Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1927, Page 38

l‘]EVASTATEI] AREA RUINED BY WARS Scene of Great Chinese Quake Was Largely in Ruins as Result of Fighting. China's newest earthquake region, where more than 100,000 lives were lost on May 23, had already been left largely devastated by war, says a bulletin from the headquarters of the Natjonal Geographic Soclety. “The area that suffered from the recent quake,” says the bulletin, “lies near the northwesternmost corner of “hina proper. at the base of the pout’ or ‘pan handle’ of Kansu Province that extends westward be- tween Mongolia and Tibet. With this and the great earthquake of 1920, when the Chinese said ‘the mountains walked,’ Kansu becomes the region of the world's most devastating quakes. Six hundred thousand lives were lost in " the earlier catastrophe, which affected a region 200 miles closer to Peking than the latest disaster. Scene of Great Massacre. “Kansu Province a land of Chinese Mohammedan: and their dominance is especially marked in the ‘Western part, beyond the Nan Shan Mountains. Several generations ago they rose in rebellion against the non- Moslem Chinese and massacred tens of thousands of them. A more recent rebellion occurred in 1895. As a result of this strife, western Kansu was largely depopulated in some sections and has never recovered. Kulang, one of the towns said to have been wiped out by the earthquake of last May was already three-fourths in ruins. Throughout the region the traveler comes upon ruined village after ruined village. “Liangchow, with a population of 75,000 or more, was the most impor- tant town in the affected section. It is belleved to have been demolished. |Sisiang and Tumentse, other towns which were shaken down, were rela- i tively small. Az Farms Are Fortified. . “The people of the earthquake re- glon seem to have changed their cus- toms after the Mohammedan rebel- lions and to have discarded village \life. The countryside is dotted with fortifled farms, where each family and its dependents can defy robber bands. The region around Liangchow is irri- 'gated and is highly productive. “Although western Kansu is cut off from the world in so far as quick com- munication is concerned, it is on one of China’s important trade routes, the ,road that extends from Peking and also from central China to Chinese Turkestan and Central Asia. Hides, furs, grain and other commodities have long been assembled at Liang- chow for transportation to the ocean or to interior points. A proposed railway from one of the existing rail- heads in Honan or Shansi to Central ,Asia would traverse western Kansu, probably crossing the Nan Shan mountains along the route of the present Lanchow-Liangchow high- way.” o WADC Purchase Reported. Interests in St. Louls are reported as opening negotiations for the pur- chase of Station WADC at Akron, owned by local theatrical interests, but no formal application has yet been filed with the Radio Commission. PR R T S R A duck in England laid a black g8 BY NANNIE HE time has come when be no longer improve each shining hour; they are letting machines make honey—very much as women “take” an apartment and depend on es to save the trouble of a house and range. There it a row e of hives in the [l) back garden of a " home out in the suburbs —on an old-time road back of the State pike— and a party in a touring car that had lost its v paused before th palings to i.quire. At least that is what the _driver tarted to do, but ‘taking bees™ S novelty to most people, the car was stopped to watch a man and a hive and some Dbees tha' had swarmed on a tree in the yard. One woman in the car's traveling party. who must have had old joned ideas as to clover and butter- cups, put up a general inquiry as to how bees could possibly make honey so ear the city, and a man next sup- plied the information: “Why, bees can fly to the deep ‘and back in no time, bringing their stock with them as easily as you can carry your clothes in a suit case. That's why they call them busy bees. explanation from a man on the front . “Bees don't have to fly around like they used to, prepared food and paraffin combs are making them I over in Eng- land they make most of the honey by achinery. All the bees have to do Bet it isn't as good as all-around bee honey.” The party continued to shuttlecock its knowledge, while the owner took his bees as if there wasn't a soul in sight. When he was through the driver called out to ask directions how to get back to the State road. The bee man told him, and that was all there was to it, except that— It looks as if the time is nigh at hand to fold up and pack away an- other supposedly reliable ol doctrine of our childhood: “GGod made man and man makes money; God made bees and bees make hone; * ok ok X ‘HE last words of King Ferdinand “I am tired. The first words of baby King Michael: “I am hungry. Another proof that hunger and weari- ness are the dominating forces of life. This bit of philosophic dictum was voiced by a lovable newspaper woman, in black, with turquoise beads, who had beamed In on anothef woman at a desk. And when she had breezed off the woman at the desk stopped work long enough to eat a peach (gift of another colleague in black, ame- thyst pendant) and to think over her visitor’s word that hunger and weari- ness mean the beginning and end of man’s life—woman's also, of course. And so far as one can decide on so mighty a matter without running to the encyclopedia, she may be right, for: You remember that time Caesar crossed the famous bridge into the Rhine country, his first immortal words were: “We will now eat.” And dear Stonewall Jackson’s dying words: “Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.” Theologically the world’s hunger originated with Adam when he obliged Eve by sampling an apple, and while his life outside of the Bible must have been made up of eating and growing THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, JULY 31, 1927—PART 1 AROUND THE CITY LANCASTER. hungry to eat again, I grew tired of the prog; haven’t we been told that down and died”? must be tired. at las Some wise beings tell us that self- preservation is the first law of nature. Certainly—to live, one must eat. Other learned ones put in clain a cosmic urge, whatever that is one exceedingly pessimistic authority with an unspellable name, on account of being born in Russia, has laid down a dictum that man's primeval passion war- If you have ever been on an excursion steamer at meal times you could see for yourself how a man will scrap his wy ahead of others in But: So far as the desk woman was con- cerned, after the peach stone was in nd she had fluttered and dried them on a paper napkin swiped from the lunchroom upstairs, she had reached the conclusion that she per- sonally knew nothing whatever about man and his forces—seeing that Moth er Nature is working under secret or- is a something that stands for fare. Sure. line to get a s¥at at first table. the waste basket her fingers under a dripping glas: ders and telling nobody about it. t even the wise ones. * ok Ok X HIGH finance can jump the hurdles of speculation and win out, but, unless you have the gift, you will like- 1y ride to a failure, with this for one gnat of an illustration. Two women were on their way to when they came to a push cart piled with One of the wom- the vender cents a dozen. “All right, but I won't get them un- the Congressional Cemetery very nice bananas. en asked the pri told her they were 2 and The undoubtedly for “Adam lay And to lie down one til we come back from the cemetery. Will you be here for an hour?" Oh, yes. Certainly. Sure. The lit- tle brown foreign man implied, with shrugs and gesturing hands and flash- light eyes, that he expected to remain on the spot forever and ever—now and in the world to come. So the women went to the cemetery, and on their way back they paused at the push cart to find that the little, foreign, brown man had stuck up a sign that read, “Bananas, 30 cents a dozen.” The woman who was doing business for the two remarked on the sudden increase of price and asked the rea son. . With another spontancous outburst of shrugs and gestures, the vender ex- plained the situation: the mon and I hava the “All right. You ki I'll keep my money The man's financial bubble having burst, he interrupted with an i tiating willingness to let his stoc at previous prices, but the cus was as stone. The man had figur out that as wanted the b enough to come back for them, would be willing to pay a fancy price, but no, no, Nannette. “I wouldn't give you 10 cents for all you have on the stand!” And that settled that. Along the same line comes another woman, still nervous from her set-to with a small dealer who had seen her take two bills from her purse—one for a dollar and the other a V. Preferring to get the exact change, she was rum- maging for colns when the vender flipped the larger bill out of her hand and gave her back change for a dollar. “That was a five-dollar bill and you had no right to take it from me like that. I want it. The man was that he had on fortunately for insolently insistent y taken a dollar, but, the customer, some “Ship Shape” Home A place for everything, and everything in its place; lawns and shrubbery never neglected— every detail proclaiming pride of ownership— and, of course, the paint is never shabby! “Murco” Lifelong Paint is the choice of hundreds of home owners who like to have things “a little better than seems necessary.” “MURCO” combines with its rare beauty a durability based upon its 100% Purity. Our expert advice is always available on painting problems. E. J. Murphy Co. 710 12th St. N. W. Inc. 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Ave. 8th & D Sts. ep your fruit and | one else was standing "y to back her— and that settled that. And to this incident still another woman, a pretty young woman in a vellow frock and ‘a_ little gold chain around her neck, dispensed real wis. dom, like this: “My husband says never tc give a big bill when buying from street curbs—or anywhere when you are not He always tries to keep small ange for such buyings, but if he s compelled to hand out a bill for more than a dollar he clips off one corner as proof, in case there s any trouble.” And that is a thing to re- member. Here con A clerk under the Government lost an envelope containing one thousand dollars. When h: missed it from his pocket he—but you know how he felt. Anybody—everybody—Kknows how 't feel to lose one thousand dol- as some abstri remarked, 3 doesn't z But, anyhow: After no telling what he must have suffered—not only over the loss, but the upbraiding of his judgment over the carelessness of it—he went to his room, and being unable to keep his emotions housed into such small space, was descending the stairs when the lady of the house said to two youn, men at the door: . “Here he is now.” And those blessed callers handed him the envelope with the money in- side. They had found it on the street, and as it was addressed with his name and number, they had brought it back. is something sunshiny for Martha Washington Sewing Cabinet, pretti- ly finished in mahogany. One that really de- serves the $ 10.00 name. ... End Tables of the better construction, in various $ 2 3 7 5 finishes. . . 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