New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 25, 1929, Page 4

. RICENOT STAPLE " FO0D OF CHINESE lons of Celestils Never Eat Traditiondl Food Washingten, D. C., June 25.—Will e Chinese eat American wheat? That question has been raised in (1) pers following the proposal | ly American wheat to be sent to arving Chinese. “Irrespective of the merits of this | relief measure, the popular idea that | svery Chinese has a bowl'of rice in | agnd three or more times a day is ‘alse” says a bulletin from the Washington, D. C. headquarters of | e National Gengraphic society. i Est More Wheat Than Americans “Millions of Chinese have never feen a grain of rice, much less eaten tice. “About 150,000,000 Chinese, it is fstimated, live chiefly on wheat. at is, there are more Chinese who isan on wheat as the staff of life than there are Americans who eat bread. “No accurate statistics of Cina's grain production ever have been fathered. The United States depart. ent of commerce estimates that the tmnual wheat production of China | Ses somewhere between 200.000.000 | tnd 600,000,000 bushels. Wheat is grown in practically all the provinces the southern to the nerthern borders. But in the northern drovinces are China's true wheat delts. Manchuria is in the same ongitude as Minnesota but wheat *ipens weeks earlier than in the Red River valley. Mukden, capital of churia, is already a milling cen- ler, the Minneapolis of China. Flour Exported to East “China already uses considerable uantities of American wheat, most- as flour, since she does not yet frow enough to supply her own 304ds. During the first three months 7 1929 the United States shipped to China 1,016,256 barrels of wheat ‘leur valued at $5,356,000. This Pear starts out like a record year for flour exports to the Far East. During 1928 the United States sent :.ololl."'l barrels valued at $10,567,- “Bhensi and Kansu, provinces most Mected by famine are in north Chins, the region best adapted to Wheat raising. 8zechwan province on e Tibet border reports an aver. 45 of 25 to 30 bushels per acre. In ke Nanking region two crops of Wwheat are raised annually with an | wtimated production of 66,600,000 ' ! bushels. Shantung, famous fer its rice, raises 47,000,000 bushels of wheat per year. Manchuria is China's Minnesota “But it is Manchuria that has the brightest wheat future. Chinese are moving north into the unbroken plains of Manchuria like American pioneers moved into the Middle West one undred years ago. Twenty mil- lion Chinese have gone into Man- churia in twenty years. It is one of the major migrations in the history of the world. Yet halt of the arable land is still vacant. “Soy beans, which are used for soy and Worcestershire sauce. come first in importance, then wheat. With larger farms to work, the new farmers of Manchuria find they can use American farm machinery; tractors, harrows, plows and trucks. “Many Chinesc students in Amer- ican universities return to teach school, practice profession. One young man has broken from this tradition. After graduation in America he took up a 7.000-acre farm in Manchuria. He is reported doing very well with his big farm run on modern methods. Like the pioneers of the American mid- dle west he has been compelled to organize a private militia or vigilante band to protect his property from bandits. The Twilight Zone of Statistics “World wheat statistics generally exclude China and Russia from their estimates. China has never been an important factor either in import or export and Russia has ceased to be the big wheat export- ing nation it was before the World war. “‘Stabilization of conditiona in both countries would change the picture. The estimated Chinese production, 200,000,000 to 600,000,000 bushels, puts it well up among the wheat growing nations. The United States, in 1928 raised 902,000,000 bushels of wheat. Argentina, an important country in the world trade, raised 275,000,000 bushels. “The increasing amount of wheat | flour being shipped to China in face of apparent increased acreage, is believed to show a growing demand among the Chinese for bread.” 46 SOUNDS FOR REAL FIRE Box 48, long known as the source of false alarms, was pulled again at 3:40 Monday afternoon to call firemen to the Curtin avenue dump, where there was a small fire. When the firemen arrived they found a box in the dump burn- inl.. At 3:44 they reported back In service. A still larms at 5:35 called Numn- ber 7 fire company to a grass fire on a plot of and owned by Attorney 8. G. Casale and located on Eddy- Glover boulevard. The firemen were back in service at 6:32, medicine or some {right to act SENATE INQUIRIES Law Does Not -Give It Grand Jury Rights, He Says By GEORGE H. MANNING (Washington Correspondent, N. B. Herald) Washington, D. C., June 25—The present system of conducting con- gressional investigations is unfair and contrary to the dictates of the constitution of the United States in the opinion of Senator Hiram Bing- {ham of Connecticut. *“The consti- tution never gave the senate the J a national grand lury.” * System Borm of Politics It is the contention of Senator Bingham that the system was born of politics and is in contradiction to the provision in the bill of rights which provides that “the accused shall enjoy the right to be tried by an impartial jury of the state and district wnerein the crime shall have been commutted.” o The senator from Connecticut points out also that the present jury system was instituted to protect the accused. His case is first heard by decides whether or not he shall be |tried for the offense before a petit {jury. By this system, the senator maintains an innocent man need not | be brought to trial, and the accusa- | tions against him never made public. Many Investigations Urged On the other hand, he states, “senators are continually receiving | letters from their constituents anc | triends reporting dereliction of duty on the part of this citizen and that | company, this organization, and that | corporation. Instead of taking these | matters up with the local police or I the local district attorney or |United States district attorney, in- | stead of using the regularly organiz- | ed grand juries, these good citizens |seem to feel that it is the business | cf the United States senate to track |down criminals of all classes, par- | ticularly those who seem to be able to avoid successful condemnation by the local courts. “Because,” the senator continued, “wealthy wrong-doers sometines succecd in evading the pumishment they 30 richly deserve, is no reason why a body created partly for the purpose of being an advisory coun- cil to the president of the United States, a legislative body and the greatest judicial tribunal in the world should be asked to descend from its high estate and become ! public prosecutor and natienal grand a grand jury sitting in secret which | the | lury. Two.wrongs do not fiake a right.” Opposes Mud Slinging And still further, he said, if the conatituent of a senator does not like an individual or a corporatien in the vicinity and writes a letter to the senator, and the latter is so inclined he may comment on it read it, and insert it in the record to have it broadcast the length and breadth of the United States. By virtue of the immunity granted him by the constitution the offended party has no recourse in law, al- though if the same things were said outside the walls of the congress, a suit for slander and defamation of character would in all probability follow. Senator Bingham said furthert ““The constitution gave the senate of the United States the right to sit as a court trying cases of impeach- men of all federal officials, includ- ing the chief justice and the presi- dent of the United States. 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