Evening journal., 1923-01-09
Dairen-More Hulya
'Bedn TO1Un" Than Boston

WASHINGTON, Jan. s.-'Dairen
and Boston-the worlds premier
bean towns
That, according TO a bulletin from
the Washington, ID. c., headquarters
of the National Geographic Society.
might be an easy way of placing"
Dairen, Japans wonder city In
Manchuria, 10 which Japanese mer-
chants and professional men are re-
ported 10 be fiocking from the
Shantung port OF Tsingtao, which
Japan has Just returned TO China.
Boston is famed in popular fable
Mt least for the beans Il consumes"
continues the bulletin: and they
come from other climes. Dainen
lives not on but by beans; II Is the
port OF the greatest bean country in
the world. milling and shipping
point for Manchuria's vast fields Of
the now well-known soy beans.
Steamers come in an endless pro-
cession to Dairen's wharves to carry
away countless tons of beans. thou
sands of gallons of oil and the soy
sauce you eat on your chop-suey
when you visit your local China
town and shiploads OF great cart
wheel-hke discs OF bean cake from
the on mills. The thousands OF gal
Ions OF soy bean oil which leave
Dsiten annually compete actively in
world markets with American cot
tonseed oil as an olive-oil substl-
tute.
"It IS easy 10 get an Il out of
place and so confuse Dsiren. Man
churia, with Darien. the old name
of Panama; for these are con-
spicuous members OF geography's
group OF near-twins.
which includes. also Chile and
Chihli. Michigan and Michoacan,
and the veritable family OF Galicias
and Galatias. Keats line, Cortez
silent upon a peak In Darien.'
may stick in your mind and help
along the confusion between Dairen
and Darien.
But after all you probably know
Dairen by another name. II has
rs many aliases as an enterprising
,racksman. To the Chinese II is
ralien-wan; the Russians, who
thought in 1899 that they had estab-
ished there their long-sought ice
rec Pacific port, called It Dalny:
me western Interpretation of its
Japanese name is Tairen, but more
properly Il now gets into date-lines
Ind headlines as Dairen. Incl
lentally the name means great
and II is truly a con-
lecting link between the China that
vas and the Japan that Is.
Russia, great power of the West.
eft Dalmy at the end OF the Russo
apanese War. an unhealthy. over
'rown village with streets of mud.
apan, young eastern giant. but apt
Iupil of a more western West than
russia, gave the newly-christened
own paved streets. twentieth CEN
ury sanitation. forest-clad hills.
lectric lights and street cars. and
n efficient municipal government.
Politically, Dairen is the seat of
administration of Japan's 99-year
ease over the Kwang-tung or
iaotung peninsula, which forms
he southern extremity OF Man
,huria, just west of Korea Geo
and economically 1t is
he ice-free door to all the potential
wealth OF Manchurla. eastern Mon
solia and most of Siberia. II would
,e difficult TO conceive of a port in
relatively undeveloped region OF
he world more strategically sit
Iated.
"Japan's tangible interests do not
top at the line OF the 1890 spare
nile of her lease surrounding
lairen. She also has a 9e-year
for the South Manchurian
Hallway. which extends several hun
red miles TO the north through the
enter OF Manchuria's almost match
sssly fertile plains. Railway must
e taken in something OF a Pick
'ickian sense. In breadth of ac-
lvities this railway company has
in common with the
british South Africa Company. In
ddition TO its road. II operates a
ne OF ocean steamers and great
warehouses;, develops power, runs
nines and manages lands.
THE American who has put up