Civilian employees of the Ministry of the Navy and other Navy offices have been given permission to go to work in wooden clogs if they so choose.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has ordered policemen throughout the country to make the longest possible use of their present equipment.
Gold-plating for sabre-handles has been discarded, and artificial leather is to be used instead of the genuine article in making belts and other equipment.
Policemen have also been given permission to wear wooden clogs or even straw sandals instead of leather shoes.
Search for New "Ersatz"
Japanese scientists are busily working to find substitutes for materials benned from public use, especially leather, petrol and rubber, while voluntary measures to help in the economy campaign have been adopted by individuals and organizations.
Perhaps the best example is the decision of 1,400 girls of the Women's College of Japan, in Tokyo, to forego permanent waves until peace has been restored.
This decision is stated to have been taken Because of the desire of the girls "to demonstrate their consciousness of the national crisis."
A number of the girls sketched "emergency" coiffures, and two of these, considered to offer a modest improvement on the plain style worn in Japan at the beginning of the century, were adopted.—Reuter,
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