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PRI Tt Y g‘( N RS Y L 24
A Studious Tokyo Newsboy.
(Prepared by the National Geographie
Soclety, Washington, D. C.)
T O GET a mental picture of
Tokyo one must hold clearly in
mind that Japan’s capital is
not really a city but a collec
tion of towns and villages, grown to
gether, These settlements preserve
their entity in the 15 “wards” fre
quently mentioned in dispatches re
lating events in the city.
Tokyo has a peculiar sentimental
tie with our own national capital, be
cause the Japanese cherry blossom
trees in Potomac park, in Washing
ton, constituted a gift to us, which
was recognized by sending to Tokyo
a consignment of American dogwood
trees. There they ferm an annual
magnet for thousands of Japanese res
idents at the time of their blooming.
When one sails up the bay of
Tokyo to Yekohama, and buys a rail
road ticket to Tokyo, he senses the
distinetive group form of Japan’s
capital. For the ticket reads “Shina
gawa,” or “Shinbashi,” not “Tokye.”
The Imperial palace wiflm
cratic ward, or “Ku,” known as Ko-
Jimochi-Ku. In this palace, originated
by Ota Dokwan in 1456, formerly lived
the Tokugawa Shoguns. This palace
bears witness to the frequent casual
ties of Tokyo; it cften was burned,
the last time in 1873. It is not ac
cessible to the public. A Japanese
guide-book maively says, “Ordinary
people are allowed to approach only
as far as the end of the first bridge
outside the outer gate.” The palace
grounds are surrounded by twe moats;
the perimeter of the outer one lis
about five miles. In this ward also is
the central railway station, with
buildings occupying two acres. One of
four entrances is reserved for the use
of the imperial family,
The Latin quarter of Tokyo lies in
Kanda-Ku. Here is the Tokyo Higher
Commercial school, the first school of
that kind established by the govern
ment when it launched upon a peliey
of adopting western business methods.
Upon the grounds of this school grow
pine trees which are survivors of the
grove standing there when the school
tract was part of the Shogun’s pleas
ure park. This ward alse is famous
for a willow-tree thoroughfare, its
sccond-hand clothes stores, and a
Shinto shrine which ddates to the
Eighth century.
It Is an “Official” City.
While each ward retains distinetive
characteristics of the time when it
was a separate town, and each has its
own business section, Tokyo as a
whole has a distinctive individuality.
It is an “officlal” city, and frankly so.
Official hours, official guldes, ofliclal
guide books and official seasons for
various sights and scenes are officially
proclaimed. You come auway with a
gense of having been officially con
ducted through a falryland of cherry
blessoms, of nelsy lotus flowers that
bloom with a detonation, of doll's
festivals, of Gelsha girl ‘dances,
The old survives alongside the new,
The Geisha girl continues to perform
though the cafeteria hus made its ad
vent in Tekyo, The Geisha girl Is an
institution hard for the western mind
to comprehend. Her most comparable
functionard In the western world was
the court Jester—long since passed
away, She Is a modern prototype of
the private entertniners of wealthy
medieval nobles, She is of a class dif
ferent from the wemen of Japan who
cling to their semiseclusion amid the
inroads of modernism; but she is not
of the type which westerners class
as the demimonde.
Restaurants and tea houses In
Tokyo ctill have thelr Geisha girls,
The Japanese business man, student,
official, or visiting farmer are the
patrons. More often it is a party of
men friends whom the Geisha girl en
tertains with song, dance and mono
logue, and for whem she acts as a
sort of hostess, !
Custom does not fill these restau
rants with husbands and wives, men
and their fiancees, or friends ¢f op
posite sexes, as in America. But the
wish to have members of the other
sex present is just as strong in Japan
as elsewhere, Hence the Geisha girl.
Outside the pervsading sense of offi
cial regulation there is infinite variety
in Tokyo. Exclusive Kajimachi is very
different from bourgeoise Kanda.
Busy, bustling Mihombashi, with its
“Broadway” and “Billingsgate” is a
far c¢ry from Shiba, village of the
tower gate and giant hill, native res
taurants and distinctive dances.
Easy To Find Your Way Around.
For the humble traveler by the
tram, it is exceedingly difficult to get
lost in Tokyo. Each car bears the
number of its route and inside, at the
place where, in America, one would
see hosiery and washing powder ad
vertisements, there is a comprehen
sive map of the city criss-crossed and
circled by lines of many colors cor
responding to the numberegd routes.
A knowledge of the language is super
fluous. From the guide-book map, or
better from the free map furnished by
the Japan Tourist bureau, which
seeks te make Japamese travel de
lightful, one locates the place he seeks
and the place where he stands. Then
it is a mere matter of matching num
bers and colors to any spot within the
circular railway which forms the rim
of the transportation wheel,
This idea of placing a map of the
city in the cars themselves instead
of on some sequestered wall around
the station may reb the traveler of
the cultural advantages of tempting
pictures of butter and motor cars, but
it makes it easy to wander from vil
lage to village within the city limits
with the minimum of delay and sign
language.
Nihombashi 1s a principal business
quarter of the city, although each of
the wards is more independent, com
mereially, than the various sections of
mest cities, The center of Nihom
bashi and of Tokyo, is the bridge
which in olden times was a measuring
point for distances to places through
out the emp!re. Formerly It was
wood ; it was rebuilt in 1911 of gran
ite. It is the thoroughfare from each
end of this bridge which popularly Is
known as “Broadway.”
In Nihombashi is the Bank of Japan,
occupying a building especially de
signed to be earthquake-proof. One
part of the building has three stories
underground for strong boxes, and
this part can be flooded as protection
ugainst fire, In this same section of
medern banks and office bulldings 1s a
Shinto shrine where charms are dis
pensed which are supposed to be es.
ficacious in sucl, diverse emergencles
as shipwreck, child delivery und being
the vietim of a liar,
“Newspaper Row” 18 In Kyobashl.
Ku, Here are practically all the prin
cipal journals, Shiba-Ku contains the
mortuary temples of the Tokugawa
Shoguns, A concession to foreign vis
ftors Is Indleated by the announce
ment, “Boots need not be taken off, ns
covers are provided to slip over
them,”
In Azalm-Ku Is a Buddhist temple,
memento of the years before Shinto
tsm took firm hold. Shintolsm has
been kept alive in Japan from the
dawn of the empire. Tokyo, as Japan's
capital, became a stronghold of Shin.
tolsin because officialdom of Japan
support it ardently,
HERALD. FOT KSTON. GEORGIA
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BILLION DOLLARS
I'OR GOOD ROADS
More than a billion dollars will be
spent this year for highway construc
tion and improvements, according to
fizures received from government
sources.
It is planned to construct 28,841
miles of new roads. [or new bridges
$58,000,000 will be expended. Anoth
er $27,000,000 will be used for recon:
structing existing roads.
Not only is the nation wisely spend
ing larger sums of money for good
roads, but the highway engineer Is
building more expertly. The modern
roadbuilder builds for safety, No long
er does he depend on warning signs
and devices. Instead, if necessary, he
eliminates curves, avoids railroad
crossings and reduces steep grades.
In doing so he minimizes greatly the
possibility of accidents at those places.
It is interesting to note that $27,000,-
000 is available for the .reconstruction
of good roads. The necessity for
building wider highways and for wid
ening roads is most evident. Traffie
must continue to move rapidly, other
wise congestion becomes more and
more a problem,
For the upkeep and maintenance of
230,847 miles of roads, $126,000,000 is
available and expected to be used by
the various states. The total expen
diture provided in the state programs
through their highway departments
is placed at $648,483,000. In addition
to that figure, approximately $477,000,-
000 is expected to he spent by coun
ties and other lesger subdivisions of
the government,
Estimated total road mileage to be
built by state highway departments
includes 6,957 miles of earth improved
roads, 12,595 miles of sand, clay, grav
el and macadam roads and 7,489 miles
of asphalt, concrete and brick high
ways.
Millions of dollars for good roads!
The economic influence of improved
highways is a story that would fill a
book. Think of the effect on real es
tate values alone that such roads will
have. Such highways will result also
in a further disintegration of urban
life and further development of subur
ban and rural life,
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Ideal Road Conditions
Predicted in 25 Years
According to highway engineers
roads 25 years hence will be a mini
mum of 120 feet in width, They will
be well lighted at night and policed by
stop-and-go signals. All surface drain
age will be carried in storm sewers
beneath the ground line. All tele
phone, electric light wires, ete.,, will
be carried underground.
All railroad grade crossings will be
eliminated by a separation of grades.
The highways will be beautified by
the planting of trees and shrubbery
in the parkways. Speed limits will
be fixed at a minimum rather than a
maximum, as is now the vogue. Street
cars will be supplanted by busses to
connect with the rapid transit rail
lines, Pedestrians will be prohibited
from crossing the street.
Subways or overhead crossings will
be provided for their use. In the
downtown congested districts elevated
sidewalks will be provided for them.
Earth Roads Dominant
in the United States
Earth roads constitute 85 per cent
of the 8,000,000 miles of officially des
ignated public highways in the United
States. Yet they carry less than 15
per cent traflic of all roads.
One of the blg problems that con
front road builders is to arrive at a
standard, so far es s possible con
sidering different conditions in dis
ferent localities, for stabllizing the
earth road, Engineers believe this can
be done by treating the soils, The
highway research board Is about to
undertake an intensive study of the
question,
Soll, climate, weather, dralnage—
these are a few of the factors which
enter into the study to complicate
conclusions, Already the matter of
drainage has been fairly well solved,
Hundreds of articles have been writ
ten on the making of a good earth
rond surface; yet engineers regard the
Issue as unsettled,
Narrow Roads Dangerous
“Parking along a narrow road, even
In broad daylight, 1s a dangerous prac
tlee—in some cases it amounts to a
nuisance,” an official of the Automo.
bile club of Maryland nsserts,
“Motorists are permitted legally to
drive at a speed of 35 miles an hour
in the open country, Sometimes it Is
necessary to slow down considerably,
and even stop, when another motorist
has parked on one of the narrower
concrete highways” ‘
Out of two hundred thousand school children of America
who wrote essays on Shredded Wheat the following twenty
were selected as prize winners. These, with their teachers,
are entitled to free trips from their homes to Niagara
Falls and “The Home of Shredded Wheat."
Doris Brougher, Baton Rouge, La.
Michael Novak, S%ringficld, Mass.
Florence Wilson, Blossvale, N. Y. !
Esther Smith, Tampa, Florida
Anna Healy, Mt. Cuba, Del.
Frances McGue, Huntington, W. Va,
Mary Bennett, Bedford, Indiana ’
Dorothy Moore, Tekamoh, Nebr,
Esther grown, Keene, N. H.
Winnie Joaes, Blair, Okla.
George Cox, Morristown, Tenn.,
Sarah Graham, Cameron, 111.
Malx' Moore, Spearville, Kans. .
Mildred Short, Hemlock, Mich. o
Eleanor Bue, Hawley. Minn. %
Edwin Gardner, Brooklyn, N. Y.
{’ohn Walker, Montreal, Quebec,
earl Fleming, Madoc, Ontario
Lorraine Weir, Fargo, North Dakota)
Edith Hedges, Northfield, Vermont
Two days in the Niagara Region seeing all the sights of this
wonderland of America—that's their reward for essays on
the food value of the whole wheat grain—the food staple of
the human race. a
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The Mississippi flood covered more
than 3,000,000 acres of crop land in
five states,
Time is the chrysalis of eternity,—
Richter.
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His Pa-—A parasite, son, 18 a man
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The United States is using 70,000,-
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wood each year,
They never fail who die In a great
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