European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank army a Toffy sep Timber ims of the emperor by the Zaibatsu great families controlling industries for the military con with the average Feudal peasant living in a twentieth Century the Bottom of the the position of the emperor seems to have excited much More curiosity in America than any other one Factor of the japanese the emperor first of just what his name in the temporal ruler of in the 1300 years of known Jap the emperor has More often than not been a puppet of the Mili tary this is quite since the emperor himself is related to the major families of Japan who make up the military and it is a Little difficult to see just Why he  serve them above unrelated under the japanese government which we have just the emperor was the front Man for both the military and the the Zaibatsu industrialists Are thought of As peaceful moderates by some but it is important to remember that the Zaibatsu families Are just those militarists we mentioned awhile ago who took Over Industry after Japan was opened by often their interests Are exactly the same As those of the army and the differences Between their ideas of expansion and those of the Jap generals seem to have been mostly differences of opinion As to timing and differences degree rather than differences of the industrialists and the military behind the emperor saw to it that he got a certain Reward for backing up their of not Only does the emperor own All the land in the japanese he also owns All the japanese perhaps because these rights Are More religious than tangible or perhaps to Dis Suade the emperor from Ever exercising them the Zaibatsu have Given the emperor cer Tain More practical he has a Cut of almost every going Industrial concern in silk arms and munitions plants As Well As the he owns outright All Forest land in the Empire and gets his percentage on Timber he is potentially the richest sin Gle being in Japan the in addition to All he is this is a natural result of his direct if you close your eyes to a few doubtful spots in japanese history descent from you will was the grandson of the Sun the 124th has the the sacred and the sword to consolidate his Posi needless to All three treasures Are stashed away in carefully guarded the religion which implies emperor worship in Japan is known As shinto May be superimposed on any other such As buddhism or the Only main requirement being that the believer go Back to the older japanese myths which place emphasis upon Complete subservience to the with its attendant emperor was Profita Bly revived at the time of the Meiji shinto has served to keep the people of Japan obedient to whatever orders or re scripts the Zaibatsu get the emperor to it is an added safeguard against for it is one thing to overthrow a ruler but an entirely Dif Ferent one to pit yourself against a the various Little superstitions regarding the emperor Are More a matter of amusement than anything else to his White the fact that no one May look Down on him under penalty of death this is Why there Are no tall buildings near his the ban against touch ing him which makes it necessary for his physicians to examine him at second hand while he is still and so Are All part of the elaborate rigmarole which serves to keep his holiness constantly in the Public to give him some slight knocked Down a few of the More extreme superstitions regarding the Imperial he married for love and planned la have his wife crowned at the same time As he was he broke up the old Tabu against the Imperial feet Ever touching the ground by walking occasionally instead of being for a completely out Date he has been comparatively Hirohito is 44 years he has what is known its a weak Chin and very poor he been interested in such diverse pursuits Asma Rine Golf and philosophy he has never to be terribly interested in either his army or his one of the few things the emperor is allowed a free hand in picking the name for his reign Hirohito picked which Means Radiant Hirohito 70 million people Are mostly peas there int enough room for everyone to be a Zaibatsu or a the peasants in the country Send their excess girl children to work in City factories and their boy excess or to the which is strictly a selective service the peasants in the cities work in a sizable number of peasants live by a relatively profitable since along with is a Staple of the japanese living standards Are Low in and most of the people have looked on the army As a pretty Good particularly since anything connected with the military has always been highly thought the factory workers Are paid an unbelievably Small amount by but nevertheless some of the country girls manage to save up enough to go Home and offer attractive Mone tary bait for a prostitution is As yanks who have occupied areas recently left by the Jap anese army Geisha contrary to pop ular Are not All prostitutes and Are Usu ally very carefully trained social entertainers whose services Are available Only to the upper the usual Contact with Geisha is anything but the Quick slap and tickle fondly imagined by it is As formal As an English Garden party to the just about As Bor you sit Cross legged at a Low and the Geisha serves you Tea and maybe sings a she also talks and the talking and laughing Are All done according to very exact and refined you take off your shoes when you enter the House that is about the Only thing that fits your original the japs Are great people for Public it used to be that men and women bathed in the same but this has been except in the the Best for the japs Are the hottest and the temperature often mounts to if you Are fond of finnish steam Japan will have at least this one attraction for in spite of japanese hatred for most of japans larger cities were pretty Well westernized before the some of the citizenry dressed in Western style clothes while others stuck to traditional japanese but there were automobiles and streetcars and Many modern education in Japan is Well but fat from the japanese have one of the highest standards of literacy in the but usually their education stops with Reading and writing once a Jap has been taught to read and to write and to worship the emperor according to the approved he int encouraged to go he in forcibly discouraged if he gets any ideas that run counter to the ideas of the ruling japanese education is a Little like giving a Man a knife and Fork and then cutting off his head if he uses the japanese show physical signs of their Low Standard of they tend to be Short and to have poor they make in Many for their Lack of height by Good muscular they Are Long on and the Stocky legs of the trained Jap infantrymen Are Well known to gis in the All four of the main Jap islands have one thing in common they Are Honshu the largest of the is 800 Miles Long and shaped like a Peanut in area it is roughly the size of the whole Island is but the Northern half is really the tallest Mountain is mount Natal since the islands Are mountainous and in about the same Range of it is no Surprise that their climate compares with that of our at lactic the coastal regions from Maine to the islands Are of vol Canic and some still Lively enough to squeak and steam and Are tourist the most famous volcanic Peak of near Tokyo on and it yearly draws the biggest crowds of footloose like everything else that draws crowds in Fujiyama has some sacred the whole Region is subject to the Kwanto on which Tokyo is is the largest habitable Region in besides Tokyo there Are in this area 40 cities of More than Tokyo is one of the most thoroughly and unpleasantly congested areas in the the population of Tokyo was Over seven million at last and on the same Side of Tokyo had a population of close to a Mil the whole Tokyo Bay area used to be pretty Messy due to crowded living and with the added attraction of Allied bomb damage it should have very Little Appeal at the Southern end of Lake Bina in the South of is an ancient City which used to be a hangout for the the japs like to Call it the Paris of it is full of places of historic interest and is the Center of japanese Osaka and Kobe Are both Industrial cities on Osaka and both of them were priority targets for our air Osaka is japans Sec Ond largest and Kobe used to be her largest port for foreign both cities Are rail Cen Kobe used to enjoy also a certain specialized Fame from the Kobe sex which in a strange Brand of the most unabashed Cata logs of Curiosa Ever japans third largest is also on Honshu on the ise a Small suburb of the its prewar population was it is the site of the big bomber Plant and has taken a pounding from one of the larger cities on Honshu used to be the second largest is not so widely it Points up toward the Kuri Les and was a possible Landing Point if we had Ever invaded from the its mountains Are largely clustered in the and its Northern Section consists of Miles of rolling it is shaped roughly like a Flower pot 150 Miles 260 Miles across the top and 140 Miles across the there Are Only three cities of impressive Otaru and in the third Island according to is the southernmost of the it is a rough rectangle 200 Miles Long and 60 Miles Nagasaki was its largest Yawata and Fukuoka Are its largest remaining which suffered from b29 was a naval like Yawata took a pounding also because it was an important steel another Large is on a Peninsula which Points up at the two islands Are connected Here by a double track underwater Railroad Tunnel Shikoku is the smallest it is also the least important it is mostly mountains and and Only a Mother could love it it has Only one Large name of the four the 70 million the screwy system of All of them will be something our occupying army will have keep an Eye on for the next question Mark when you look at them on the map or when you read about them in it seems impossible that they could have caused so much weve done part of our Job by beating if we do the rest of it  never cause hell no by pfc Robert Bendiner yank staff writer May prove to be one of the toughest details of the War has been wished on Lewis Schwelm Lenbach by Harry to hear judge Schwellenbac Tell that is precisely the Way he looks upon his appointment As Secretary of like any i picked for a he made a feeble Effort to beg but when the president reminded him that millions of other men were getting assignments they prefer not to the judge quietly abandoned a lifetime Job on the Federal Bench and resigned himself to what May be an uninterrupted headache for much longer than the stepping into the office occupied by Frances Perkins Ever since the first Roosevelt inaugural the new Cabinet member finds himself with a Man sized Job on his the Secretary of to quote from the departments official statement of is charged with the duty of and developing the Wel fare of the wage earners of the United improving their working conditions and advancing their opportunities for profitable employ during a period in which millions of gis will cease being gis and join the ranks of those wage earners it is obviously an advantage to have As labor Secretary a Man who knows the problems of returning veterans and can help smooth the transition from fatigues to with this consideration in it is easy to see How president Truman came to think of judge Schwellenbac for the not Many men in the country can match a lifetime interest in veterans with years of service As a labor of still fewer can claim the High regard of rival labor and fewer can boast on top of these qualifications the personal Friendship of the president of the United Schwellenbac must have seemed a born in of German Schwellenbac moved with his family to Tepa civic coast at the age of and following the death of his father four years sold papers on the streets of Tacoma to put himself through school and the University of from which he received a Bachelor of Laws degree in at this Point the career of the future Secretary shifted from Campus to and Schwelm Lenbach shouldered the duties of his first Public of a private in the 12th after a prolonged tour of Garrison duty in various parts of the country the 12th was about to embark for France when the armistice brought a change in with a discharge in his Schwellenbac returned to his adopted state of Washington and was presently admitted to the sch Wellenbach joined the budding american legion and soon was established As its vice commander for the department of in this capacity he had an Opportunity to tour the and while doing so became absorbed in a tragedy that was to have a lasting effect on his on armistice in an Atmos phere of a group of a servicemen raided a Hall belonging to the iwo in the town of the barricaded members opened killing three that same night one of the captured iwo men was taken from his cell by a mob and hanged from a the the hatred it generated for years a deep impression on and he addressed himself to the task of smoothing the differences be tween veterans and the extent of his Suc Cess May be measured by the fact that he not Only succeeded to the state command of legion but was subsequently invited to an Ameri can federation of labor convention As an honorary clearly diplomacy of a High order in 1932 the democratic party in Washington nominated Schwellenbac for governor of the state and he campaigned on a platform that included Public ownership of Public utilities and state operation of Idle factories for the Benefit of the he lost rather but two years later made a successful Campaign for the Schwellenbac was sworn in As a senator at the same time As Truman of with Minton of Hatch of new and a few he belonged to a group of Young a band of freshman senators who went Down the line for the Roosevelt adminis sch Ellen Bach favored the presidents reorganization of the supreme urged an embargo against Japan in the Early Days of nip ponese aggression in China and in his repeated fights for new Deal legislation refused to abide by the Senate tradition that newcomers o that August body should be seen but not probably his most dramatic perform Ance on Capitol Hill was his Success in shutting off a filibuster by the late Huey silencing the Kingfish was a Dar ing feat and took 15 hours of determined the was Huey had been hold ing the floor for Days at a time by introducing into his re Marks everything from whole chapters of the Bible to Reci Pes for Corn at the end of the Day he would ask for a re and threaten to go on talking All night rather than yield the floor if the recess were not rather than sit out such an his fellow senators had Selt Wellenbach been giving him the recesses he but Schwellenbac and his freshman col leagues were deter mined to Call Longs i Hope the senator from the can brakes Schwelm Lenbach that within the last half hour myself and each of the eight new members of the Senate around me have gone out and drunk three cups of Coffee which will enable us to staff Here for another 12 while the senator from Louisiana Long made a terrific Effort to Wear Down the Young but at he after 15 hours of oratory mixed with 15 glasses of nature got the better of recess or no he had to leave the the filibuster was in 1940 Schwellenbac resigned his Senate seat to accept an appointment As District judge for the Eastern District of he enjoyed the judicial his friends adding that Only president Truman Appeal induced him to discard the Black Robe of the Bench for the gabardine jacket and Gay Necktie he sports in the privacy of a Cabinet at the age of the new Secretary of thin of hair and with Gray brows almost thick enough to lock with those of John Lewis for the Bee Lebrow is As informal in manner As he is in but he Speaks precisely and with an air of he has a reputation in Washington As a hard and it is easy to see from his six foot Frame that his Energy does not come principally from the bottle of Vitamin capsules that rests incongruously on his affable though he he does not belong to the Gayer set of the he Doest and his idea of relaxation is summed up in a Cigar and a solid Book Secretary Schwellenbac is reluctant to discuss the numerous problems that face him until he has had a Chance to overhaul his this is the High priority task at the first the depression and later the War have produced a collection of government agencies in the labor relations Field that sometimes duplicate each other and at times appear even to work at the new Secretary is not certain that he can even these agencies drawn together under his but he does believe that some reorganisation is called we Are going to consolidate into this de he told a press the agencies that ought to be in the new Secretary is a great believer in the Power of personal looking Back on his Days As a labor lawyer in he expresses the Hope that labor unions will let me be not Only their advocate but also their and As for the labor unrest which gome authorities expect to follow in the Wake of he i am not going to Stop All strikes my is to minimize labor controversies to the greatest possible l As for the delicate question of supermen Jority for the right of a Veteran to be restored to his old Job even though an employee of longer standing might have to be discharged to make Secretary insists that the courts must but his own sympathies for the i Are As deep As his sympathies for the Trade in he does not con cede that there is any real Issue Between As Long As labor behaves in a responsible fashion in its Effort to maintain wage and hour he Points it really benefiting the since they will enjoy the advantages of labors gains when they the Rankan file vet eran and the Ranka Noftle labor he have too much in common for both to suffer a a result of a disagreement the genial Secretary remembers but he thinks we have Learned a lot since the first world and re strongly it will All be different this