The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-10-27
A LAND OF MILK AND HONEY.

The word starvation has no place
IN the south's vocabulary" remark
ec Col. II. l.. Carmichael. chief of
the War Finance Department, to a
Herald man the other day. Col. Car
michael has been on a visit to his
mother Mrs. Annie Carmichael at
Fork and came up to Dillon to spend
the day at the county Fair. THE
people of this section don't know how
fortunate they are" continued Col.
Carmichael. The lands around here
will produce in abundance and any
man can make with little effort much
more than he can consume. We know.
oil course, that the American is a
much superior man to the Chinaman
so much superior that there is no
room for comparison-and I draw a
parallel between the two races mere
ly for the purpose of illustrating the
point L have in mind. spent several
years in China and had an opportun-
ity to study at close range the China
man and his methods of living. There
are four hundred million people in
China and the country Is densely
populated. There are no trees and the
most of the land is rocky and barren.
"A THOUSAND or more Cinnamon live
or rather exit on a tract OF land
not much larger than a good size Dill
Ion county plantation. A man who has
as much as an acre of this land to
cultivate is considered lucky. They
nave a few sheep or goats and grow
little rice. How do they manage
to exist, you ask? Why they do not
eat much-not one-fourth as much as
the average Dillon county family.
And then too they are a long-lived
people and there is not very much di-
sease among them. They are hard
workers and seem to have plenty of
energy. We could live and be healthy
on one-fourth of what we consume.
We have food in abundance and of
course we eat too much. Their clothes
are not costly. The poorer classes.
known as the coolies. wear only one
garment thick. heavily padded
jacket sewn together in sections like
a quilt. The upper classes wear silk.
but silk is cheap over there. Their
houses are built out of bamboo. The
head or tassel OF the bamboo is a
tough fibrous stuff which they use for
roofing and fencing. Necessity being
the mother of invention, they are
naturally a very ingenious people and
utilize every thing the earth pro.
duces."
Asked how their moral and religious
standards compared with America 8
Col. Carmichael said: "They have q
double moral standard. but they are
intensely religious. Human life Is
cheap. A fellow officer at the post -
an army surgeon-had Chinese
servant. The boy asked to be released
for a few days. The officer saw there
was something wrong with him
Questioning brought out that the bo,
was having trouble with a wife who
lived in distant city. In a few DAYS
the boy returned. The officer aske
him if he had Strengthened out his
family affairs. Yes replied the boy
In matter-of-fact way. L was fined
$40 for killing the man, but the gov.
eminent paid me $50 for killing the
woman and so I am $40 ahead!'
1T can be said to China's credit
that she deals out swift and sum
mary justice. One day / was a pas
senger on railroad train and saw
small body Of men in the edge o.
swamp engaged in what impressed
me on first sight as being rather 6
strange proceeding. asked what the
trouble was and was told that offic
ers had just captured a gang of ban
dts and were executing them on rh.
spot. No. the people of this country
and particularly the people of thi.
section, have no OCCASION to worry
They do not know how we'll off the,
are in this worlds goods. We are
living like lords as compared to many
OF the other nations of the world"
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