Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-01-05
Geographic News
Bulletins by the
National Geographic Society
ANOTHER BEAN TOWN


'Dairen and Boston-the worlds
premier bean towns. y
That, according to a bulletin from
the Washington, ID. c., headquarters
of The National Geographic Society,
might be an easy way of placing
! Dairen, Japan's wonder city in Man
churia. to which japanese mer-
chants and professional men are re-
Lorted to be 1ockins from the
| Shantung port of Tsingtao which
Japan has Just returned to China.
Boston is famed in popular fable
at least for the beans it consumes"
continues the bulletin. 'and they
come from other chimes. Dairen
lives not on but by beans: it is the
Eort of the greatest bean countr
in the world, milling and shipping
| point for Manchuria's vast fields OF
the now well-known soy beans.
| Steamers como in an endless pro-
cession to Dairen's wharves to carry
away countless tons of beans,
thousands 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-like discs of bean cake from
the oil-mills. The thousands of gall
Ions of soy bean oil. which leave
Dairen annually, compete actively in
world markets with American cot
tonseed oil as In olive-oil SUBJ
stitute.
Watch Your "I's"
"It is easy to get an i out OF
place and so confuse Dairen, Man
churia, with Darien, the old name
of Panama; for these are conspicu-
Gus members of ~geography's con-
fusing group of near-twins, which
includes also Chile and Chilli, Mich
igan and Michoacan, and the YER
liable family of Galicias and Gala
tias. 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. 1t has
as many aliases as an enterprising
cracksman. To the Chinese it is
Talien-wau; the Russians, who
thought in 1899 that they had es-
ice-free Pacific port, called 1t Dali
ny; r western Interpretation of its
Japanese name in Tairen; but more
properly 1t now gets into date-lines
and headlines as Dairen. Incl
dentally, the name means great
connections and it Is truly q con-
Meeting link between the China that
was and the Japan n a IL.
Ice-Free Door 10 Tremendous
Wealth
Russia, great power OF the west,
left Dalny at the end of the Russo
Japanese war, an unhealthy, over
grown village with streets of mud.
Japan, young eastern giant, but apt
pupil OF a mor western west than
Russia, gave the newly christened
. n my nnxynd nfa 49,
fury sanitation, forest-clad hills,
electric lights and street cars, and
an efficient municipal government.
Politically, Dairen ID the seat of
administration of Japan's ninety
nine-year lease over kwang-tung or
Liaotung peninsula, which forms the
southern extremity Of Manchuria,
just west of Korea. Geographically
and economically. it is the ice-free
door to all the potential wealth of
Manchuria, eastern Mongolia, and
cult to conceive of a port in a. rela-
lively un~developed region Of the
world more strategically situated.
Japan's tangible interests do not
stop at the line of the 1,220 square
miles of her lease surrounding
Dairen. She also has a ninety-nine-
year concession for the South Man
churian Railway, which extends sew
eral hundred miles to the north,
through the center OF Manchuria's
almost matchlessly fertile plains.
Railway must be taken In some
thing of a Pickwickian sense. In
breadth of activities this railway
company has something in common
with the British South Africa Com
pany. In addition to it's road, it
operates a line of ocean steamers
and great warehouses, develops
power, runs mines, and manages
lands.
Backbone Railroad Facilities
1.-THE American who has put up
with the inconvenience of unfamil-
lar ana, 10 his mind, Inefficient rail-
road equipment In ASIA. will expert
ence a feeling of relief when he
travels in Manchuria. The Dairen
passenger terminal furnishes a fam
liar layout, ven to entrances and
exits under the tracks. If he is
bound for Mukden, the traveller a
make the trip on an alI-Pullman
train with dining cars, drawn by a
powerful American locomotive. If
day coaches will be of the long,
familiar. backbone variety. The
road-bed Is close in engineering per-
lection to the best In America, and
the rails of n of the heaviest
weights that Ia rolled.
"Dairen has other contacts with
Shantung than being in part legatee
of. its Japanese business. It's
wharves and bean fields back Of
them are a major sphere of activity
for the surplus laborers of over
crowded S%hantung. Every season
between $4,000 and 100000 Shan
tung coolies swarm over to the Lao
tung peninsula to work there until
winter slows up outdoor activities"