Arizona republican., 1921-10-13
THE RAIN DRAGON

China is recovering from its greatest famine catas trophe in several centuries. And it probably will be her last big famine thanks to amazing transfor- nation brought about in China by handful of Amer ican relief workers and engineers.
 Four years ago the harvests of northeastern China were destroyed by floods. Droughts, earthquakes and plaques of locusts ruined the crops the three following years
 Terrible agony followed. Fifty million Chinese fought starvation by eating roots, tree bark and clay. Five hundred thousand ded
 Rains this summer have brought China its first good harvest since 1916 The famine is over Chi nese rejoice They are doubly jubilant that wizards from America have conquered the Rain Dragon Chinas for centuries.
 For Americans made future famines in China impossible by teaching the Chnese-irrigationi
 American engineers. sent into the Chinese famine districts. discovered that all times dance of water 20 feet underground
 Thousands of wells dug the brought up and sent forth in irrigation ditches. Today all through China, farmers digging wells and defy ing the Rain Dragon to do its
 That water vein had been there for thousands of years Ignorant of its existence, millions Chinese died of starvation above it. It took Americans to teach the old Orientals tricks
 Irrigation is only one of the things which, intro- duced by American relef workers have moved the clock of progress ahead centuries in China
 In Shantung province get food supplies to the interior the American Red Cross 800 miles of road It had to. The Chinese have the new hlghways-and gone crazy on road building Over those roads carts, introduced by the Red Cross They showing out the Chinese wheebarrows which the first relief workers to use to transport grain as far 40 miles,
 American automobile salesmen will follow the carts.
 Out of the terrible famine will come tremendous progress for China
 Progress is painful and wise Providence may have sent the 1917-1920 famin a blessing In disguise
 Italy is in worse shape than any other European country Imitation of prices, currency and wages is tremendous and the people are spending all they make says Athur Reynolds, Chicago banker just re- turned from abroad.
 Reynolds the Belgians are working hard have fine crops and rebuilding rapidly. He found French farmers frugal industrious but French city and factory people spending extravagantIy and not over-fond of labor
 Germany, says Reynolds is working harder than any other European country. She producing goods at third the cost of other nations and her wormen are demanding longer hours and more wages
 This looks as if Germany and Belgium will recover first.
 The man of average intelligence who lived a century ago would be ignoramus today And the intellectual of today is ignoramus compared with the of the future
 The average of intelligence moves forward slowly but surely. Result: Each year it becomes increas- ingly difficult to make yourself stand out from the mob.
 Franklin was considered wizard when he flew a kite and brought electricity the clouds Now Steinmetz has to handle 1000 900 volts to attract real attention.
 All aboard for the moon! Prof Robert H. God dard of Clark university announces that rich man has furnished 'the necessary and that Goddard Rocket, sensation among scientists will be fired from the earth to the next spring.
 Who will travel inside the rocket?
 T have 20 applicants" says Goddard. "AU of them are advenurers rather than scientists" Natl1- rally!