The Nenana daily news., 1918-05-28
CHINESE NATION HAS MUCH RACE
 JEALOUSY WAR

Why the infant Republic of China
 is always in hot water, with revolts
 here and revolts there constantly oc-
 curing, is explained when we real
 ize that China is not homogeneous
 unit but country inhabited by two
 distinct and mutually jealous races.
 The Hanow Central China Post
 makes this clear for us when it
 writes:
 The present civil war and acute 1 friction between the North and
 South of China was a foregone con-
 clusion. Although to casual ob- server 'once a Chinaman always a | Chinaman' may seem to be the case, yet to a careful onlooker it is ap-
 parent that the races which occupy
 the North and South of the Yangtse
 river are entirely different. They differ in so many characteristics such as physique, accent, food tra-
 ditions, folk-youre, and in outlook
 on things generally-that they are
 difficult to mix as oil and water. The Northern Chinese, whose or
 igin was on the banks of the Yellow
 river in Honan, Shantung, and Shan
 si, is completly dissimilar being
 from the Southerner who resides in
 Kwangtung and Fookien. The Nor therner is, generally speaking, a man of large bulk and physique, a person who takes things placidly and is adverse to any changes in his do- mestic or national routine. The Southerner is usually of small sta ture, darker in color than the Nor therner, and a person who is easily excited. These people are impatient of the old and are striving to evolve themselves out of the circumspect groove which contents their Northern fellow nationals.
 Then in food, the tastes are mark edly dissimilar. The Northerner, whose winters are severe, disdains the rice which is so essential to the Southerner and lives principally on flour, and other products of wheat. The Southerner, whose climate is so hot that heavy food repels him, clings to his rice, his maize, and his cooling vegetables. The language of the North is more or less a com mon dialect and is easily recognized by the burr. The spoken language of the South is completely different and dialects innumerable make a Southerner a foreigner to the Nor therns who journey to these parts.
 The Post tells us that these two dissimilar peoples can never agree because of the ingrained jealously of the South against the North:
 'But above all, the principal bone of contention is jealously of the i North by the South. These South ern provinces have been brought more in contact with modern con- ditions and fret under the arbitrary rule which has become as second nature to the Northerner.
 The Southerners have concen- trated their efforts on trade and be- come wealthy, they have travelled and become more up to date than their Northern neighbors, and they view the fact of their being gov erned by the North, from the Nor thern capital, by autocrats ignorant and suspicious of their aspirations, with abhorrence. Then they look around and find the Northern prov inces are generally provided with whereas in the Southern provinces. which are the most pro- ductive, railways are few and busi- ness is retarded by antiquated and laborious communication facilities"
 Little peace is foreseen by The Post until monarchy is restored in the North and the South breaks away and forms a separate republic. The proposal to move the capital i from Picking would not bring unity, thinks the foreign organ:
 "If the capital were removed to the South the trouble would not be removed, as the North would then |