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JUNE 9, 1932

MONGOLIA GIVES LITTLE HOPE AS ‘PROMISED LAND' Chinese Who Emigrate to Grasslands, Fail to Find Better Lot. Thin Is the third of a wrin vrblrh (rih of political condition* and tho *itaation to rmfral in the Far East. h*r China. Japan and Russia art near trips. BY EMILY r. DAVIS Seimra Servlee Stall Writer NEW YORK. June B—ls China loses Manchuria as brVath space for some of her tightly packed millions of people, she can not hope to turn to Mongolia, farther inland, and find there an outlet "just as good.'' Mongolia has its possibilities. It te valuable and usable territory, as China Japan and Russia all recognize. But a thumbs-down verdict on Mongolia as a promised land for Chinese pioneers is rendered by; two geographers who have made a special study of that particular situation. Their observations are reported In anew publication of the Amer- j lean Geographical Society, dealing with "pioneer settlement - ’ throughout the world. Where Manchuria has absorbed millions of Chinese pioneers, perhaps as many as 20.000.000. Mongolia has taken in only tens of thousands. Grassland Is Alluring 7 . true that Mongolia lays out a welcome doormat to Chinese of th<- crowded northern plain. This n* Icome is an alluring stretch of fertile grassland north of the great wall of China. A good many Chinese have spread over into this part of Mongolia Where they have settled, there are well-cultivated fields of barley, oats, flax, millet. But Mongolia’s welcoming grasslands extend no more than a hundred miles north of the great wall. Beyond that begins the Gobi desert, which is so large and so discouraging a part of Mongolia There are other patches of arable lend in oilier sections of Mongolia. Irrigation has made some additional farm land, and forced the wilderness to yield apricots, nectarines and other fruits. A large irrigation project to utilize water from the Hwang Ho river >a now nearing completion, George B Cressy reports. This will reclaim 335,000 acres of heretofore arid land. The main canal, dug by hand. Is forty miles long. With a dependable supply of water, that particular district should prosper and no longer fear famine in drought years. Serious Problem Fared But the future may not work out so favorably. In such situations in Mongolia, Cressy explains, the problem Is to keep the people from pouring in to tax the productivity of the land to its utmost. Chinese pioneers in Mongolia are young people, in the western area at. least, writes Owen Lattimore in the same book on "Pioneer settlement. ’• Hard times in China force younger sons to trek north in bands. They take over land from nomad Mongols. On this land the young pioneers build mud huts and break ground for planting. After the first harvest, they go back to fetch their women and children. The typical village 'elder' in such a community is a man not past his thirties. Social conditions among these pioneers are looked upon as barbarioua by Chinese stay-at-homes, who have not ventured north beyond their great wall, Lattimore finds. • Social ties, especially in the first years of setlement, are loose, - ’ he writes. "Men fail or become discouraged and abscond, and their wives go to other men. Young men drift away for a season of caravan work, and their wives ‘lean,’ as the expression goes, on other men. "Parentage of children often Ls doubtful, and filial piety is not comparable as a social force to filial piety in China proper." Does Not Better Self Everything considered. Lattimore concludes that “the Chinaman, pushed out of his country by pressure of population and grinding poverty, does not win his way into a better world by emigrating to Mongolia as a pioneer. - ' For the first few years, the pioneer may have more food to eat. But he has brought traditions and customs of China out to the new edge of civilization. And that means that In a few generations the community is just as poor and crowded and hungry as it would have been back home. The reasons, traced by Lattimore, are two. First, the old story of excessive regard for family, leading to early marriage of sons to provide grandsons. A family will contract debts from which there is no hope of recovery, merely to hasten a marriage. The second handicap 1s lack of a stable financing system. 'There is no such thing as a safe Chinese paper currency or a safe Chinese bank." writes Lattimore. "Banks may be ruined and their paper currency rendered valueless by a political upheaval or a civil war." Until Chinese customs and stand- ! aids change, pioneers in Mongolia have little chance to escape from i these handicaps, it appears. 5500 IN CASH A CHANCE TO WIN ... AT NO COST TO YOU! Six Lucky Sales Slip awards to rash winners every day. (ift in this contest today. Read all about it in The Times today.

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Famous Hands in Championship Bridge History—No. 15

BY W. E. M’KEXNEY Secretary. American Bridie l.eatue IT is high time that I presented to the bridge fans some of the many national championship women players in the country, so today we will introduce to

Mrs. Newman

you Mrs. Norman N. Newman of New York, partner of Commander Winfield Liggett Jr. and member of the team that captured the nation a 1 open contract team-of-four title in competition with America’s strongest teams. In the following hand presented by Mrs. Newman, East made a wonderful defensive play which might

well trip the ordinary player. Mrs. Newman shows how properly to play the hand and still capture East's protected queen.

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The Bidding Mrs, Newman, sitting in the South, opened the bidding with one spade. West parsed and North, her partner, bid three hearts. This la a jump shift overcall and becomes a game demand bid placing an obligation on both partners to keep the bidding open until a gamegoing contract Ls arrived at. East passed and Mrs. Newman now showed her diamond suit by bidding four diamonds West passed and now North bid five

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spades—not four, as four ®‘.zht be closing the bidding off. * The bid of five spades invites the slam. Mrc. Newman then went to six spades. The Play West's opening lead was the five of clubs, which East won with the king of clubs East now made a wonderful play by sacrificing his ace of clubs on the altar of good defense, forcing the declarer to trump this ace in dummy with the deuce of spades. Would this play have any significance to you? It did to Mrs. Newman—it told her that undoubtedly East held four spades to the queen, and bv forcing her to raff in dummy it would make it impossible for her to lead through Easts queen twice For a moment it looked as though Mrs. Newman’s small slam contract must be defeated—but let her play the hand out. She led the ace and then a small heart, trumping the second heart with the three of spades. The nine of spades was led and won in dummy with the king. The six of spades was returned. East played the five and the declarer finessed the ten. Mrs. Newman's next play was a small diamond, winning in dur imy with the ae? You will notice that Mrs. Newman has four good hearts in the dummy—the king, queen, seven and four—and two diamonds. In her own hand she holds the king, queen, jack and one diamond and the ace and jack of spades. She now' started to play the hearts in dummy, leading the king. East refused to trump, discarding a diamond. The declarer did likewise, and continued with the queen of hearts in dummy. If East refused to trump any of the hearts, the declarer will discard her king, queen and jack of diamonds and then will lead a diamond from dummy which East will be forced to trump. If East should trump one of the hearts, the declarer will overtrump and then pick up the last trump, and all the remaining cards In her hand will be good. (Coovrliht, 1932. NBA Service. Inc.) Next: Mrs. Elizabeth B. Banfield. the only other woman to win the national open contract team-of-four championship, will be presented.

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