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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
OCTOBER 9,1948
Jap Bowing And Scraping Fails To Erase Memories Of Brutality
By DEAN W. DITTMEP
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
washington. (UP)—The Japanese bow and scrape so low to American soldiers and American government workers in Japan that sometimes it's hard to believe they were our bitter enemies just a little over a year ago.
Japanese friendliness and courtesy are so infectious that I almost bowed back to one Japanese hotel manager who seemed unusually polite to me when I was in Japan recently with a house military affairs subcommittee.
I say I "almost" bowed, because people like Lt. Gen. Robert Eichelberger, commander of the Eighth army to Yokohama, soon straightens one out on this business of Japanese friendliness.
"The Japanese cooperate in every way," he said. "We have had no trouble. But wait until you see Maulia before you start getting sympathetic."
I soon went to Manila and I saw what Eichelberger was talking about. It's a shambles yet. I can hardly imagine what it must have been a year ago.
I talked with Maj. Gen. George F. Moore who was taken prisoner in the Philippines when Corregidor fell.
"I saw a woman carrying a baby walk by a Japanese sentry," he recalled. "She didn't how low enough so the sentry ran his sword through the baby and then through the screaming mother."
But few of us saw the Japanese brutality that Moore saw. We can't help being impressed by the friendliness of the people. They smile from car to car and appear to be having the time of their lives helping Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his staff run their country.
You can't help asking yourself, is this real? Do the Japanese actually feel that way? Is this an act or can a defeated people who once thought they were world-conquerors take it on the chin and come up with a grin? I tried to get the answer, and here's the consensus of Japanese nationalists and U.S. army officers:
The Japanese people did not want a war in the first place, but were led into it by the war lords.
They feel that they have been defeated in a game or sporting contest and are willing to take the consequences - at least until a new opportunity comes.
They like Americans and always have.
Americans have never understood the Oriental mind.
If there is another war Japan will be fighting beside the United States.
Another strange thing about the Japanese—or at least it seems strange to me—is their great admiration and respect for MacArthur. He is an exemplary man, and they do about MacArthur because he tells the emperor what to do.
Anyway, I was passing a big office building one day when I saw a mob of Japanese—1,000 or more—crowded around the doorway. Sprinkled among them were about 200 GFs with cameras.
"What's going on here?" I asked, "Just people waiting to see Mac-Arthur come out of his office," my driver answered. "It's usually like that."
Labor Office Into U.N.
Mootral. (UP)—Delegates to the 29th session of the International Labor organization unanimously approved today an agreement which makes the LLO, a specialized agency associated with the United Nations.
German Vet Helps U.S. War Cripples
Chicago. (UP)—A new type of artificial leg has been brought out for U. S. veterans of World War II by a one-legged veteran of the Kaiser's army.
It is strapless and more flexible, lighter and more comfortable, said Walter Schoene, whose right leg was bown off by a French artillery shell in 1918.
President of an artificial limb company. Mr. Schoene donned the new leg to get the feel of it himself before trying it out on American imputees.
The limb was designed by a group if orthopedic manufacturers. It is yield in place only by air suction.
Being in an experimental stage, it is suitable so far only for persons whose legs have been cut off above the knee. Later it may be adapted to those with below-the-knee amputations.
"The stump of the real leg is fitted into the hollow artificial leg," Mr. Schoene said. "This forces out all the air in the wooden leg. There's an air valve which releases the air and then automatically closes to keep the air from getting back in.
"To take off this pneumatic limb, you merely press a button in the side of the valve. This admits air. Then the real leg easily slips up."
"I think this is the leg of the future." he said.
With a proud grin, he walked back and forth in his woodworking shop. His walk was graceful.
Applications are now being accepted from reserve army officers who desire appointment to regular army positions, R.O.T.C. headquarters announced today.
Applications Taken For Regular Army
Appointments will be made in grades up to major, the exact rank being determined by the amount of constructive service or actual commissioned service, whichever is greater.
Any male officer who served between Dec. 7, 1941 and Dec. 31, 1946, may submit an application. For further details, contact the R.O.T.C. office, 203 Military Science building.
Pittsburgh. (UP) — An automatic timer for prize fights has been invented by a 15-year-old scientist. Frank Ludwig, a high school student, constructed the timer from parts of a doorbell, erector set, tin can covers, flashlight batteries and a strip of elastic. He said it works perfectly.
Young Genius At Work
Quonset, R. L. (UP)—Realizing an ambition of four years' standing, parachute riggers Elinor Parsons and Rosalba Coleta tested their own work by making their first airplane jumps from a height of 2,000 feet.
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Japs Had A-Bomb, Atlanta Paper Says
Atlanta, Ga. (UP) - Japanese scientists developed an atom bomb and tested it successfully three days before the V-J day, the Atlanta Constitution said today in a copyrighted dispatch signed by David Snell.
Snell, a reporter for the newspaper who served in Korea as an agent of the U.S. Army's criminal investigation department, said the seven key scientists on the project were captured later by the Russians who tortured them to learn the secrets of the bomb.
The reporter said his source for the story was a Japanese officer.
NewLumber-Grooving Machine Is Invented
Minneapolis, (UP)—George Berger, Erskine, Minn., has invented and developed a new kind of lumber for homes which may solve the housing shortage.
The new lumber, assembled on the principle of log cabins, uses 4x4 timbers, tongued and grooved to fit by special machines designed and manufactured by Mr. Berger.
On the outside the lumber is shaped to resemble siding, while the inside is either plain or grooved for a plaster coat. Mr. Berger claimed his machine would turn out all the wall material for a five-room house in three hours.
The cost of building a house with his lumber is about half the cost of an ordinary built house as it does away with studdings and lath, he said. Three men can put up the walls, gables and joists in 11 hours and he adds that carpenters can erect the walls faster than they can put on siding.
Better Than Bob Hope
Lancaster, O. (UP)—A white leghorn hen owned by Earl Campbell, farmer near here, laid an egg as a baseball. When Campbell broke it open he found not only the traditional contents, but another normalized egg, with shell, white and yolk fully formed.
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