The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-06
HUMANITARIAN
WORK IS UNDER
CONSIDERATION.
.FIood-D Devastated District Of
China May Be Reclaimed
by the Red Cross.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. July g.
The story Of probably the greatest
humanitarian work under considera-
ton insthe world today-the drain
ing, canalizing and declaiming Of the
hood-devastated, famine-stricken HUI
al river region in Central China-is
told in the American Red Cross
Magazine for July by Mabel T. Board
man, chairman of the National Relief
Board Of the American Red Cross.
Quarter Million Spent.
The last half dozen years the
American Red Cross has expended
approximately $4,000. including
the value Of donated supplies, in try
| ing to afford some measure, of relief
for hundreds Of thousands Of emaoi-
ated. starving, misery-ridden human
being in that area where, according
to the official Chinese records cover
ing twenty-five centuries, periodical
floods have laid waste vast stretches
of richly productive agricultural
lands.
In as much as the act of Congress
incorporating the American Red
Cross provides that 1t shall devise
and carry on measures for the pre-
vention Of distress and suffering, as
well as give relief after they come.
the Red Cross. in cooperation with
the Republic Of China. is financing
an investigation by board of emf
nent American civil engineers in the
afflicted territory with the intention
ultimately to prosecute aireclamation
and conservancy scheme which will
cost approximately, $2O,000,00 to
be paid by, China. The present in
Iyestigation will entail an expenditure
by the Red Cross and China Of about
$4,000.
The members Of this board are
Lieutenant Colonel William L.. 81
bert, engineer corps, United States
army. builder OF the Gatum locks
and dam Of the Panama canal, chair
man; Arthur Powell Davis, chief en-
gineer Of the United States Reclama-
tion service, and Daniel Webster
Mead, professor of hydraulic en-
gineering in the University of Wis
consin. Charles Davis Jameson, the
Red Cross engineer who made the
preliminary survey, is accompanying
the board as general advisory en-
gineeer. Several assistant en-
gineers. including a brilliant young
Chinese, Sylvanus 7. Suen, are with
the conservancy board.
Confucius Was Wise.
Miss Boardman's article, under the
caption, THE Proof Of Friendship.
says in part:
THE great master, Confucius, was
once asked by one Of his disciples. Is
there one, word that may serve as a
rule Of practice for all ones life?"
The master replied, is not Reel
procity such a word?' Another time
the same master said. AT first it was
my way to hear mans words and
give him credit for his conduct. Now
1 hear mans words and look at his
conduct
wise, indeed. was old Confucius.
In acts, not words, is to be found the
proof of true friendship. The great
opportunity to do an act Of friend
ship for China, an act Of humanity
for her people, has been offered by
the Chinese government to theI
United States through the medium of
the American Red Cross This op-|
portunity lies in the line of being of
assistance in the work Of food pre-
vention in the central part OF China,
thus doing away with the untold sur
ferings of hundreds of thousands of
famine victims: and, Furthermore, OIL
retaining large amount of rich
agricultural land in a district where
every square foot is needed for food
production"