New Britain herald., 1923-01-11
DAIREN GREATEST
 SOY BEAN PORT
Lives on Beans, by Beans and for Beans.-CountleSs Tons of Elm

Washington, D, c, Jan, ll,-''Dai-
 Fen and Roslon-the worlds premier
 'l,ean towns"
 That. according to a bulletin from
 the Washington, D, C., headquarters
 of the National Geographic society,
 might he an easy way Of placing
 nairen, Iapan's wonder city in Man
 ehuria, 10 which Japanese merchants
 and professional men are reported ta
 be docking from the shantung port
 of Tsingtao, which Japan has iust re-
 turned to China,
 "Baston is famed in popular fable
 at least for the beans it consumes, "
 continues the bulletins "and they
 come from other elimes, hairen's
 Hves not on hut hy heans' it is ihe
 rnrt Of the greatest bean country m
 the world. milling and shipping point
 tor Manehnria's vast fields Of the now
 well known soy beans Steamers
 come in in an endless proceFsieh 10
 nairen's wharves 10 carry away
 countless tons Of beans, thousands or
 gallons Of oil and the soy sauce you
 get on your ehop-suey when you Vislt
 your local Chinatown and shiploads
 Of great cartwheel-like discs Of bean cake from the oil mills. The thous- nnds of gallons Of soy bean oil which leave pniren annually compete active
 ly in world markets with American cottonseed oil as an olive -oil substi- tute.
 Watch Your "ls"
 ''Tt Is easy 10 get an r out Of place and SO confuse Dairen. Manchuria' with Darien, the old name of Pana- l ma; for these are conspicuous mem | bers Of geography's confusing group of near-twins which includes also Chile and chihli. Michigan and Mich oacan. and the yeritable family Of Gall cias and Galatias. Keats line. Cor i tez-silent upon 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 as many aliases as an enterprising cracksmen. To the Chinese it is Ta- lien-wan: the Russians. who thought in 1899 that they had established there their long sought ice-free Pa cifc port, called it Dalny; one western
  Tairen: but more properly it now gets into date lines and head lines as Dairen. Incidentally the name means great connections" and 1t is truly connecting link between the China that was and Japan that is. II lee Free Door to 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 more western west than z Russia, gave the newly christened ' town paved streets. twentieth century sanitation forest t-clad hills. electric I lights and street cars and an etnclent ' municipal government.
 .Politically. Dairen is the seat of administration of Japan's 99-year lease over the Kwang-tung or Liao- tung peninsula. which forms the southern extremity of Manchuria, just west of Korea. Geogra phically and it is the ice-free door to b all the potential wealth of Manchuria, \ eastern Mongolia, and most of Siberia. S It would be difficult to conceive of y port in a relatively undeveloped re- u zion of the world more stragetically h situated. S
 "Japan's tangible interests do not il stop at the line of the 1920 square x miles of her lease surrounding Dai- V ren, She also has a 99-year conces- n sion for the South Manchurian rail- O way which extends several hundred miles to the north through the center O )f Manchuria's almost matchlessly h critic plains. Railway must be talk d an in something of a Pickwickian a sense In breadth of activities this " company has something in q common with the British South Afri a company In addition to it's road, E' t operates a line of ocean steamers II md great warehouses develops pow IT, runs mines and manages lands.
 Back Home Railroad Facilities 5, "The American who has put up with ,,, he inconvenience of unfamiliar and, TT, O his mind, inefficient railroad equip st nent in Asia, will experience feel tb ng of relief when he travels in Man re huria The Dairen passenger ter c; ninal furnishes familiar layout tt ven to entrances and exits under the racks. If he is bound for Mukden he traveller can make the trip on an H. Pullman train with dining cars rawn by powerful American loco ai 1otiye If he chooses a non- Pullman .i' rain, the day-coaches will be of the ue )ng, familiar, back home variety. ,,o i, he road bed is close in engineering 'ii erfection to the best in America and oii ne rails, of one of the heaviest = eights that is rolled. e- "Dairen has other contacts with IT hantung than being in part the lega- i ,e of it's Japanese business. Its harves and the bean fields back of II rem are major sphere of activity H l. ,r the surplus laborers of over II -owded Shantung. Every season be- H yeen 50,000 and 100000 Shantung H ,olies swarm over to the Liaotung III sninsula to work there until winter ows up outdoor activities" II