babies, kept up until late the next morning,
when the radio advised everyone to go
normally about his business.
"Nor]llal" was perhaps hardly the word,
but everyone did report at regular places of
employment, while rumors flew back and
forth. My stenographer, an island·born Jap-
anese, was pale and shaken, for she had
been on her way to church the morning
before when a bomb which killed several
people dropped on the street not far from
her. Taking stock of the situation, I found
that one of the first orders issued under
martial law was the ,prohibition of the sale
of liquor and the closing of all bars, and
that just about temporarily stymied the
operation of cigarette machines. Many of
them are still in locations which have pad-
locks on the doors. Several others, espe·
cially the Rowe Presidents, which I in-
spected looked as though machine gun
bullets had hit them, but I discovered that
the location owners had neglected to dis-
connect the machines from the electric
switches, and the fluorescent lights which
gleamed in the blackout had been shot out
by guards. One machine, in a loca tion near
a military installation that was heavily
bombed, has never been found, nor could
I find even a nickel in th e wreckage.
Gradually a semblance of order came out
of the chaos, and in about three weeks I
again had about half of our machines in
operation, the majority of them in restaur-
ants and places where large numbers of
defense workers are station ed, but as all
business closes about 4 :00 o'clock because
of the nightly blackouts, and the fact that
no civilians are allowed on the streets be·
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sales have naturally fallen off. Service men
are handicapped by having always to carry
a gas mask slung over one shoulder, and
soon trench helmets will be added to stan-
dard civilian equipment.
The population, which is about 60%
Japanese, has generally been remarkably
well behaved. They are telling a story of a
sailor who recently came over here on a
transport, who was standing at the rail
when his ship docked, and as he looked
down the pier he saw large numbers of Jap-
anese guards and soldiers on duty. He
grabbed his buddy and moaned, "My God
- we've gotten here too late!" It probably
does seem stran ge to boys from the main·
land to come her to save us from the Japs,
and then to find them in the uniform of our
country- but such is democracy! And just
to show how really goodhearted we are,
negotiations are under way to give the J a ps
half of th e Pacific Ocean- th e bottom
half.
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years and in all that time I have made
only one small mistake."
Boss: "Good. But in the future be more
careful."
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