Out of Philadelphia last week, without the cargo she had come to fetch for the Emperor of Japan, steamed the Azuma Maru. The cargo which the neat little Japanese freighter sailed without was oil.
The Azuma Maru's hoped-for cargo was held up by one U.S. citizen's ire. Edward Jobbins, who manages the Wilson-Martin division of Wilson & Co., Inc. (meats) and is busy as a bee making fatty acids for the manufacture of various articles of defense, read in his Philadelphia paper one morning that the Azuma Maru had arrived in port to load lubricating oil. Mr. Jobbins hit the ceiling. He...
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