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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

So far as it's quondam self is
concerned Chinatown has fallen, for
no longer does it surreptitiously
bristle with arsenals, nor do the
high pitched monotone threats of
war break out upon the night. There
was time when all the raids of the
relentless police could not stop gam
bling, for when the instruments of
play were seized the slant-cved
Oriental rugged up a board and
raced cockroaches and bet upon
the race. "Chuck" Connors and his
numerous henchmen smoked opium
in open places and for commercial
gain, but now the pipe is inhaled
behind the closed shutter. Even the
joss house, where the gods of all
desire sit inscrutably upon their
pedestals, is a tenpenny show oper-
atcd for the entertainment of the
tourist.
Chinatown, which was a Bedlam
Of "Agh ollahs" which is the near
est English approach to the Chinese
for fight; which was by turn the
swashbuckler or the Elusive play
boy, has turned conservative and
now presents slattern succession of
fish shops and eating houses, of
novelty stores and pinchbeck estab-
hshments. The romance Of China
town dates always backward; her
pulse is apparently normal.
And yet
Back of his inscrutable exterior
and of his overpowering distaste to
hold converse with the "foreigner''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Meaningless Words

Thus children and immigrants
(all future citizens) would not have
TO memorlze positions Of towns by
associating meaningless words with
certain spots on a map.
They could not read newspapers
for one year without learning the
exact size and relative location Of
the 200 largest cities of North
America. Every newspaper would
teach geography.
A knowledge Of the population
and location Of important centres
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21


U tieth century idea. Why
-~~- not give every city, towr
and village in NORTH
America (and later in the whole
worldly an official nunber-name in
addition to it's present word-name
this number-name to be made I'D Of
slze-number and a location-num.
Der, to be written thus:
Size Number location
(According to Number
Population Northwest
Minneapolis 49,. Is 95 so
and by abbreviation, through con-
slant use, thus:
Dubuque ... $50 277o
Several towns might have the
same location-number, but each
town would have different size
number to distinguish it from all
others.
These numbcr-names would tell
at glance the two most important
facts about a town.
The present word-names (Ben-
der, Canajoharie, Wynot, etc. tell
nothing to traveller or a news
paper reader or office worker 900
miles away. Even with a good map
one frequently finds it difficult to
locate places mentioned in the
news.
These number-names would also
Indicate the approximate distance
between points mentioned. They
would DO away with difficulty in
spelling and pronunciation-"Wi-
pers" for Ypres, etc. Words are
national, figures International
How many Americans know the
proper pronunciation of Des Moines.
Sioux City, Los Angeles, to say
nothing of foreign names like
Przemysl and Buenos Ayres? How
many know the size and relative
location Of Dubuque?
Newspapers could quickly spread
knowledge Of the system by putting
the number-name Of a place after
its word-name in the dating of dis
patches. They could also use the
number-name to avoid monotonous
repetition of the word-name. 4
knowledge of the exact location of
places mentioned would add inter-
est to the story.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

never be one who gushes for the
benefit Of the press.
On Pell Street the experience
was similar. AS far down as Del
monlco's Shantung brought the
Chnaman up with start. On the
second floor Of a building adjoin-
ing the "House of Five Entrances
two slant-eyed cooks were discov-
cred compromising a chop sucy, as
it were.
What do you think of the Shan
tung agreement"
"Shantung? No like"
Nothing could induce these cooks
to go further. "No like" it was and
''no like it stayed. The proposed
I neutral zone or the sanctuary gwen
the resting place of the great Con-
fucius mattered not. "No like" ex-
pressed the unalterable opinion of
the compounders of chop suey.
1t was so often the case that
casual visitor to Chinatown seek
ing a political opinion may depart
with the idea that a great many of
the Cinnamon therein residing have
about as much knowledge of the
specific provisions Of the Shantung
agreement as a Michigan peach
grower has Of the complete history
of the Seminole Indians.
Yet that is beyond the mark. SEN
timept may exist without complete
understanding, and in the case of
Chinatown and Shantung that senti-
ment already has crystallized into
decision.
But that there shall be under
standing there has been placed
against blank wall on Doyers
Street bulletin board, and here in
sizable letters Of Chinese design the
latest news upon the Shantung stu
alton is posted. The Chinaman
shuffling along this once bloody
sector pauses to read, and the day
when the Senate submitted an
amendment upon this provision was
notable in the history of Chinatown.
Shantung has become a shibboleth.
Shantung, which lies hard by the
noiling waters of the Yellow Sea,
where the sun comes up gloriously;
Shantung, where stands the lofty
T'ai-shan where Confucius and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
BY Louis Lee Arms

" r OW Is the winter of discon-
~ tent in Chinatown. Perox-
ide Nelly. the Opium Cat,
Sam Kee. the waddlinp
Celestial and the image Of TAI PAX
Kun Sing Great White and Golden
Starr, could he but speak. nave but
ono expression for the Shantung
provision Of the treaty.
"No like!"
Where Mott Street slides into the
Bowery, where Pell busters into
Mott, and along the bloody angle of
Doyers Street, once impregnated
with the necessary accoutrements for
tong war. such as steel armor
jackets, headsman's axes and Amer
lean made revolvers, Cinnamon
shuttle or swarm, with hearts mex
pressibly sad. I
The Japanese are coming to Shan
tung, home Of noble Confucius {;
province rich beyond the dreams Of
Choy San, the god Of wealth; pict-
uresque as celestial vista. Indeed,
Japan is there; Japan, whose heart
is cold as the crystal moon, whose
ambitions are like the rising tide
No like.
To be sure, Chinatown is not what
it once was. There has been an evo-
luton Of perspective along Mott
Street. Long ago gradual spiritual
change set in, partly as a conces-
sion to the police, which reached
its topmost peak when Tom Lee
died in bed. Tom Lee was head of
the formidable On Leong Tong, gun
fighter and gambler, whose name
was anathema to the rival Hip
Sings, so much so that it could be
translated into terms of finance, for
$4,000 was the price offered for
Tom Lees head. Yet Tom Lee sur
vived, with bodyguard of twenty
four Canton stalwarts, who carried
automatics up their silken sleeves,
and laid himself down to die only at
the ripe age of seventy-six years,
each expiring breath a testimonial
to that vast psychic Transformation
hitherto alluded to, or reproach to
the Indifferent craftsmanship of the
Hip Sings.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

towns into classes, $4,000 to TO-
600 population, 10000 to 5000
population, etc, leaving a gap be-
tween the size-numbers of each
class, SO that the size-number would
tell the approximate population.
Thus if there were 229 cities of
over $4,000 population, start the
next group (25,O00 to 10000 at
$50 instead of 23O.
10 obtain location
A.-The North number:
Multiply the number of degrees
north of the equator by three. Ct
have tried multiplying by two and
by four and find that one gives too
large and the other too small a unit
for best results. Moreover, degrees
are divided into six parts on most
maps, which makes it easier with
thirds than with quarters.)
With this unit no location number
could be more than fifteen miles
distant from its location point.
New Works latitude is about
10 2-3 degrees. Multiply by three
and we get 49, For local mot in
ternationaD use this can be short
oned to %.
B.-The Westminster:
Similarly, multiply degrees west
Of Greenwich (London) by three.
New York's west longitude is
about "A degrees. This gives 222,
abbreviated %. Put the West-num-
Der after the North-number and we
have 22-22, which could be written
2222. Prefix New York's size
number and we get the complete
number-name-1, 2222. For inter
national use this would be |. 122222
Cor |, 22-222).
London's number-name would be
l, 10000, abbreviated |, $500.
Havre's number-name would be
$4,000, abbreviated 1900.
Three times $50 degrees gives
1850. The extra 80 units would be
skipped over in the Pacific Ocean.
between Honolulu and New Zea-
land, so that point one degree east
Of Greenwich would have an East
number of 997. Hamburg would be
l6O-97O, or 6070. EAST longitude.
10 degrees. Multiply the 10 by 8
and subtract from 10000 :
South Of the equator:
Multiply degrees south by 3 and
subtract from 600. A point 10 de-
grees south would have a South
number Of $40, abbreviated 70.
No point north of the equator
would have a North-number of $40.
the highest North-number being
270. The lowest South-number
would be $50. Between 270 and
$50 there would be neither North
nor South-numbers,
In figuring distances between a
South-number and O North-nunber
add 600 to the North-number.
Notice how easy 1t would be to
figure mentally the Approximate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

that this speech was made with that
easy continuity with which it is
herewith presented. Each sentence
required an interval of one or two
minutes deepest thought. The
words-in. broken English-were
uttered with the soiemnity of city
magistrate passing sentence upon
a speedster. The Chinaman will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

the heart OF the CelcStlal IS mex
pressiblv sad which Is but another
way Of saying that he If being con
sumed by an internal fire.
Snantung has passed the stage OF
a treaty concomitant. It is now q
| fighting word.
II the sentiment Of new China
town that looks further than tong
| wars and gala feasts may be taken
to indicate that which is in the
hearts Of their countrymen across
the sea, then that day when Japan
sets sanctioned foot in Shantune
will mark the beginning Of a new
war.
Seething
Chinatown, outwardly placid
playing the theatrical part assigned
by the owners Of sightseeing buses
is seething internally. The mention
of Shantung lends fire to a furtive
eye and loosens sealed lips. An in
stance Of this:
The writer visited the shop of
Kwong Sun Chong, on Mott Street,
and explained with all the difficulties
that might be expected where Eng
fish is little needed and less learned
that he wished a few expressions
on the Shantung agreement.
These were given willingly and
translated by one who SPOKE Eng
lish after a fashion. One said it
meant fight. Another said: 81 wish
l could write English, 1 would tell
the whole story for YOU" Again
Japan may get it, but she can't
hold it," Another expressed the
hope that the United States would
defeat the treaty.
While this was going on an aged
Chinaman in Oriental dress shutfled
into the shop. News travels on in
visible wings in Mott Street. He
raped the counter smartly, deliv-
cred himself of a staccato-like ut
terance and marched off.
He is seventy-tive years DID,"
said the Chinese boy who was act
ing as interpreter. "Hc says we will
sacrifice the whole nation for the
peninsula"
This patriarch is accounted some
thing of a political authority and a
philosopher in Chinatown. On any
question in which the welfare of the
Chinese nation is at stake, his word
is representative.
He had marched off, but he stood
conveniently. in the doorway, his
ear cooked to the conversation
within and his head nodding appro-
baton of the severe defeat that
Japan was sustaining across a
wooden counter. One Chinese boy
declared that he had gone overseas
for the United States and would
go over another sea for China. This
was met with such a round of looks
that personally the writer was in
some doubt whether the bystanders
were approving these brave words
or the gentleman was kidding. At
any rate, the patriarch who stood
IN the doorway bowed with great
dignity rs we left and seemed salts
fled that nothing had been left I'M
done under the circumstances
All that is Chinese on Mott
Street, and everything is Chinese
up to PelI Street with the single
exception of an American-run barber
shop which bears the name-mark
the word-of The Senate, was like
that, only it so happened that while
Shantung soccasloned black looks
and numerous grunts, from Sam
hec, the tailor, to the pretentious
Port Arthur Cafe, nowhere was this
treaty provision belabored with so
much clarity as in the Chinese now
city shop.
Sam kee, the waddling tailor,
was stricken suddenly dumb when
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

distance between two location
points after little experience
The following location-numbcrs
are easy to remember:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

Menicus went into noble sol;tra.
and to which thousands of cb;n.
men make pilgrimage each vear.
Shantung, with its green valleys ava
stately mountains, where the wis
and the fox and the wild boar roa.
and song birds are a-wing; Shan
tung, where the oak-fed silkworm.
yield thcis chifu, or pongee. and
where the worms make a deljgbtfrI
delicacy.
Here. the Chinaman says. is ~.
limited wealth, from the coal nro,
critics to the wax trees, the varDisb
trees and the priced castor Gil plan.
And Of this they are to be deprived
SOL Out
So far as Japan is concerned
rather strained neutrality has
reached the borders of hostility ..
least commercially The noveltv
shops along Mott Street heretofore
have carried japanese goods tina.
the tourist might procure a repre.
sentative oriental purchase. Now
an inquiry after japanese goods in.
variably develops the shift answer.
"Jipnese goods sol out No lin
nese. Solly."
Into a new Chinatown, with set.la-
ment houses on Mott Street and
rescue missions on Doyers, there has
come a new hate. Of an eveninr
the soapbox orator mounts a dais
and expatiates upon the unwisdom
of the treaty. There is never lack
Of enthusiasm.
If Shantung is lost there will Ia
no happiness at the Feast Of the
Lanterns or the Feast Of the Dragon
Boat. Incense will be burned as If
for the dead, and mayhap the slant
eyed Oriental will don his mourning
white.
That which means so m1ch is now
in the process of parliamentary de.
bate and that is why Chinatown is
filled with gloomy foreboding and
the memories of many, many IN
continent wrongs never set right
That, too, IS why Peroxide Nelly,
the Opium Cat; Sam Kee. the wad-
ding Celestial, and the image Of Tai
PAX Kun Sing (the heathen) are
inexpressibly sad.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Here 8 o. Neav Hursch: Why MOI
Ciue Your I0avr1 o. Number?

is an essential, vital part Of mans
education. When the average pupil
closes his geography book for the
last time does he know that Con
stantinople, Chicago, Vladivostok
and Rome are all in approximately
the same latitude? Every news
paper using this system would teach
such facts.
1T this meant a saving of only
ten school hours a student it would
mean 1,000,0 100000 hours O. gen
GRAFTON in the United States alone
And the whole world is going to be
Interested in commercial geography
as 1t never was before!
Visualize it. Time that might be
spent on arithmetic, science, his
tory, stenography, manual trades,
enjoyable athletics-wasted. Spent
in useless drudgery, Chinese fash
ion! Children's brains burdened
crammed, dulled instead Of de-
veloped. Let's be sane,
How 1t Works
This is how the system works
TO obtain size-numbers divide the
world into about nine parts, say as
follows: North America, South
America, Australia, Africa, Europe
Except Russia), Russia (both in
Europe and in Asia), China and
Japan, India, Indo-China, etc; Asia
Minor, Arabia, Persia, etc.
1t matters very little how these
divisions are made. Parts of a d.
vision may be widely separated;
need not be contiguous; need not be
under one government; cooperation
of all governments not necessary.
The purpose of the partition is to
enable the system to be established
gradually, piece by piece; also to
reduce the unwieldiness of the
size-numbers and give them more
interesting significance.
Then list the municipalities in
each of these districts according to
their population and number them
according to their rank on the list
No two places in the same divi-
sion would have the same size
number.
According to the last United
States census there were about
1000 incorporated places of over
$500 population and about 10000
places of under $500
Thus In the North American divi-
sion the size-numbers would not run
above 10000, even for very small
places. They would not run above
four figures (9,999) for villages Of
over 1000 population.
Change the size-numbers everv
ten or twenty years (after census
taking). If the order Of size
number did not change much it
would not be necessary to alter the
size-number.
The location-numbers would never
vary.
1t would ba we'll To divide +ha
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
By II. kirkwood

e VI ERE'S a brand new TWEEN
tieth century idea. Why
A not give every city, town
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-30
BURN sHENKURsK

Many Inhabitants Are Said to Have
Been Massacred.
Archangel, Jan. 30.-According to
refugees the Bolsheviki have recently
burned Shenkursk, evacuated by the
Americans. and massacred many Of the
inhabitants. The American intelli-
gence officers are trying to confirm the
reports.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-30
GUEST OF old foe
SOUTH DAKOTA SOLDIER WRITES
OF TREATMENT In GER
MAN HOMES.

Flandreau, Jan. 30.-Alvin Has
void, a Flandreau soldier, was treat
ed as a guest in the home of : Ger
man soldier against whom he fought
in the trenches. according to a letter
received here. Hasvold IS a member
Of the seth division.
Young Hasvold corroborates what
other boys say as to the treatment
they are receiving at the hands of the
Germans. He says: II am sur you
will be surprised when l tell you that
they are treating us nor as guests
of honor than as enemy conquerors.
We are billeted in their homes.
happen to be living with a merchant
and his wife and two dandy children.
l can understand a little German and
in talking with them it develops that
my host fought against our division
on the last front. We stay only a
few days in each town, then we move
Is to 20 miles. The little children
meet US at the villages and are not
at all afraid Of us.
Last Sunday we marched Is miles
and the house where ! was to stay
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-30
OUT OF POLITICS
SALOONS WILL CUT NO FIGURE
IN NATIONAL CAMPAIGNS.

Washington, ID. c., Jan. 30.-The
presidential election of 1920 will be
the first in this country in which no
interest will be taken by saloon
keepers. That, not as a moral ques-
ton, but with regard to it's bearings
on the political situation, was upper
most in conversations around the
capitol the past week, and it is pretty
generally conceded that the effect of
the change will be enormously in ia
vor of the republican party.
AS it was pointed out here. the sa-
loon in every large city in the oun
try which is not already dry has been
one of the most valuable assets of the
party in power in that city. In New
York the saloon vote has always been
for Tammany; in Boston for the DEM
ocratic ring; in Chicago for Bath
house John, Hinky Dink, Roger Sui
livan and the democratic organiza-
ton generally; in Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh and Cincinnati the saloon vote
has always been for the republican
machine and so on down the line of
all the larger cities.
In any event the power to protect
the liquor traffic and the power to
grant special privileges to violate ex-
else laws has passed from the hands
of the local political machines to all
intents and purposes. The saloon
keeper. his employees and his hang
ers on" will no longer be at the dis
posal of the political bosses of the big
cities.
All of which is construed here to
mean that the big cities. no matter
what the politics Of the men control
ling them, will no longer give big ma
jorities to their parties, with the re-
suit that New York, New Jersey and
Illinois will go republican more fire.
quently: Massachusetts, will go dem
~ocratic even less frequently than she
! has in the past; Missouri will cross
to the republican column at rarer in
t~ervals, while Pennsylvania will re.
main unchanged.
One of the proverbial pivotal states
Indiana, is affected by this situation
although the Hoosier state had gone
dry alone and unaided by the federal
prohibition amendment. The liquor
ring in that state mostly operated in
its largest city, Indianapolis, for the
democratic party.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-30
Food Prices rumblino.

Washington, Jan. 30.-The high cost
OF living is due for some bumps,
judging by the way Wholesale food
prices have been going down at large
markets from the Atlantic coast to the
Rockies. In some cases retail prices
are already tumbling, according to in
formation obtained from the leased
wires OF the bureau of markets, De-
partment OF Agriculture. From Dem
yer to Boston declines In wholesale
prices are reported In butter and eggs.
ranging up to IL cents for butter ana
to 10 cents q dozen for eggs.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-30
IT'S NOT YOUR HEART; ~
IT'S YOUR KIDNEYS

Kidney disease r no respecter Of per-
sons. A majority Of the ills affecting
people today q be traced back to the
kidney trouble.
The kidneys are the most important
organs Of the body. They are the FL
terers Of your blood. II the poisons
which are swept from the tissues by the
blood are not eliminated through the
kidneys, disease of one form or another
viii claim you as q victim.
Kidney disease is usually indicated by
WEAKNESS, sleeplessness, nervousness,
dependency, backache, stomach trou-
bic, pain in loins and lower abdomen,
gall stones, gravel. rheumatism, sciatica
and lumbago.
AL these arrangements are natures
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-30
RECORD OF THE PAST
No etrongsr Evidence Can BE Had
I'm Madison.

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