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production is greatly increased. With
the cheap labor available here, our
Pacific coast may some day buy coal
from China in exchange for Ameri-
can mining machinery.
China also has iron in large
amounts Her iron industry is said
to be the oldest in the world, and 1t
is believed that the Romans once OBJ
tanned the metal from the Chinese.
American .geologists who have been
over the field estimate that China has
more than seven hundred million tons
of ore available. Viewed from the
modern standpoint. the iron and steel
industries of China are yet in their
infancy, and undoubtedly now on the
eve of further development.
Other valuable minerals are in-
cluded in China's treasure house of
natural resources. Three million dol
lars worth of gold are taken every
year from partially worked mines in
northern Manchuria and Mongolia
Yunnan province is one of the few
sources of the worlds tin. At least
80 per cent of the worlds supply of
antimony comes from Human, d prov
ince in China that a few years ago
was entirely closed to foreign trade.
Most of the output is used in America.
tho Chinese are mining also lead
and zinc, ana woiframite, from which
Evening star., 1924-12-07

our brushes and shells from which
we make buttons. Europe and the
United States combined take from her
dried and frozen eggs at the rate of
a. million a day, while she sells us
something like a million dollars
worth of vegetable tallow used in
making our soaps and candles. To-
bacco is grown in nearly every prov
ince in enormous Quantities. yet the
Chinese import cigarettes by the bill
lion. Our own tobacco trust is now
teaching the farmers how to grow
and cure the crop and has put up
factories where millions of cigarettes
are made.
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CHINA is not at present considered
~ a cattle country. yet it produces
enough to export beef for the United
States Army in the PHILIPPINE Islands,
and also to Japan. where since the
great earthquake in that country 1t
has been much eaten In place Of fish.
She also sells the world hides worth
twenty million dollars or SO in a
year. Mongolia and Manchuria pos
sess great tracts of the worlds finest
grazing lands, which one day will
support large cattle and meat-pack-
ing industries. Already the Chinese
are learning to can both their meats
and fruits.
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nese monopoly in Formosa, from
which comes three-fourths of the
worlds supply. We need camphor to
make our celluloid. smokeless powder
and medicines; the day may come
when we should prefer not to be de-
pendent upon the Japanese for this
product.
The Chinese have a monopoly in the
production of musk, used in making
many fine perfumes. The price of
these scents shoots skyward when
ever, as frequently happens, inter
nal disorders make it impossible to
transport musk from far-off Tibet
out to the coast China sells peanut
oil worth nearly $10,000,000 year
and also some s6,000,000 worth of
wood oil used in our varnishes and
paints. 1t is interesting to know that
peanut raising in China began with a
quart of the goobers brought out here
by an American missionary. He plant
ed them in Shantung province, which
has now become the chief" peanut
growing district in China. For CEN
turies the Chinese planted castor
beans between their. fields, using the
poisonous plant to keep cattle in
bounds; now they are cashing in on
these beans, which we use to make
medicine and airplane' lubricants.
We buy from China hog bristles for
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The women of your family are prob
ably wearing Chinese hair on their
heads in the form of nets that keep
their locks in order. The Chinese are
such marveaously cheap producers
that the hair in many. of the nets
sold in our department and 10-cent
stores is first sent to Europe to be
sterilized and dyed, then returned to
China to be made up, and once more
shipped across the seas. American
women wear also Chinese embroider-
les and ylaces, while China sends us
every year millions of fiber hats and
straw braid by the ton. The Chinese
were taught to make lace by French
and Italian missionary women They
learned TO make it so we'll and so
cheap that their work is displacing
real French and Italian lace in the
United States market
China has in abundance both the
coal and iron that form the basis of
modern industry She has coal re-
serves of 100000, 900, 900 tons, OF
enough to supply the whole world
for 1000 years at it's present rate of
consumption. Her mines are pro-
ducing today at the rate of only
thirty million tons year, and until
recently she imported more coal than
she exported. 1t is only question Of
machinery and organization before
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Togo's Imagination Stirs Visions
Of World in Twenty First Century


To Editor The Star.
~ GAREST SIR: Hon Furio Koko,
Japanese Socialism. who have
cast one % electoral vote
- for Hon. Bluejean V. Debs, are
pretty darnly mad, you bet my
bootware, because nothing were said
about him at the Electoral College.
eTestdy when I reJoin him for slight
drunk at the Rising Sun Bootblack &
Soda Parlor he were still enjoying
great rage.
That ELECTORAL College," he narrate.
"are just like Yell & Harvard-too
busy playing feetbaIl to think up any
intellectual amusements. This are an
outrag! / shall tell Friend Magnum
johnson to start a Investigation be-
fore his quitting time, so it can never
happen again"
"Silencesw / say that. Last Nov.
4 the country were ruined by 100000
majority. What then can be useful in
starting Investigations e. other nuts-
ances?"
"It may start great difference in
Politicks 1926" he denote. What
could be more umportant?"
"Shux & husksr" / stroggle. ITO a
great mind & swollen head like mine
] or years are merely zero. / am too
high up in my head to feel pressed g.
sad from minus things. I voted for
Davis & n. Y Giants; yet neither of
them could win because they did not
start from Washington. Yet what on
It? Those are merely splashes in the
pan. To scientifick mind, like me &
Edison & Prof Einstein, those everts
are less than a microbes footprints. l
ask to know. what diff will 1t make
100 yrs. from now?"
we will all be died by then" snug
gest Furio Koko.
"Ratz & Katz!" I snarrel. Because
you are a Socialist must you be old
fashioned in everything? Why you no
read the papers & obtain latest news
about real-estate, prizef1ghting, science
g. invention? That are why1 learn so
muchly & think faster than everybody
And ! shall tell you something. Last
week in Sundy Mag Gllishtrated) /
read how 1t are becoming questionable
to die. In last 10 yrs human life have
increased 20 yrs. BY 1894 it will add
on 40 more & etc until undertakers
must quit and 20 into gasoline service
stations"
What cause this great failure in
death, do you sippose?" require F>urio
"Dr. c. w Nussbaum. professor of
astronomical pepsodentistry in Uni
versity of Albuquerque. have dish
covered way to live 206 yrs by follow
ing arrangement:
1-Bathe the souls of the feet in
castor oil every "a hrs.
Every months take out your
glands & have the valves ground.
= 3-Keep silent while your wife Is
talking.
4-Have your teeth pulled at least
ly Zee a yr. Chew everything care
fully.
5-Be peculiar in your diet. Think
up everything you like and refuse to
eat it. Take your gin to a laboratory
for Ann Alice; when Hon Chemist
have finished. give him what are left
~ any.
6-Keep your mind on your health
while asleep. This can be did by
Sticking head out of window &
Evening star., 1924-12-07
at SEEMS A TELEGRAPH POLE RUN INTO HIM. OR SOMETHING

effect what is on your mind Annie, and
dear me, Annie. this sure is a dull
town, nothing don't ever seem to hap
pen here, how is things over to the
Bushes. are they all well, and etc, on
account she goes to that Joe Bush Of
the Hawthorne Clubs house, first--well
anyways. without a word OF encourage
ment from me, why Annie come across
with the fact that poor dear old General
Bluster had had a bad accident with
his new auto.
1t seems he had it out for the first
time that morning. and a telegraph
pole run into him, or something. Also
II seems he wasn't hurt very serious
merely quite so.
Amt it the limit, says Annie, in her
quaint plantation way, that pore old
guy had oughter have some one take
him out on a leash, he amt fit to be
let out alone. she says.
Well OF course l wasn't conner to ad
NIT there was anything she could tell
me, so / merely says yes indeed I
knew all about it, meanwhile realiz-
ing Mrs. Joe Bush had probably heard
something while / was manicuring my
house.
1t was by now time for me to go to
market If Junior was to eat when
he come home at noon, so I went
run into a bottle-blond girl who lives
up our street, that Miss Demeanor,
why although ! and she don't gener-
ally have much to say only good
morning dear, why this day she says
amt these nice cabbages l guess they
bring them in from the country in
autos. Which of course led up kinda
naturally to Old Gen. Busters acci-
dent and she hadn't heard of 1t. so [
told her about how the telegraph
pole had hit the poor old man and
pretty near killed him, and l wouldn't
wonder that both legs was broke and
Miss Demeanor says my amt that
terrible, he really ought to have
somebody looking after him at his
age with all his money. And then 1
went on home.
Well, ! and Junior hadn't set down
to lunch much over two minutes when
the phone rang and who would it be
but that Mrs. Joe Bush and she says
my dear did you hear about poor
darling Old General Busters acci-
dent. it is a lot worse than we
thought.
And 1 says you don't say, and she
says my dear, L do, why only few
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minutes ago Miss Demeanor stopped
| me on the street and told me where
both his legs and all his arms are
broke and they have took him and
| the child both to the hospital.
And l says heavens, l amt heard
about the child. what child are you
| talking about. and Mrs Joe Bush says,
| why the one he hit, of course!
! And / says we'll of all things, was
it killed?
! And she says l don't know, but l
| believe SO, and 1 says why that's ter
rible, the old man ought to have
somebody looking after him, and she
| says yeh, Of course 1t is none of my
| business, but l certinly do think he
! ought to have somebody looking after
! him excuse me dear. Mrs. Goofnah is
on the front steps, and she looks like
| she had some news.
Well, she rang up then, and believe
you me ! could scarcely get through
| my mending that afternoon, what
| with worrying myself sick over poor
dear Old. General Bluster, and won
| dering had / ought to call up the
hospitals or what, and l was just
about nervous wreck, getting sup
| per, when, right after the fve-fifteen
| got in, ! heard Georges footsteps
coming up the front porch in far
more of hurry then he usually is in
to get home, and the minute the latch
key worked, | could see that calm
| with him was scarcer then feathers
on a eel.
Say Jennie he says the minute he
come in. say, Jennie dyou remember
what I told you this morning about
Old General Bluster he says?
Yeh, / says all ready to shoot, but
Geo beat me to it.
Well. he says. the poor dear old
chap is dead
No, / says. meaning yes. l heard
he had accident I says, but / didn't
Know it was as fatal as all that
says.
Yes. says George. He is dead. 1t
seems it was a telegraph pole hit
him. He just would take the car out
alone in spite of everything the
family says to him. And that amt
the worst of it. He killed two chill
dren and dog and injured a cop in
the smash
My heavens George Jules, says,
you don't say. l certainly do say,
says George, L heard 1t all coming
out in the smoker from Doctor Salary,
the feller that's engaged to that
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study (contemplate) your object sup
posed to have a magical influence
(charm). You are my small antelope
(gaZelle), my trine (triple) pigeon of
five letters (dove). / cannot dorm
(sleep) without thoughts of the OBJ
jective case Of the personal pronoun,
now obsolete except in poetry and
elevated prose Ghee) and unless
apprehend or obtain (geD you my
lachrymal secretions (tears) will fill
pyx Greek urn of sacred
natureD"
"Whoop & stop it," holla Furio
Koko. What languidge are that love
letter wrote in?"
Crossword nachilIy," I donate
by 2024 our English ocabillary will
be liberated and swollen to twice
size what is now are because of
puzzle editor. Yes indeedly That
will be remarka bilious time to live
in. And look at science of Food.
That also will be quite different from
now. Suppose you wish eat in 2024.
You go to Otto's Restaurant for fol-
lowing argument:
lotto, fetch me 1106 calories with
brown gravy fried on both sides
"'Yes, sir. And the ptomains are
very nice to day
"'Alrighto! Bring me with gar
lick
And so, F'urio Koko." lecture,
will go everything 108 yrs from now
which we shall all live to because
Hon Medicine Science will not permit
anybody to die any more. When men
get sick they will go to hospital for
extra parts. If stummick give out
Hon. Doctor will get him one from a
camel If heart collapse he will bora
one from a dog. If brain evaporate
he will steal one from a ostrich. No,
Furio koko," l omit, ''if we can keep
our health 1000 yrs Science will ar
range it SO we shall remain forever.
Now permit me tell you why death
are going out of fashion
so sorry must CO." report Furio
with roses.
You are dressed so sweetishIy," I
devote. Maybe you are going to a
wedding"
NO" he manipulate. II are going
to a funeral"
Therefore he elope away, looking
worse.
Hoping you are the same
Yours truly
HASHIMURA TOGO.
Copyright, 1924.)
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China Against Supersttions Which Have Prevented O.
Gp@mdn uAaPaHd HdcamyNm waamA

dance. The soil has not given out, the
rivers have not dried up and the nat
ural resources are not exhausted.
The 245,000,000 acres now under cul-
tivation in China yield products the
total value of which is measured in
billions of dollars. Scientific methods
would increase the output in many
lines from so to 100 per cent.
China has never realized the extent
of her natural wealth. and she is only
just learning how to make money out
of II. 1t has taken the foreigner to
discover and develop much of her
riches and scarcely a beginning has
yet been made. In less than 10 years
China's trade with the world has null
tiplied more than Ave times, and it
probably will continue to multiply
for years to come. Already the total
value Is more than a billion dollars
a year.
x y X
THINA gave silk to the world. Her
~ people have been raising silk
worms for more than 1000 years, and
she annually exports nearly 100000
900 worth of raw silk. For centuries
the business was carried on in the
homes of the people by crude meth
ods, and this is still the case among
tens of thousands of families. Yet in
recent years hundreds of machine
plants for winding silk have been
built and scores of them are as mod
ern industrial establishments as can
be found anywhere.
1t is also the Chinese who gave US
our tea. They raised the plant and
drank the brew from its leaves CEN
turtles before Christ was born, but it
was less than 800 years ago that
the first shipment sent to London was
considered a drug on the market. At
one time China exported 800, 900, 900
pounds of tea and supplied 96 per
cent of the worlds consumption. More
recently, through better organiza ton
and salesmanship the British in India
and Ceylon have not only captured
many of the foreign markets for
China's tea, but are now selling to
China herself between 25,000,000 and
80, 10000 pounds of foreign teas. The
failure of the Chinese to establish
uniform standards and grades has
cut down the sale of their teas abroad
Nevertheless, China's annual tea ex-
ports still amount to S20,000,0 900, and
as soon as modern methods of pro-
duction and selling are adopted they
will be worth millions more.
The story of the Chinese soya bean
is one of the romances of modern
commerce. For centuries China grew
this bean for all sorts of home pur-
poses, without the world suspecting
it's value. Now II ranks second among
China's exports. and in one year $685.
00o, 900 worth went to Seattle alone.
We use the bean largely for it's oil.
which goes into salad dressings. meat
sauces and margarines, and also into
our soaps, toilet powders, paint oils
and linoleum. The total export is
worth s10o, 100000 and can be enor-
mously increased.
China sends us nine or ten million
dollars worth of wool in some years.
She is one OF the worlds sources Of
camphor, competing with the Japa-
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| large sale in China, are finding il
profitable to build branch plants in
| this country. In this way they carry
on their production close to their
market and have also the advantage
Of the cheap Chinese labor. One of
our firms, for example, has put up a
large factory here which manufac-
lures electric light bulbs for the
China market. Indeed. there are so
many industries now we'll established
in China along modern lines that il
would take too much space even to
mention the names of them all
The fact that China is beginning
to manufacture for herself or for sale
abroad will not cut down her i'm
ports. On the contrary. the develop
ment of industry in China will un-
doubtedly increase her demand for
foreign goods. Even the cotton mills,
which are today the most striking
example OF the new industry in China,
will not be able for years, If ever, to
supply the needs of the people. AL
though the Chinese are a nation
dressed in cotton, most of them are
so poor that they can buy but little.
AS industry grows, wages will go up,
purchasing power will rise, and the
Chinese will use more and more cot
tons. DR.. WI Ting Fang. the famous
Chinese Minister to the United States,
put the matter IN nutshell when he
said:
"If one inch could be added TO sy-a
| shirt tail of every Chinese, 1t would
keep the cotton mills of the world
busy supplying the increased de-
mand."
TN the last ten years more than one
hundred electric power plants have
been built in China, and the number
is certain to steadily increase. Think
for a moment of the electrical ma
chinery. equipment and supplies used
In the United States. and then imag-
inc. If you can, what will be needed
to outfit a nation of 400, 200, 900 people
with electric lights and power ap-
pliances,
Or take the matter of railroads.
This country has now only some
seven thousand miles of tracks, as
compared with 265,000 miles of rail-
ways in the United States. Enor-
nous areas of China are so lacking
In transportation that their products
cannot now be marketed at a profit
When China begins in earnest to ex-
tend her railroad system she will be
in the market for enormous guam
titles Of supplies apd equipment. The
Chinese have demonstrated consider
able capacity as railroad men. For
example. the native locomotive engi-
neers are so skillful that they usually
stop and start trains with less jolting
and jerking than 1 have sometimes
noticed on some of the best lines in
the United States. / am told that
several of the largest locomotives
ever built in American shops are now
being operated on Chinese lines.
The Chinese have great engineering
ability. They proved this in the past
by building their Great Wall, their
225,000 miles of canals and their
irrigation and river control works
Copyright, 1924, Carpenters World Tray lis.
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bottle-blond, Miss Demeanor. 1t
seems Mrs. Goofnah called on Miss
Demeanor this afternoon soon safter
1t happened and she got the Doc
on the phone at his office in town
and told him. And / got it straight
from him, on the way home. My.
it's terrible. Somebody had ought to
of been looking after the poor dear
old feller! Lets see is there any
thing in the evening paper about 1t.
Well. scarcely had we took up the
paper to learn the worse then the door
bell wrung, and l says you go George
am not At to be seen. So Geo. says. aw
that don't matter, you go. 1 amt got my
coat on.
So. to end il, the both of US started
for the door and opened it, and who in
the world would be standing on the
steps but Old General Bluster himself
just as weak and crippled as a prize
baby in a annual show, and no more
scratched up then my best parlor table.
Well well folks says the old bore,
coming in, I'm afraid it's about supper
time, he says, but maybe you won't
mind looking after an old man for a
bite tonight, Mrs. Jules. he says, on ac-
count 1 got something important I want
to consult George here. about he says.
l am thinking about buying automo-
pie, ne says, ana L can't quite make up
my mind, and l thought maybe George
would advise me whether TO do II or not,
he says.
Well, by then we had got our breaths
and our manners back. so We says come
in and the old nuisance did, he is always
grating on people like that and after
he had talked a lot of the time and at q
most OF the food and not listened to
Geo. any more then any one else who
asks for advice but wants f1attery, why
after that we told him some about his
death, and etc.
Amt it awful says George. the way
the people in this town talk. he says?
wouldn't believe the gossip that gets
around if l didn't hear it with my own
ears, for a sample. he says, l heard
something about Jennie here the other
morning, and it seems it was said by
Mrs. Joe Bush, too, the wife of my best
friend.
Well naturally, on account I don't
believe in gossiping. 1 wouldn't let him
get away with that.
Say George. l says, if that woman
said it, l know there wasn't a word
OF truth in it. The way some women
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"CooD MORNING, DoLLINC!" SHE NARRATE
holding an electrick fan on the STUN
mick or abominable mussels.

holding an electrick fan on the STUN
mick or abominable mussels.
x X X
EURIO KOKO listen at me with a
look of sense on his eyes. ut
will be very curio to live 100 yrs from
now" he negotiate.
Think of the portrait how it will
look" I snagger. "Sipposing you &
me was there asleeping in 904th story
of American plan hotel. We refuse to
live on top story because Hon. Traffick
Police make so much noise in Heaven
with helium moto-cickles. So there
we are. We do not like our room
because too much artifishul sunlight
make it too heated, or hot. There
fore we pick a telepath, or thinking
machine, from table and cumplain
to Wash, D. c., about the bumminess
of the management
why should cumplain to Wash,
D. CO" require Furio.
s. "Nachilly we must" | develop.
Hon. Robt La Toilette will be elected
then If ever Therefore Hotel
Mngmt will be publick ownershipped
like everything. When hot water run
cold in tubb & a toothbrush get stuck
in the drane-pipe. please inform
Washington where Committee on Pri-
vate Affairs will report on it in dew
time
Hon. Furio Koko saturate my words
which 1 say Furthermore:
so that will be morning awake-up
in 2024. BY telepath. or thinking ma
chine, you order slight breakfast from
Food Controller, Wash, d. c., then
took off your radio-proof pijammas
for a refreshing bath of canned moon
light when-O what you hear Some
thing resembling Paul Whiteman
playing a jews harp. You know that
sounds, by golly! 1t are the long-dis-
tance phototelefone. Therefore you
hopp back to pijammas with rapid
quickness. Sipposing it might be a
friend wishing see you on the wireless
air-wavei
Therefore with sweetly smiling
you enrush to photo-telefone and
took down picture-hook for see who
is o horrus. There stand Miss
Agnes Koma, your X-wife, from
which you have been divorced Gee but
not sufficiently.
Good morning, dolling" she mar
rate. so pleased to see you looking
so rich. If you love me, kindly pay
yrs. back Alley Money you owe me
or l shall burn you up with one Of