The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-03-30
Clifford Domke Has Eyes
On South America
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eigners, and modern shops.
Though only February when hi
wrote, this paragraph points to the
weather he finds in the new loca
ton, Little thought is given tc
cold weather. One sees people be
ginning to shed their garments in
the lee of building and in the
warm sun while they hunt for lice
and squash them with their long
finger nails. Down here on this
side of the mountains one sees
more human labor than on the
Wei plain. Here men stagger and
move along bent under enormous
loads of lumber, firewood, wheat
coal, lime"
More ardent than ever before
Cliff swings to the Chinese in the
war situation. Holding at most a
passive interest heretofore, he has
unbraided the Japs, but now he
turns on them aggressively. His
reports briefly on the war situa-
ton as follows:
THE war is practically at a
standstill at the present time. China
is training troops as fast as she
can conscript them and get them
into training camps. There must
be millions now in uniforms. The
figure set by authorities is 100000
If properly equipped and trained
they will make it pretty tough for
the Japs in the future. Guerilla
warfare is the thing that is going
to win for the Chinese in the field
money from abroad and boycott of
Japan by other countries will serve
as the other factor, and that will
probably be the vital one.
ut is up to every person in
America and England, in fact all
of the other democracies and other
sympathetic countries of the world,
to do his bit in curtailing this
rapid stride of chaos. 1t can be
done and it must be done.
There has been severe fighting
in Shansi both in the southern
part and in the north. The Chin
csc are now beginning to make
themselves felt and are dealing the
Japs stiff blow on the chin. The
Reds are still doing a fine job up
there. The Chinese are training
troops by the thousands. In the
event of longer war, they will
not be caught mapping 50 far as
trained soldiers are concerned. But
the average soldier isn't what you'd
call a real intelligent fellow, for
they are recruited from along the
coolie and peasant class, or even
from among the beggars. First
brought to training they are a pitt
able looking lot: savage-like with
fear in their eyes; ragged and dir
ty; diseased with probably every
known disease with which China
has smeared on her territory
these are some of the men who are
turned into cannon fodder for the
Japs."
Cliff wrote he is hoping to obtain
a military visa to allow him to
go to Tarssu soon. In this city
is held the lanai butter festival
to which Tibetans and lamas come
from all over China and her out
lying provinces. Huge figures of
Buddha and other gods are model
ed out of butter. The festival, be-
sides worshipping, is a buying and
selling market. 1t is considered one
of the sights to be seen, and few
foreigners have actually seen it.
Cliff wrote. His trouble in getting
a visa comes through the fact that
the territory is now under the Rus
sian sphere of influence, he point
ed out.
He presents in this paragraph an
educational difficulty perhaps uni
que to American systems. He
wrote: Some of the new students
who have not had any English
training before will be started from
the very beginning. Chinese edu-
cational system are very peculiar
in some ways: we've been taking in
new students for the past six or
seven months and by the end of
the semester they are supposed to
have completed their work up to
date. Now, that can't be done in
middle school especially in a for
eign language which has never been
tackled before. Some of these lit
tie fellows become SO muddled up
that they lose what interest they
formerly had and give up alto
gether. 1t is not good way, but
the war makes demands on schools
too. and they have to be met as best
they can.
AS an oddly he pointed out that
the paper on which he had written
the letter has a multitude Of uses.
1T is used for papering windows,
for walls, for signs, for wrapping
up better grades Of products in
the stores. Most Of the windows
are covered with this thickness of
paper as it let's in the maximum Of
light. In the village there is very
little glass, in fact most Of the
Chinese houses even of the better
class Of people use paper on the
windows"
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