Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-07

will prevent fire spreading as 1t did in
1928. Toxic is not afraid of earth
quakes. There have been $500 notice
able shocks in this region since the
major quake of 1923.
The new MitSui Bank, which is tc
have the largest floor devoted to bank
ing Of any bank in the world, Is typical
of Tokio's new construction. American
architects designed the building; Ameri-
can contractors have built it. Under
the 10-story structure Is q platform OF
reinforced concrete feet thick. II
contains twice as much steel as similar
buildings in the United States require.
Earthquake proofing, Toxic estimates
raises construction costs one-third.
But Toxic expects excellent returns
on her tremendous investment in city
planning. Improvements effected In
sanitation alone will, in three years, II
is believed, save as many lives as were
lost in the earthquake disaster.
ITO arrive at Central Station, Toxic
today Is to enter the hurry burly of the
twentieth century. Porters grab the
travellers bags: taxis dash up, stop with
screeching brakes. Jinrikishas? They
are for country folk unused to city
ways They can be found somewhere
about the vast station, but one has to
hunt for them.
Modern MobO and MOgO.
Through the doors of Central Sta
ton can be glimpsed 10-Story modern
Toxic: square buildings that look as If
they had been sent from Seattle, de-
mounted, and assembled in Japan like
the taxis and thousands of other auto
mobiles On the other side of the sta
ton is the Gina, Tokio's Broadway,
once the street of silversmiths, now the
street of mobo (the modern boy and
mogo (the modern Crib.
''Mobo has gone Western with his hat
his bow tie, short coat and baggy trou-
Sers, cigarette and cane. Mogo has
bobbed her hair, and she is trying tt
improve on her naturally excellent COM
plexion; she wears hat, quite novelty
in Japan, and her skirts are short.
Daytime finds downtown Toxic keep
ing up with the Joneses' of Manhattan
and Mayfair. In a typical steel-and-
concrete cell in typical Office building
the Japanese business man in a business
suit and leather shoes works eight hours
debating, talking to statesmen, holdine
conferences. Five o'clock, home by sub
way, off with the business suit, off with
the black leather shoes, a hot bath,
then, in kimono and sandals. with din
ner served on a table no higher than a
stool before which he sits cross-legged
on the floor, the modern business man
Is back in the Japan of his fathers. He
dimes and he lives in his house with
sliding panels and exquisite screens a
house whose style has not changed In
three centuries.
The Three TOkiOs Of Today.
"Yet his children in the morning &c
to one of Tokio's new schools; a build
ing that makes Americas newest schools
look like products of the Victorian age
1t is too new for the United States. II
might, with its mass design of sweeping
curves and Incorporating angles, ri
In Amsterdam's newest church, but nc
American school board would ever &C.
cept it.
80 today there are three Tokios-old
Toxic of tangled narrow streets ano
tile-roofed wooden houses which cluster
over beyond the Emperor's palace, where
the fire did not reach; Western Toxic
of typewriters, subways, clacking turn