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NATIONAL CAPITAL
By Carter Field
FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
Washington.—When a few young
Japanese army officers assassinate
a few cabinet members and force a
change In the government, even If
they do kill the wrong man for the
premier, Washington diplomats and
officials comment very cynically.
They say without hesitation that
the young officers are taking the
blame because It would never do to
have the real brains behind the
movement exposed. It's a sort of
survival, they point out, of the "king
can do no wrong" theory. Which
means thnt when the king really
doea something wrong, some one
else takes the blame.
“Why, that's what ministers are
for," said one old diplomat.
But when the same type of thing
—not killing people but taking the
blame for what somebody else did—
happens in America every one Is
very serious. It Is solemnly debat
ed In the house and senate Just ns
though the “rap takers" were the
really guilty parties.
Two recent episodes must have
amused the diplomatic group here
no end. One was the (leneral I la
good case, which Is still spouting
fireworks, and the other was the
definitely closed Marine band epi
sode.
Every one on the Inside In the
Navy department knows perfectly
well that the then assistant secre
tary of the navy, the late Henry L.
Roosevelt, had no more Important
function in the Marine hand episode
than an errand boy. It Is well
known that he had his orders di
rect from the White House. It Is
even known who signed the order,
for It was In writing. But there Is
no use dragging that In, for nobody
thinks the secretary who signed the
order originated It either.
But Henry Roosevelt was roundly
denounced for having withdrawn
the hand from a patriotic women's
society convention because Baln
brldge Colby had made a speech the
night before criticising President
Roosevelt.
Craig Takes Rap
In the General llagood cnse,
which has distinctly become a ‘‘hot
potato," If not a boomerang, the
gentleman to take the rap Is Gen.
Malln Craig,
It was Just terrible, to hear Rep
resentative Thomas L. Blanton of
Texas tell It, that a tough, hard
boiled horsewhipper of petty thieves
In the army should have been per
mitted to deprive an honest soldier
like General llagood of his com
mand. Blanton felt sure President
Roosevelt would not stand for any
such nonsense, hut would force
Craig to reinstate the Innocent
Hagood.
Now no one is going to claim that
Craig's heart beats warmly at the
mere mention of Hagood's name.
But neither is anyone who looks at
the record going to figure that Craig
suddenly became tils old horse
whipping self—If you believe Blan
ton—Just because General Hagood
talked boondoggling and stnge
money, and demanded that the army
should have better quarters for Its
men Instead of squandering money
on useless projects.
It’s much harder than trying to
believe that the young Japanese of
ficers acted on their own Initiative.
For every army officer who has dis
cussed the situation In private
thinks that Hugood Is perfectly
right, though, some, of course, sny
he was Indiscreet, to talk about
“stage money.” But they do agree
emphatically that It would be bet
ter to spend some of this money on
the army.
So that tt would appear a reason
able deduction that however Craig
may have disliked Magood, he
didn't originate the Idea of punish
ing him for that.
Yet as a result the friends of
Roosevelt, trying to protect the
President from such an unspeak
able martinet's maneuvering*, have
actually been muckraking Craig’s
past history, digging out this horse
whipping episode, on which he was
exonerated by a senatorial commit
tee years ago.
Annoys New Dealers
Father Coughlin has yielded to
William J. Cameron In being the
most annoying speaker—from the
New Deal standpoint—on the radio
each Sabbath evening front Detroit.
In his talk Just preceding President
Roosevelt’s tax message. Cameron
devoted all his time to explaining,
in simple language, Just what the
value to the nation In general and
the working man in particular was
of a big corporation surplus.
He pointed out, for Instance, that
In the years since this depression
began industry has spent $27,000,
000.000 out of surplus In carrying
on. employing labor and buying ma
terials—keeping the wheel? turning.
He made It perfectly clear that the
corporations had spent $27,000,000,
000 more than they took In during
this period, in addition, of course,
to every dollar that they did take In.
In the same period, Cameron point
ed out, the government spending for
relief of the employed, for providing
Jobs for them, and everything that
goes with it, was only $5,500,000,
000—Just about one-fifth, With the
I tremendous difference that this
spending by Ckc epv»r|l*»ent means
taxes, which hamper business and
reduce buying power.
No one can estimate the number
of persons who listen to Cameron.
The radio companies have never
perfected any device which would
show how many radio sets are
tuned In on a given program. And
ns Cnmeron happens to make no
appeal for funds, nor any request
for comment, much less any sug
gestion that by sending In some
carton covers you may win n prize,
there Is no means of arriving at
even an approximate figure.
But Cameron does happen to work
for Henry Ford. He talks on the
Ford hour, which Is mostly devoted
to music, which would normally be
classed as very high grade, In fact,
mostly classical. And radio people
say this would limit Hie number of
listeners—even If Ford dealers
should do a little plugging, as they
have been known to do for other
things in which Ford was Inter
ested.
Talks for Ford
The chief Interest In the Cnmeron
talks to most politically minded
folks In Washington Is that he Is
saying what Henry Ford wants
said. Much of It is In nn Indirect
wny of flattering Henry Ford and
the kind of business Ford runs.
But Ford from time to time has
been very keenly Interested In pol
itics, and the Cameron talk about
the use of wRilch the corporations
of the country put their surpluses
may be accepted as Ford's reflec
tion on the ideas underlying the
Roosevelt tax proposal.
Which Is the more Interesting,
because It projects Itself Into the
Presidential campaign. Because nt
the moment there seems little real
doubt that the Roosevelt idea of
forcing bigger distribution of cor
poration earnings is going to be
come law.
As experts here analyze the sit
uation, the new tax policy would
mean bigger dividends, bigger
spending for replacements, more
advertising aimed nt the future as
well us the present, and more
wages. So far all to the good.
But they also figure that It points
Inevitably to bigger and worse de
pressions punctuating the spells of
grenter prosperity. Tills on the
theory that when depression comes
there will not he the cushion to
break the fall. Hence It will he
more precipitate.
There would not be this $‘J7,000,
000,000 for the corporations to
spend, for Instance. The New Deal
nnswer Is that If the surpluses are
spent as they are earned, there
won’t be any depressions.
Cut Down on Relief
Assuming that congress does vote
u tnx hill calculuted to bring in
$78(1,000,(XX) additional, the budget
will be precisely balanced except
for whatever may be appropriated
later for relief, and plus, of course,
anything else congress may appro
priate which Is not now on the pro
gram.
Which means that the federal
government will go Into debt dur
ing the* year beginning July 1 pre
cisely the amount of the relief ap
propriations. In his budget mes
sage President Itoosevelt pointed
out that If relief appropriations
are less than two billion dollars,
the budget picture will be Just that
much better than it was for the
present year. .
There Is no doubt whatever that
the relief appropriation will be less
than two billion dollars. It will
not be anything like that much.
But It will have to be a good round
sum. Some of the experts are talk
ing about one billion dollars, but
nobody knows, not even the men
who will decide what congress Is
to be asked to appropriate—Presi
dent Itoosevelt himself and Admin
istrator Harry L. Hopkins.
Not only that, hut they will not
know what It Is really going to
be when they ask for it, nor after
congress has given It to them. They
may spend less than Is appropri
ated, or the precise amount, or
more. This lust possibility is not
as silly us It sounds. Government
agencies that have the backing of
the .President have never worried
too much about'what lias been ap
propriated. That is what we have
deficiency bills for—to take care
of Just such "emergencies." And
there are generally about two of
those omnibus measures a year.
Taking the good round tigure of
one billion for relief, however, for
no other reason than it Is the best
obtainable at the present moment,
this would mean that the govern
ment will go one billion dollars fur
tber Into debt during the year be
ginning July 1.
This Is the really Important situ
ation that underlies all the froth
of present lax consideration by tin*
bouse and senate. It explains why
members of the house today are In
abject fear that when their tax bill
gets over to the senate the notion
of Senators La Pallette. Vnnden
berg and Cnurens may prevail.
Copyright—WN11 Sorvior.
A Sandal Shop in Tokyo.
r-<1 by National OPOKraphle Society,
nhlnfcton, D. C.—WNU Service
L>T many years ago It was
held up against the Japanese
that they never Indulged in
athletics. Today there are in Tokyo
two huge stadiums, one originally
seating 05,000 people, but enlarged
in 1981 to accommodate 80,000, the
other 80,000, and on the days of
baseball games there are few va
cant seats.
With the exception of wrestlers,
there are no professional athletes
in Japan. Teams are made up
largely of undergraduates In the
various universities, and it Is the
Intervarsity games which draw the
largest crowds.
Baseball, skillfully and intelli
gently played, Is as popular In Ja
pnn as In the United States, but
It is not tlie only popular athletic
sport. Rugger football is played
everywhere and played well. As It
is part of the army training and
as something like 100,000 young
men go through this training, rug
ger may well supersede baseball In
popularity. Hockey and associa
tion football are played more and
more and boxing Is becoming pop
ular. Wherever there Is space In
Tokyo there Is u tennis court. The
Y. M. C. A. pool Is always full of
swimmers, as are the great out
door pools In summer, and Japa
nese swimmers hold some world rec
ords. More and more rowing crews
In racing shells are appearing on
the rivers and lakes.
Golf clubs are springing up, and,
as In America, the links are used
largely by business men. At the
army maneuver field, on the out
skirts of the city, you can see mag
nificent riding. So the old ac
cusation of lack of Interest in ath
letic sports can no longer be made.
These modern games have not en
tirely driven out the old, purely
Japanese sports. Thousands gather,
as of old, to watch the wrestling
matches, where the immensely fat
men so well known in Japnnese
prints carry on their strange
matches under the ancient rules.
Archery Is also popular among the
chosen few. and the great matches
are always sponsored by some of
the Imperial princes. It takes a
strong man even to bend some of
the tough old bows.
Athletics Build Up the Race.
It would be impossible to esti
mate what athletics are doing for
the Japanese as a race. The iiible
says that no man by taking thought
can add a cubit to his stuture, but
there is no doubt that succeeding
generations of Japanese are taller.
When you meet young men In To
kyo, dressed in gymnasium costume,
runlng through the streets; when
you see the finely proportioned
bodies of the boys in the Y. M. C.
A. pool; when you go to a univer
sity graduation and see the stu
dents all together, you no longer
think of the Japanese as a par
ticularly "little people." With a
better-regulated and better-balanced
diet and with physical training
from the earliest years, through all
grades of school, the Japanese are
growing up physically. They grew
up mentally a long time ago.
It Is said that the generation now
reaching maturity is, on an average,
an Inch taller than the preceding
generation. As a generalization, one
should doubt this, hut at the same
time one feels sure It Is true in
the cities where modern ideas of
exercise and diet are prevalent.
There Is probably no phase of
life in Tokyo which more clearly
shows the contrast between the old
and the new than do the theaters.
You go to the Kabuki-za or to the
splendl^ Tokyo theater and there
see ancient dramas given in the old
style of acting; or you go around
the corner to a movie theater and
see the latest Hollywood produc
tion.
The Kabuki and Tokyo theaters
are enormous, thoroughly modern,
handsome buildings. The orches
tra seats are like those in an Amer
lean theater except that they are
lower. The boxes have no seats,
because people seem to prefer to
sit on the floor, In the old style.
The plays begin—there are gen
erally three or four given In suc
cession—from two until four o’clock
In the afternoon and last until ten
o’clock at night.
Huge Theater Stage.
The stage Is enormous, the light
ing and scenic effects superb. It Is
probably true that the Japanese
were the first to have a revolving
stage for quick shifts of scenery.
The actors strut in the ancient
style and chant their lines. In fact,
If the lines are emotional, they are
sung by the musicians at the sides
of the stage, since it is not consid
ered proper to show too great emo
tion.
But, in spite of all this, the actors
—men, of course, take the women’s
parts, and a Japanese lady explains
this as being necessary "because
men are so much more graceful”—
are really great and make a pro
found impression on any foreigner
who hus the intelligence to rise
above the "queerness” of the per
formance. *
It may he true, as some have
said, that the living actors of the
stage adopted their stilted style
from the puppet shows of old, but
tiie style cannot hide their power
of character portrayal. You feel,
on leaving the theater, that you
have been living in all the color of
past centuries.
And then the movies are just as
crowded as tiie theaters. There
is a movie industry in Japan, but
tills does not detract from the pop
ularity of tiie Hollywood produc
tions. Talking pictures were hard
to deal with at first, but now a
solemn individual sits at the side
of the picture and translates, ap
parently to the satisfaction of the
audience, us the play progresses.
Lots of Gay Cafes.
Tokyo is full of cafes, always
crowded, modeled somewhat on the
cafes of I’aris. In former days peo
ple gave geisha parties, those rath
er solemn utTuirs at which geishas
dunced their symbolic dances. They
were very expensive, und those who
could not afford the expense con
tented themselves with picnics. Now
tiie cafes are crowded, their prin
cipal patrons being, perhaps, the
•'mobos" and the “mogas.”
The Jupanese, more than any
other nation, love to abbreviate,
and "mobo" is the abbreviation for
modern boy, und ‘‘niDga’’ is the ab
breviation for modern girl. Indeed,
these mobas and mogas, dressed al
most always in European clothes
and trying to adopt the freedom
of European manners, are about the
most modern aspect of Tokyo.
One might go on almost Indefi
nitely in pointing out the various
contrasts of tills city, where at
every point the contrasts between
tiie old and new, between tiie oc
cidental and tiie oriental. Is so strik
ing. It should never lie forgotten
that both the old and the new, both
the western and the eastern, are
real in Tokyo. Somewhere in the
fusion of the two lies the truth of
Tokyo. When one remembers that
the western Ideas have been nat
uralized for less than a century,
one can understand the inevitable
outcropping of oriental ideas.
In these days when the populace
of Tokyo is excited over the China
situation, when any soldier is ap
plauded on tiie streets, there is.
perhaps, an outcropping of the old
military love of tiie samurai class.
Yet even this is somewhat also oc
cidental. in an American city noth
ing can arouse such enthusiasm
as marching troops at a time when
war is in the air. So far as ideas
are concerned, Kipling was wrong
in saying that the West and East
could not meet. In Tokyo the West
has met tiie East, and out of this
meeting is growing a new kind of
civilization, In which the ideals of
the two hemispheres are fusing.
Alaskan Eskimo Is a Fast
Vanishing Race, Doctor Says
The average life span of Alaskan
Eskimos is only 24 years, due chiefly
to the prevalence of tuberculosis,
says Dr. Victor E. Levine of the
Creighton university school of rnedl
cine in Omaha, Neb. He has com
pleted his third trip to the Arctic
to make medical studies of the
Eskimos.
Unless more physicians are pro
vided in the Arctic to guard the
health of Eskimos the race will be
come extinct in little more than a
generation. Doctor Levine predicts.
MSUSd
Tough Luck
“What you all doin’ now, big boy?’’
"Ah is a exporter.”
“An exporter? What's dat?”
“Ah wuz pullmnn porter, but ah's
been fired.”
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Jaggs (very sadly)—Yes, I have
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