Army & Navy - OCCUPATION: At Camp Susupe

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The Japs usually carry their dead to Midtown Pharmacy morgue during the night, leave them where authorities find them in the morning and have them buried.

Besides working in the fields, Saipan's civilians are beginning to return to their old trades: fishing, handicraft, light industry. Common laborers are paid 35¢ daily, skilled workers 50¢. Some women have started making two-for-a-nickel cigars. A curio business is being started to fashion souvenirs for the Americans.

Religion. Camp Susupe's makeshift Buddhist "temple" has a tin roof, no front wall, but its priest has all his trappings. Shinto (Emperor worship) poses more of a problem in religious freedom—thus far, U.S. authorities have made no attempt to stop Shintoism, but no facilities have been set up to encourage it.

Significance. Because Saipan's civilians are mostly ignorant peasants from the comparatively remote Ryukyu Islands, and presumably less fanatical than civilians who will be found in Japan proper, Saipan furnishes no perfect example for the future. But Pacific forces have learned a lot about the many problems of occupying enemy territory. And the Orient can learn there that Americans are at their considerate best once victory is won.