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Saturday. Octoter 22, 1910. (11) 825 0 - " Whafs The News?" yi-Crossing the Pacific. T " Let erery kindred, every tiibe. 1 bail. the Now." On my left at the table is a mission ary In Japan; omy right an officer in the Philip pine army; in front of me kits a dark-skinned Ha waiian, and across from him a Chinaman (a mer chant, I think,) from Honolulu. Another young Chinaman near by (neither of these wears a queued has received military training in the Unit- lions. the Pacific's waves, I was struck by the fact that I ed States and is going back to take a position in alid-my four acquaintances who sat on the seat the cavalry of the now strongly organized Chinese .The new census figures are showing some re with me," Ourselves represented ; three continents anny.. A young California newspaper man aboard markable things. One of the most interesting is and! five nations. On my right was a Chinese , expects, to., get some preparation in the Orient as the great increase in the population of many On this terrestrial 1 To Him all majesty ascribe And crown Him Lord of all." ' EVER HAVE I heard the words of the old' hymn under circumstances so appropriate as on yesterday, for as the voices of the singers oh our steamer mingled with the low thunder of AT (HE GREAT forest fires in MinnesoU again call attention to the real criminality of oui neglect to provide adequate protection against forest fires. Hundreds of people burned to death, thousands homeless, millions of dollars properly destroyed principally, or entirely, be cause of the ''economy" that forbade the spending ing of a few thousands of dollars for the preven tion of forest fires. Yet some of our Southern newspapers complacently tell us that such fires can not happen in the South, entirely Ignoring, the fact, that even if we are spared these great fires. our annual loss by smaller ones amounts to mll- student, coin home from America; on my left a n Anm o n mv tnirfl TriAn-a. wilh me was ician-iH Christians. Yet my. Chinese mend is rail iiJTL.ii l v i.ii n ui a a - -m a. uia a&uu u v - r-i turles to recognize any God .save the gods of Tturirthtem -' HnTifiilnTifam nr Taoism: the Jat- qucbo yuiucn iviu a lauu iiviu nuvu wuv w centuries ago Christianity was relentlessly rooted out with fire and sword-edge, martyr after martyr dying for his faith; nor has It been so many cen turies since ancestors of the Scotchman, the Ger man, and myself worshipped the strange wild gods of northern Europe. ; - As will be inferred, of course, from what I have said, yesterday was Sunday, which in itself is not a matter worth mentioning, but it alters the case when I say that this was" the second Sunday In seven days: six days before yesterday's service I was also hearing the litany on a Sunday morn ing. The explanation is that we had no Friday a iuture war correspondent, thinking it likely that the opportunity will come Within ten years. A young lady from Oregon is bound for India where she will teach "the poor, benighted Hin doo." A cotton manufacturer (white) from Shan ghai is here who pays his thousand hands 20 to 28 cents Mexican moneyr equivalent to 12 cents Southern cities. In 1900 Birmingham had 38, 415 people; in 1910, 132,685. Atlanta increased in the same time from 89,872 to 154,839, and Richmond from 85,050 to 127,823. New Orleans now has 339,075 people against 287,104 ten years ago; while San Antonio, Texas, nearly doubled in population and Fort Worth almost trebled. These American money for 13 i hours' work, and says gains are, most of them, phenomenal, and while it is too much because the Chinaman saves up so much money he won't work regularly! A captain in the British Army is just back from South Amer ica and much impressed by its wonderful commer cial possibilities. . My room-mate is superinten dent of school garden work in the Philippines, and says that agriculture in the schools Is making progress among the Filipinos in a way to put many American States to shame. A Southern born man who came on board at Honolulu has been around the world eight times, and "works" one continent after another as agent for a whole sale rubber Industry. Then there is the callow in some cases the effort to annex "all the territory that joins them," accounts for much of the in crease, and while it is possible that some of the reports wer "padded" after the manner of some Western, cities, the figures still tell a wonderful story of the development of Southern cities. The big cities all over the country have, 'as a rule, madej a healthy growth sometimes a startling one, as in the case of Detroit, Mich., which gained over 60 per cent. The country districts, however, tell a far different tale. The rural population has actually decreased in such great agricultural States as Mis souri and Iowa. The same is true in Michigan, in young fellow bound for the Philippines who has Delaware, in Vermont; and while it is not believed already lost all his money playing ; poker and is that any Southern State will show an actual de- last week; we went to sleep Thursday night and borrowing from friends;' a man who six months crease, there is no probability that the growth of when we woke .up next morning, behold It was ago thought himself with $100,000 and is now Saturday! " . - Now perhaps my hardest task is to explain this explanation and my limited space makes it neces sary to leave the full discussion to the geographies and encyclopedias. Let me say briefly,' however, that all ships -drop a day about this point in the Pacific Ocean and if they did not, American pas sengers would get back home with a day tp spare. If you should start around the world, at sunrise in some PhcebusVchariot traveling just as fast as the sun, ; it would be -sunrise everywhere i you should go the whole world round, and von reaching ; home sunrise still: you would have' known noth ing save one continuous sunrise and yet a whole -twenty-four hours would have elapsed. So.it Is in traveling slowly around the world westward with the Bun just as in traveling rapidly with it: we gain on it the larger part of an hour a day, and we have endugh 2 4 1-2 4 J- or 2 5-hour days to make up for the 24 hours that we lose.. Going from Raleigh to N Birmingham, or from New Or leans to Denver, one sets' one's watch : back an hour for the time gained in traveling with the sun: if you go round the world the gain is a full 24-hours, and It simply saves trouble te drop the day out here in mid-ocean rather than elsewhere. m. I ought to feel at home on the "Korea" for a conspicuous bronze . tablet tells us that" she was built in Newport News, Va., her timbers felled in " Southern woods; 'and her unnumbered tons of penniless because of the failure of his rubber cor porations, and other Interesting men and women to whim I might introduce you. f . ' v. ' . Most notable of all, perhaps, is a party of Pa cific Coast business men representing the cham bers of commerce in eleven California, Oregonv and Washington cities who are making a visit to. China as the guests of certain leading Chinese chambers of commerce, the object being to pro mote trade between the two nations. This is a very wise and important movement, for these men An two . months, seelng for- themselves,-will - learn -more than they would have learned in a life time of reading and talking In America. And this matter leads me to wonder if our Southern chambers of commerce and business and manu facturing organizations generally can not inaugu rate some plans for getting into closer touch with South American countries. If the people of the United States think that this trade will fall into their laps like a ripe apple from an autumn tree, they are very much mistaken. We have been thinking that the Panama Canal would open up our trade to the Orient, but here again the irre pressible and unexpected Jap bobs up to remind us that it is a poor rule that won't work both ways, and . a leading Japanese authority has al ready published a volume in which he points out the great advantage the canal will be to Japan in the country districts will be anything in propor tion tpati. towns. In other words, not only iaay te! compariEttive gain of the cities on the country probably exceeded that of any decade in our history, but there has been a cessation of rural growth that is at once suggestive and alarming.. Thoughtful men have long been telling us that our governmental policies, as a whole, favored the cities at the expense of the country, and these figures go far to sustain their contention. In this same connection may be mentioned the interesting fact that in the last eight months, for -the first time in American history, manufactured goods comprised over half the total exports. This is -well ; it-is - always well-to-export- the-flnished product rather than the raw materials; but Is it not time, to cease the policy of protecting these ' manufacturers at-the expense of the agricultural producers? , - ---- -- - - - The sudden death last Saturday of Senator Jonathan P. Dolllver, of Iowa, removes one of the ablest and most influential members of the Sen ate. Promoted from the House after a distin guished service there, he was regarded as one of the Republican "wheel-horses" until the question of tariff revision came up. He at once sided with such insurgents as La Follette and Cummins and, by reason of Ms oratorical ability and his wide ' range of learning, soon became the real leader of the Senate insurgents. A speech last spring in which he attacked President Taft was .almost of His place will be hard building up trade with eastern South America, steel and. wood wrought Into gigantic harmony by ANow the long trip around the Horn prevents any Southern workmen.' That is a Dixie achlevment great trade with Brazil, Venezuela, and the. tre- to be proud of; an achievement if not more wor- mendously fertile Argentine Republic, but with thy, at least much . more needed now, than any the great ditch finished, the Japanese manufac-Algh-sounding oration on States' rights, or any turer and trader will "carry the war into Africa," studied essay on' what the South might have ac- and the flag of the Mikado 'will Jostle the Stars complished tinder" other conditions, v This splen- and Stripes on the Atlantic, in the Caribbean Sea, did vessel, so her commander tells me, burns 160C and in our Gulf of Mexico, tons of coal a day; she starts out from San Fran- " v cisco'with 3,500, tons in her hold, and -her. crew ' ' . alone consists of nearly 300 men. r' - . So much by way of introducing some fellow- ; , v . ' , ' passengers. There are practically no pretty girls ' aboard, and I wonder whether It is because travel What; I have .already said concerning the va- between Asia and America is too largely on busl- flety of peoples represented at the church service' ness bent to bring 'out the fair ones, or is It that yesterday suggests the . cosmopolitan character of my Southern standard of beauty is too high? I our ship's population. . The. other day-when J notice that Henry T. Flnck, who has written a Ceiled for n" from a rt oViifnVkvir1 fnnf nor-' 1itrmlnp hnnV rn .Tftnan. nninta nut' In it thnt ticipants qUite accidentally represented three con- wherever you go whether in Japan, Spain, Ger- ew York. He will be followed in Indiana by Mr. nents, and our, Hne-up was "The Old World vs. mamy, or Italy the women are prettier the fur- -1711, " RiaU tei?'etwy'rot Winilow Homer, the foremost painter of Amer- classic strength and style. to fill. . . - " Walter ellman has started across the Atlantic in an airship. His machine is equipped with a wireless telegraph outfit, and he is keeping in touch, with the land. ""' "''.. The new Republic of Portugal appears to be firmly established. There have been some riots, directed mostly against the religious orders, , but the government seems to have been -able to put them down? ? Of course, no one knows yet whal the end may be. . Spain continues an armed camp, the King and his forces waiting with grim expect ancy an anticipated outbreak, . Mr. Roosevelt has been making campaign , speeches in Missouri and Indiana, and is now in aricle. Th 1m Nn ft nf thm Mri. . (Continued en page 721.) lean landscapes, is dead.
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