SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1941
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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James R. Young To Tell Orient Story
James R. Your Newsman Recalls Jap Revolutions
Experience with undeclared wars, revolutions, military uprisings, murders, intimidation by hand grenades, poisonings and sword slashing, mixed, with earthquakes, tidal waves, typhoons and cholera epidemics have been part of the colorful life of James R. Young, foreign correspondent who will tell of his 13 years in Japan when he speaks tomorrow night in Fraser theater.
Known as Jimmy Young throughout the Orient, where he operated a news service bureau, managed an American newspaper, sold color comics, and worked on a Japanese newspaper, the world heard much of him last year when he was imprisoned by Japanese police for 61 days in solitary confinement.
"Your articles about Japan's army in China are unfavorable. We are very sorry. Please come for short visit," they explained when they called for him at his hotel in Tokyo.
The short visit extended into what seemed like years. Young now relates. His answer to the police was, "There is nothing favorable about the Japanese army."
Young is a youthful veteran in the newspaper business. He started in Illinois, his native state. His foreign service began with a trip to Africa with his cousin, the late E. W. Scripps, on a yacht cruise. Paul Patterson, an uncle, and publisher of the Baltimore Sun, started him out as a police reporter. Young next showed up in Germany and shipped as a sailor to Japan.
During a rapid-fire series of stories in Japan and China, Jimmy Young seems to have been on top of the powder keg when biligertens touched off the dynamite.
One Sunday evening in May, 1932, he was sipping Japanese rice wine with Frazier Hunt who was visiting Tokyo on a newspaper assignment. Pistol and gunfire was heard. Young and Hunt, in less than three minutes, found themselves at the prime minister's residence next door—the Premier was dead from a military assassin's shots.
On a cold February morning in 1936, Young, was awakened by an urgent telephone message that a military uprising was underway. By the time he reached his office, half the cabinet had been murdered.
Young, who is author of a current best seller, "Behind the Rising Sun," was one of five correspondents to attend the ceremonies
➢ for the coronation of the present
Emperor of Japan.
Although a friend of hundreds of high placed Japanese business people and government officials, the secret police held him incommunicado and after a secret trial, the Yankee at the Mikado's court decided he'd better head for the United States, although the judge, in giving him a suspended six month's sentence, invited him to remain, "to better understand Japan's peaceful aims and manifest destiny."
WILD LIFE—
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(continued from page two) of war. The large dog looks at me, looks at the white dog, and leers fiendishly. The little white dog scowls at him and nods for me to go on. Then the large black dog sulks.
The rabbits here on the Hill are disappointing. From information I received before coming here, the Kansas rabbit is a lineal descendant of tyranasaurus rex, and while it has adopted a furry body, it still retains the size and fierce disposition anticipated meeting huge, muscular, of its prehistoric ancestor. I had hulking monsters who would carry me off the sidewalk. 'Taint so. They are little scrawny creatures. I nearly caught one the other night. It was standing out on the back steps of Fraser hall. So, I crept up behind it and made a sudden dash. A brief struggle ensued, ending when some friends of the rabbit arrived on the scene. I got away.
Kuersteiner Will Conduct Music Hour Sunday
In closing, I want to mention Rusty. He is the little wire-haired terrier who hangs around the Shack, and who cavorts in the big grassy plot in front of Watson library. Some people think Rusty looks soulful, others say he looks dejected. The truth is that Justy looks cynical, purely because he is a cynic. Comes from being around journalists too much.
Karl O. Kuersteiner, professor of violin and orchestra, will conduct the music appreciation hour in the Music room of the Memorial Union at 2:30 p.m. today. Tschaikowsky's Sixth Symphony in B minor (Pathetique) will be played from records.
happenings on the hill
Ye Hill Hap man chanced to be strolling around Potter lake after watching the last football practice of the year Friday afternoon. And lo and behold,-Indians! Coming over the hill from the east with Wayne Replogle, freshman football coach, and Ed Hall, assistant to "Rep." were about 25 freshman footballers. Potter lake was the proud recipient.
Phog Allen has started his annual bottle-emptying campaign on the Hoch auditorium court. It took the freshman-varsity game Friday night to start him off. Tradition has it that he wastes a full two-gallon bottle of water every game by making mud out of the sawdust at his feet. Why don't you swallow it, Phog? You make us thirsty.
Yesterday did it. Sports Ed Clint Kanaga predicted 34-26 for Kansas with tongue in cheek and Bert Coleman, layman forecaster with a "K" sweater, said 32-6 for Missouri. The weather man predicted rain and the Alpha Chi's predicted hell for the Tiger. All we wanted to know was, why did cokes still have to be a dime? Ive tried three times, but it still makes nonsense.
If you don't think that part of the faculty had an interest in that game yesterday, you should have heard Professor Hankins in his literature class Friday afternoon. Seated on the edge of his desk, looking like excellent material for our football line-up, he quoted the following parody on Longfellow's
YES —IT'S THE RIGHT PLACE to meet and eat anytime. THE BLUE MILL
MAKE IT EASY ON MOTHER
Across from the Granada Theatre
Have All Those Clothes Cleansed Before You Go Home for Thanksgiving. Call 383 for Your Laundry and Dry Cleaning Needs.
Service Group Tags Alumni for Shelter
LAWRENCE LAUNDRY and DRY CLEANERS
Homecoming alumni were "tagged" yesterday and Friday by members of Alpha Phi Omega, service fraternity, in an effort to raise additional funds for the building of the Jayhawk shelter at Oxford, England.
We clean everything you wear but your shoes
The shelter, to cost $8,000, will be built with $4,000 furnished by
Small tags indicating that contribution had been made were pinned to each alumni or visitor by representatives of the Shelter committee, who contacted persons in the downtown area.
verse which contains the "Foot-
steps in the sands of time":
Lives of football men remind us That we too can push and slug, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on another's mug.
the University and Lawrence and the other $4,000 furnished by the British government.
Carruth hall has an interesting display that you have no doubt seen along with the record that is driving the Memorial Union fountainees crazy, Modern Design. But did you know that those diligent boys used inch-mesh chicken wire, stuck four-inch square pieces of crepe paper in each mesh and found that they had 23,000 pieces of paper making up their sign?
A sum of $2,102.52 in cash and $265.50 in pledges has already been received, with $1,631.98 to yet be raised, it was made known at a luncheon meeting held at the Hotel Eldridge by members of local committees in charge at noon yesterday.
Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, will receive contributions at the festivities this evening and representatives of the committee will be on hand tomorrow in the business area to receive contributions.
Henry J. Allen, chairman of the Save the Children Federation yesterday praised the workers and told them that he was confident that they would raise the rest of the money. Allen pointed out that the English "are doing all they can now and we must not forget that they are not altogether on the receiving end. They are caring for evacuees from seven other countries. They have 25,000 refugees from Belgium, about the same number from Norway, and many thousands of Poles."
The nursery which will be built will house 40 children. A matron and two teachers.
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