The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-15
Peiping Letter
BY H. R. EKINs
united Press Stan Correspondent)

(UmteQ FFeSS Stdh NOEECSko,
 Peiping, China (UP)-Suppose the Pope of Rome were to visit New York city and that at great reception to him those high up Tn the list of honored guests included John Dillinger, Al Capone ana other eminent public enemies.
 It would not be possible. even in America, but something very much like it happened in Shanghai.
 The Panchan Lama, who Is to Buddhists what Pope Plus is to all Catholics, on a visit to Shanghai was feted by officialdom and local Buddhist organizations. At the largest of the receptions the guests included diplomatic and consular officers. Chinese officials and prom inent members of the Chinese and foreign communities.
 But also noted among the most distinguished guests at the gather ing were Tu Yueh-sen, Huang Ching -yung and Chang Hsiao-ling. They were listed in the press list of guests as prominent Chinese or the French Concession in Shang-- hai." In fact, Tu, Huang and Chang are the triumvirate, who rule Shanghai's gangsterdom ana underworld on a scale every bit as sweeping as the best of the racket eers in the United States.
 A survey made of village Of 6O families in northern Honan Prov ince has produced some striking figures concerning the debt burden of China's peasantry. Magnined one million times and the survey gives a picture of the present situ- ation of the Chinese farmers who constitute at least 75 per cent of China's 100000 900 people.
 The 60 families of $50 persons were found to owe s4,O00. silver, or s10, silver, per person including men, women and children. Nearly all is owed to single wealthy landlord money lender in a neigh boring village who collects three per cent interest per month.
 Since with bad crops, heavy tax ton and other exactions the peasant can scarcely find the money with which to meet even interest charges lis debt burden becomes heavier with each successive year. In the village in question all the young men, 40 or 50 of them, have been forced to seek work in neigh boring towns so as to supplement family incomes. Few have succeed ed. The results of the survey can be duplicated all over the country.
 Chinese girls now want cave men, or Chinese counterparts of Johnny Weismuller, Max Baer and Buster CrabDe, according to l.. z. Yuan, Shanghai newspaper col umnist and commentator on the fashions and foibles of modern Chinese society.
 Until very recently the dainty white fingered, fiat-chested ano arrow-shouldered Don Juan was the fiuttering ideal of every Chi nese maiden's heart, but the day of the little white face" is gont forever. The stalwart athlets and the movie hero with bulging mus cles has taken his place.
 Yuan ascribes this change al. most entirely to the influence of American moving pictures.
 Ranking officialdom, harried by importunately aggressive intrusions of the Japanese on one hand and the unseemly obstreperousnes iof their own Chinese people. on the other. Is taking refuge in golf. The Ranking government has complet- ed a grandly spacious golf and country club in the environs of Ranking. Formal inauguration of the course was marked by a drive from the first tee by Wang Ching wei, whose position in the Chinese government is equivalent to that of Premier in other governments.