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...hours, disregarding all the blandishments of the Tokyo Police Force to coax him down (TIME, Dec. 1). Last week 200 employes of Japan Dyeing & Weaving Works went out on strike because of the discharge of a fellow workman. The dyers and weavers remembered the November success of Chimney Sitter Tanabe, determined to emulate him. However, not a single striking dyer could be found who would volunteer to sit on the Weaving Works high chimney. This difficulty was solved when a sympathetic, bespectacled young man from the Amalgamated Printers' Union swarmed up the stack, sat on the chimney as proxy...
Days and nights passed. The striking weavers starved in their warehouse, the Amalgamated Printer sat on his chimney. Chimney Sitter Tanabe's 129 hour record was passed. Still the hardhearted owners of Japan Dyeing & Weaving Works did not relent. The strikers had forgotten that the real reason Chimney Sitter Tanabe won his case in November was that the Emperor, the Son of Heaven, was scheduled to pass beneath that particular chimney. It is illegal, it is sacrilege for any Japanese to look down on the Son of Heaven...
...Though reputable artists do not color photographs, as a labor saving device many throw the reflection of a photograph on a blank canvas by means of a magic lantern, block in the rough outline of the sitter's pose with charcoal...
...unemployed rising faintly to his ears. Police and factory owners paid little attention. From Yokohama came a message: Emperor Hirohito would return to Tokyo at the week's end, would almost certainly pass the Tanabe-topped chimney on his way to the palace. Instantly the removal of Chimney Sitter Tanabe became of vital importance. The Emperor of Japan is accounted divine, the Son of Heaven. For any one to look down on him is not only a crime but, worse than that, a sacrilege...
...Author. Sir James Hopwood Jeans, 53, onetime (1905-09) professor of Applied Mathematics at Princeton, Research Associate of Mt. Wilson Observatory, sitter in many a mathematical chair, holder of many a scientific medal, has written numerous mathematical, astronomical treatises, one other book telling the plain man what science is up to: The Universe Around...