Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-10
UNCLE SAM PAYS fAUNG BIG
 WAGES
Chinese Interpreter Has a Hard Job and Receives More Pay Than Most of Us White Peo- pie on Salary

DOUGLAS, Aug. 9.-(Special.)-
 When a quiet round faced lad whom you forget is Chinese until you in spect closely his slant eyes and black straight hair is pointed out to you as the possessor of a monthly pay check from the United States government which is likely to be bigger than your own, unless you are a great deal bet ter paid than the average man, you cast about for an explanation. The explanation is that he is a Chinese in terpreter and that Chinese interpret ing requires as expensive, extensive and difficult an education as that of a college professor, who is not so well paid.
 As long as Douglas remains the fav- orite point of ingress for Chinese coolies to the United States it will be frequently a stopping place for these little alien government officials. Harry K. Faung, one of the most eff cient in the service, was here only yesterday and spent two hours in un- raveling before Judge Albert Sames the tale of three coolies who had stumbled across the American bor- der unwittingly in the lark.
 What Faung Interpreted. In one of the scores of dialects of the Chinese language, which Faung has mastered in his long education, the coolies told a story which Faung confirmed as quite likely from what he knew of Chinese life. One of them had sold his son in Canton to get pas sage money to America and had ar rived at Vera Cruz without a cent. Two others, as poor as he. joined him in a tramp across hot and partly arid Mexico toward @Cananea. the high wage country. They had wandered near the border, stumbled across it in the night and were haled into the court of a kindly United States con- missioner-so kindly that he listened to the tale the interpreter repeated, believed it, had the blunderers taken into Mexico and freed. Faung trans lated the tale of poverty and dogged determination without the quiver of an eyelash. He is used to such, re marking afterward that it was a mild sample of hundreds much more pa thetic.
 Every Chinese Unto His Class.
 Did you ever have any such strug- gles as that yourself, Mir. Faung?"
 "Oh. no. Only the poor workmen have them. In China every man eX- poets to stay always in the class to which he is born-all except a few geniuses like Ii Hung Chang or the present Empress Dowager. Each class has its duties and privileges and ev- cry member his orbit laid out for him before he is born. My father be longed to the merchant class and was able to give me a costly education. There was never any fear of my fall ing into poverty. for if my father had failed some or all of his many rela- tives would have felt it necessary to give me an education befitting one of their blood. Everything depends on your family there A coolie expects always to be poor and to struggle, so does not mind hardship.
 Faung American Born.
 My father was a merchant in Reno, Nevada, and was born there. When | was seven years old I was sent to a private school in Canton where stayed until I was twelve. I studied nothing but the Chinese classics Confuscius, mainly. That was no preparation for interpreting. you'll think, but it gave me a knowledge of the various dialects of the great Chi nese language that I could have got in no other way. We studied from half past seven in the morning until six at might've children of seven and ten years old-over long poems and precepts. We had no vacation and no exercise. The Chinese don't believe in exercising anything but the mind. To be calm and superior in mind to all crises in life is the sole aim of their education. am glad got away from that environment early, although the stiff mental exercise prepared me to learn almost anything afterawrd.
 A University Man.
 "Then I went to an American school in Reno and later my father sent me east to the Boston university. When finished that tedious and long educa- tion I had both languages at my fin gers end and interpreting was my natural vocation.
 After the training period is over interpreting is a fairly good job, but the difficulty of getting fitted keeps it out of the reach of most people"
 MT. Faung returned to his Tucson office yesterday.
 DOUGLAS SHORT OF BREAD.
 Douglas faces bread famine which may assume serious proportions. though 1t is likely # the situation be- comes So tense as is feared four can be secured from some point in the southwest.
 As it is there is about one weeks supply in all Douglas. Immense ship ments are on the road and have been due here for thirty days. but they are still due A bare possibility ex- ists that these shipments will arrive here in time to dissipate the impend- ing famine. but should they not reach Douglas then flour must be brought ia at advanced prices from Fl Paso and elsewhere in this section-Douglas ln-