Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-08-12

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and 20 millions of Chinese in Shan
tung that are being dominated by the
Japanese. We readily see that such
conditions are wrong and it is OH,
duty to consider thes things and a so.
luton for thin.
The second great country of the
Orient that we must consider is
China. She has population of owe,
four hundred millions and her natura
resources, which are still practically
untouched, excel those of any othe,
country except the United States
There is enough hard coal in two
Chinese provinces alone to supply the
entire world for two thousand years
at the present rate of coal consump-
ton. China is not an industrial ma
tino, but rather an agricultural coun-
try. However they have no modern
farm implements and farm as their
forefathers did several hundred years
ago. They farm so intensively how
ever, that Is of an acre is enough to
support one person. China is chang
ing and learning to be more modern
but OF course we can not expect her
to change centuries of tradition lust
over night. There is still some foot
binding in China, but great MANY
have learned not to do that. Little
ones between the ages of and z
have their feet tightly bound till they
never grow large. In spite of the
fact that foot binding is going out in
China, still small foot is considered
a great mark of beauty.
The United States government was
one of the first to recognize the Re-
public of China and it has been a
great financial help to China at all
times. 1t was American money that
was responsible for building the Uni
versity of Pekin, where thirty Ameri-
can teachers are employed. One
reason China can not build up more
is because SO much of her territory
is claimed by other countries and
they will not permit railroads to be
built to the best interests of China.
China needs and must get cotton and
machinery from us and it is our duty
and privilege to extend still greater
charity.
The third great country which must
be considered in the oriental problems
is India, which lies south of China.
India is divided into twelve provinces
and is one half as large as the Uni
ted States and as large as Europe ex-
GLIDING Russia. Its population is
800 millions or 1-5 of the human race.
900 of the inhabitants are farmers
who use the crudcst of implements,
such as wooden plows, drawn by oxen.
In spitesof their poor equipment, the
Hindus are the first rice producers in
the world and rank third on their pro-
duction of wheat. India sends more
wheat to England than does Canada
and twice as much as Australia. But
in spite Of their great production,
there is a famine every year and rs
millions have died Of starvation alone
in 25 years. This is not caused by
the scarcity of food or by the den,
but the high rate of tax
alton is the cause. The taxes run
from SO to 1871 and people just do
not have the money to buy food.
The problem of education is i'm
mense and India has no hope till she
is educated. The old, much condemn
ed, caste system can not be abolished
till people are educated. For $50
years India has been under English
rule and in that time only ten men
in hundred can read and only five
women out of twenty thousand. 1t
would take or centuries of schools
before the people could come up to
the negroes of the PHILIPPINES.
Something must be done to save
India and improve educational insti
buttons and business conditions for
where the average income of the lab
oring man is only / " cents a day,
conditions can not be much better.
For the evening concert Mr.. Gordon
presented BANDS Orchestra and this
splendid organization of young must
clans gave an excellent program in
every way. They introduced a great
variety of numbers and so much pep
and enthusiasm that people generally
voted them the best musical organiZa
ton heard in this city for a long time.
Ronald Royce, the pianist and sax
aphone player, gave several of his
own compositions for the saxaphone,
which were fine. Mr.. Burdette Bail
ey once more delighted the audience
with his xylophone numbers. Duets
trios and male quartette all we'll
executed, along with number of ov
ertures by the entire orchestra,
brought the evenings program nearly
to close. For their closing number
the orchestra played a truly wonder
full number, composed and arranged
by their leader, Mr.. Herbert Naumen,
entitled "The Battle of the Argonne."
1t carried the scene from a peaceful
morning with birds singing, thru the
aeroplane attack, and the entire bat
tie till at last the AFRICANS were VIC
torio,1s and the Stars and Stripes