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Show Friday, January 14, 19; Does Japan MASK Her Purpose? Who Is the Enemy China -- or the White Man? ADVENTURERSLCLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF1 adventure might well-b- e On April 21, 1887, a a matter of fact But (he still remembers it with as much vividness as if it happened only yesterday. 1 am s grandmother now," she writes, "but the fear of the wind is Just as great In me today as it was on that awful night fifty years ago." In 1887 Lula Yoder lived on a farm near Nevada, a small town in western Missouri, with her mother and dad and her small brother, just a baby, seven months old. Lula herself was only about two and a half ago. old. On that of April, the sky began to darken suddenly in the late afternoon. Her dad was out in the fields working, and her mother was worried. She took the baby up in her arms and, leading Lula by the hand, went out on the porch to watch the gathering terrible twenty-firs- t storm clouds. Fleeing From the Cyclone. Lula remembers that scene as clearly as if it were yesterday. The whole world seemed to be bushed. The clouds, dark and ominous, seemed to be gathered in one spot The rest of the sky had a queer, greenish hue. While mother stood anxiously scanning the sky, dad came hurrying in from the fields, driving a team of horses. Lula remembers hearing mother cry out to him, Hurry, John. Were going to have a bad storm. Lula was just about old enough to know what a storm meant There was a cyclone cellar underneath the house a sort of crude cave dug out of the earth. A couple times before, when a tornado threatened them, the whole family had taken refuge in this cave until the danger was over. Her dad was driving the horses toward the bam. He put them Inside and, without waiting to unhitch them, he ran back toward the house to whole fleet of stern-nose- d Nipponese battleships appeared from nowhere and began shelling Shanghai. That was the start of Japans current war of defense in China. If some of us scratch our heads over the war of defense idea, it may as well be explained that the Sino-Ja- p situation is full of paradoxes and puzzles. For example: Japan fears foreign criticism but invites it by shelling American and British ships. She claims to be helping China while bombing cities, slaughtering innocent natives and destroying everything in sight. She dislikes Westerners, yet makes a Fascist pact with Germany and Italy. She signed the nine-pow- er treaty guaranteeing Chinas integrity, yet now invades that country. the history of Such, perhaps, all nations that go to war, breaking treaties and casting aside governmental tenets. If Japans unusual attitude seems more hysterical than that of the average nation at war, its either because the Japs are naive or extremely clever. Probably they're clever, so clever that Western powers are Just beginning to understand this Chinese invasion. Japan, some observers say, is warring not on China, but on Western domination in the Orient! The divine destiny she pursues is a union of all Asiatic nations under Japanese domination. The net result will be expulsion of British, French, American and Portuguese commercial interests Is Apologies Come Fast. Diplomatic files of both America and Great Britain are choked ui'h for hostile apologies acts such as the Panav incident, bombing of H. M S Lndvbird and the aerial attack on Britain's ambassador to China. But despite these apologies the incidents continue. And. amazingly, many recent Oriental attacks on Western powers have come from the Chinese' A Chinese pilot bombed the S S. President Hoover. Later a Chinese shell killed a sailor on The U. S S. Augusta In f.iirno'S to the Chinese it should be admitted that both these attacks may have oeen accidental. But Nationals in Shanghai during the last days of its Lula Was Hurled Into the Maples Branches. help his family get into the storm cave. He reached the front porch and put a hand out to pick Lula up. Lula let go of her mothers hand felt herself lifted in her father's arms. And then THE STORM STRUCK! Lula was torn right out of her dad's arms whirled through the air. There was a curious, roaring din in her ears. She was having trouble trying to get her breath. Up up up she went, soaring through the air as high as the house itself. The branches of a huge maple tree loomed up in front of her. Then, suddenly, she was among them. She felt felt a blow anti-aircra- Wedged Among the Branches. them scratching at her face bruising her little body. She at her side, and found herself wedged into those branches, at the very top of the tree. And there she hung, a shocked, bruised, terrified child, while lightning tore holes in the sky and thunder crashed, and cold ram came down in torrents. She could hear a terrible sound of rending timbers of a building being demolished close at hand. The air was full of flying debris The breath-takin- g wind, tugging at her little dress, was tearing it to ribbons. To this day, Lula keeps the shreds of that small garment as a memento of that grim and terrible experience. Lula doesnt know how long she hung in that tree. Time seemed to stand still while the wind howled and roared. She screamed until she was so hoarse she Jcould scream no more. But the wind drowned out her feeble little voice. At last the wind abated and died out. Again a terrible hush fell over the surrounding territory. When the storm was over, Lulas two uncles, who lived in the same community, came over to see how her family had fared. "They found Not even the sills were the house completely demolished," says Lula. left. Bedding dishes furniture, were strewn everywhere, whirled and warped into odd shapes by the force of the blast. Even the forks and YORK. by Getulio Dernelles Vargas, who has seized dictatorial powers in Brazil, la a comprehen-aiv- e grasp of th Brazilian public affairs Duce Know his country, reseven Government sulting from years experlenc as Brazilian ruler. When he first appeared In public life as prosecutor in Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande Do Sul at the his diminutive age of twenty-fivstature, five feet four inches in his stocking feet, occasioned some derision and some doubt among unthinking fellow countrymen who felt that official efficiency in approxfa mate degree related to physical proportions. Here, Incidentally, was an error observed In the early career of one Napoleon Bonaparte and other little men whose dynamic energy, per tinacity and keen mentality could easily have filled more adequate physiques with much to spare. Like Napoleon, Vargas is swarthy of complexion and, also like him, he is no shakes of an orator. In fact, deeds, rather than words are characteristic of Brazil's fuehrer. He will be fifty-fiv- e years old next April, having been bom under the empire of Dom Early Days . Pedro in 1883 in Were Under the village of Sao U Borja on Dom Pedro guay river In the state of Rio Grande Do Sul, of which he eventually became governor While holding this office In 1930, he led the revolution of that year in which the insurgents seized con trol of the country, the revolt being due to Mr. Vargas conviction that his defeat as candidate for the presidency In the spring of that year had been due to ballot frauds. Four years later he became president urn der the constitution which has now been superseded. In youth, after a primary education of some soundness, he entered the army, and, at the age of seventeen, won a sergeant's warrant. But, disliking army life, he resigned to continue his education. He took his degree in law in 1907, and thereupon aged twenty-fouthe political career which seven years ago landed him in the presi dential palace, where he seems minded to remain for an indefinite time. This Japanese soldier In a "mechanical ear" outpost wears a gas mask after beating off a Chinese attack. Chinese authorities have charged the invaders with using poison gas. have dealings with them. But British, American and other traders accepted these insulting terms because their ships sailed homeward laden with richer tribute than they had brought. Occidentals were responsible for China's opium curse, for they began smuggling it from India late in the Eighteenth century despite governmental edicts to the contrary. In 1839 when China confiscated British opium the English sent ships and soldiers, destroyed half of Canton and iforced China to sign her first humiliating treaty in 1842. Opium Restrictions Lifted. Grudgingly, she later made pacts with other Occidental powers and permitted establishment of the international settlement in Shanghai. But China resented these privileges of the white men and there was more bloodshed in 1856, after which Britain won trading rights at five additional ports. Opium importation restrictions were also relaxed to Britain's glee and poor China's misery. In 18"9 Briti-dand French slaps were attacked at T.iku. Within two years the allies had taken Peking and forced still another treaty down Chinas thro t Sometime later came estabh ..merit of the European control', d imperial customs service at Si.argh.u Western conquest rf C' ina was growing rapidly. Shanghai and other cities became Occidental, featured by skyscrapers, European dress and the white mans customs. China, proud of her ancient culture, kept the resentment of this intrusion rankling in her breast. The American Indian probably felt the same way, and both have been justified. Japan entered the picture prominently during the World war when she seized German possessions in Shantung and gained broad commercial and mining privileges with her notorious 21 demands. At the i To be danger of "losing face. blunt, we depend not on power but on prestige to maintain our position in the Far East. It is a colossal bluff which is being called today For Nipby the clever Japanese. pon has discovered that our lofty idealism and morality is hypocritical and has decided to beat us at our own game. Instead of prestige, Japan is using power to conquer China. Great Britain will be the greatest loser in this inevitable trade argu- ment with Japan. In addition to being the largest foreign investor in China, she is Nippons favorite target by virtue of her belief in the open door policy for China. English colonists are so prominent and in the Far East as to be synonymous (in the Japanese mind) with ail that is wrong with Occidentals. America's loss cannot be as large. A 1933 sufvey showed that United States ciLzens have about $150,000,-00- 0 invested in China, representing 1.3 of all investments beyond our frontiers. American money amounts to about 7 per cent of all foreign capital in China. In order of investments, Great Britain is first, Japan second, Russia third and the United States fourth. Almost of the American investment is centered in Shanghai. The Question: Japan's Policy. writers tell me that Wnt will happen to Occidental SPORTS Trees, Pennsylvania oil investments in China must remain a millionaire, is in for a handsome matter of conjecture, dependent, pasting from the colleges for insist first, on what policy the victorious ing that hiring football players is Japanese may wish to adopt, and whether they wish to abide by the eminently sound He and proper. open door doctrine to which they subscribed at the Washington naval rpilled quite a conference. It is doubtful if they platter of beans at a University of will. Pittsburgh banquet, telling of his as they called Quite obviously, every advantage days as a ringer, the hired player in his day, back in will be accorded Japanese merchants. Already the imperial cus- the nineties. He wants the colleges to abandon toms' service at Shanghai has been removed from European hands and their pious and placed under Nipponese domination. attitude, and says they deceive This means that Japanese goods nobody but themselves." while He told of punching the may enter China duty-fre- e American and British goods will be in the Pittsburgh football mill assessed heavily. and how other big eastern colleges But does Japan dare close Chinas had tried to bid him away. He was door to Britain and America? And a laborer in the oil fields in those do Britain and America in turn-d- are days. He took a degree in merisk incurring Japans enmity chanical engineering in 1895 and by protesting too loudly against the drilled so many dry holes they Chinese invasion? The truth of the called him Dusty Joe all through matter is that Britain and America western Pennsylvania. In his junior year, he had marbuy 53 per cent of Japan's exports, whereas the same two countries ried Miss Claudine Virginia Willi-so- n of Perrysville, and she, and she account for 65 per cent of Japan's imports. In terms of trade, the alone, says Mr. Trees, saved him three nations are mutually depend- from failure and set him on the road to fortune. ent When his last hole proved to be as Last year 23 per cent of Americas cotton crop landed on Japans dry as the Congressional Record, he went home and told his wife he shores, in addition to $30,000,000 was through he was going to pick worth of oil, $8,000,000 in lumber, $6,000,000 in wood pulp, $10,000,000 up his old job as a day laborer. in machinery and $9,000,000 in misAs he now tells it, The little cellaneous purchases. In all, 10 per woman Just naturally chased me cent of Americas exports go to Jaout of the house. The Missus She said I hadnt pan each year. Chases Him started yet and I'd Hands-Of- f Policy. better hurry-l-ip to Fortune In the light of the Occidental naand plug another tions stake in the Orient, it is easy well. I did and I got oil not a to understand why Britain and gusher, but enough for a start. America are forsaking the mailed That was the start, and the finish fist in favor of polite diplomatic exwas many millions, many directorchanges with Japan on such topics ates, beautiful estates and much as the Panay and Ladybird incipublic largess, including the gift of dents. a gymnasium to his former employChina is not yet beaten. Her pol- er the University of Pittsburgh. His second wife is Mrs. Edith icy has been and will be one of strategic retreat, pulling the enemy farWhen Lehn, his former secretary. ther away from home and thus makthey were married in 1929, and he ing guerilla warfare more successwas making over his magnificent esful. Meanwhile Japan finds her war tate near Pittsburgh, he moved a elm tree ten miles, Just to expens? mounting rapidly and the folks back home may eventually get work out a nice detail of landscaptired of paying the bills. ing. His career has been saddened It is generally conceded that Jaby the death of his two sons, one pan must hold out two years to win in an automobile accident In 1909 a complete victory. If she does, and one in an airplane crash on a Texas training field during the she will control China and can hold World war. the Western nations at her mercy. C Conaolld tted News Features. If China wins, Japan will be driven WNU Service. back to her island empire but the Occidentals will nqt necessarily Famed Among Fish On the contrary China's In western Mexicos (tate of profit. years of grief will have welded its Lake Patzcuaro there are peoples into a strong, purposeful nagreat shoals of a small transparent tion, ready to trample on the forfish called the white fish In Mexeigners who now hold sway in her ico that epicures regard as the ' rich cities. tastiest of all fishes. It is as succulent as young quail, and altogether Either way you figure it, the Yellow Peril has become the white lacking in fishy flavor. People along the lake partake of it tlnee times man's peril. . ft WtiUrn Newspaper Union. each day. be-ga- r, two-thir- holier-than-tho- u time-cloc- Rescuers Couldnt Find Lula. j j As was ever the case In war, the women and children are the real aufferers in the Sino-Ja- p hostilities. Using every conceivable type of vehicle, thousands fled such cities as Tientsin, Shanghai and Nanking, where Japanese rained down bombs that slaughtered thousands. This photograph was made as refugees sought admittance to the international settlement at Tientsin during an early flareup. seige were In more danger of harm from enraged Chinese troops than from the attacking Japs Japan's habit of attaching an again. It carried some of our belongings wnth it, Lula says. A farmei apology to the tail of every bomb plowing a field three miles from us found a coffee pot. Inside it he found she drops on Westerners in China my mother's wedding ring. He knew it by the names inscribed inside is. to say the least, beginning to reek of insincerity. The Panay atit and sent it to me." Thats the tale of one womans fear of the wind. And is it any wonder tack and several others have been that Lula has tragic memories when clouds gather and that wind rises? established as deliberate. We can C WNU Service. take little solace from the fact that Japanese civilians are opposed to such tactics, because only the army Seven Flags Over Biloxi Westminster Abbeys Towers and navy count in Nippon. The emThe Westminster abbey's towers peror, the premier and the people .Seven Bags have flown over historic Biloxi, which was the ancient rest on the sit of towers built by are puppets. Occidentals have never been popcapital of the Louisiana Province King Edward the Confessor, and or Louisiana Purchase Territory. parts of the latter exist underneath ular In the Orient. Three centuries In the year 1721, when the French the present building. The abbey ago they invaded China like they incolonial era at Biloxi was at ita bells hang in the northwest tower, vaded America 200 years earlier, height, the Superior council of Lou- but in the Middle ages the belfry selfish in their interests, despised isiana, at Fort Louis, on West Beach was a massive detached building and suspected. They were tribute boulevard, bad judicial and mili- which stood on the site of the Lon- bearers, later to become tribute taktary authority commanding various don GuildhalL It had walls of im- ers. Canton was designated by the districts, which stretched to the Ca- mense thickness, and above it rose emperor as their sole trading and nadian border, including the District a tall spire. It was demolished ip residence area, and only a few Chof Illinois, Wabash and Missouri. the Eighteenth century. inese merchants were permitted to Rows end rows of flowers in si colors of the rainbow thats the feature of this striking afghas which is the gayest, easiest thins out! You simply crochet it j, stripe that are 7 inches wide, an do tha flowers in acrapa of yan e, knives from the table were twisted and broken. The uncles began' searching for the family. They found the bodies of Lulas dad and the baby. They had been killed instantly. Her mother was unconscious on the ground, with broken Irgs and injuries that caused her death the next day. But they COULDNT FIND LULA. They searched they called. There was no sign of the child was dark by that time, and they couldnt see the poor kid hanging way up see the searchers as there in the tranches-- Of the tree. Lula-eou- kt they moved about below her, but she couldnt attract their attention. I had screamed so long in terror of the wind, she says, that I was too hoarse to make a sound. Today, after fifty years, I can still see those men with lanterns, walking back and forth calling to me, while I, bruised and torn and chilled to the bone, hung m that tree, powerless to answer. But at last I was located and taken down. I was so ill from my experience that I wasnt able to be taken to the triple funeral that took place a few days later. The cyclone had played a ghastly and freakish trick on Lulas family. It bad cut a narrow swath that reeked the house and left the barn Intact. No one else in the whole neighborhood waa hurt. And after wrecking Lulas home the wind jumped from the ground and traveled several miles before it hit the earth Lemuel F. Perlen T!l!lll!H!IMinT t At least on In Shanghai last July two Japanese naval underlings were allegedly slain by the Chinese. In retaliation a Gone With the Wind. It fits perfectly Mrs. Lula M. Yoders tragic description of the adventure in which she lost her home and her entire family. Mr. Yoder live in Paxton, I1L Her adventure happened many year years THIS WEEK... By By JOSEPII W. LaBINE By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter Hello everybody: of todays VHOS NEWS NEW Fear of the Wind Gather Yam Scraps for Flower Afghan Washington conference she was forced to relinquish many of these gains, but the die had been cast She showed little hesitation about breaking treaties when Manchuria began to look tempting. Her national has grown tremendously until Japan now feels a patriotic duty in uniting the Orient under her domination. Thus the Occidentals have two forces driving them out of China: first, the Chinaman's natural hostility and, second, Japan's "divine destiny" in the Orient. Our "Word of Honor." White men are losing face in the Far East. They have encouraged Japan to break treaties by setting a precedent in the matter, thereby parading their weaknesses before man. The Orient can no longer rely on the white mans word of honor. Occidentals traveling In China are warned not to be friendly with the natives, a precaution against the self-estee- - k y Pattern 1623 i or in three shades of one cola for a lovely jeweled effect. Ideal d in Germantown. Patten 1623 contains complete direction for making the afghan; illustrations of it and of all stitches used; a photograph of section of if! ghan; material requirement color suggestions. 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