The Cordova daily times., 1921-03-14
MONDAY, MARCH IA, 1921
HELP THE STARVING CHINESE

Serious contemplation of the conditions existing in the sec tions of China being ravished by famine are appalling, so appalling that President Harding has issuel an earnest appeal to the citizens of the United States for funds to alleviate the suffering, and the presidents ap- peal should be responded to quickly and generously.
 A graphic description of famine scenes in China, an explanation of their cause, and an outline of meth ods of relief, is given by Charles Davis Jameson, who has been civil engineer In China since 1895 and for the last ten years has been con- nected with the department of fam inc relief and flood control of the Chinese government.
 A silent panic" spreads rapidly over the famine-stricken area when the people realize their danger of starvation, says MT. Jameson. "Al the people, when hunger sets in and the food is all gone are wandering not to any definite point, but to any place which changes the scene of their misery he adds. Business is at once paralyzed. When I last passed through a famine district, there was not a cart of any kind in the roads or streets. Not a mule nor d horse nor a wheelbarrow was seen in motion. Not a cooIie was encountered going to or from market. It was as if great fear were over the whole country and the people were holding their breath and listen ing and waiting for a horror None but the starving or sick are seen in the streets at such a time. Famine and typhus soon breaks out in every town and city.
 Outside the walls of these towns and on the highways are emaciated, halfdemented men, women and chil dren, going anywhere, sometimes with few belongings which they cannot sell. Some may carry bowls or baskets containing leaves, tWigs, straw or bark from the trees. Near ly every tree is stripped of it's bark and dying. The people walk until they can walk no more and then sit down and die.
 Not a day goes by but one passes bodies in the highways or at the roadsides and the fields-.men, wom- en, children and babies. Over the fields and along the roads prowl starving dogs that once more are fierce wolves-gaunt, hungry, say age-devouring what lies in their way. Tn some instances men and women, insane, fight with the dogs for food. And once one of these dogs is killed, he is at once eaten by man or dog"
 The natural causes of famine in China are droughts and floods MT. Jameson says. South of the Yangtze river famines are rare as the rain fall is subject to great variations. Sometimes the rain is so heavy that the grain is beaten flat on the ground, and large areas left under water. The harvest is lost, land be- comes sodden and no crops are pos sble until the next year. What is not actually under water becomes one vast swamp.
 More than fOur-fifths of the trans portation of China is accomplished by hundreds of thousands of two wheeled carts, pack camels, mules. horses, donkeys, men, wheelbarrows and boats along the great rivers and canals.
 Mir. Jameson asserts that the calamity that has now fallen upon millions of Chinese is due to no lack of industry for they are the most remarkable farmers in the world" al though their methods and tools are much the same as those used in Egypt in the time of Moses. The people live hand-to-mouth existence and failure of crops one year means underfeeding Two years of bad