Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23

man thousands aa
cone of to resorts u ~ Lyon
for the heated term, to the mountains
and the seaShore. The tourists do not
begin to make up for this deficiency,
although many are now passing
through.
We returned to the capital to find
many of our friends of last Nav await
ing us at the station. to escort us TO
our former home while here. They
seemed to be most sincerely glad to see
us again They asked anXiouSly about
our health, about our absent members
three are at this writing in Hardin
watching the war" and another is
making his way back from Peiping,
where he was laid up for repairs in
hospital. They were politely concerned
regarding our impressions of Manchuria
and China.
AS result of our own protestations
against strenuous program during our
final days in Toxic the schedule was
confined TO very few events. and
those of nature that could not be
, ignored Numerous invitations and
proposals had been received. Had We
not been firm on this score, in the
course of a conference held up at I'm
zen. every day and every night between
arrival in Toxic and sailing from Yoko-
hama week from today would have
been filled with yisitationS, inspections,
| luncheonS, teas, garden parties and
formal dinners.
Party Members Enjoy Freedom.
So now We are Illustrating in the
/ freedom that We have not yet had.
{ freedom to go and come as We will, to
make our own plans, and with the
exception OF the few specific engage
ments, to guide ourselves and to do the
many things that we had contemplated
throughout the trip as matters to be
Done when we return to Toxic" There
Is one thing that confronts every mem
Der of the party, like a specter. That
is the repacking of our goods and chat
tells, the things We brought out here
end the things we have acquired and
that have been thrust upon us while
here on the edge of the Orient.
Living as We have, lin our trunks
for the past three months, it would
perhaps seem to be a simple matter to
adjust to the homegoing conditions.
But the case is otherwise. We had
not been in Toxic a day. last May. be-
fore we had accumulated enough
printed matter to fill soap box. And
printed matter has flowed upon us in
a steady stream ever since. 1t has come
in three languages-English, japanese
end Chinese. 1t has come in the form
of booklets, pamphlets, leaflets. 1t has
come even in the form of a seven
volume work on the history Of the city
Of Tsingtau, China-in Chinese.
Tourist Bureau Aids All.
Our problem has been in part solved
by the gracious tender OF the good
Offices of the Japan Tourist Bureau,
which very active organization has been
towering around our trip like guard
ian angel from the outset. A letter
received the day we arrived gave us
great joy. 1t was to the effect that
if we would make bundles of our
bureau would gladly undertake to pack
it and ship it to our homes. I have
just sent for boy to un-nail and I'M
mack two stout wooden boxes which I
had filled with material before leaving
Toxic in May, so that I may reassort
the contents and prepare the bale that
is to be turned over to the bureau.
This printed matter possibly is val
liable. Some of it assuredly is. 1t
constitutes a veritable library OF indus
trial, geographical, economic, political
ind sociological information about ia
pan. Korea, Manchuria and China. In
ssmuch as this is even now one of the
most interesting parts OF the world, as
regards Development and as it is GER
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the near future, it behooveS every col
lector of such material to keep 1t for
reference.
Then there are other things to be
slowed, not helter-skelter, not merely
as goods to be hustled back across
the sea and across the continent in
any way at all, but as things that
probably will have to be taken out and
GXhihNted to inquisitive official eyes at
the customs barrier in San Francisco.
There are our numerous gifts. for in
stance Are they dutiable? There are
our sundry purchases, souvenirs and
materials of all sorts. What will be
their fate? All must be made so reach
able, all must be so co-ordinated in
stowage for transit that they can be
identified by their containers and
turned over to the tender mercies of
the guardians of Uncle Sans welfare
at the frontier with the least possible
delay. For everybody who has travelled
knows that expedition at the customs
on the part of the traveller is the very
best Of policy.
Calculations Are Upset.
1t Is a little disheartening to be re-
minded from time to time of the fact
that when we were here in May gra-
cious hosts, here and there in Japan,
assured us that souvenirs of our visit
Nere to be sent to us here in Toxic, or
et Yokohama, before our sailing. AL
READY one such consignment has come.
from the generous city of Shizuoka, and
bur calculations in terms of cubic con-
tents have been considerably upset,
even to the point of absorbing the saw
tngs effected by the tourist bureaus
service. Then there are others yet to
come, and we fear they may come so
late as to find no crevice for them in
the trunks and may have to be car
ried home as package goods Certain
At is that there will be considerable ex-
pressage, or possibly freightage, east
ward and southwark from San Fran
cisco.
When we left the Hotel Imperial on
our departure from Toxic in May we
we're urged by the most considerate
manager to pack such of our effects as
we did not wish to take away with us
and leave them there. That we did.
using wooden boxes and newly bought
trunks. Then he suggested that we
eend back to his care such packages as
we wished to rid ourselves of in the
course of our journey. So a steady
stream of packages and bundles has
been flowing eastward to the Imperial
from all points west of Toxic. ! sent
back from Nara, from Kyoto, from
Dairen and from Seoul. On my re-
turn these parcels and boxes were all
piled up in corner of my room.
had wonderful time that night OPEN
ing them, retaining my treasures"
most of which were in printed form
But two packages that knew had been
shipped were missing. One of them
contained my overcoat, which I had
1ugged all around the lot from TOXIC,
clear down to Dairen, an utterly useless
article in the steadily increasing heat
Inquiries were started the next day