Show I i I I I I 1 Japan Bu Bu st With W. W It h N NeIS New NeI S Scandals Scandals' E L. L By yS CLARENCE DUBOSE P U United n tei Press Staff Correspondent v TOKIO By Mall Mall Mail Nippon has has beth been annoyed ann a lot of late because some som of bf f her and n nobles bles f ha haye e be been beC naughty S S The are the boys who who gO got lJ quick quick- during the war When It it c into in to spend spending In and staging little with plenty of nap snap some some ot oter en er v k make best look lIk like chea che h skates Then there ar are the g gay bloods with noble names and a aeye marv 10 eye for geisha Tl TIt rye i e treating Tokio to som some rich nd ra scandal This the vernacular press f fully plasters all over ever the front page followed by long editorials bemoaning such scandalous tendencies and 1 ing the whoop em up bunch to return to the straight and narrow Also the yellow papers here have hal hail I rich pickings c of late in a flocks flock of divorce dlvore e suits cherry blossOm version of tie Stillman and similar affairs of ot the State Stat f. f This sort of thing is new in Japan Tie Tle papers have half their editorial writers b busy sy pointing out that the great mass hf be th the S people haven't gone to the bow wo bow wows s- s sr r The papers are trem tremendously tremendously seri serious s about it editorial editorially it But on the the- front page ag which is th their back page the zIppier zippier zippier zip zIp- pier the detail the glee The sky's the limit S Consider the h case of t A ko Ath-ko ko AKl-ko le i-le The White Lotus dubbed by the Japanese newspapers the queen of ot ko Ito one of ot the most popular Japanese poets poets- and wife of ot an old and exceedingly wealthy noble sued her husband for divorce di dt- vorce not long ago meanwhile trekking trekking- away to a fashionable resort with an n Impecunious Impecunious Im mi- young student who adored h her hr r poetry One of the bl big newspapers put p over a beat bent by getting the first interview v with the White Whit Lotus Its principal l rival retaliated d with a few tew choice words from friend husband They proceeded in ef effect et- et ted to try the case in the newspapers rs The one which first interviewed Awl kt I espoused her cause the other that of t her husband Each dug up new evidence evidene every day The people eople took up the ment mont In one college the students held debates on the question Resolved that the White Lotus Is entirely Justified in leaving her honorable lord In a another ther girls girl's college a class struck because they they- said their professor protessor was aji ap old foge and forbade them debating the momentous momento s question S A 4 Meanwhile deserted husband libel suit for yen e agal against 1st t the c newspaper supporting Akl Akiko ko and l or wrote a new book of ot poetry which sold like hot cakes 1 i t y rV S The bet that t was overlooked w S1 I. I breaking into the movies an and l of ot course course that may come any day l I |