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EIGHT PACKS TTTB MONTiOE JOCltXAL. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1921. PAGE SF.UKX SCENES IN CHINA ARE TOO i APPALLING TO PHOTOGRAPH Thirty Thou-saml Hie Tufcrther In Vast Held After a Vaiu Seareh fur Fiki1. IS AX ACCOUNT OF AX ENtilXKEK New York, Feb. 14. There is no question that more than 10.000. 000 Chinese will starve to .death this winter and spring unless help through the Chiua Famine Fund is their one hope." This is the statement of E. S. Glines, distinguished American engi neer, who recently returned to New Yoik after a six months tour of In vestigation In China. When inter viewed at his office. 50 Broad street. Mr. Glines weighed, h words and made his statements' i . ;''.e careful. Pleasured fashioned ol ilie engineer giving a professional opinion. He hrrked his statements with authori tative figures and he used the most conservative of the figures telling the appalling famine situation with the engineer's instinct of leaving nothing to chance. Mr. Glines speaks with authority on China. His firm has such high con nections in the country that he Is given the complete confidence of that usually secretive and bnf fling people. The senior partner of the firm. V. Fong Lam, Is the nephew of Wu Ting Fang.- the famous former Chinese Minister to Washington. The firm. Lam. Glues and Co., does engin eering construction work in all parts of China. Its engineers and techni cal men are Americans and Chinese trained in American universities. Too Pitiful to Wmtogrnph. "Conditions wye so pitiful." Mr. Glines, "that I had to stop when I was takln? photographs of some of the (amine virtims. I am not senti mental, but I honestly did not have 50good cigarettes tor lUc tram sack of fcfc one GENUINE SUIT DURHAM TOBACCO PERFORMANCE Through the Cascades Spokane to Kent tie ami return, 710 mile In 25 hours, Tires at Bargain Prices. Honesty and Service Our Motto. i R. SAMS Opposite Postoffice. the heart to take pictures of such inter misery. "I wish now that I had taken pic tures of the most extreme cases. There is nothing like a photograph to convince people of the facts. If t!ie American people could have seen what I saw, or could even see photo gtuphs of it. they would do their ut most to get food to tllese dying mil lions. The American Committee for China Famine Fund was not thought of when I was in China, no I did not know that photographs would help tiio'e people. Now that I learn that the committee appointed by the Pres ident is enlisting American help, I , deeply regret that I did not bring back the photographs that might I 1 ... . L. -W . I uatu iueii mem lu biiuw me Aiueu- .can public the true situation. I 'Let me tell you just to of the ' things from which I turned away my I camera: 30.000 people gathered in j a great bare field Just outside of Tints! ti. In the last stages of star vation, and a roadside, with the I bodies of a whole family, father, mother, ant five children, stretched out along it, a few yards apart, where they had dropped and died first, the youngest child, which had been the least able to live without food; then the other children In the order of their weakness, the father, and final ly the mother. Thirty Thousand Die Together. "The great crowd at Tlntsin had been gathered there because It was believed food could be brought to them there more quickly than it could be distributed to them in the country. The food did not come, and they died, all 30,0000 or them. "The family that had died along the road was on its way to a relief station for food. As its members had given out, one by one, the sur vivors had giieved for a moment, then struggled on until the next one went. It was so long since any of them hid had food that none of them was able to reach the goal. "The crop failures have been al most complete in the five great provinces that make up the northern part of China proper. Chihll, Shun tung, Shanai and Honan. This the part of the country around Pakin, south of Mongolia and Manchuria. "My detailed information shows a long string of zeros for the amount of crop raised in the townships of the famine district. The reports were collected with the greatest care and accuracy and are reliable. The famine district has raised practically no rood since 1919. "China is largely an agricultural nation. Ninety per cent of the pop ulation lives ou the tiny farms Into which the country is divided. The Chinese practise rotation of crops and work their land to the-limit, but ! they cannot rai.se more than enough j to fetd themselves. The districts j arc self-supporting. Each one can' raise barely enough food to support its own people. That is why the j 'prosperous' provinces have been able : to do so little for the famine stricken i ones. They have not food enough to , s.nd. ir the province that have ; had good ciops last season were ex-: porting rood anywhere, to the famine districts or for sale abroad, it would have to pass through the custom j house at Szechwan on the Yongtze, river. Trustworthy men on the spot 1 told me that scarcely a pound had i passed through. Died Like File. "The crops in North China have! railed since 19 in. The people have had no rood. They have been un able to get more than scisfs of it rrom other parts of China. They have teen unable to set aim!: from outside because rood has been high priced all over the world. They have tried to move to better districts where they could raise crops but such districts are so far and they have had such poor resources that they have died like flies ou the wav. Mr. Glines says frankly that mil lions will die despite aid. He savs the population of 45.000.444 Is in such dlie stiaits that it will be a physical Impossibility to rush them food enough to save all. "But every dollar sent to China will .save a life," he said. "The Chinaman can make a spoonful or rice go a long way and these famine sufferers have learned to make worse foods than grain serve. They are eating grass and leaves. Any food will seem manna to them." For permanent relief from fam ines in China, Mr. Glines says great Irrigation projects, control of the flood producing rivers and Improve ments of transportation, more rail roads and better canals and roads. Lare the necessary things. EMREXZLEK It I. AM KM HULL a a m. w m - X. mm ms&m M fill jfSS M S&fmk. na fiiaJiPiiJ Make Home Your Heaven on Earth. Make it so Attractive, so Comfortable no Member of the Family . will care to seek other places for amusement LET T. P. DILLON & SONS Plan your Interior Decorations. We have the ability and the furniture and the prices the combination that spells a Happy Home. I AT THE OLD STAND I MEMBER CHAMBER COMMERCE M ON HO AT, N. 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Chcars. late or the county of Union, and Slate of North Carolina, notice is hereby elven, as by law pro vided, to all persons holding claims against tnid estate to present them to the undtn!i;ned, duly authenticated, on or before the 11th day of January. A. D., 1922. or this notice will b plead in b.ir of their right or re covery. All persons indebted to said estate will please cail and make prompt set tlement. This Janusry 7, 1921. JOHN C. SIKES. Executor of V. T. Chears, deceased. John C. Sikes, Attorney.
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