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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE. UTAH Simple Explanation of Origin of Giant Myths Where Will Japan Strike Next? By WILLIAM C. UTLEY for Americans, Europe and Asia for AMERICA That Is the marching of the Japsong, anese army in eastern Asia, and the theme song of the drama of imperial-jcthat is unfolding today In the vast theater of the Far East To all appearances its true meaning, in the eyes of America and European nations is "East Asia (at least) for the Japanese." The rapidly expanding power of Nippon in East Asia which, for the present, means China is the 'result of a nationalism which has been growing steadily with the civilization of Its " II s.m V ?rtl'ti & r I vvr Srv gSffM"""" I J -- r , " A recent dispatch from India re ' porting that natives have found bones of a giant's skeleton no less than 31 feet high has torn up all records of this particular myth. Not even the imaginative Doctor MaKurler, who fabricated In 1C13 the circumstantial tale of a brick tomb not only containing his giant, but equally gigantic provided with swords and other weapons, and even labeled with the name and titles which the giant had borne, dared to make his imagined relic more than 26 feet tall. The famous Giant of Lucerne, who involved scores of Swiss and German scientists in acrimonious controversies from 1577 until after 1600, was credited with only 19 feet. England's Giant of Thorne-waIn Cumberland, said to have been found in armor which has conveniently disappeared, measured but 14 feet, by contemporary accounts. marvel No doubt the new of Calcutta belongs with these others among the long list of confusions between human bones and those of fossil animals, mostly elephants. A few thousand years ago several types of elephants, such as the mammoths and mastodons, were much more numerous and widespread than any kind of elephant is today. Being comparatively recent In geologic history, their bones lie close to the ground and frequently are found by diggers or plowed up by farmers, something which Is not true of bones of still iarger animals of earlier ages, such as the gigantic dinosaurs. Some elephants' leg bones look superficially not unlike human bones. It Is small wonder that they and hu man giants have been confused, al though even in 1020 the famous William Harvey remarked of the supposed Giant of Gloucester that his bones evidently belonged In reality to "some exceedingly great beast, such as an elephant." There Is less excuse for Doctor Mazurler's manu facture out of whole cloth of the brick tomb, weapons and Inscriptions which he said he found with the previous holder of the giant record. To students of folklore these mis conceptions about elephant bones supply one possible explanation of the virtually worldwide belief that giants once existed, but not the only y. rj I A hale and hearty heron fifteen years old and still going strong has been reported to the bureau of bio logical survey. On August 13, 1920, of Avery Island, a bureau La attached bird band No. 37507 to a young Louisiana heron. Recently be one. Another suggestion Is the the bird at his banding recollection by primitive people of recaptured station. other human beings able to walk on stilts, as fen dwellers still do In eastern England or dune dwellers in southwestern France. Thus probably originated the tale of the boots. Still another possible origin of giant myths is garbled tales of men standing on A romresuvrs M w St towers or platforms, like the mov- IV tAfii- - "l :tl. a ill 1 spcay tt In used ancient uieap quality able siege towers do th fob7.ri U BSHj warfare. And perhaps some giant a S Wha t'i Ihe answer? myths date from days when relativeas such the Celts, short 1:1X1 A. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES aii llSil races, ly Demand were in conflict with relatively tall TOX ones, like the Danes or Saxons. But not even folklore has recorded giants 31 feet high. New York Herald Tribune. fast-movin- times as large as Japan Itself, Is now administered and very ably, too by the Japanese army of occupation. The Japanese policy in Manchukuo has been constructive. Railroads have been Increased in mileage more than In three years. These have all been built where they will make It HHnh ....... , , easier to divert to Japan much of the traffic In goods which has passed through Siberian cities, particularly Japan Backs Demands In China With Troops. Vladivostok, which now must depend people and came to a full awakening but platonic. Certainly, although dealmost entirely upon Inland Siberia with the realization of those people fending the Philippines from Japanese for Its trade. New railroads planned that they had "gotten away with" the attack would be a man's-sizejob for for construction will make even the complete subjugation of Manchuria America, the Japanese would venture far reaches of Manchukuo readily ae the pressure of a spir no aggression there so long as the cessible to Japanese commerce. Japan ited population to make room for its islands are under the wing of Ameri also built 4,500 miles of roads in Man existence by enlarging its boundaries, can protection. chukuo in 1933 and 1934, and schedules and the of a people's But in 1945, according to the present call for 2,500 miles annually In the genius for making all manner of com agreement the Philippines will get years to come. modltles for which there is a demand their complete political independence. Last year Manchukuo became Ja With American domination will go the at a cost low enough to get the bus! pan's biggest export market, taking 18 cess. privilege of free trade with the Unit per cent of the exported goods. The Japan has conquered Manchukuo and ed States; in fact during the next 10 value of these exports grew from more Korea. She has an eye, It is generally years the tariff on Philippine goods than 75,000,000 yen In 1931 to more believed, upon the islands of the South coming. into the United States will be than 400,000,000 yen in 1934. This has And she has already estab Pacific. annually Increased. If the economic confronted Japan with a serious ecoover burden becomes too great for the nomic problem, however, for if exports Iished a virtual protectorate North China. How far she will go Philippines and there are plenty of of goods to Manchukuo have grown, and how soon, are the answers to a those who say it will the islands may so have exports of capital. Japan's question which all the rest of the be forced to enter some sort of union capital investments there were 99,000, world would give a cookie to know, that would give them trade advantages 000 yen in 1932, 176,000,000 yen In If the Japanese have gained control with another large power. That would 1933, and 237.000,000 yen In 1934. The over the "heathen Chinee" they have be Japan. cost of military occupation in Man For chukuo is about 150,000,000 yen annu certainly also bewildered him. Consider Russia. while the Japanese ministry of foreign A balance of trade will have to It must be remembered that there Is ally. if Japanese Investments affairs shakes his hand with an atti effected be another great power which has some be secure. are tude of paternal benevolence, the Japto to say about the reapportion 0 anese army sneaks up behind him and thing It Is not merely Manchukuo's ment of territory In East Asia. That kicks him in the pants. coal reserves, and the of tons power is Soviet Russia, which has Foreign Minister Hirota eulogizes 200,000 fighting men and a far su area's Iron which Japan wants. She Is desirous of maintaining the Chinese leader, Gen. Chiang Kai perior air force north of Manchukuo morehonestly peaceful and civilized conditions shek; army leaders immediately dub and across the Amur river. The con in Manchukuo, where the preceding him a fake and a fraud. Hirota honors flicting aims of these two powers was China by making an embassy of the not so serious when Manchuria ex- rule was corrupt and oppressive. Japanese legation in China; the army isted between them to absorb all the While she has admittedly Improved the not so popular with the immediately declares It's all news to shocks. Now their borders have country, she is native population, probably because of them. While Japan on one hand speaks moved another. one right up against of and the common good, Already border skirmishes, allegedly her desire to acquire more high posts Japan on the other hand goes right provoked by Japanese guns, have in the administration and In business ahead with methods of out and out caused vigorous protests from the than Is seemingly necessary. coercion. America Chagrined. Soviet ambassador in Tokyo. As an excuse for direct action, the That the status quo Is likely to be Naturally, America has been chaJapanese army cited banditry, sup maintained for some time between by the Japanese abrogation of grined posed to have been encouraged by the these two nations is due not to a mu naval treaties and insistence on naval Chinese, and the assassination of two tual sympathy of interests so much as and has been offended by the Chinese editors who had been friendly to the unwillingness of both nations parity, policy of forcing out foreign Japanese toward the Japanese policy. The army to take any action that would provoke in Manchukuo. We, oil companies of Gen. Tu Hsueh-Chun- g has witha war between two forces which are so along with Great Britain and other nadrawn south of the Yellow river and evenly matched that such a war might tions, have been provoked at her Interthe Japanese army has moved in. resuH In economic, if not physical, an ference In China and visualize the sufnihilation of both. Japs Will Dominate. fering of our trade. But Americans The Siberian army is far better have only about $200,000,000 invested Whatever government finally emerges mechanized than the Japanese, its air- in Cl.fna. Great Britain has six times in the North China area, it is certain that it will be "guided" by Japanese planes are modern and double the as much, Japan a little less than the Island of Great Britain. policy and expediency. It is doubtful, Japanese strength, and set-u- p for however, If any kind of political union Japan itself is a perfect Our export sales to China in 1933 with Manchukuo will ensue, for the aerial destruction. to nearly $52,000,000 or apamounted To offset this, Japan will be moving two areas combined in one would be 3 per cent of our total proximately administration a package mighty unwieldy to carry; from Interior lines, and We exported $143,000,000 worth exports. the Japanese1 believe that it will be of a Japanese army campaign would of goods to Japan In the same year. be possible on a much more concen- If we were to easier to adminster them separately. go to war with Japan trated basis, for Siberia Is on the out- the value of our Chinese export busiUnder the provisions of the Tangku fronnorthern a ness would vanish in no time. The treaty of two years ago, China north side of great, curving, While Japanese of the Yellow river has been declared tier of Manchukuo. would paralyze Japan ecoexpense could be moved In a demilitarized zone, but it seems the and destroy our best cusnomically with comparative celerity, because of tomer in Asia. only demilitarization has been carried and beout by the Chinese in moving to the the proximity of the homeland The Japanese people are probably rail facilities, it of cause far superior south and west The Japanese army much more excited over our recent for the time a much take would longer is still there and is completing occunaval maneuvers in the Pacific than Red army to move replacements from in Asia. Inpation of the province of Chahar, into eastern Siberia. we are over their policy which is rich in iron ore. This, with Russia proper fluenced by a press which speaks only to would have the other three North China provinces, These replacements with the voice of Tokyo, they feel that come over one lone railroad which is we plan to carry out our Far Eastern Hopel, Shantung and Shansi, will sus and inefficient easily unite to form a new territorial unit, notoriously an armed force, and that to crippling by an enemy policy with ceptible Chinese from divorced the the fact that we demand a stronger completely national government and distinctly force. than Japan's Is evidence that we While Russia would like to reach an navy favorable in its relations with Japan want to be equipped to carry on an ofwith the of agreement and Manchukuo. have no Inhas so far avoided it. fensive in the Pacific and world Chinese coal and iron, and the op- Japanese, Japanof of tention peace by fostering The possibility having to defend itof armaments. limitation portunity for cotton planting, particuexa Is good always self from Russia larly in Hope! and Shantung, have cuse for Japan, with her withdrawal from the keeping the military budget lieen the incentive for most of the of Nations and her abrogation League over a trifle also is wary Japanese action; however, it is point- high. Japan of armament treaties, has openly for communistic easier It ed out that the loss of trade In other making to filter into Manchukuo, showed her disgust and disinterestedand her Inparts of China as a result may offset propaganda North China and even Japan itself. ness In European affairs, these advantages. This becomes doubly tention to devote her activities enThe Test May Come. important when It is considered that tirely to Asia. But she cannot forget e Great Britain, America and other relations may come Europe entirely, because of the Inter powers may extend financial aid to little more nearly to a head next ests of European nations, particularly China. year when new contracts will be dis Great Britain, In her vicinity. Where Japan's Imperialism and ex- cussed to permit Japanese fishing off More than anything else Japan fears pansion will carry It next is open for the Siberian and Kamchatkan coasts. an agreement which conjecture. Japan Is, or was, an Only 10 per cent of the fish taken from would form a potential union of the "island empire," and to Its south In these waters bit on communistic hooks two greatest navies in the world. The the Pacific are many Islands in which in 1927: now half of them do. Per great puzzle is whether such action it has enormous commercial Interests. haps the red bait is more enticing. At would avert or bring on a serious After a statement like that we In any rate Japan now wants to pay Its crisis. America are prone to think Immedi- rental of fisheries In yen instead of Trouble which is brewing In Europe ately of the Philippines, but more im- gold rubles and wants to base the may come to a head, and If It does, portant to Japan are the Netherlands rentals on the number of fish actually this will command most of the atten East Indies, which buy more goods caught, Instead of on the "standard tion of European powers. Japan will from Japan than does even China. catch" as it Is now. Maybe the answer then pursue her aggressive Asiatic pol Japan has an annual balance of trade will depend upon who counts the fish. icy more'lntensely, as she did during with these heavily-populateislands peaceably to the and immediately following the war. By consenting that Is more than $35,000,000 In her waiver of its ownership rights In the But Japan harbors no Illusions of favor. Chinese Eastern railway, Russia Indi ruling the world. All sheJs concerned As to the Philippines, Japan makes cated that it was willing to let Japan about Is Asia, particularly eastern horrified gestures at the suggestion have something of a free hand in ManAsia. that her Interest there are anything chukuo. 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