Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page 10

TUCSON, ARIZONA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1937 PAGE TEN Am mm tiryjW wj ri fp4 ul nil) I I '( i AT fh IV 4 1 If I v. 4 i hats of all services and the officers of the watch, now turned over to the "stand-In crew" and the impudent seagulls. At right center, the "Imperial Suite," used by Queen Marie of Rumania on her visit to America; and, at extreme right, the sharp prow of the old "Levi with seabirds nesting In her anchor chains. (Bourke-White photographs from Fortune magazine survey of merchant marine.) convention, may perhaps drift orer to see the old "Levi for sentimental reasons. This it what they'll At extreme left, the only gay things about her, her wmokestacka, still kept freshly painted for preservation, rise above the littered crumby decks of her once-Immaculate top-side.

At left, a view of her officers' quarters, Jut abaft the bridge, once sacred to admirals, brass. The Leviathan, war-time qneen of the aea. transport-home for more than 200,000 American fighting men, Ijnomtniously tuRs at trel hawsers which shackle her to her old and once-famous pier (No. 4) on the Hoboken waterfront Doughboys of 20 years ago. in New York this September for the annual American Legion Two Powers Collide in Blind Struggle to Win Civilization Japan Gropes For an Outlet, China Awakens From Her Long Slumber, and Reason Awaits the Exhaustion Which Will End Present Battle I 1L 'iSmiiu ITT 7 they don't cooperate.

They are frantic and devoid of reason. So two great, irreconcilable, groping masses collide. Must Await Exhaustion Therein lies the seriousness of the present war in China. It is a life and death struggle. No legal formulas can be applied, no siheere and unselfish advice can suffice, no appeals to reason can be heard! Not until one or the other of the two combatants exhausts the other, or until both are exhausted, can reason prevail.

Lamentable and unfortunate as it is, this is part of the struggle always going on in nature. If a fair appraisal and understanding is to be made of this war in China, thesg factors must be kept in mind. The conflict was inevitable. Its more immediate causes, I shall discusj in my next article, on Tuesday. Headquarters for Cameras Accessories Lighting Equipment Dark Room Supplies Amateur Equipment, etc.

Dependable Photo Fin ishing Lewis NuArt Studio 120 East Congress Street nil Ail i fi i i nMjtfiiii have chosen the line of least resistance; Like people being suffocated, they have struggled and are struggling today to live, to get a breath of fresh air. When a person seeks to escape suffocation, he follows the slightest breath of fresn air. For Japan, the continent of Asia is the only opening left. Follows Precedents It was this sense of struggle that caused Japan to invade Manchuria, and it is this same sense of struggle that has led her into China. Manchuria gave her some release from suffocation, but it was not enough.

Today she seeks further release on the mainland. The precedents established by other powers, she uses to justify her own course. Because of lack of experience, she is not able to do what other powers have done and do it skillfully. This struggle of Japan to become civilized, to achieve the standards of Western civilization, must be kept in mind in order to appreciate what is going oil in the Orient. China Also Struggles A new factor has arisen to add to the intensity of the conflict China, too, seeks to become civilized.

She, too, seeks the benefits of Western civilization. She is a half-awakened giant aroused from the sleep of a hermit life, trying to throw off the opiates of decadence and poverty. Another great mass of people seek escape from suffocation. But when two men are blindly seeking escape from death by suffocation, Ghosts of Dead Voyages Walk Under Dust Covers The Leviathan's ballroom, in its day the acme maritime luxury, nbrrc now duiicioths hide the ornate chairs and other furniture which once decor It. Bourke-White photograph frum Fortune magazine survey of merchant marine.) sra i TOKEN SUPPLY IS EXHAUSTED HERE! ni 4t, HIGH SCHOOL TO OPEN THIS WEEK Senior Enrollment, Faculty Meeting Scheduled For Wednesday Tucson's hish schools prepared for the inception of a new school year this week with enrollment to at Tucson senior high school i Wednesday, according to Charles Carson, principal.

Senior high school students will enroll as follows: seniors on Wed-; nesday, Sept 8, from 10 to 12 a. m. and 1 to 4 p. juniors, Thursday. Sept.

9. fraro 9 to 12 a. m. and 1 to 4 p. sophomores, Friday, Sepu.

10, from 9 to 12 a. m. and 1 to :1p.m. Regular will open Mon-r day mo -nsng. The schedule of classes will be the same as last year, running from 8 a.

until 4 p. m. Juniors and seniors will have the privilege of coming from wtii come from 9 to Juniors and seniors may com from 9 to 4 where it is inconvenient for them to come from 8 to 3. Sophomores may come from 8 to 3 if the student is working In the afternoon. The bookstore will be open during the days of enrollment and students are urged to purchase their books immediately after enrollment so as to avoid the rush of the first two dsys at classes.

Activity tickets will be on sale at Howard and Stofft during the days of enrollment. Faculty Meeting The Tucson senior high school faculty will meet Wednesday morn Ing at 8 o'clock for the first meet ing of the school year. The faculty of the senior high school for this year will be as follows: English departmentMiss Alice Vail, Miss Virginia Polndexter. Miss Harriet Martin. Miss C.

Braxelton, Miss Marjorie Robinson, Miss Anna Hughes. D. R. Van Petten. Curtis Anderson.

Mrs. Bessie Rca. Miss Hester McNeely. Mlss Marian Geyer. Miss Lillian Cavett, and P.

H. Evans. Social science W. D. Ribclin.

Andy Tolson. R. T. Gridley, P. H.

Evans, Guy Puckett, J. H. Michael. Miss Mabelle Heath, and Miss Alice Butts. Mathematics J.

E. Kyle, Laure Gale, Ray Webb. W. G. Crutchfield.

and Glenn Rothrock. Foreign Language Miss Ida Ce-laya. Miss Thclma Ochoa. H. J.

Burrows. Pies Harper, Miss Florence Brazelton. and Miss Alice Butts. Science W. G.

Crutchfield. Don Van Home. Glenn Rothrock. P. K.

Koch. Miss Emma Holland, Miss Ethel Payton. Commercial subjects The Tucson office of the state CASA GRANDE. Sept. 4 A fight tax commission sold its last sales against the principle established in tax token yesterday afternoon and previous federal crop control legit-greeted the week-end holiday with lation of determining base produc- PROTEST PLANNED ON COTTON BASE tion of cotton land from its lonj-J term growing hUtory was launched here this week by Pma! planters.

Directors of the county Farm Bureau and growers petitioned Nat Dysart. president of the slate Farm Bureau Federation, for appointment of Amona representatives to at- rional committee hearing in Oklahoma City October 27 and protest the principle established in the Bankhead act. Since water from Coolidjce dam became available in 1930. valley cotton acreage has soared from 12.000 to 65.000 acres, it was pointed out. Growers believe use of early production figures, which in thus case establish an unusually low rate, is "unfair" to newer cotton districts itf the west the lite Gov.

B. B. Moeur. have refused to resign, contending their terms do not expire until 1938. Governor Stanford, in aPDointina McCall and Marley maintained Dr.

Moeur named Cull and Cavness to scr only until 1936. if 1 England. And her arrival in New York was a triumph. On her third outward voyage, war was declared between the Central Powers and the Allies. The Vaterland was interned at Pier 4, Hoboken.

Her German officers and crew had a lang, dull wait. Nothin? happened to her for three years. Then, on a day in ApriL 1917. U. S.

customs men came aboard seized the vessel. Soon she was transferred to Brooklyn navy yard for reconditioning as a troopship. On Sept. 6, 1917, she was christened tne Leviathan. Her first voyage as a transport commenced the next Dec.

15, when. 12 tugs helping her, she nosed out of her Hoboken pier. Her sides were fantastic, a Cubist's dream daz zle paint. She had aboard 7,254 American soldiers, 2,000 sailors. On Dec.

23. she dropped anchor outside Liverpool. The Leviathan made one more trip to Liverpool, then, on April 24, 1913. she made her first voyage to Brest During the war the Leviathan made nine round trips carrying troops. After the arrnis-tice she made nine more, bringing the soldiers home.

Total number of officers and men of the army carried was 184,263. She also transported 10,709 naval men of all ranks 10,043 nurses. 2,296 other persons in war service, and 949 civilians. Her average load was 10,000. Once she carried 11.322.

Sentimental American Legionnaires, flocking to New York for the convention Sept. 20, may make a trip to view the old hulk. "One horsepower" is equal to the power required to lift 33,000 pounds one foot in one minute. LEVIATHAN FATE STILL UNKNOWN Many Schemes Fail To Be Effective in Taking Boat to -Sea NEW YORK. Sept.

4. (Symbol of dejection and impotence, weighing 48,943 tons, the biggest piece of frustration in the world affronts the skyline at Hoboken. harbor-front community across the North river from Manhattan. She is the Leviathan, fretfully rusting to death at Pier 4. Twenty years ago, alive with power and purpose, she was the proudest thing in New York harbor.

She was destined to make history, the biggest and awiftest liner in the world. Seized from Germany i a few days after the United States declared war In April, 1917, she put her weight into defeating her native land, and made it count. Now she is just a bad headache to the U. S. Lines which owns her, and to the U.

S. Marine commission which controls her. Out-Moded Out-moded for transatlantic service, the Leviathan was such a liability to the U. S. Lines In 1934 that the company was happy to pay the government $500,000 for the rare privilege of not running her any more.

Lately many rumors have risen. She was to be a public playground, day nursery, and bachelors' club moored along Riverside Drive. She was to be sold to England or Japan for scrap iron for their armaments programs. She was to be a floating hotel to attract winter tourists to Puerto Rico. She was to be and do the same thing for the New York World's fair.

One fact works in her favor: U. S. military authorities have never forgotten her magnificent service as a transport Therefore, until another vessel may be available to replace her. she'll be kept ready for re-commissioning. That is why her engines are under constant care and a skeleton crew guards her day and night.

It is reported that the government is prepared to authorize the U. S. Lines to build a new flagship. In that case, federal authorities are understood to be ready to give the lines as a trade-in value for the old Leviathan. So some day she may be honorably retired to the breakers' yard.

i Skeleton Crew Aboard Birds nest insolently in her anchor chains. Mildew-colored patches pock her once shiny-black hull. Paintwork on her superstructure is chipped, sooted, peeling, and discolored. Her decks are gritty and maculate. Only her smokestack are kept fresh-painted.

This, it explained, is because the metal i so thin it might rust through otherwise. The bridge with its once speck-less officers' quarters is an uneasy roost for the stand-by crew that works but doesn't live aboard. Ine great ballroom, with its fqu 17th-century French oil paintings, the gift of Kaiser Wilhelm to her, when she was the Vaterland, is dirty. lU tables, chairs, and other furniture draped in cloths. The "Imperial Suite" once used by Queen Mai ie of Rumania, but never by the Kaiseris grubby, its silken bed trappings stained and disheveled.

The Leviathan today is a maritime horror. The stand-by crew consists of 2t men and a skipper. They work three shifts of eight hours each, seven men to a shift. The skipper comes aboard at 7 a. and keeps the log by hours through the day One sailor guards the gangplank.

Another keeps watch at a central fire station. Two more make hourly inspections of the vessel from topside to garboard strake, punching 29 timeclocks en route. Was Germans' Pride Contrast with her past is striking. Pride of the German merchant marine, the Vaterland sailed on her maiden voyage from Bremen May 5, 1914. She planned to wrest the world's shipping honors from REILLY Undertaking Company AMBULANCE SERVICE DAY AND NIGHT PHONE 37 (Continued From Page One) barriers, tariff walls which bar the finished goods which Japan makes.

In addition new forms of competition have demoralized Japan's great native silk industry. The fall in the price of silk and the decline in its use have rocked Japan more severly than any earthquake. This change has robbed her of a way to pay for much of the raw materials she needs, besides impoverishing one great segment of her population. Seeks Only Opening The Japanese people are thrifty, industrious, religious, highly moral in their own way ambitious and courageous. Western nations have only themselves to blame if these people seek to emulate Western civilization, because Western powers.

American guns, forced open the ports of the former hermit nation. The Japanese are seeking to become civilized; with barriers erected everywhere aga-nst them, they Paul B. Carmony. Miss Ruth Davis. Miss Mary KahL Miss Ruth Peterson, T.

D. Romero, E. J. Hol-singer. Manual Training R.

A. Ganoung. Mechanical Drawing J. P. Blod-gett Homemaking Miss Margaret Booher and Miss Margaret Nally.

Agriculture C. L. McFarland. Art Mrs. Laura Ostrander.

Instrumental Music W. Arthur Sswell. Vocal Miss Madge Utterback. Physical Education, for Girls Miss Nclda Kathryn Young, and Miss Mary Hitch. Physical Education, for Boys B.

C. Doolen. William Lewis. Jason Greer. Study Hall F.

A. Kohn. Office Miss Myrtle Payne. Registrar Miss I.uella Jones. Secretary Miss Ruth Bryant Student body actvities and bookstor; Dorothy Arana, clerk.

Dr. M. A. WUERSCHMiDT Optometrist Phone 1953 73-77 East Broadway "WHERE GOOD GLASSES ARE MADE" Phone 1810 As a sigh. It was hoped that by the time the office opens Tuesday at 9 a.

either additional tokens will be on hand or the original 310.000 will have percolated out of the tills of business houses into the pockets of the citizenry sufficiently to ease the demand. Absent-mindedness on the part of the buying public and the cash iers alike, was given as the cause for scarcity of the tokens. The buy- er forgets he has tokens in his pockets and accepts more of them in change, while the cashier forgets to ask him for a token in payment of his tax but hands him a few pennies and another token. Ed H. Basye.

manager of the Tucson division of the tax commission, said yesterday he "hoped" there would be a new supply of tokens on hand early in the week. RULING IS ASKED ON CATTLE BOARD PHOENIX. Sept. 4. (Ay- Attor neys for S.

W. McCall and Kemper iviariey, i-'noemx, uovernor Stanford's appointees to the state livestock board, today asked the state supreme court to make the appointments effective by ousting John P. Cull. Douglas, and Tom Cavncss, Phoenix. Cull and Cavness, appointees of to 12 A.

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