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Chink Prices Jump As Crops
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Rot Because Warring Faction
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Grabbed Men; Draft Animals
PEKING, China, Dec. 23.—Economic
depression as a result of China’s so
called punitive war is bound to be
more far reaching this winter than
any distress resulting from floods
or famine. Floods and famine are
usually localized, but the present war
has disrupted business everywhere
in the area between Yangtz river and
the Manchurian border. Actual suf
fering is bound to come later.
Never before, according to busi
ness men, was man and animal pow
er so generally recruited nor so
wantonly wasted.
Farmers have been taken from
the fields with their animals to haul
war supplies. Oxen, camels, mules
and horses, that in China serve as
common carriers, taking the crops
to market, have been commandeered.
Crops likewise in many cases have
been taken, to be paid for if the mili
taist taking them wins the war and
feels like paying afterward.
Peking is said to be typical of the
general situation. China generally is
a land of abundance. Vegetables,
poultry and Chinese products gen
erally are extremely cheap compared
to prices in other countries.
Prices Are Jumping.
Cities in North China today are
facing a serious food situation. Crops
are lying in the fields because they
are neither men nor beasts to get
them to market. Women and child
ren are carrying the food in and are
getting a good price because the
whole crop will not be sold. Prices
in the cities have risen thirty per
cent, in a month.
Conservation work on rivers to
prevent further flood damage, which
should be done this winter, will not
be done. The animals have gone to
war, the coolies also and taxes have
been collected ahead to pay for the
fighting.
Tientsin faces a severe coal fam
ine. Tientsin gets its coal from
Chinwangtao, Tangshan, and other
places in the Northern war zone. It
comes down by native steamers, by
junks on the canals and by train
and by foreign ships. Only the lat
ter are now in service. The other
transportation facilities have gone
to war.
Mules Gone to War.
Peking has sufficient coal to get
well into the winter and has mines in
the mountains outside ,but there are
no carts to deliver the stocks in the
city nor to bring fresh stocks from
the hills. The mules have gone to
war.
Carts, wheelbarrows, rickshas,
everything that will carry soldiers
or their equipment has been com
mandeered. It may be taken, as is
often the case, forty or fifty miles
across country to a railroad and
there abandoned. Suffering of ani
mals is such as humane societies
in America has never seen.
After a long pull at an unoiled
squeaking cart, the animal is turned
out to graze on land that has been
gone over, not only with a rake, but
thumb and finger. It is up to the
hoise whether he reaches the jour
ney’s end. He is hauling wheat,
corn kaoliang, great delicacies for a
horse, but none of it for him.
Back on the farm he might stand
a show at the bumper crop which
now lies in the fields.
The Comic Side.
War in China has its comic opera
side, but that consists only m seeing
the militarists strut in the crowded
streets or ride in limousines with
armed outriders on his running
boards. It consists in watching piti
ful attempts to run trains, to organ
i '.e commissary, to replace ragged
coolie clothes with uniforms and to
teach the Chinese clod to fin a rifle
Without shutting his eyes.
VJi: T'te the guns that ha t roared
at Smnghai and Shanha.t'uan, com
paratively few will be found suffer
ing f:tm bullet wounds aid the
widow list will be low. if the fight
proceeds with the usua< Chinese
vigor, a few thousands may be
killed. The diplomatic Co '.is in Pe
king know about how many, for in
other vars its mem’) ,ri have been
asked tr release cu toms funds to
oury the dead. The d«atl were hard
to produce in great numbers.
Eut there will bi suffering and
deaths. The man who put his all in
nr. ox t.i a camel only to see it led
away to war will suffer, as will his
wife and children. The ox meant' a
lifetime effort. He hasn’t another
span of years that long in which to
get another ox. Those who lost
food and those who will be unable to
get food from others because their
income has gone to war, will suffer.
The Tragic Side.
There is nothing comical about
this war to those who pulled weeds,
carried water and fought locusts to
bring a little crop through, nor to
th emerchant who had bought part
of the crop and now holds a military
note as payment.
In other cities and villages where
men gather they can not complain.
It is a punitive expedition to put
down rebels, to say otherwise means
prison. The villagers or farmer may
have an idea about the militarist
who gave a thousand taels to flood
and famine relief in August and
took the village oxen and the wheat
in September, but he wTon’t say any
thing, except what he has been told
to say. His wheat is filling tl ?
bellies of patriots and his oxen is
helping put down the rebels.
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GEISHA GIRL PARTIES
ARE DRIVING JAPS
TO FINANCIAL RUIN
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 23.—
Geisha girl parties arc driving Japan
to the verge of economic ruin and fi
nancial collapse, according to C. H.
Hodgson, woolen mills owner, of
Yorkshire, England, who is a visitor
here on his way home from the Ori
ent.
“The Japanese are living on a scale
that the smallness of their country
cannot stand.” he declared. “They
are imbued with a spirit of high and
costly living, giving huge parties and
spending money recklessly. The av
erage man in Japan yxho makes $4,
000 or more in a business deal de
cides right away to give a geisha par
ty and spend more than half or all
his money that way.”
RATES ON PERISHABLE
FRUITS ARE PROTESTED
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23.—Protests
against the proposed trans-conti
nental freight rate increase on per
ishable fruits and vegetables will be
presented here today before John Mc
Chord, examiner for the interstate
commerce commission.
The carriers propose to make a
charge equivalent to 20 per cent of
the standard refrigeration charge,
when ice is placed on top of or
within the crates of produce. Should
this charge be allowed, produce men
declare it would cost them an ag
gregate of about $3,000,000 a year
additional to ship their commodities
east.
“NO CRIME” RECORD OF
KENTISH TOWN BROKEN
LONDON, Dec. 23.—The twelve
years “no crime” record of the small
town of Tenterden, Kent county, was
all shot to pieces when one of the
town’s youngest citizens was convict
ed of housebreaking.
The judge remarked that it was the
first time court had set for twelve
| years.
GIRLS ROAM WILDS MONTANA
IN SEARCH RARE BEETLES
LAWRENCE, Mass., Dec. 23.—Most
girls w’ould run from a big black bee
tle, but there are two sisters who run
after them and catch them by thou
sands to keep as a collection.
Helen and Edith Mauk live in Law
rence and they spent six weeks chas
ing beetles in Glacier National Park
in northwestern Montana, where en
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These girls are graduates of Holy
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HEAD MEN OF THREE
TRIBES WILL GATHER
PENDLETON, Ore., Dec. 23.—Head
men and chiefs of the three Indian
tribes on the Umatilla reservation,
Umatilla, Walla Walla and Cayuse,
will gather this afternoon to receive
at the hands of Major Byron Sharp |
special certifiicates thanking the In-1
dians for their participation in the |
World war, bearing the arms of the [
United States.
The certificates are signed by Cal
vin Coolidge as president of the
United States, and will be issued to
morrow to all Indian tribes whose
members served in the late war. A
program is planned in connection
with the presentation and Pendle
to civic and patriotic orgaizations
will be represeted.
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wrought destruction in the forests of
Germany and Poland is being con
quered by powerful lights made from
uncovered incandescent carbons,
which attract the insects at night and
cremate them.
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