Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1934 — Page 13

JUNE 15, 1934

DROUGHTS MAY BRING CHINA’S FATEJTO U. S. Roosevelt Policy to Restore Denuded Land Offers Way Out. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripp.-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, June 15.—1s the United States doomed to become a land of Gobi deserts, of Rivers of Sorrow, or droughts, famine and pestilence, like China? America's latest and worst drought, President Roosevelt warns, assumed the proportions of a national catastrophe. “It will materially affect the food supply of the nation,” says the department of agriculture. The records reveal that American droughts and floods are becoming more frequent and increasingly disastrous. The tell-tale dust-storms, trailing hundreds of miles across the country, have commenced. Recently I was in Tientsin, North China. Despite two unusually large windows in my outside room, I was obliged, at mid-day, to turn on the lights to see what I was doing. Outside a thick yellow fog drifted across the city, completely shutting out the sun. Dimly, across the Bund, I could see the great black hull of a motionless freighter. In trying to make the turn in the blinding dust blanketing the Hai Ho, it had run aground. I did not need to ask questions. I had been in China before. This was just another dust-storm blowing in from the Gobi desert hundreds of miles to the west. Once all China, including the Gobi, was a fertile, tree-grown country. Centuries of paying no attention to what happened to the forests and fields, however, has done its work. The answer is irremediable erosion, disastrous floods, calamitous famines, accompanying scourges, starvation and death. Today most of the country is either sun-baked mountains or treeless mud plains. Sometimes almost whole provinces are covered with water. The flood extends, like the sea, farther than the eye can reach. Sometimes the fields are parched, like they are now in the American west, every stalk of grain or other crops burned to a crisp. And sometimes. of course, there are harvests. But at no time can the Chinese be reasonably sure. When it rains, the drops splash against the mountain sides like they were falling on concrete. Down

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in China because the damage was done centuries, even thousands of years ago—before people knew what deforestation and bad farming could do to a nation. But I can not understand a country like the United States allowing such a thing to happen. “China,” he observed, “ought to be the ‘horrible example’ in this respect to all the rest of the world.” But will it? Stolen Car Rams Parked Machines An automobile reported stolen from Charles Spurling, 1801 Peck street, early today crashed into two cars owned by James and O. A. Birr, 1265 West Thirty-fourth street, parked in front of that address. The driver fled.

CHINESE KILL AMERICAN Veteran Medical Missonary Is Slain by Bandits. By Vtiitrd Press PEIPING, China, June 15.—Dr. J. H. Ingram, 70, veteran Amex-i----can medical missionary, was shot to death by bandits today at his summer home, fifteen miles from Peip-

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