘For a year he did nothing but pick up waste paper al-| though he tried to get in the air corps. Finally he got into the army’s medical training program, { learning to be a dentist. That pro-| As recent events in Japan have|gram was dropped and he was told] clearly shown, Japanese public opin- he: wasn't eligible for the benefits jon still regards hara-kiri or “hon- of the G. I. Bill of Rights, orable suicide,” known also as sep-|true?
A—No.
Failure to comply with this rigid (depends on his age and whether dinner code of self - ubasement incurred his employer asks another defer- and Professional Women's group in As long as he is the Even as late as the 1860's a band|in 2-A he will not be drafted. The church. 2-A deferment will expire when the of Satsuma on the road between previous 2-B classification was sup-|uity of Tokyo and Yokohama murdered a posed fo end. Q—My husband was just discharged. He had been a construc-| |China at the time of the bombing The bombardment of Kagoshima tion contractor and needs a couple {of Shanghal escaping just three by a British fleet by way of retalia-79f trucks to get started again. At!days before the city was raided.
Is this SWPC office and explain your case.
: His year’s service before lege to escape “losing face” by be- he entered the special course qual-|
ifies him for the benefits of the Whenever a feudal lord was trav-| G, 1. Bill of Rights.
Q—My husband works in a plant | which is still making war goods. They say it will keep working for, B. P. W. CLUB T0 0 HEAR another year, changed my husband's classificahis head, tion from 2-B to 2-A. Does that %.3nd how nis hea mean he will be drafted soon? A—Whether he will be drafted | Summer of 1937” at the 6:15 p.m. ) Business
they nave ADDRESS ON JAPAN
But
which have been declared surplus g | property. I thought veterans had | priority on surplus property, but the Iman at the post says he can't sell them. What should he do to get two of these trucks? A—All surplus property that is sold on a veteran's priority must {be sold through the Smaller War {Plants Corp. Write to the nearest
! Q—Do women who are discharged trom the service get as much mustering out. pay as the men? A—Yes. They get the same mus(tering out pay depending on where | they served.
Miss Cleo Frazier will speak on “A Tourist's View of Japan in the
tonight of the
Meridian Street Methodist Miss Frazier, who is on the facManual - Training high school, was traveling in Japan when
| China was attacked. She was in
tion gave Nippon the first taste of the. western democracies’ dislike of the ways ‘of Japanese feudalism, an attitude which our B-29's and atomic
exclusive right to bear arms,
Through a similar process of!
bombs so effectively underscored three generations later.
-16,000 Refugees In China
Worse Off
By NAT A. BARROWS United Press Staff Correspondent
HONGKEW JEWISH REFUGEE CAMP, China, Sept. 24 (Delayed)—
This is a camp of lost souls—16,000
victims of Nazi hatred and racial intolerance who represent the lost people of the Pacific war. They are people without hope and now almost without pride. They * fled here six years ago from Germany and since have lived in poverty and squalor impossible to describe, Japanese are going home; re-|
. leased American prisoners are go-
ing home as fast as they can be
oved; the Chinese who fled .when “tne Japanese began overrunning
China are returning to their homes.
But the refugees here have no homes-—nothing to look forward to except a continuing existence as
white coolies.
The men eke out a bare existence making fountain pens and cigaret lighters and re-selling things they bought from hard-bargaining Chinese. Their women—the pretty ones —hang around filthy, hole-in-the-wall bars hoping to pick up a few
Shanghai dollars,
Typical is an 18-year-old blonde known as “China Doll.” She has been working thie bars since she was 13 to support herself and her
mother, Her oply future is to con-
tinue pleasing the Japanese, Chin-
Artery-Cutting May Provide
Relief Fro
By Science Service
| CHICAGO, Oct. 3.— An &rtery-|emoors cutting operation that brings re- tet ] artery on. ihe side of the
lief, apparently permanently, in one | type of migraine “headache fs re- Pain and most of the continuous ported by Dr. Samuel B, Nadler, of Tulane University School of fered. Injecting a local anesthetic Medicine, in the forthcoming issue [into the tissue around. the artery of the Journal of the American brought relief, often ‘within one minute, which lasted from several). The particular headache comes in [hours to several days. a periodic attack of throbbing pain, “frequently “unbearable,” -over- the months so far, was achieved: by the right or left temple or both. The operation in which the artery was
Medical Association here,
Now Than Japs
nese, Hindus and various breeds and cross-breeds flowing through this ancient, vice-ridden corner of the Orient. She lives in a barracks 50 by 30 feet with six other women. The place is dirty because they have no soap, Food is bad. The men and women and children here stare at you like zombies.
They tell you of the treatment they had at the hands of the Japanese camp masters, One was a man named Goya who would force {them to bend their knees and shout “Goya is king of the Jews.”
Goya controlled.the girls working the bars and walking streets because
them to leave the camp. If refused a pass, a girl was unable to shqw up for work and lost her job, China Doll lost three jobs before finally submitting to Goya. Among the people here are many highly-trained doctors, scientists and manufacturers, They wish to be useful in the world and hardly dare hope that America will help them but they know they can't look elsewhere, They have the dignity of the damned despite having to watch their daughters and wives forced into prostitution and their sons into work as white coolies.
Copyright, 1045, by The Jndiananolls es nd The Chicago Datly News,
m ‘Migraines’ . Pressing with the fingers on the
headache abolished the throbbing
dull ache that patients also suf-
More prolonged relief, two to 11
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Burton in Robes of Justice
SAIGON RIOTS FLARE AS PARLEY IS SOUGHT
SAIGON, French Indo-China, Sept.
30 (Delayed)—(U, P.).—Sporadic
rioting and shooting continued in Saigon today as British military authorities sought to arrange a “peace conference” hetween the French and rebellious Annamite leaders. Informed sources revealed that the British had offered safe con. duct to the nationalist leaders dif they would come in to discuss a
-{settlement of the uprising.
There was no immediate indication whether the Annamites would accept the offer, although the Japanese headquarters in Saigon said a qualified acceptance had been received from Pham Ngoc Thach, foreign minister in the so-called Nationalist “government.”
TINY BULB USED WASHINGTON.—An incandescent light bulb the size of a grain of wheat is used in surgical instru ments. It is one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter.
Veteran of five major battles, the U.8.8. Taussig is cruising toward home from the Tokyo bay, “Aboard the ship is Radioman 3-c William Pearson Jessee, husband of Mrs. Louise Jessee, 6203 Broadway, and a Times employee on leave who has written of the activities of the Taussig and its year and four months of duty, The career of the Taussig began on May 19, 1944, when it left the navy yard from New York and entered its ‘shakedown period.” On Sept. 1 the Taussig entered
with the 3d fleet. Operating as part of a task group conducting air strikes in the ‘Philippines, Formosa, Okinawa, China and Indo-China, the Taussig helped in the liberation of the Philippines. It took part in the first carrierbased air strikes against Tokyo and other Jap home islands. Air strikes continued until Aug. 15, and patrolling until Sept. 2—V-J day.
On the Taussig's record are
the Pacific and reported for service
Local Sailor Riding Home on NOTRE DANE DRE Ship That Fought Five Battles DIES IN EAST BE
CALCUTTA, Oct. 3 (U.
four: enemy ‘planes shot down un-
assisted, five shot down with as-|J: Crowley, sistance and three shot down by|Bishop of Dacca, East Bengal combat air patrol under Taussig| the last 20 years, died yesterday.
‘Crowley’s home town was 1 Dame, Ind. where he. had
were sunk’.or destroyed. The ship|8t one time as a professor ab also rescued eight aircraft person-|tre Dame university. : He had spent 38 years in sionary work in Bengal and W8 Medals received on the ship in-|the leader of a group of Holy clude the one silver star medal, |fathers working on the Ben < ribbon, two|Assam border. For the last three years he marine corps medal and five bronze [served as chaplain at the WU. star medals have been recom-|army hospital in Dacca.
FREE ENTRY FOR LATINS
NEW ORLEANS (U. Pu campaign to eliminate passport quirements for Latin Ame entering the 4 WASHINGTON — The heliotrope started recently by the commit is a flower that turns toward thelon consuls of the New Or! sun and its name so signifies. It|Association of Commerce. A sta comes from two Greek words, helios,imnt has been forwarded to A
control, Four enemy surface units were sunk or damaged and 13 mines
nel and took one Japanese prisoner of war.
one commendation bronze star medals, one navy and
mended. The ship travelled 129,495 miles. Radioman 3-c Jensen fntered the service in December, 1943,
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