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You are not surprised to find intelligent faces here, for you remember that this Japanese counterpart of our junior ‘high school is entered only upon passing stiff entrance examinations. You already . have conversed i with Shunzo To- : shima, the school’s head teacher. He has told you how the schoel is in process of being demilitarized. Military drill has been abandoned, three teachers, who taught it along with fencing, and judo have been removed, and rifles have been turned back. He has also told how baseball at this particular school continued to be played all during the war. “Unlike some of the schools we do not consider it an enemy sport,” he has said. To our way of thinking baseball is international.”

Prefer Baseball to Drill

So now you ask the youngsters clustered around you: “Which ~would you rather do—play baseball or do military drill?” The answer comes back in thumping unanimous chorus: ball.” : “Do you like school now better than during the war?” you ask. “Yes,” they reply. “We don’t have all that military stuff and discipline now.” So here we have one school's reaction to the new teachings brought in by the Americans. One hundred miles from Tokyo, at Mito higher school for boys are another group, who went on strike until the militaristic head-teacher - was forced to resign. American education officers with vhom I have talked are encouraged by the example of these schools but not inclined to generalize. They say that, undoubtedly there are numerous other schools that are not yet so well on the way to demilitarization. Even the boys at Kudan and Mito, they think, perhaps are motivated not so much by sincere anti-militarism as by the normal growing boy's laziness, that welcomes an opportunity to escape drill and discipline. Another interesting factor in the

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that food rather than ideology is the principal cause of the controversy which has set off a string of school strikes, running clear to Hokkaido. The students protested against the practice of head teachers, who make them work in the school garden and then keep all their produce for their own households. Students at Kodama agriculture school signed in blood their demand for dismissal of the two teachers, No History, Geography The teaching problem, in general, is confused by the ordered changeover from militarist ways. Two ticklish subjects are Japanese history and geography. Toshina told me that Kudan middle school was not teaching either one until they 1 get more detailed instructions from the ministry of education. The boys .at the Kudan playground showed the effects of their militarist indoctrination, I asked them what they thought of G. I.’s. They laughed and babbled. The interpreter said: “They can’t get over how sloppy, slaphappy and unsoldierlike they are, Not at all like Japanese soldiers.” Then I asked if they would rather wear military youth uniforms, such as they had on, or civilian clothes. One little one popped up with: “I'd rather have a blacks uniform.” The interpreter tried to explain it away by saying: “All youngsters wore black school uniforms before the war, which was a good thing because then there was no difference between rich and poor.” - Americans whom I consulted had another version. “Black school uniforms were another way in which the militarists got across their appeal.”

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“Ball- Pla ying Jap Schoolboys 1 Are Eosin Their Freedom

By WILLIAM McGAFFIN

Correspondent

TOKYO, Oct. 24.—~They are playing baseball as we come up to them on the playground of Kudan middle school in north Tokyo. There are ; about a dozen boys in khaki youth uniforms and soldier caps, whose

They drop battered tennis balls and bamboo jmprovised bats and crowd around us with curiosity written o on their intelligent looking faces.

OREGON MAN HEADS DISABLED VETERANS,

CHICAGO, Oct, 24 (U, P.)~Don V. Walker, Newport, Ore, an army major in the first world war, yesterday took over as national commender of the Disabled American Veterans, meeting in annual convention here. Sgt. Harold Dixon, Mount Raniery) Md., who lost both legs in Aachen,

VERMONT COINS PRIZED

EAST RUPERT,

P.).—Reuben Harmon of East Rupert, minted copper coins for the state of Vermont during the decade | lution His showed a sun rising over the hills {all government insurance policies and a plow on the foreground, The | reverse was a radiated eye surrounded by. 13 stars,

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Germany, became the first world war: II- veteran to be elevated to a top D. A, V. office when he was named first junior vice commander. The 1500 delegates passed a reso-| asking the war and navy coin departments to pay premiums on

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Thousands. Take Tests in Southern City’ s Health Campaign

By Science Service SAVANNAH, Ga., Oct, 24.—Thou~ sands of" men and women from every walk in life are lining ‘up at health centers here to turn for chest X-rays tests as this Southern a 45-day campaign against tuberculosis and venereal disease, The campaign, from Oct. 15 to Nov. 30, is breaking records for disease fighting, It is the first time in public health history that syphilis and tuberculosis have been combined in case-find-ing. While Birmingham, neered last spring in a mass ate tack on syphilis and gonorrhea, the campaign there resulted from a state law requiring blood tests, and treatment where persons between the ages of 14 and

[HOUSE UNAMERICAM PROBERS ACCUSE

- WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (U. P. —Rep. Ellis E. Patterson (D, Cal. revealed the strategy today for fight to abolish what he calls “Intimidating, gestapo-like” ho unAmerican activities committee,

Savannah ‘citizens are showing that no law is needed to make peo~ ple take these important steps for protecting their own and théir community’s health. The campaign here is on a.volutary . basis, Yet in the first four days of the campaign 5719 chests have been Xrayed to detect tuberculosis and 5719 blood samples have.been taken

“TB can be cured in its early stages. An X-ray today may “save your lite tomorrow.” When you read that message on! eight-foot high posters on thé main | business streets of your town; see is repeated in streetcar cards and in the newspaper and hear it over to test for syphilis. a nan 2 The blood testing laboratory, set|sponse here. Whether you are a up to run 1000 tests a day, has al- {member of the women’s auxiliary ready had to be reorganized and

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housing project, you follow the diAt one center, on the third eve- rections on the poster and go to ning of the campaign, men and

the health center-or your physician. women stood in line:for three hours| Here, as in Birmingham last waiting of their own accord for the|spring, the “streets and cars are rushed staff of doctors and nurses (also placarded with the notice that to get the X-ray pictures made and |treatment of syphilis with penicilthe blood samples taken. {lin can be completed in nine days

and that blood tests will be given at the health ‘center, Syphilis patients go to the U, 8. public health service's rapid treat{ment hospital. Tuberculosis patients go to another hospital for the rest and other measures that are part of the ‘modern treatment of this disease. Examination and penicillin treatment for gonorrhea is also being given but is not!the featured part of the campaign.

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petition to force a house vote © long - pigeonholed legislation abolish the committee. Patterson declared he was “co fident” of getting the 218 sig tures required for the petition. Su porters of the committee wi

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