Show What of Japan T I IT T is occasionally asked why wiy TaplIn is not d' d ding n more than lImn slit she is doing to vein ida now help tho tue war nr Japan lon long n ago o declared herself the of nf G run iu her hiir tats H n still agree that hat tile the kaiser kaier L be beaten n if civilization is iS to Yet go gu on s soldiers have C lone done no fi the the early carl months o of lh the Uio war It n mj might ht r be rHo answered that oda arc nrc not fought fOJt on battle field alone It It- Itis t. t is a n fact fad that for tor cn every ever r 5 sch 1 dier on ou Ul the tue 1 there must bo be f live five c men back buck of r the thic lines hines toiling in factories and aud on f auras t Id W 1 feed equip I I end and him The men who make t tile the bi big guns guis and ancl tho the h high gh explosives arc n ns us truly soldiers in in the thu broad i ht in the fit first line sense a as ag arc the men in khaki who fight in III trenches A As soon as ns this fact i i. is understood tood it ii becomes evi evident j C lent dent that Japan has been taking a decidedly active part partin in ill the war var Almost with the tie fi firing ing of the first gun her iier ncr munitions factories added Hl ed extra shifts and since then th they have been running day and night nig it It i is not IlOt Japal's fault faulL that the tho vast vast- 1 st st. of army armr supplies wb which ch she sho hie has sent to Russia RuSsa have not In the tim hands of the saved saed the Slavs Slats from defeat French or the lie British these supplies would have hare brought much nearer the lay day In of ictor victory Even in the tilt bands of ofRu Ru Russia sia they have Ia gone far to tn wear weal down U O m man finn tn pow power r. r The complaint has been made mane that Japan has failed to 0 sent send her soldiers to the eastern battle front where they mi might ht have havo rendered material aid to RU Russia But Japan c could uld not fi fight bt on the eastern front without Russia's Russia's Rus Rus- sias sia's consent This she has Ims never gained And Ann besides cs the trans Siberian the railway the only connecting link between be- be uc- uc tween Russi nand aund Japan has has been heen t taxed cd to its utmost capacity with supplies for the nU Russians It is ig true that there are nrc no Japanese soldiers soldier on the western front front- frontA A Japanese army in n F-n France would be lie several sc times as ng far from home n as arc aro the thc Americans in Iii the tile fi zone And 3 again nin it must roust be remembered that so gO far as the world knows Japan has hns not been in invited in- in to troops to the western front But J Japan today is policing the Pacific Pacific surely surely a acry avery very cry great glent and important task Her Herf destroyers are arc hunting huntin German submarines s in the Mediterranean f an TIer Her rue merchant ch nt fleets leets arc are helping solve the allies' allies perplexing shipping shipping- problem Tier Her munitions factories arc as busy husy as ever eyer It must be he evident ident to the tile thoughtful observer that Japan Him far has not shirked her duty luty to her allies What of the future Germany German hopes that sho she will never participate more actively in the war than sho she is isnow I now Yet a n victorious Germany prove an over increasing menace to Japan lapan Is it not therefore Yea reasonable onn le to believe e that rather than thau see sea Germany emerge e from the war wat Japan would be ie willing to mn male make e far sacrifices sacrifices- to insure the kaisers kaiser's defeat than HUHl she has Ims yet el found it expedient or necessary to make Pa J Pa rn J r a Judging from the number of or yo young mg men who are arc going to Europe our See Sec America I sloganS slogan has hns been placed under federal control t Pa n Pa te 1 I De Despite ite the elim elimination on of the city smoke bureau we have it from the scientists that that- Salt Snit Lake will see a total eclipse of the sun in June Junt Pa a 3 It begins hegins to look as if the man with a penchant for shoveling ho can stay away from the coal conI supply without losing any of his exercise fa r pa 1 pa Hunting blind nd tigers is not to be made more popular with announcement that the tue cit city pays a n bounty I 13 1 Pa r-a r A |