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Show THE BULLETIN Japan's Girls Replace Men In Industry ADVENTURERS' CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI "Adventure in a Pickle Factory" IT ' ELLO, EVERYBODY: Well sir, here's a yarn that's going to sound a sour note in our adventure saga. When I read it I thought of that old song, "Down by the Winegar Woiks," and I'd be willing to bet that place was right next door to the one where John Mains, of Long Island, had his life's big adventure. You see, the concern John works for is one of those outfits that catch juvenile cucumbers before they get a chance to grow up, soak them in vinegar and send them out into the world to decorate ham and cheese sandwiches. John has a job in a pickle factory. The factory is in East Northport John's home town and I'm willing to admit they've turned out some pretty good pickles there. But if they keep on making pickles until pickles stop having warts, they'll never turn out a tougher one than the pickle John got in, just from trying to keep the machinery going and the pickles moving out in a steady, uninterrupted acidulous stream. John is a machinist at that East Northport pickle foundry, and it was on January 18, 1935, that he ran into Old Lady Adventure. The machinery in the factory is run by a big 50-fo- ot haft impended just below the ceiling. Belts running from this shaft furnish the power to the various machines, and on this day one of the belts had broken. John was ordered to replace that broken belt, and be went to work at It. The machinery, of coarse, was stopped while he was doing- - the Job. When he bad finished he turned the power on again to see how It worked. Well, It wasn't working so well, at that. The new belt was slipping. Now one way to stop a belt from slipping Is to wax It. 80 John got a can of wax and started up the ladder toward the shaft. But this time he neglected to shut off the power. Ladder Slides Out From Under Him When lie Reaches Top. The machinery was still running, but John thought he could keep out of the way of those spinning wheels and pulleys. Besides, waxing a belt is a lot easier when the motor is turning it for you. John reached He was dased bewildered gasping when suddenly his clothes started to rip. Women Fill Factory, Farm Jobs as Army Claims Prepared by National Geographic Society, Waahinston. D. C WNU Service. When a Japanese soldier leaves his native soil to fight an "unde- clared" war what happens to the job he left behind him? For Just as important as a battle against some Chinese war lord is the battle on the nation's labor front Japan, No. 1. BUSINESS. The comstruggling for national is finding the answer to this mercial field in Japan has problem by filling vacant jobs with claimed many young girls as its native girls and women. stenographers and clerks. Soma In the large cities such as Tokyo, of these girls are educated in Osaka, and Nagoya, are many western- the United States and have -type factories. Some of. these adopted American office tech sre thoroughly up to date cement nique. However, the stenograbuildings, large windows, running here is using a water and modern toilets, clinics, pher pictured with an oriental keytypewriter and lunchrooms. In a toothpaste factory in Tokyo, board. This keyboard has the majority of Jobs are filled by 3'mbols and as a result is much than the western type girls 350 girls and only 70 men. The girl workers fill tubes, paste machine. on labels and pack the cartons. They has to watch constantly the silk feeding onto 20 spindles. To do this, she must stand all day, and her hands are continually in and out of basins of hot water, pulling the silk strands from the cocoons and directing them over the tiny wheels to the spindle above. The workers of the silk filature are on a contract basis and live in one part of the factory called the dormitory. To any section suffering from famine managers of factories go and make contracts with the families of girls. The family receives a sum of cash to help them carry on until the next good harvest and the girl pays for it by serving three or four years in the filature. After her contract Is fulfilled, she goes home and is married to a young man whom her family has chosen. By far the greater number of Japan's factories are small workshops manned perhaps by two or three workers, or at most by 10 to No. 2. MAM'FACTURE. Be- 25. Some of these are family conin which the women and girls cause the army needs men fac- cerns, of the family help. Others are tories of every type have been neighborhood enterprises, to which forced to replace male workers the local girls and women flock. with young girls. Here is a JapTokyo Glass Factory. anese maid bringing in wood to In any street may be heard the be made into charcoal. Other soft whir of looms or the clang. 200 stand at long tables from 7 In the morning until 5 in the afternoon. Forty minutes for lunch and two rest periods of ten minutes each are their only chances to sit down. The manager who shows you around points proudly to the rooms where the employees change from street to work clothes, and to the laundry with running water where the uniforms are washed. Outnumber Men 4 to I. In a stocking and rubber shoe factory near Osaka again the majority of workers are women and girls 4,000 girls to l'OOO men. Some work at sewing machines, others pack the finished product The girls wear white cloths over their hair, but no masks to protect their lungs. To questions as to age, hours of work, and living conditions, the proprietor answers that the girls live in the neighborhood and have lunch in wall-lik- e Train Angers Elephant Radium by Sound Whether an elephant or a mail trail would have the right of way near Kampala, Uganda, was in doubt for a while, recently, and the beast proved a poor but lighting loser. According to the engineer's report, the elephant persisted In. run ning in front of the engine, sounded the whistle several times,' he said, "but the elephant continued on ths track increasing its speed. When the engine nearly reached It the elephant turned and moved slowly off the track. As the engine was passing slowly it screamed and made a grab for my first fireman. The fireman fell down on the foot plate. My second fireman lay down on the tender. They were both very frightened, and on reaching Kampala the first fireman reported sick." u,i-n- . poleonic wars. The London correspondent of the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that after a search lasting eight years eight milligrams of radium in the form of needles have been recovered. The radium had been thrown away by mistake at a British hospital with surgical dressings that had served their purpose. The dressings found their way to an Incinerator, and the ashes were in turn scattered on a cinder road. With the aid of a counter, or the kind used to detect cosmic rays, the radium was at last recovered. Radium shoots off raya which Ionise or electrify the surrounding air. This electrification can be made audible in the form of a click. The search for radium was undertaken with such a clicking detector. HOTELS Salt Lake AMUSEMENTS Whta ta RENO. NEVADA, atop at tha nuiEb vuuwH-in- in avian aaa SALT LAKE'S OUTSTANDING SUMMER ACTIVITIES Hotel Plandome But 4th 8a. at II Rata II to SC. tar Hotel Bannock S1JS to Pocatello Cafa mmt Caff Shop APARTMENT HOTEL Block flam Temple. 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A few of these illustrate how vast numbers of Japan's women are employed. In a glass factory in Tokyo, housed in fragile wooden buildings, women sort wash,' and pack the d glassware. Floors are simply earth, and the window openThe furnaces make ings small the heat insufferable even on a cool day. Tokyo also has a concern which makes metal fixtures, heads for electric-ligbulbs, tops for candy bottles and vanity cases heavy machine work. Machinery is placed so close together that you fear to pass through a room lest you be caught by some part of your clothing. Women and girls with rounded shoulders squat before machines crudely made by the concern itself, fashioning the covers and bulb ends. Some of the girls are barely well-packe- ht 14 or 15; some are middle-age- d No. 4. AFTER HOURS. West- or old women. One woman with bad eyesight bends and squints over ern ideas have made inroads her work. into the workaday life of the As you ascend the scale of emJapanese girls but with these ployment the Japanese woman is new ideas of work has also come not missing. Telephone girls, typa trend toicard new recreational ists, cr copyists throng the business activity. These two Japanese offices. The telephone girls are, on girls are walking out on the the whole, older than the clerks. court for a game of tennis. The Many of them are married. The one on the left even wears shorts typists are higher school students, like many an aspirant for court ranging in age from 18 to 2a Some the native Instrument; others, honors among American women use who know English, are trained to players. use the modern machine. 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But the Inland reach, penetrat- the highest and most spectacular ing 500 miles into the South Amer- waterfalls in the world, which man ican continent has mineral and for- has as yet had occasion to see. There are only 79 miles of rail- Europe and America. This work is est wealth practically untapped bedone in factories called silk filatures In a region larger than Kanof the of roads cause transpordifficulty sas. The whole colony's complex which are practically staffed with tation. More than 2,000,000 ounces of gold river system offers a mere 450 miles girls and young women. To the onlooker, the Job Itself and 2.000,000 carats of diamonds of navigable waterway. seems most trying, since each girl one-fift- h The present nary of Norway i designed only for coast defense ai:ii numbers but 1,200 officers ami although her merchant marine the fourth largest in the world. To maintain this floating empire, which is vital to her economic welfare, the nation has never resorted to arms. In modern times it has taksn part in only one major conflict the Na NEON SIGNS John's brother didn't come a minute too soon, either. For after that last thought and that last scream he had lost consciousness. His brother ran and shut off the power and then ran back and picked up the fallen ladder. He climbed to the top. cut John loose with a pocket knife, and carried him down that ladder on his back. John's brother rounded up a couple of other fellows in the factory and they took John to a doctor. John was there quite a while before he came to again. When the doctor heard what had happened he just simply couldn't see how John had managed to live through his experience. And that's a thing John doesn't quite understand either. "I thought that I'd at least lose my arm," he says, "but the doctor fixed it up and now it's in good shape again. When It was all over I thought I was the luckiest man on earth. And I STILL think so." They're still making pickles out in that factory at East Northport But it will be many a long day before they produce another one like that one Julin got into. At least. I hope it wilL British Guiana Mines Yield Gold and Diamonds The United States and England are members of the Unirersal Postal Onion, which standardizes rates of postage betwen nations. While the general postage rate on letters to foreign countries is five cents for the drat ounce or fraction, we have rate for established a three-celost countries on the American con sents, as well as for Spain and Great Britain Danish nossesslons. rate tor most of iss the three-cen- t . the British empire, Manpower. After Last Scream, John Loses Consciousness. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Norway's Small Navy nt industries in which these girls find employment include the of the top the ladder and went to work. But he had hardly started when he lost his balance. And the ladder went sliding out from under manufacture of shoes, clothing, glass, pottery, toothpaste and a him I host of others. Instinctively, John threw his body to one side and he landed right up against the whirling shaft. The ladder went tumbling to the floor, but John didn't follow. In the few seconds while he was Jammed up against that shaft it had caught his clothing . began twisting it around and around! In two turns the shaft had taken up ail the slack in those duds of John's. Then it began putting on the pressure. John felt his body being squeezed until he thought his ribs would break. His chest was flattened until he couldn't breathe. lie was hammered and pounded against the ceiling until he was bruised and covered with blood. And still that shaft twisted, and still it tightened the clothing arcund his body. There was no one in the room at the time, and John couldn't get enough breath in his lungs to call fur help. For a minute he thought he was going to die there, alone, 15 feet from the floor and dangling in mid air. He was dazed bewildered gasping when suddenly his clothes started to rip. Again the shaft began turning, taking up the slack. It tore every stitch of clothing from his back and arm, and didn't stop until it reached his wrist There the machinery began twisting the end of his sleeve-twis-ting it so tightly that John thought sure it was going to take his hand oil. Ills chest was free now of that terrible tension. He could breathe he could even have called for help. But by that time John was too far gone to cry out. He hung dangling from the shaft, the blood streaming down his body conscious enough to know what was happening to him, but not conscious enough to "do anything about It It was a thought that finally saved the day. All of a sudden John thought of his wife and child. What would they say when they learned what had happened to him. 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