Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1947 — Page 9
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lar Scars Quic ly Hides A Sick Nation
ple of Japap~don't realize what de-'concern or shows prospects of bemocracy 48. They go about their| coming one, {every-day tasks, trying to keep liv- “An. American loan to ings with no ‘idea: what democracy might do little good. The Japahese ebuld mean to them.. The older are all tied up in Oriental economy, people are set in their ways. They and can't count on-igeh- raw ma(are willing to concede--‘democracy terial importation from the U. 8. or | good, ah yes’ — but they don't any other former enemy nation, change. “Coal actually® is the key, Japan | “We will just have to wait unt needs 40 millions tons of coal a year. | the younger generation grows up.’ In June of 1048, ‘under bombard: | Two years ago Japanese children ment, she produced 2's million tons. | -
The war was over. . The Japanese empire was in the were marching to school. studying But now, with all that we can urge, the glories of the: army and navy, She Just manages to eke out two
hands of the allied powers, 3 : being told of Nippon's eat future Millioh tons a month, That much That’ was Sept. 1, 1945. Now two years have passed. [J w ub I es ation. y is needed to keep the nation going.’ To us who went ashore with the first American wave b Ady ! * x { '1t_leaves nothing over for. factory that day,.it was almost unbelievable that any nation. could Ey a Ee “Thurs is an industrial iron wall have lived through the destruction we saw on every side. Their school texts no longer glorify around Japan. Ulitil we can get an To one who saw devastated Japan that day, it is almost
war and Shinto, They study the official exchange which may tinbelievable that any nation, in so short a time, could have people's history—not details of the be fixed by the peace treaty-—we made the comeback that Nip-|
{divine court life of the Emperor. . can't even try to do business under pon appears to have made,
Miss Tada voiced a very general & cost system and learn whether feeling when she said that the fu- Japan can function BQuatrially, But when you look 3 oar on rom an staff corresponden neath the surface, and check 'whe flew to Japan te revisit scenes |
ture of Japan, and of democracy | an Store i ) into the conditions that actu- he first saw as a member .of the
here, les in these youth unscarred “THE FOOD pictre is far from by militarism and Shintoism. bright. Food now is being paid for | Hours i ally exist, you discover that occupying naval force. Daily : Ee po
Mark Orr, civilian head of the bY the US. treasury. How long WANDER IN RUBBLE~Two years ago, only a few sad citi- ‘education section of the supreme ‘Pat will last is up lo congress. Con- | all is not well with Japan. ing, the deepest scars of war are greene ET ue. Notwithstanding the consid. gone. Grass covers the runs. Big } Ny 5 Ra ed 5 pom
MONDAY, SEPT, 1 1800 sen
| Japan Covers Up But Her New Face
Democracy Only a Word fo Hungry People; Future Lies in Children
By ARTHU R RICKERBY
for the entire family.’ E hours Monday and’ ‘Friday all} 3:30
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EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT A Staff Corresponden _-
TOKYO, Sept. fA little man in swallow- tailed coat and striped trousers clumped his wooden leg to the table. _ With an unhappy flourish he signed his name, 3 Oriental " characters, to a scroll. ~~
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| This word and picture dispatch on conditions in Japan on the secbe- ond anniversary of peace gomes
zens wandered along the Ginza amidst the rubble of war, command set-up; says it will take BYess is growing restless about costs. | Thousands of new wooden dwellings
aq another generation of teachers be- But if they pull out now and leave erable reconstruction, Japan y,ve sprung up. According fo Ori
fore we can hope really to bring the country on the verge of starva- | democrady to Japan. tion, there is no telling what may | is a very sick nation, ental standards..the peéple look awell clothed and well fed.
paturday 9:30 ) 6 pom,
TRUE, the ope ate full of goods ~hecause few can afford to buy. There is food-—but it costs, some-! tithes, as much as 60 times what it
on a broad scale, Elementary prim- “4 hungry people will follow any | Yokosuka - — where the surrender apd. rebuilding thdt gives the first But while we try to combat centi- the mind of Sanzo Nozaka, secre mile of dreary, bombed-out ¢oun- the impossible. the Communists capitalize upon tion that he can provide food for | y s pangs of hunger provide occasion, | burned cars littered the streets. 'sti)i~industrial smokestacks clean A 0 EE { own skill are necessary if the Japanese things are run, under communism in | Along the Ginza street, the ¢ggm-| Housing and food shortages are |And also, perhaps first, the pre- is no question that our occupation wandered amidst the, Fasiile of Inflation -is runaway, and black: {Japanese people can get food to eat, military power so utterly that exagain. The shops are full of food, i RUBBLE CLEARED Today, the hbble has san cleared, [cleansed of the thought thiat actual-| a MA taurants ate busy. The sidewalks, ‘did in 1945.
Adult education is being pushed Dappen.- - # » on ers explain the new constitution, Messiah who feeds them.” TWO YEARS ago, we rode from It is this physiodl covering-up the responsibilities of voting, etc,| That. of course, is in the front of | took place aboard the U, 8. S.'Mis- impression thatthe Japanese peo- ies of feudal training and change fAry-general of the Japanese Com- | souri—to Tokyo through mile: after ple. in two yefrs, have accomplished 'the Oriental mind by such methods Munist party. There is no indica- | tryside. In Tokyo itself all was ruin| But g6 behind that face-lifting, human misery to effer their wholly be starving. But whenever the | and desolation. The corpses of and you find production at a stand- different “political medicines. Nozaka and his followers are up on | Buildings were flat.” Shops were afd cold while thie people fish for MUCH TIME and patience and ® Soapbox telling how much better | closed. / food. | are to be taught democracy, every the Soviet Union, . bined Broadway and Fifth enue severe and show no promise of ime | {body of consequence here agrees From a military standpoint, there | of Japan, only a few sad citizens provement. Labor unrest is stirring {carious economy of the country! is-#-success. Our troops are orderbombing. ‘marketeers are active, must be strengthened 50 that the ly. They have destroyed Japanese Now crowds tint the Ginza | |houses in which to live, clothing to Perts think it would take 50 years goods and souvenirs, Department |wear<-So that their “minds can be to rebuild it. Yet they are popular. * stores seem fo be thriving. Res- ai bomb damage repaired. Crowds throng through the Ginza and Hy they are worse off today than INDEED, SOME “pane, ai lling almost ite rd t ' ‘under Tojo. ' 5 0 are lined with stalls selling alm Before the war. Voshida Sai. ate) 7 shops... . .. Few can afford to buy.
. : treaty for fear it would mean the] Premier Tetsu Katayama s re- 3 EY everything, Bomb damage has been; J); staple, three times a day. averted temporarily in August when|plant is going downhill. Production. leéntly that the ralay: pet van departure of American froops, leav- | « repiired or c eared away. Now he is lucky to get a small bow! Gen. MacArthur released 21,200|is lots worse that it was at the end economic crisis unparalleled in our ing the country unprotected. They! FROM THE leveled off areas of » Week. Rationing provides enly 25 tons of American grain one day|of the war. For two years we have, i. » would like to see us stay for maybe . member thet 4 Aner (bute Tokyo that took the worst pound. days’ food a month-—800 calories— ahead of a protest mass meeting been using the reserves of raw ma- co; Raday, ‘chief of -SOAP’s 50 Years - Ja : dignity. and beauty | less than a third of the 2600 con- encouraged by Communists. Butiterials we found when we. landed, ' Advertisement
industrial ‘division, points out that! Ine Japanese are trained in-long- AiMabie "at Moore Morty: sidered a minimum to keep life and what will happen the rest of the | land soon they will be exhausted : : ¢ ! Hemorrkoids— | president of the try is wrapped Up in Chinese raw which—-at least when new genera-|
“ awvalla at Mante Bai ho ; riex at costs which p Japan néver has been self-sufficient. '8nge thinking, - Our biggest task ar ‘health. Fear ewer ying Yoshida -San. | Then production Will grind to a whole Sxonomy of iflclent ere is tn create conditions under Inamutu-San, The housing situation would bring | complete stop. \ Get Relief Now! Jmperial hd 4 JroMingnt shudders to Americans whe thipk} ere Sos a) en | materials and fuels, - Japan: tradi ons take over—they will think inj. business man, says that “the food things are tough at home. {economy probably will barely stag- tionally depends on North China terms of
Prices al Moore Mortuaries have always been moderate, - At = time of sorrow when accumulated expenses may
no Anancial burden on Any family,
hotel Japan's
Millions of sufferers in the last 40 gityation is much worse than two
world peace and de-|
years have found a way to get quick yoo, 200 when you
relief from the itching and smarting (Americans)
lives in & dark ger along for about 20 years. In my
Yoshi Urano, 58, estimation it will be 1965 to 1967 be-
cave in a hillside with her .deaf son,|
for coke, iron ore and soy beans MOCTRCY. which are the basis of her fats and
of piles. They use a delightful cool-|
first came here. It is far worse Masahisa. It is unlighted, unfioored,
fore the nation's economy may level,
olls industries,
There have been
a ent for- {than we ever dreamed. Last year's i Ton oy gen: No harvest was good, but food distriwonder one sufferer writes, “The bution is 24 -days behind schedule itching and smarting were relieved, The people go to the black market. and I slept all night. Peterson's Nobody denigs that we have a black Ointment is marvelous.” 36c a box markét, The people must have all druggists, 66c in tube with ap- food” : Jlcaton Money , back! if not de-
off. This will mean a miserably low | unwalled,- unsanitary, They sleep Niving standard for the Japanese [lone of these imports since V-J
on; the bate, cold ground. | people. It also will take a lat of :
This is extreme, They -were| | bombed five times out of homes| American dollars—for Japan now is; eyApAN DEPENDS upon Mor+|
during the war. But it is estimated *" the American dole, with n0.p0s- mosa and Korea for foodstuffs.| that 175,000 of Tokyo's residents live| SPU of SeLITIE 4 He legge (Neither of these now 1s a going] : Hin hovels only one grade better—! “IT 1 , ERD + — > ghted. re A TROUBLESOME crisis was rough sheds of fire-damaged tin, or| 8 DANG vs & Whip &
t country; tw ocratize ntact” S SACS was FORE alo ‘of 5 few hourds along| CUMITE HY fo dem them, |
and ha un | hr = the side of a hill with the rising Ve : elf HlgYy. B0Uer you
: If they had more’ food under Tojo,| ) - earth for one side.
n ofked hard they will listen to another Tojo inThe Japanese ve Worke io ,. Stead of to democracy's representa on reconstrugtion. Many present-|y ., nemacragy and a full stomable new wooden houses ‘have Ny ~ hl Vg OSCAR CAPLINGER No. 13 on the seniority list and an operator, since back in '13, Mr. Cap-
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ach are tied together.” { Miyo Kakehi has never heard of! democracy. Toyoko Takashino never! has heard of democracy. Most Japanese haven't the slightest under| standing what democracy is alll
sprung up. Some of the best are in the geishia and the yoshiwara (red | light) district; ‘these were rebuilt among the first, gBut lumber is scarce and expensive, and progress 15 slow.
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Japan is down te-35 per cent of the bare subsistence level .of 1935. supreme command's industrial aders admit that the) found a way to appearance of decent million war-stricken At his desk in Joseph Z. Reday, division chief to SCAP, told me: Japan ese
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