Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-22

'tWtU ItttlFu lltS Idu' ''t W. wv
at the same time.
Don't hurry the doctor, Dick" I
protested. He always acts with great
delibt'iation when he prepares to burn
incense-to the sedative gods"
What was that YOU were saying
about the Chinese" owen asked, to
get on safe ground.
"Confucious. their great moralist
said that it was better to let a real
criminal a. free than to s'ay an in
nocpnt man" | said. The prussians
seem to think that il is better to XIII
a dozen innocent babies than TO LEI one
man suspected of guilt escape. Nft the
prlssians call themselves Christians
and regard the Chinese as heathens. !
prefer the theories of the Chinese to
the practices of the Prussians. In the
matter Of efficiency also the ChineSe
surpassed the Germans while the Ger
mans were little better than barbar.
ous tribes Their city of HangChow
AT the southern terminus of the Grand
Canal. with known history of cover
ins 1000 years, had been attacked by
invaders many times and the ancient
walls were broken down. Attempts
had been made to repair them. They
had been totally destroyed and partly
repaired many times At last in 1861
Chang Shlhcheng. a feudal lord, de-
cided that the time had come to build
the walls 50 firmly that they could not
he ovclthrown. He summoned work
men and in three months hc erected
tho present wall which j. thirteen
miles long, thirty feet high and forty
feet wide at tho base. Ching was the
General Gocthals Of his time If he
had had the job Of digging tho Pan
anna Canal aud could have commanded
the services of the men who helped
him on the wall he would have dug
the ditch in l'ss than y year Accord.
ing to the official records Of HangChoW
Lord Ching had the help Of $4,000
stonemasons. 10000 carpenters. 500
GOO plastercrs, 66I5 metal workers and
4 500 900 coolies. His motto apparently
was that The way tn do a thing Is TO
do it"
The PrussianS arc trying To con
uuer the world by summouinG every
one of German blood TO the fight" said
DR.. McFabre.
But they cannot succeed for tho
reason that there are not enough of
them" said |. - ran across this in
tercsting story Of the walls Of Hang
chow in Archie Bells entertaining
book called The Spell Of China. This
hook is what set me to thinking about
the Chinese Mr.. Bcll describes tour
starting at Hong Kong, with side trip
to Canton and Macao. Thence he
steamer. From Shanghai he made a
trip by houseboat to IIangchow. Ills
boat had a cabin. stateroom, bathroom,
kitchen and servants quarters. lie
hired il with seven servants for four
dollars a day and lived luNuriously
Then he went by steamer up the
Yanktse-Kiang TO Hankow, the great
commercial city in the center oi
China. lie passed the iron mines
along the river from which the Japan
Csc are taking iron ore, sixty per cent
pure iron, for which they pay two
dollars a ton. He found the japanese
extending their influences in the great
valley Of the Yanktse, the control OF
which commercial statoUnen have saic
will confer on the nation possessing il
the future control of the world"
What is that?" from DR.. McFabre
1T is said that the nation which con
the world" said I. "The Yangtse is
the greatest river i'm the world, greater
than the Amazon. II runs through {
fertile country, rich in minerals. |,
contains a large and industrious popu
lation awaiting the direction of moderI
business men. The resources and tn
labor are there. Japan knows II
Germany knows it, France and Eng
land know it..
"'The serious student ought to rea'
Professor Parker's recently revised
history of China along with Mr.. Bell
book. Mr.. Parker Is an expert. He !
professor of Chinese at the Nictori;
University in Manchester, was fol
merly British consul in China an,
was for a time adviser to the Burnt
Government ON China affairs. Hi
history was first written in 1902. Th
new edition is revised and brought u
TO February of the present year. II
traces the history, diplomacy an
commerce of China from the earlies
times and discusses incidentally tn
character OF the people and the deve
opment of law and religion. 1t wa
he who quoted the remark Of Cor
fucius about letting a criminal escap
in preference to Furnishing an innocen
man, which ! repeated a little Will
ago. You will find in the book fact
, which will help you to a better III
erstanding of the relative destructive
ness of the present war. Men are sa!
ing that God has abandoned the cart
because he is permitted so man
million men to be killed and wounde,
, as though nothing of the kind ha
, ever before happened. Professor Pa
I ker reminds us that duisns the Taipin
rebellion in China. which began |
1850 and ended in 1865, at least AZ
100000 people lost their lives. Th
provinces which suffered the most du
. ing that rebellion have not yet reco'