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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-05-05
Probe Woods Expenses.
BY United Press.

By United Press.
Washington, May 5-Senste lead
ers today are consulting on the re-
newed demand of Senator Borah for
an investigation of Major General
Woods campaign expenditures.
Senator Borah demands that the
senate appoint a committee on inyes-
tigation. If the committee is unsat-
isfactory, ap attempt wil' he made to
bring the probe before tha saale >s
a body
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-05-05
PLEADS GulLTY--FINED.

Entering plea of guilty to the
charge of petty larceny, Joe Pack,
junk dealer, was fined $40 and court
costs in Justice T.. P. Moere's court
yesterday. Pack, arrested several
days ago, was charged with stealing
cement sacks from T. c. Allen.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-05-05

By United Press.
I'll Paso, May 5.-Ralph Greenlaw,
the third member of the family to
be murdered by Mexican bandits,
was found near El ORC in the state
of Mexico, Monday, it was reported
here today.
Dispatches reaching here today al
so stated that the city of Torreon
had been captured by the rebels.
This is one of the important cities
which was held by the federal forces
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-05-05
Probe Car Shortage.

By United Press
Washington, May 5.-The inter
state commerce committee of the
house today began an investigation
of the car shortage which is delaying
the shipment of food from the middle
west.
Grain dealers and representatives
of farmers throughout the west have
hecn asked to appear and tostify
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-05-05
Hi Leading Herb.
BY United Press.

ny OHlleu IIehS.
San Francisco Nav Senator
Hiram Johnson 80 far is proving t3
bo the "fayorite SON Id tae calior-
uia balloting to determine 1he fIsnt
for those honors between Hiram
Johnson and Herbert Hoover, 10
presidential possibilities.
Johnson has two to one lead
over Hoover from one-fifth OF the
states precincts being the results OF
yesterdays rimary
At Hoover headquarters this morn
ing the election Of Johnson was con-
ceded.
There was no contest on the dem
ocratic ticket.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-05-05
CENSUS FIGURES
By United Press.

Washington, May 5.-The census
bureau today announced the popuIa-
tion of Brennan, Tex, as 5O66, which
represents an increase of ,347 or sew
en- and four-tenths per cent in the
past ten years.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-05-05
RAlLROADERS IN DRIVE.

Muskogee, May 5.-Railroad men
here have started drive for mem.
bers in the local Y. NJ. C. A.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-05-05
Destroyers to Put In at Key West
Subject to Call for Duty On the
East Mexican Coast; Squad
ron Leaves New York.
OBREGON PREPARES TO
ATTACK MEXICO CITY
Another American Found Dead; Be-
lieved Be Third Victim In One
Family of Mexican Bandits;
Rebels Take Town.

By United Press.
El Uaso, May 5.-General Obregon
is preparing an army for an attack
on Mexico City, it is reported here.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-05-05
HUNGARIAN PEACE
TREATY lS READY

By United Press.
Paris, May 1.-THE Hungarian
peace treaty will be handed to the
Hungarian delegation tomorrow. Ten
days will be allowed them in which
to sign.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-05-05

Sidney Hancock, deputy sheriff. re-
turned last night from a business
trip to Oklahoma City.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-05-05
NO CHANGE SEEN IN
FRENCH STRIKE DOPE
By United Press.

By United Press.
Paris. May 5.-The strike situa-
tion in France is unchanged. The
arrest of prominent leaders in the
walkout is scheduled for today.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-05-05
HI Has It On Herb as "Favorite
Son" According to Returns from
Over Western State; Hoover
Forces coneede II.
LEAD OF GEN. WOOD IS
CUT BY LATE RETURNS
Early Returns Indicate Wood Lead
ing Californian Handiy; Later
Count Shows johnson To Be
Gaining In Indiana.
By United Press.

San Francisco, My 5.--Iate re-.
turns show that Senator Hiram John
son is still gaining on Herbert Hooy
er in the state primaries
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-05-05
Destroyers Sail South.

By United Press.
New York, May "a squadron of
destroyers left here this afternoon
for southern waters
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-05-05

By United Press.
Indianapolis, May 5.-The leld OF
General Wood over Hiram Johnson
was cut to 1000 votes according to
returns from two-ihirds Of Indiana q
precinct today
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-05-05

by United Press
Indianapolis lad. May l-,Rctugna
fron more than halt OF lndianas
1887 precincts today gave Major Cen
eral Wood a plurality OF 5000 in yes
terday's primary
The returns showed that 1916 pre-
cincts gave Wood 1914; Johnson,
1856.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Cholera Is Prevalent
Vacation FRIENDSHIPS

, much to say to each other
But M. Paquet was the first to
tell his wife:
Il have no idea Of going out every
evening. Bigoudis may want to
throw his money away; that's his
look out. But p
NJ. Faitout comes home to lunch
IN 3 thoughtful mood:
"You know, Paquet isn't as well
off as he tries to make out, / would
not be at all surprised at the end
of the month if''-
Clouds, gathering clouds.
Nine. Bigoudis has taken Nine.
Faitout to her dressmaker, and
Nine. Faitout Immediately ordered
the two styles which had particu-
larly attracted her friend.
YOU'RE not ordering anything"
asked the saleswoman.
"No, III go and look somewhere
else. You know, go out too often
with your new customer to look as
if / was wearing the Same uniform. 4"
At tea, the other day, when Nine.
Paquet came in with the Same kind
Of hat on as Nine. Bigoudis, each
one complimcnted the other with a
somewhat wry face and their friend
ship suffered severe shock.
For the first time Nine. Faitout
permitted herself to make an un-
qualified criticism about Mme.
Paquet:
"Oh, yes. she's pretty, hut quite
flirt."
Tho other no longer makes a
secret Of saying that her friend
does not know how to entertain,
while this does not prevent both of
them limiting that Suzanne Bigoudis
whore does she como from? !?
was not the first to use rice
powder.
The men have resumed their free
dom. They meet and give quick
handmade. "How are you, old
mani" "And you, my boy? We
don't rec each other much. An, thia
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19

ravaged terribly. One Of the COM
mon sights in the interior now is.the
procession Of the sons of a family
announcing in public wailings the
death of a parent. The cholera is
brought on mainly by malnutrition,
and the very old and the children
go first. In one village near the
Shantung border I was told there
were eight coffin shops, all of which
had been unable to meet the de-
mand. Bodies were being wrapped
in mats and left outside the village
gates.
For babies there is no other form
Of burial; babies have no souls and
no harm will come in the neither re-
glons If economy is practiced. Their
bodies are wrapped in flimsy covers
and cast in the fields. The mongrel
dogs that abound in Chinese villages
still wax fat for al. the famine.
There is the additional scourpe
Of banditss Two nights ago after
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
T. FRIENDSHIPS formed at sum-
l. mer resorts perish during the

FRIENDSHIPS formed at sum
mer resorts perish during the
winter in France as we'll as in
America, to judge by sketch writ
ten by Robert Dieudonne in LIE
Figaro.
They met at Evian, or it may
have been Biarritz or DeauviIle, as
mutual friends. The Paquets in
Produced them:
". and Nine. Faitout. NJ. and
Nine. Bigoudis."
Delighted to meet you."
Charmed"
Ever since that happy day the
Paquets, Faitouts and Bigoudis were
inseparable; they could be found in
the same casinos, in the same hotels,
tne same autos and on the same ex-
curslons. They got go far as to
curse the nights that separated them
during the brief hours Of sIumber,
and met again informally in the
morning, wearing pajamas, in each
other's rooms to decide how to spend
their time and make plans for the
day.
Tho men called each other "Old
man" and the women "My deari"
An exquisite familiarity linked the
threc couples, and for tho coming
"Liter at Paris they decided on
countless parties and evenings TO-
gether which would cement thiz mu-
suaI sympathy still further.
Here they arc back in town after
snort time, enough for tho Paquets
U 70 and embrace an old aunt In
Burgundy, from whom they had ex-
p'ctations, and for the Bi9oudis 10
spend four days with an elderly
rti.tiye. The Paitouts hardly had
hne 10 take the covers of the fur
m'7re when the telephone bell an
1r1nced the return Of the Bigoudis,
~ ~ the moment when Nine.
f@qd>t, just oY the train, laughing
shd corarsnted, greeted her friends,
IN vel all dine together at The
t4-faoraat27
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Millions In North China Face Death Through Starv
When they had all

villagers went. When they had all
gone the headman stole in alone.
prostrated himself and begged for
help. Against the protestations ard
warnings of my Chinese "boy," who
had accompanied me as valet, cook
and adviser, gave him some money
When I had lain down on til,
brick k'aNg to sleep the innkeepe-
came to whisper to my boy that
there had been consultation out
side and that early the next morn
ing, when l was leaving, the whole
population of the village was to
come and beseech help. They had
decided / was there TO distribute re-
lief and all wanted to share. They
were TO Meel before my cart and
kotow till / distributed to each his
money. After consultation on my
own part, decided TO get up at 4
and take fight. At sunrise I was
three miles out of the village. What
happened there ! never expect to
know.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19

that village. Death from cholera
complicated by hunger had become
common. Hunger alone was univer-
sal. OF the fifty families in the
village twenty Had already had to
go. The others were reduced to one
meal day, that meal sort of bis
cult made Of weeds, thistle, cotton
seed waste and chaff to give it body,
a coarse, soggy, rancid mass, dirty
brown in color and repeilent of
smell; that and little of tree leaves
swimming in lukewarm water, only
half boiled to save fuel. And even
that was growing scarce.
Ate Even the Seed
OF crop there had been none for
year. Five times in the spring they
had tried sowing after a few scat
tering drops of rain, then came days
of scorching sun and not even
blade showed. What seed they had
left they had eaten, and now that
there had been rain and the winter
wheat could be sown they had moth
ing to SOW. There would be no crop
next spring, either.
While we talked we heard sobbing
from a room across the courtyard,
where women and children had con-
gregated while the men talked. ]
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
The Human Cost

The human cost? Only six miles
from where l had left the Peking-
Hankow Railway, eight hours from
Peking, l came to the village of
Tung Tung, a little cluster of mud
houses in the foothills Of the low
range that runs from beyond the
Great Wall down almost to the
Yangtse River. Being accompanied
by a Chinese evangelist Of one of
the missions, was welcomed
cordially in the home of one of the
elders, "believer." Drawn by the
unaccustomed sight Of foreigner.
several others joined.
After stopping merely to give us
greeting ping an"--the tranquility
Of peace be unto you--one of them
excused himself hastily. He re-
turned in a quarter Of an hour,
apologizing again for his absence,
he, too, being a believer. He had
left a brothers. wife dying when he
first came over, he said. She had
died while he was gone. | said what
banal words one could.
>"Yes, we receive much bitterness
now" he said without emotion.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Multijudes Are Subsisting on Weeds
and the Leaves of Trees~--A
Year Of Drought

years. 1t is whole ages distant IN
material civilization from that Inn
of the Peace Of Heaven, where last
night l shared the apartment de
luxe with soldier who had looked
on the kaoliang when it was golden
and buyer of hides from Shansi
who carried with him the atmos-
phcre of his profession.
When the accumulated smells of
the decades had become too oppres-
sive / went out of my door into the
courtyard among The mules for a
breath of fresh air. In Chi
nese inn the rooms open directly off
the courtyard, which is also stable,
pigsty and poultry yard. Finding
there the atmosphere less pungent.
there l spread nay bedding and went
to sleep.
Since leaving Peking / have gone
through more than hundred viii
lagos, stopping at nearly all and
making fairly close observation of a
large proportion. And this belt of
southern Chilli and northern Shan
tung is typical of the $4,000 to 1OO,-
600 square miles Of territory affected
by the famine, with it's population
of, roundly, 20,00O,O0O.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
A Diet of Leaves


I have found two families out of
three subsisting on diet principally
of tree leaves, thistles, weeds and
roots, with chatf to give body to the
diet. 70 get that they are pawning
or selling their little landholdings,
their furniture, their clothes and, as
said before, when necessary, their
children. l have even seen villages
where houses had been torn down
10 be disposed Of as fuel, two fami-
lies sharing thereafter the same roof
and the proceeds Of the wreckage.
Farm animals and implements went
long ago.
For year there has been
drought. There was only a small
harvest in the spring. There is vir.
tually none now. The crop aver
ages from nothing to 40 per cent at
best. Prices Of grains-Aof which
there is no special shortage in other
districts, being kept from the strick-
Ell region only by lack of communi-
cation-have increased four and
five times over. The Chinese peas
ant is never far from hunger. His
existence is daily struggle with
starvation. His asset is what the
soil will bring forth. When it does
not yield he has nothing with which
to buy, except the few necessaries
accumulated in his household. And
Tor food he has wild growths.
Now there are leaves and weeds
to eat. When the frosts come there
will not be that. Then, unless help
is forthcoming from outside, there
will be no prospect but starvation.
And those who do not starve will
freeze, for at least a third and may
be half of the population has al
ready sold it's winter clothes, and
the farmers are dependent also for
their fuel on the dried stalks of the
grain, which also are lacking.
Cholera Is Prevalent
There is further the certain men
ace Of disease. Already cholera has
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19

TAMINGFU. ChMii, China (By
Mal).
"HIS is written in the heart
of the famine-stricken re-
H. gion in North China. For
three weeks l have been
coming slowly by cart through what
will be this winter the scene of a
tragedy as vast and deep as that of
Europe after 1914. The agony will
be equally intense if less spectacular;
the loss of life will be not much less.
In this city, one of the larger
marketing centers of southern Chilli
province, the province in which
Picking is located, there have been
ehildren's fairs throughout the
autumn. Their mules and oxen sold,
their furniture and winter clothes
sold, the peasants have brought here
the last salable asset of the Chinese
family in distress-children.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Soldiers Near at Hand

Less than two hundred miles
away Is the staggering Tsao Kun,
military governor Of the province,
with whole divisions of troops and
fortune rated at millions. Just little
further is Peking, with it's hosts of
unscared warriors and multitudes
Of mere soldiery. But troops must
be used to support political moves;
the population, half starved, can be
left to looting, even in the capital
province. 1t is significant, also, that
large proportion of the bandits
are former soldiers, sometimes still
wearing their uniforms.
China is undergoing, then, one Of
it's periodic purgings. From time to
time in its long history there has
been this ruthless wedding out Of
tho overplus Of population bred by
ancestor worship and the clan sys-
tenn. Now 1t is by famine, now by
food, now by war, but always when
the clamor OF too many mouths be-
comes too insistent there Is relentless
adjustment. And so often has this
been that men have come to con-
struct a philosophy out Of it, Of
which the sinologues and experts
have written with high calm and de-
tachment. But it Is not taken 80
loftily when one has seen It in
process, ne am now secing it., with
all It's human cost. For the process
Is now in full operation. Before the
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Dependency Is Rare

AS a matter of fact such inc
dents are the exception Begging
is rare, dependency more rare. The
Chinese takes his hunger smilinglv,
as he takes everything else. kindly
and good humored beyond all peo-
pies of the earth, he sees the humor
Gus even in starving. He talks If
his plight with an air Of amazing
objectivity and casualness. There Is
no moaning and no self-pity. For
he, too, has learned to make a phi
losophy of these recurren5 tragedies.
They are fated; they will come. OF
what good to weep or to struggle?
"Mei you far tsze," he says with a
shrug. at can't be helped" And
he quotes a proverb and smiles.
When he can no longer smile a.
the prospect of death, when his stoi-
cism fails him, he hastens the end.
Suicide is not uncommon in China
at any time; it is common now. I
was told the following incident bv
member of the family involved.
The family had reached it's las
straits. 1t had no longer even chat
to lend taste to leaves. The wife
sdespaired. She went to a neighbov
who still had some grain and asked
for the loan Of q little millet. The
neighbor spared her handful. She
went home and awaited the return
of her husband with the days GU
ting Of leaves and thistle.
She put before him steaming ho,
bowl Of the porridge which is the
stock diet of the region. He wa
amazed.
'Let us eat while we may" sbr
said. eve may not have long to
live. Let us think Of the futurc
when it comes"
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
Tie Children to the Gate

While we were talking a number
of women and children were gath
cred sitting on a sort of curb on
the other side Of the narrow lane.
/ heard a snap as of whip and
then the loud cry Of a child. l
turned and saw n girl baby, scarcely
four years old, naked to the waist,
sobbing bitterly. While l watched,
the child timidly approached a WON
an with two children in her arms.
She uncurled long whip Of the
same kind my mule drivers use and
brought it down sharply across the
child's shoulders. I demonstrated
and asked whose was the child.
It's parents were refugees who had
passed through the village. They
had left it there, asking the woman
to take care Of It. But she had many
mouths Of her own to feed on her
scanty rations. When the child
pressed for food she used the whip.
N' could support ii 10 longer.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
At Two Miles an Hour

In the diminutive blue-canopied
mule carts, all innocent of springs,
that have been characteristic of
northern China for centuries
have covered more than 800 miles
at the rate of two miles an hour,
rocking in the mud troughs of the
sunken roads like a tiny bark in a
fitful gale. 1t is journey that in
the happiest Of times opens the SYM
pathies to suffering.
To-day, nearing the end Of my trip,
I revel in the luxury Of a solitary
mission station; in the forgotten lux
ury of table and chair and bed and
q real kerosene lamp; in floors un-
travelled by host of rats. bed un-
inhabited, in walls brushed of cob
webs now and again through the
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
MOT offered for sale and
' not starving. A Chinese
baby of~the better class

had put up at the usual inn mine
host came to warn me to hide what
money / had. A robber band was
encamped few miles to the east, he
said. 1t made nightly raids, captur-
ing rich members Of the gentry and
holding them for ransom, and if
there were no rich then stealing
whatever there was. Systematic
raids are made on whole districts,
village after village being looted.
Men are murdered for resisting, and
the whole village burned down as a
nena]tv.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19

there with two young girls, he said
Her husband was i'll, there was moth
ing in the house to eat. They had
not eaten since the previous after
noon. Her husband had come to the
inevitable decision. He was going
to take her and the children to the
neighboring town of Kao vi the next
morning. He would sell her as a
concubine, the children for whatever
purposes they could be put to. Be-
fore we left the evangelist persuaded
the husband to wait, with the prom
ise that he would send some food
himself in the morning.
AS l rode out of the village saw
silhouetted a slender poplar with a
strange black mass near its top. 1t
was an old woman with bound feet.
stripping the younger branches of
leaves. At the foot of the tree was
boy Of four gathering in a basket
the leaves she threw down.
Not far from there I came to the
village Of Ching Ts'ing Ts'un.
stopped at the temple, the center of
social life in the villages, waiting
for the group that would inevitably
gather about the unfamiliar foreign
er. 1t was the same story here
no crop; weeds, roots and leaves as
diet; emigration, hopelessness.
Here | talked with the ii feng, or
village headman. As such he was
one of the wealthiest men in the
village. He owned sixty mu, or
twenty acres, Of land, by Chi
nese rural standards accounted
wealth. From twenty acres the yield
was bushel of millet. I asked him
what he was living on. "These,"
he said, pointing to his clothes. All
but what he wore he had sold. One
by one he had taken his garments
into the nearest town, sold them for
thirty to forty coppers and brought
back chaff with the proceeds.
when those are gomez" I asked.
He laughed. "Die, I suppose" he
said,
New-York tribune., 1920-12-19
4 Bov for Five Dollars

Boys have gone for the equivalent
Of four or five American dollars,
girls for less, unless they be of age
and charms to qualify them for the
Oldest profession. In any of the
market villages through the country
where the fairs are held at fiye-day
intervals, unusual groups are to be
seen clustered here and there. An
other farmer at his last resort has
arrived. A bargain is being driven
in human flesh.
South of the city wall is an old
Taoist temple, gorgeous once, now
deserted Of its priests. Here, gossip
says, bodies are cut down from the
rafters almost any morning, the
bodies of refugees wearied of their
trudging and bereft of all hope.
Thousands and tens of thousands are
wandering the countryside, whole
families and the remains of their
n0uSenOlOS plleu on one WneelDaf-
row.
Those in the north go south, those
in the south go north, and all money
less, aimless and away from their
native districts for the first time in
their lives. They beg as they go,
tighten the human load by disposing
of one Of the children when oppor-
tunity offers and disappear, the
harder pressing on to Manchuria,
the weaker turning back to their
homes to await whatever end is
fated.