Osaka Castle Park was opened in 1931 to coincide with the reconstruction of the Osaka Castle tower. Osaka Castle Park, located in Chuo-ku Osaka, covers an area of 106.7 hectare. The Nishinomaru Garden features around 600 cherry trees, including someiyoshino (the most popular variety of sakura (cherry blossom) in Japan) and around 95 kinds of Japanese apricot flowers. In total 1250 trees bloom in the Ume Grove, and in Omoide-no-mori (Grove of Remembrance). The scenery, which changes from season to season, attracts many visitors throughout the year. While spring brings the bright colors of cherry blossom to Osaka Castle Park, autumn brings the beautiful colors leaves. In addition to inner Osaka Castle, Osaka Castle Park includes the following attractions: * Peach Grove Omoide-no-mori (Grove of Remembrance) * Osaka Castle Hall * Baseball Ground * Taiyo-no-hiroba (playground) * Kyudojo (Japanese Art of Archery Establishment) * Forest Park * Osaka Castle Bandshell * Plum Grove * Hokoku-jinja Shrine * Shudokan (Martial Arts Training Hall) * Nishinomaru Garden * Treasure House * Japanese Garden Hojoen Address: Osakajo, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi Access: 2 min walk from Osakajo-koen Station (JR Osaka Loop Line) Admission: Free to park grounds. - www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/travel/osaka_castle_park.htm

Title: Illinois Agricultural Association record [microform] Identifier: 5060538.1931-1934 Year: January 1931- December 1934 (Jan0s) Authors: Illinois Agricultural Association; Illinois Agricultural Association. Record Subjects: Agriculture Publisher: Mendota, Ill. : The Association Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Uayy 1931 THE I. A. A. RECORD Page Thirteen An Open Road for Elevator Managers V.".;;/;.>:„;-;^, By Lacey F. Rickey :T.^.';,''v'>'.^-',,-/ Grain Marketing Specialist, University of Illinois -^T' Text Appearing After Image: Ii. F. Rickey DID you ever stop to think why it is that few man voluntarily and consciously take up country elevator management as a life work? A large majority of country elevators are in small towns. Often the elevator manager handles more business than anyone else in the town. He is a man of weight and influ- ence in his com- munity. When the necessary living ex- penses incident to living in a small town are taken into consideration, he receives what totals a very respectable salary. On the whole, his work is pleasant. He has the advantage of liv- ing close to his work. He is given a large degree of responsibility in guid- ing the affairs of a good-sized business. He works hard, to be sure; and at cer- tain times must put in long hours. However, all things balance up to an agreeable total, and when once in the work, if the man is at all adapted to the position, he ordinarily stays with it for a long time. T Blind Alley Job Where then is the fly in the oint- ment? As co-operative grain market- ing has been organized, country ele- vator management has been a blind- alley job. A good average man could, if he were diligent, keep the elevator business going in fair shape and be practically assured of his job for a long time. Under the management of a man with more than average business ability, the elevator would prosper, and in- creases in prestige and salary would be forthcoming. Ladder Now Provided ^But the physical limitations to vol- ume of grain which might in any way be induced to come to any one country elevator precluded the possibility of any very large salaries being paid. His con- tacts were not such as to bring his abilities to the attention of larger em- ployers who could make full use of his talents and hence pay larger salaries. He had a good job as small-town jobs go, but there was no ladder by which he could climb into a better position in the business world. In order to get into a field of larger opportunities it was necessary to back out of the blind- alley which led no'W^here and start all over; and that is a painful process. This has all been written in the past tense. Why? Because a ladder is now being provided by which the efficient manager of a local co-operative ele- vator can climb to enlarged fields in his own line of work. The ranks of the real grain men needed to operate the regional and national grain co-opera- tives should and will be recruited from the managers of local co-operative ele- vators who have demonstrated their sympathy with and understanding of the fundamental principles of co-opera- tion, together with a knowledge of grain and business ability of a high order. ,.■,, ^.■.._^. The young man with ambition may now take the management of a local co- operative elevator with the assurance that when he has proven his ability he will have the same chance as the young fellow who enters other lines of indus- try, to advance into positions where his abilities may be fully used, where he may take just pride in his enlarged ac- complishments, and where the honor and reward going to men who do things will be his. The Bogey Men Bogey-men have been set before the managers by those having their own in- terests to serve. The development of regional co-operatives would do away with the necessity of business and grain handling ability at the local stations and reduce the managers to grain weighers, with salaries to correspond. A little re- flection will show the falsity of this claim. The same local management ability will be required. The services rendered to him will enable him to do a better job of handling his local sta- tion. The only difference will be that when he does send his grain to the ter- minal market, as he has always done, he will turn it over to someone who is vitally interested in the success of his local elevator rather than merely in the commission to be obtained from han- dling the shipment. Ready for Next Step And in addition to this, he is part and parcel of the terminal organization him- self. As expansion and promotions oc- cur, tiis success in handling his part of the business will suggest to those in charge of operations in the larger field that here is the man who has demon- strated that he is ready to take the next step up the ladder o( successful achieve- ment. Only a few years ago many people watching the development of Japan and China saw therein a "yellow peril." Far-sighted business men, seeing instead a "golden opportunity," shaped their policies to meet it and prospered accord- ingly. The large volume of golden grain concentrated under the operations of a nation-wide co-operative marketing or- ganization may mean to the local man- ager either a yellow peril or a golden opportunity, accordingly as he avails himself of the possibilities thus pre- sented. A blind-alley job is being changed to one which gives the local manager "some place to go." This Story Is True And, as Chairman Legge says, "This story has the further advantage of be- ing true." I speak from experi"ence. I was a country elevator manager for some time before I realized that I had a good job which led me nowhere in par- ticular. It was a momentous decision when I gave up that job to back out of the blind-alley and start over. I have never been sorry that I made the deci- sion. I have been able to be of more service to myself, to my family, and to society in general. But I lost some val- uable years. I wish that there had been present then the opportunity to climb out rather than the necessity to back out. Start Membership Work Farm Bureau membership sign-ups will be conducted in Logan, McLean, Hancock, McDonough, McHenry, De- Kalb and Warren counties within the next few months. The organization staff of the I. A. A. is assisting the local committees in all these counties in getting ready. All indications point to successful membership drives, reports Geo. E. Metzger, director of organiza- tion, for farmers realize the need for organization now more strongly than ever. McLean county is out to make a new record for the largest membership sign- up in one day. Tazewell county now holds the record with 1,288 members added to the Farm Bureau roll in a 24-hour period. t — On March 15 tke index of farm prices stood at 91 per cent of ^the pre-war level. On the same day a year* ago the index was 126 per cent. ..,'■"' :,>■■■■■■ '^ •• ■ ' ' ■■ ■.■•■.,-; .,'•":. 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Shape of transportation system in Tokyo is rings-and-spoke pattern. On radiate roads and railroads in the southwestern part, you can often see Mt.Fuji ahead. This photo was taken near Setagaya-Daita Station. Mt. Fuji is shown beyond Odakyu Line track. But the air was not so clear, the mountain was hard to see.