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Evening star., 1927-09-21
FINE CORNER HOME.
FACING GOVERNMENT PARK

FACING GOVERNMENT PARK
FOR S11.500.
This is undoubtedly the best home INV in
all of Petworth: splenddly situated on de.
sirable corner lot 0foot front. with abun-
dance OF shrubbery. shade, etc. in desirable
residential section: 8 ideally arranged rooms
and tile bath; spacious front porch and 9
glassed-in rear porches. making really a
ments Of course: is metal Neutrality-suspicious.
Phone serviee $3.50 5 80 AM. to Pm.
SHANNON & LUCHS. INC
1435 X ST. NV.
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SAi,E--F ARMS.

ABOUT ACRES IN BRADLEY HILLS.
hi --fsottage electricity. water. sewer. AS
a whole or part. Address Box 296-Z Star
Office 3ls
s0 ACRES IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY,
10O miles from Washington: about 100
acres in apples; S-Foom. substantial farm.
house and outhuidngs. Shepherd 3Q62-W,
NEARBY MARYLAND-10 ACRES, broom
essh. S25 month. Main 1414: Cleve. 2l6.
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w ATER FRONT PROPERTY.

long frortage on salt water: cottage. garage
fruit. Cleveland 9242. aftere7 30 pm. 22.
NEAT COTTAGE, FURNISHED. FOR SALE
cheap for cash or will give terms. Apply
WATER FRONT ESTATES.
CHARLES +. LEE.
AnnanoIis Nd.
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SALE---HOUSES.
DIRECT From OWNER

ON RENTAL BASIS.
2Q"l 3rd st; n.e.--6-room colonial bun
double rear porches: lot 1875 #. deep to
paved 20-ft. alley; hardwood floors. hot
water heat thoroughly modern and most
attractively finished: in. the heart of Ecking .
tom near stores. schools churches. bus and
car service: 500 cash. $65 month.
ROBERT f. KLINE, Jr.,
S02 MunseY Bldg
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SALE OR RENT-SUB. PROP'TY.

sl5 oUACKENBOs ST. NV SQUARE
from 20. ave.; semi-detached; garage: low
price or rent furnished or unfurnished.
HYATTSVILLE--6 r.. DETACHED 2-CAR
garage: ami: lot 50x150: reasonable
monthly payment. Main 392.
COLLEGE PARK, MD.
Modern homes Apply to ELMORE
POWER. owner and builder. Phi. Berwyn
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sALE-SUBURBAN PROPERTY.

TAKoMA PARK-DUTCH COLONIAL NEW
cedar 9 sose arff fed do9ms bai
Easy terms fhene shepserd sSM ossef e:s
2-STORY FRAME AMI: MANY BUILT
sale by owner ne a 3 per ama
no agents. Decatur 749-J.
GOOD 5-ROOM BUNGALOW, 1-PIPE FUR.
pace pace neat. water sewer. gas and elecca good
and $40 per month. Can Hyattsville 500.
NEW GROOM HOUSE. "a ACRE GROUND
ters Phone 6snto Sf Hsasts sqf
wA w;tb HIGHbAN3sMEw g SIs eoo.. S 5R9oM Cons %sTUCco
sasss cash s. o ba o s X.o nss 2n SesS aaS
place oak floors open staircase. electric range.
on asfs $500 cnsS S Ss on s
on large corner lot with garage chicken
sso s2gss a erns tree: re- s and sS AR rOSr n
Tar Sr sHGsssow snG Th and dqpbs 06 sJgS
sw Is,. and ssspiSs porch sxtSs
5o'S ip pRp A@5ers :, Tis aas xa HIsSssSs See
urday. Phone Clarendon n 445-W-f. HN''''
FOR sALE--BUNGALOW ROOMS. 50:
Stone Tex: located, on one acre Of ground
erty at less than cost of house. Address
Box 370-S Star Office. 24'
NEARLY 1 ACRE, 7-ROOM HOUSE. FUR
chickens 'i or trucking: $1,000 terms. rms. g
acres near Laurel: 10 rooms and bath: con.
crete road: $4,000. Nearly new tile house.
8 rooms and bath. ami: HyattsvilIe :
81 900. rooms and bath: shade trees: near
cars; Hyattsville $500: terms. 4 rooms
Riverdaie: $1o0. cash. S35 mo. Dutch CO.
lonial. ami: 2 large lots. nicely handicapped; ;
trees, weather-s r-stripped. 4 large bedrooms
breakfast room.. paved street: University
Park: priced right on terms.
ARTHUR CARR. Real Estate.
Hyattsville. Nd Hyattsville 159.
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SAIE-HOUSES.
SPFCTAI-COJORFD
CHEVY CHASE BARGAIN

can't and newly decorated. Bargain at the
price and terms. Address Box 300-V. Star
Office.
CHEVY CHASE BARGAIN.
very attractive new eight-room detached
home. center-hall plan. large living room
with fireplace and special lighting arrange
ment Builtin garage. Located near Nevada
ave. and Mckinley ST.. NV, half a block
from bus line and two blocks from cars and
stores. with schools (both public and paro-
chial1 and churches adjacent.
IL you are seeking choice home tn a Sc,
recommend that you see this before purchas-
TRADE IN PART PAYMENT
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WANTED-BUsINEss PROPERTY

WANTED. end COMMERCIAL GROUND.
Direct from owner. 30 to 10 foot frontage
railroad siding. Give price. lot and square
number Address Box 300-Z. Star Office. 21'
Evening star., 1927-03-06

his staff sent wildly to learn If the Ma
tionalist army had suddenly appeared. They
found the shells were coming from division
under Gen. Lu, Wus officer. Wu sent
word to two supposedly loyal commanders to
seize the mutinecr, but they replied they
not at home to Marshal WI that night Wu
started to withdraw in his private car, but it
was derailed outside IIankow and he had to
walk 40 miles. accompanied by his wife and
three faithful staff officers, before he found
loyal troops. Two days later the vanguard of
the Cantonese army was welcomed into Han
kow and the world startled with the in
formation that the Nationalists had at last
really come into control of the Upper Yangtse
Valley.
X. * x X
Through a curious set of circumstances /
then came into close contact with the Can
tonese. / captured by troops of Sun
Chuanfang, who had left WI in the lurch
and planned to make himself master of the
Yangtse Valley by cutting the precarious line
of communications of the Cantonese and en-
veloping their forces. I was taken to Shanghai
by Suns officers, who boasted of what
going to happen. Immediately my release
I went to Canton to what sort of men the
Cantonese leaders and in talks with them
l told of the boastings of Suns officers. Can
ton immediat tey sent out a counter-force which
cut the lines of Suns army and made it fall
back Shanghai
/ was thus brought into contact with the
capable young leaders OF the Nationalist move
ment and of it's remarkable develop
ments
/ found the present Nationalist movement
to be the result of combination of two move
ments which have slowly gained growth for
some years The first factor is the old Ma
tionalist party, founded by DR.. Sun Yat-sen in
1904 for the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty.
After the success of this revolution in 1912
DIR. Suns party fell into disrepute through it's
lack of ability to organize politics, and for a
decade it the foot ball Of military adven.
turers.
X X * *
The second element is the student move
ment which swept the country in 1919 as a
reaction to President Wilson's BETRAYAL" of
China in asquiescing in the Japanese retention
of Shantung Province. The students of the
middle and higher schools, men and women
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COST OF PRODUCTION EXCESSIVE
in SOVIET, ASSERTS BAKHMETEFF
Peasants Find Their Produce Does Not Bring as
Much Clothing or of as Good Quality as
Before Red Control

not quantity; it is the cost of produc-
tion. Red tape, inefficiency, all the in
herent evils of the system, result in
prices being preposterously high.
The peasantry, when exchanging
their crop for shoes, textiles and other
necessities, have to pay twice-three
times-as much as in the old days.
A striking fact from a recent Of
hclal periodical: In the Autumn of
1925 in central Russia the price which
the peasant had to pay for a pair of
boots was the equivalent to the crop
OF nearly two acres of rye.
such distortion Is obviously a flag
rant accusation of the present system,
and 1t Is natural that an endeavor to
lower prices, to close the chasm be-
tween industry and agriculture has
been the official goal year after year
But life is ineXorable. Conditions, in
stead of improving, have grown worse.
In 1926 the peasant was paying in
measures Of grain from 80 to so per
cent more for manufactured goods
than a year before. No wonder there
has developed certain slackening in
the market. The peasant at present
appears to be refusing to pay ridicu-
lous prices: he is unwilling to take
goods of inferior quality and poor as
sortment.
So the Russian drama Is further in
tensified in its everlasting conflict,
that between the masses of the pop
ulation, impersonating the forces of
life and the Communist masters, per-
sistently trying to force life into the
narrows Of fanatical doctrine.
tCopyright 1927
Evening star., 1927-03-06
BY UPTON CLOSE.

\ y the last eight months ] have travelled
10000 miles in Asia visiting all countries
from Siberia to Turkey and investigating
the growing revolt of the Eastern Hemt-
sphere against the white mans domination. I
made this study after 10 years Of intimate
contact with developments in China. Japan and
Asiatc Russia
All through Asia I heard 1t said "The white
mans day of reckoning has come" Beneath
my eyes / have seen in China the rise of Il
nation, a. China which has the making
of the mightiest nation of the world. This
China in the last four months has assumed
the leadership of Asia against white domina-
tion mobilizing her vast natural resources, in
dustry, high intelligence and huge population
for this end.
l arrived in China early in September. BY
radio we had learned OF the seizure of two Brit
ish ships at Wanhsen, on the Upper YangtZe.
The British captain said IF we don't take
the most drastic means Of retributiOn over this
it means the end of the British empire has
begun" / heading for the Yangtze Val
ley when that drastic action was taken. Wanh-
sien was bombarded and some hundreds Of
Chinese citizens were killed
This intended to put 1.-The Chinese back
in their place" as the British expressed it, and
was expected to restore British prestige. In
stead 1t united all the warning factions in China
against the British and in a campaign to end
foreign domination in China
The ships had been seized by soldiers of
Wu Pei-fu. who backed by the British
themselves. and it was against Wu's subordi-
mates that the punishment directed. Wus
rivals in Pekng Immediately backed his troops
by demanding indemnity and an apology
from Great Britain. The Cantonese forces
who were driving against w. offered to join
him in fighting against any further British
aggression. I arrived in Hankow in time to
observe what an enormous effect this incident
had.
For three years there had been a standing
joke in the Yangtze Valley. 1t was Sun
Yat-sen's punitive expedition" from Canton
against WI Pei-fu in the Central Provinces.
1t had got under way many times and always
evaporated far away from Hankow. An ex-
pedtion was under way at the time of the
Wanhsien incident, but 1t struggling in
the mountain passes leading to the Yangtze
Valley from the south No one expected it to
get any further than previous attempts and
no active measures had been taken to stop it,
X X X X
Wu's hands were tied so far as supporting
his subordinate went, because he was mainly
reliant on British friendship for his supplies
He did nothing to support his commander at
Wanhsien. So when the wave of Chinese re-
sentiment swept the country he in false
position. Nationalist propagandists took full
advantage of this situation. His army was
already weakened by lack of pay and rivalres
among his commanders and was ready to listen
to the Nationalist cry for unity against the
foreigner and accept Nationalist pay
One night WI was painting picture at
his Hankow headquarters shells began to fall
around the building. He went painting. but
Evening star., 1927-03-06
Deadliest Enemies
of Man Are in Cities

"The deadliest enemies OF man at
the present time are not disease. war
and famine, but the industrial con-
ditions of the cities" This is the con.
clusion of DR.. Warren S. Thompson
of the Scripps Foundation for Re
search in population problems at
Miami University, following q com
parison of life and death records in
town and country.
The natural increase of population
Is considerably greater in the country
than in the city, DIR. Thompson points
out. A greater proportion of country
women than city women marry, ana
the probability is that they marry
earlier, so that they establish their
families at an age when they are most
likely to have children.
Farmers and miners, the two
groups which are distinctly rural
have the highest average in sise se
families, DIR. Thompson points out.
Managerial and professional groups
have the lowest average. Rural dis
tricts not only produce more children,
but they have lower death rates Tran
the cities, the studies show.
1T would seem clear beyond con-
tradiction that from the standpoint of
population growth the rural communf-
ties stand at the top of all groups in
the United States" DIR. Thompson
states. THE incontrovertible conclu-
SION Is that rural conditions more near
ly meet the vital needs of human life
than urban conditions. If this Is
true now, how much more significant
1t Is that sanitary and medical sci
ence have scarcely begun to ministes
to rural needs
Evening star., 1927-03-06
BY BORIS A. BAKHMETEFF.

History is unmerciful to those who
challenge life. The laws Of human
nature, of economic necessity, cannot
be violated with impunity. In this
simple maxim lies the key to the un
derstanding of the Russian situation.
Much has been said about the won
derful recuperation Of Russia. Only
the other day one heard that Russia
may take second place as world Oil
producer, yielding to the United States
only. Now, what are the facts and
what is their meaning?
The economic recovery of the Rus
sian people, only a few years ago so
near the abyss of complete deStruc'
ton, is a. positive and most encourag-
ing fact. The nation has shown re-
markable vitality and has survived a
deadly social epidemic. In particular,
agriculture, which represents more
than 80 per cent of the population, has
reached more or less the pre-war con-
ditions. Industrial output, which sank
TO naught during the first years of
Bolshevist rule, has also approached
pre-war figures.
To outward appearance. Bolshevists
are in full control of the country. Fig
ures measuring economic recovery are
used to testify in favor of their sys-
tenn. And still every official utterance
bespeaks anxiety, reflects an ailment
rooted in the very essence Of the sit
uation.
In word, the problem is-the rela-
ton between peasant agriculture and
industry, industry operated. as 1t Is.
by the Communist state. In fact,
Welding to the pressure OF the peas
antry, the central government has
more or less withdrawn from the vii
lage. The peasant succeeded in ac-
ouiring a certain self-dependence. In
being left to lvie and to till the land
according to his own ways and ira
ditions.
On the other hand, the Commun-
lists retained full control of Industry.
The mills forcibly confiscated from the
old owners are held as property of the
State and are operated by officials on
behalf of the government. Russia
presents an example on unprecedented
scale of state owned and state man.
aged industries. At present these mills
are reconditioned to produce about
what they used to before the revolu-
ton. Thus, industrially, Russia had
returned to where she was 10 years
ago. Such is the result of the expert
ment when viewed dispassionately
and effectively.
The outstanding feature, however, Is
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Amazing Rise of the New China

Note: In the last four months the acorld
nos been amazed BY the rise OF q ncto chino
and has been asking hoio IL happened so sud
denly and MhGt 1t means One OF the Keen
est American observers Of Oriental affairs
4cGs on the ground achen it happened In
fhts and foIloeoing articles Upto4, Close
prot Josef Washington HdlD gtres an
intimate picture of this ne1c China and OF
the pdSt rcU0t against lOhite su prennCy
throughout Asia. Mr.. Close tOds for seren
gears an editor IN China, 1Cds once chief Of
foreign affairs for Marshal Wa Pei-fu and
Of China" I'm the Land Of the laughing
BmddhG" and other books aChich hare at
trGcted 1cide attention. In his second article
to be published tomorrotC in The EUentnQ
star, Mr.. Close tells ho4O diplomacy has so
far failed to touch the real issues Of the
Chinese situation and ho1o china intends to
carry the fOht to the finish,
Evening star., 1927-03-06
BY FRANK H. SINONDS

N1E warning note which the Brit
lSh government has recently
addressed to the bolshevists
L marks one more stage in the
Evening star., 1927-03-06
BY DREW PEARSON.

Shanghai, the New York of the
Orient, for which two Chinese armies
are fighting and the foreign set
Elements Of which 10000 American
British, French and Japanese troops
are defending, once was a malarial
swampland, given to foreign traders
because the Chinese felt sure they
would become discouraged develop.
ing ii and would go away, leaving
their work behind them.
American Marines who paraded in
Shanghai probably had no idea that
the beautifully paved boulevards along
which they marched are supported by
wooden piles driven into the old
swamp.
Today Shanghai ranks as the
wealthiest and mightiest city in Asia
and one of the busiest seaports in the
world. Her water front, once an ex-
panse Of sand dunes, now is worth
thousands of dollars a square foot.
The magniffence of the buildings
which line, this water front is sur
passed only by the skyline Of Man
haitian.
Four thousand Americans live in
Shanghai the year round, with an
a0OltlOnal tnOuSand taxing refuge
there at present because of anti
foreign riots in the interior. Here
more than half of the American busi-
ness with China is transacted, bust
ness which has tripled within the last
20 years. In Shanghai also are the
central offices of 5000 American mis-
sionaries who ordinarily live and work
in the interior.
Shanghai is the chief industrial
center of China. To it have fiocked
thousands of Chinese workers for en-
ployment in foreign operated cotton
mills, tobacco factories, silk filiatures
and shipping warehouses. 1t is
among these workers, who dwell in
the utmost squalor in the Shanghai
slums, that Cantonese are concentrat-
ing anti-foreign propaganda. Strikes
and boycotts springing up in these
mills would be far more disastrous to
the foreign settlement than an out
side attack. A strike of Chinese labor
would first of all cut off the nightly
disposal OF sewage which depends en-
tirely upon hand labor. Next 1t would
cut off the water supply, the lighting
system and the telephones.
Through Shanghai comes 49 per
cent of the trade of China. which
brings also 40 per cent of the tariff
revenue. This is the secret OF the
Evening star., 1927-03-06
SHANGHAI BUILT ON SWAMP SITE:
NOW WEALTHIEST ASIATIC CITY
America Has Immense Trade With Chinese Port
for Which Armies Are Battling-4,OOO
Nationals Live There

present struggle of Chinese armies for
control OF Shanghai. Whichever fac.
ton controls this key city also gets a
tremendous annual income.
There is weird mixture of
races lighting on opposite sides in
defense and for the capture of
Shanghai. Despite the growing feel
ing OF Asia for Asiatics." most
or the French army now in Shanghai
Is made up of little yellow men from
French Indo-C China, who to the stranger
resemble the Chinese in every way.
About half of the British defense
troops are big brown Indians, brought
up TO help make Asia safe for the
Whlte man. On the other hand, one
or the crack regiments of Chang Tso-
Lin army is composed Of Russian
mercenary troops, which have hired
out to fight for yellow masters.
Shanghai has become a great port
only because 1t stands at the mouth
OF the Yangtze River, the Mississippi
OF China. The word Shanghai means
BY the Sea-" and although the city
originally fulfilled the correct inter
probation of its name, the silt washed
down by the Yangtze has built up a
delta around it, until it now stands
IL miles inland.
IN order to protect American lives
and property American gunboats main
tain patrol up the Yangtze for over
seventeen hundred miles, which is as
far as the mouth OF the Mississippi to
Hudson Bay. The Palos and Mon
ocacy, two American gunboats, which
draw only 3h feet, even proceeded up
the river beyond the gorges from
lchang to Chunking, in which district
numerous American missionaries live.
Protection for American shipping is
especially necessary along the upper
gorges of the YangtZe because of the
frequent attacks which junkmen make
upon steamers. Junkmen make their
living by towing their junks up the
rapids hand-over- hand, at a speed of
miles a day, and they resent COM
petition by steamers. Since the
average junk can stand only three
round trips before 1t falls to pieces,
freight rates are high. American
steamers, which take freight at lower
rates, are frequently fired at along the
gorges, and one American steamship
agent recently was beaten to death for
accepting a cargo.
Evening star., 1927-03-06
Japanese Banks
Rolling in Wealth

Notwithstanding the cry OF depres-
sion from various quarters the banks
of Japan are simply rolling in wealth.
and are out begging not for lenders
but for borrowers. This years first
weekly statement of condition of the
Toxic clearing house shows the high
est figure in the houses history. Ac-
cording to this report, the deposit OBJ
legations of the consolidated banks Of
Toxic alone stood at 1000, ,522 900 yen
about $1,000, 900. .00O). or nearly $780,
000,0 900 more than at the commence
ment of 1926.
The financial horizon, therefore,
looks clear for this year. 1t is ex.
pected that the Bank o2 Japan will
again aower its minimum rate.
Evening star., 1927-03-06
INCREASED JURISDICTION
OF u. s. ISSUE In PANAMA
Misunderstanding Arising Over Treaty
of July %, 1926, With Central
American Republic Explained.
BY WALLACE THOMPSON.

@HE United States. and the Re
public of Panama signed. on
July IS last, a treaty for "the
/ settlement of certain points of
Evening star., 1927-03-06

DCAGAASO as
The freedom of action of the United
States for the defense of the canal
is paramount throughout the treaty.
Article 10. in fact. provides that as
regards aviation the safety of the
Panama Canal shall always be the
deciding factor" Throughout the
negotiations, the Department of War
and the American negotiators were
immovable on all points that in any
way encroached on the rights acquired
or believed necessary to the military
strategy of the canal. Panama has
never been very happy over the con.
demnation proceedings which have in
the past 90 years enlarged the canal
from a strip 10 miles on either side
Of the ditch to an irregular territory
immensely increased in area, and em.
bracing virtually the entire watershed
CONTINUED on Fifteenth Page.)
Evening star., 1927-03-06

Mental problems of University of
Minnesota students are to be looked
into by a neuro-psychiatrist, employ
ed from funds created by raise In
fees
Seward daily gateway., 1927-12-22
SCROLL OF HENRY '.
 OWNED BY UNIVERSITY

URBANA, H., Dec. P. (P)-scrawl- ed history antedating the middle ages is bound within the yellowed sheep skin pages of a manuscript in the University of Illinois library, obtain ed when the famous Cavagna library was purchased in Italy. Across the ancient pages is writing claimed to have come from the pen of Henry VI, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire about 1116 A. D.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-12-22
.HUNN|CUTT ID STATES
 FOR SPECIAL TREATMENT

Edwin w. Hunnicutt, who comes from Kashega West of Unalaska, is among the arrivals from the West ward on the s. S. Starr. MT. Hunni- cutt was suddenly taken i'll and was taken to Unalaska by A. Gossand. MT Hunnicutt is a Bureau of Educa- tion teacher and had just completed building school building at Kashe- ga when taken ill He is enroute to the States for special treatment.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-12-22
ON SPECIAL MISSION

H. c. Ilderton, general agent for the railroad, departed for the States yesterday on missionary work which will carry him about the land of the free" for some months to come. h. crease in tourist travel for 1928 is the goal set as well as interesting Outside capital to the Territory.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-12-22

A Xmas box free with every pur- chase. URRAcH'S