Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 64, Number 6, Jasper, Dubois County, 17 June 1921 — Page 7

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The Eng-Daw-Yd (Prepared ty th National ;oirraphIc Foclety. Washington. I. C.) Wlillo there Is a considerable amount of unrest In many i:irts of Ir.dia proper, tin? people of lhimn, vliich Is gove-ntcel as a iart of India and t-t Is geographically separate from it, mtiii to ! living -ontcntodly. (U ogrnphical and social conditions and the economic situation llowing from tlifin undoiihtcdly have math to dt with this. Hunan knows little of the fear of famine or the pinch of poverty. Its lands are productive, it is rich in rnincraTs, it is not over-populated, ami it is free from the elahorate caste system which Is a tremendous handicap to India, hoth socially and economically. Kipling and practically all other writers nhout the Kast have, pointed out repeatedly that It Is diflicult at hest for westerners to understand the oriental peoples. If the observer from the West wishes to tackle this admittedly ditlicult prohh-iu ly asy stages. Xerhaps he could find no hcttor pi ice to .start than Iiurma. In a numher f Senses there is less of a gulf hetween thejife aral customs of the liurmese, and those of. the VYst than will he found If the comparison Ia made with any other eastern country. The Indian Is in most cases a soher individual. The lower castes must tal;e life with desperate seriousness because of its hardness and the dithculty of clinging to it. The, hiirher castes are sedate and given to speculative philosophy. The Chinaman i an enigma. His emotions are diiiieuU to fathom. The people of the Mohammedan countries are marked by a p:iet dignity. The Burmese Love Life. In contrast with these ether peplcs of Asia, and almost alone anion;; them, the Uumue are frank, open, happy lovers of iife. Their wonieii are not seclude!, hut are anion;; the freest women in the world. 1'oth men and women are lovers of music ami wearers of lrii;ht clothing. Because of their spontaneity and friendliness they have been dubbed "the Irish of the Orient." Uurma is a country of many tribes, but practically all of them are of the same racial strain. Shan. Karens Katchins, Chins and Palatinos an anniij; those livini: in the outlying parts of the country, thotuli the Karens and to a certain extent the others are to be found in parts of lower Uurma. a more heavily settled section which is most easy of aces ?o the outride world. It is the Burmese, however, who constitute the Hmiinant '!c:ei.t with the highest culture, and ive color to Banna as it is known to most westerners who visit the land. The Burma of the Burmese, that is lower Burma and the basin of the creat Irrav addy river, is a land of pagoda, the shrines of Buddhism. Thousands upon thousands of t!;ce Kdl-sl.apetl structures surmounted by triklcd .spires ami tinkling bells have been built. Many of them have fallen into decay, but others are built each year. They nre the symbols of the hold which th Buddhist religion has upon the people of Burma. It is their belief t! at th' surest way of "aetiulrmerit" end achUvin;; holy rest after death is to erect a pace-!.;; and very few Burnus, who are able to add to the country's forest of pairoda spires fall to do so. No Aristocracy, Few Poor. TL re are no !oMe clashes among tln Bunnes- no aristocracy, few who j are ery wealthy, and few very poor.; While the caste system as a system J etc -es not exist in the country, there are several classes ef people who are looked upon as degraded by their vocations and with whom praetle:Mly no intercourse Is had by the majority of the people. Unfortunately, too. tf.ese classes are hereditary. They are the prave diggers, the elescene'.ants of tlie feni.er pagoda slaves and the beggars. The gene ral attitude towanl these u:;foritinates is ene of the contradictions in Burm-.-? character; at.d there are others. Their re-!:gien recj aires k.irdtes.- toward anin.als, and Burmese will

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3 v ( 1.. Pagoda, Burma. not even become drivers of vehicles In cIos because they feel that such a 'allln entails a certain measure of cruelty 'of horses Yet their attitude toward' crippled and maimed humans is the height of unkiudhess. Such unfortunates are considered to be in the degraded classes aloni; with the rave diners and the bouars, and are denied av.-ociatlon with the normal population. One custom amon the Burmese that cannot fail to arouse comment from westerners Is the prevalence of smoking and the peculiar turn it lias taken. Smoking is indulged in literally by men, women and children. Cigarettes and cigars of a huge si7,e are preferred, often a foot or more In length and with a circumference in proportion. Children of all ages use these gigantic "smokes," and it is not uncommon oven to see an iufant in arms pulling away at a huge cheroot. The habit is not as Injurious as might be expected because the tobacco used is adulterated with a considerable proportion ef milder materials. Their Marriage Customs. Marriage In Burma is not d matter of great ceremony or ritualism. Formally eating together, usually before witnesses, constitutes a couple man and wife. Though the theory is otherwise, a girl. Usually sejects her husband, and is given to him by her parents. If a bride is dissatisfied with her husband she may run away from him and return to her parents. She Lis promptly returned by them, but may repeat the procedure. After she has run away three times and been returned three times, she may leave for good, it being assumed that it is Impossible for her husband to rertiin her. She is then in effect divorced. The rule works the other way nhout also. If parents do not consider a suitor eligible and prohibit a match, the maide n has only to run away to him three times, after which the parnts must hot interfere, but Twist con sider the marriage a thing accom plished. Where Burma touches India 'proper on th hitter's eastern border, It is b.iunded by Bengal and Assam. Farther to the north it touches southeastern 'Hb t. Along Its eastern border, Burma is in contact with China for a considerable distance. The Chinese at c:tv time claimed sovereignty over the land. The lower part of Burma's cistern boundary Is formed by French Cochin China and'Sinm; and to the south and west lies the Bay of Bengal. The total area of Burma is slightly less than that of Texas, our largest statc, while its population Is in execs:-. of r-Mr.NMKiu. several million more than that of our most populous state. New York. Climate and Resources. The greater part of Burma is in the tropics and during half the year much of it is very hot. This heat is espe cially trying to Europeans in pans of the delta region where the humidity is high. In some sections more than -0 feet of rain falls each -year. There is considerable loss of life among natives in some parts of the country from snakes. s!iders, poisonous insects and i wild animals, .lust as India has its Simla t whic h otlie ials and others journey in the hot season, so Burma !ims its hill station. Miivmvo. onlv 42 miles from Mandulay. hut nearly 'J.4( feet higher. This summer capital makes it iossible for Europeans to stand the rigors of the Burma c:l mate. Burma's mineral wealth has long made it one of the treasure houses of the Orieut. One of the richest silver zlne-lead ore bodies in the world is sit uated in the northeastern section. Mogok. a short elistance north of Man dalay, largely supplies the world with ruble's. Silver and precious stones were anions the things most highly prized in the old Kast. Hat Ilurxna also possesses modern treasures: tung sten, a necessity In an age of steel and electricity; tin, essential in perform ing the world's sanitary work and i:i equipping Its house-holds; and petro leum, the fuel of today.

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1sW ASIIIM.TON. Becauso of the Inadequacy of navcJ bases the United States, according to navy au thorities, is totally unprepared to light u successful war In the western Bacilic. The mcst advanced base we now possess Is at Pearl Harbor, in the Hawaiian Islands. Its facilities, however, are scarcely more than rudimentary. With the exception of a dry dock the equipment is insuflicient to care for the needs of half the navy In time of peace, let ahme the whole navy In time of war. Another dry dock and cor. s tract Ion of a multitude of channels and berths, as well as s, the establishment of vast repair work and storage warehouses for supplies, are necessary, according to the Navs 'Jpurtment. "Horse Sense and THE homing situation with high rents is the most serious problem confronting the government, u the opinion of Secretary of Labor Davis. It is In just such a situation as Davis describes that congress and the state legislatures, under the Supreme court ruling, have the power to enact emergency legislation curbing rent gougers. Davis holds high rents the greatest single barrier to a readjustment such as is essential to permanent prosperity. "Because of high rents and inadequate housing," he says, "families double up, sometimes two 6r three to a home. It is not too much to say that the loss In morale and morals due to the housing conditions in many cities today Is one of the greatest dangers to our whole social structure." The report of the recent state Investigation Into housing conditions In Chicago showed that o00,000 people In that city were Jiving in the most unwholesome conditions, sleeping sometimes three and four in a bed, live and six to a room. Reports from other cities hard hit hy the housing shortage and high rents show an alarming Increase in sickness and disease. In some cities the birth rate of illegitimate children has increased TH) per cent. Davis has ordered a special invest IHouse Favors U. Si IT WOULD appear that oiTicial Washington has more than one idea as to the proper size of the American army. Anyway, the smallarmy men in the house, combining with the De-mocrats, outgeneraled the RepulJican leaders and succeeded in amending the army bill so as to fix the size of the army at ir0,XH). This was done despite the request of Secro tary Weeks that the army's size should not be reduced 'below 175.(KX. The house adjourned without passing 'the bill after a prolonged debate during which the Republican leaders pleaded for a good-sized army because of the disturbed world conditions. The bill - provided for an army of Wanted: "Secretary SKCUKTARY OF THE FINE ARTS is the latest proposed addition to the cabinet. What's more the League of Artists has been formed to urge the proposition. It is stated that J. Massey Rhino, the New York sculptor, made the proposal to President. Harding and that the President aSked that 'the artists of the country who favor the idea get their arguments in tangible form and submit them to him." The purposes of the movement include the following: To further contemporary American art and its relation to national life. To seek to have embodied In the Constitution of the United States the ven!s "fine arts." as well as "sclentilic and useful arts." To arouse our national government to a realization and need of a minister of art with portfolio, and to give definite and concrete support to the artist. Te establish letter conditions for he development of American art. To foster the unknown artist by giving him an equal opportunity. To maintain an aflvIory school committee to work for the betterment of art irsi miction ncd art education il re'jghcv.t me Vr.lted States, and

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Until the Hawaiian islands are made an adequate base the American navy wi'J be unable to operato eiTectively in the west rn Pacific. Lacking such a base. It would be necessary ,to supply the lighting licet alr.M.SL entirely from the Pacific coast bases, the elistance to which would be a severe handicap on operations. Even the Pacific coast bases ar inatlt quale to the demands of the whole- navy If stationed In the Pacitic, even In time of pence. It would be necossary to send ships back to the Atlantic coast for innjör repair work. The Navy department is urging congress for appropriations to begin the construction of Pacific coast and Hawaiian island bases which it will require several years to complete. The senate Is favorable, but the house ciposed to such appropriations. The- Parks-McKean hoard, which surveyed the needs of bases in the Pacific, recommended the expenditure of $i:7,!S-MHiO in the Hawaiian islands, S4-Wm.7oO at Bremerton, Wash., t-,-rJBi.ÜOO nt San Francisco, .J7,7IHM"Kl at San Diego, $.VHV, at San Pedro. ?."i,(HKi.(K'iO nt the Columbia river. $3,4.a0 at Port Angeles, Wash;, and $LS71.(mh at Keyport, Wash., a totul of $lo7,7!l$.o"X). Heart Sense" Needed gation of conditions in some of the worst centers. Federal investigators have been sent to several cities. "What we need in dealing with the situation," Davis says, "is net only horse sense, but heart sense. It is not merely a matter of houses and rents, of dollars and cents. "Some agreement must be reached by the building trades and the building industries that will make possible a resumption of home building. "The building industry is the keystone of our entire Industrial structure, and once construction work can be set under way again the whole employment and industrial situation will be relieved. "Today, however, we have the paradoxical situation where it is cheaper to travel than to pay rent. There are LT)0,000 people, It Is estimated, living in automobiles." Army of 150-000 Men lGSVMO. Representative Kahn, chairman, military affairs committee, offered an amendment for an army of 17.1.000. Representative Fish presented an amendment to this for an armv o? iro,ooo. Tin Kahn amendment, as amended, was defeated by a vote of 07 to 74, and then Representative Byrnes of South Carolina moved that the army should be fixed at l.r0.HX). This was adopted by a vote of 109 to b'2. By reducing the army to this size the appropriation for tlie army for the next fiscal year is reduced from $S3, 10.000 to $711,000,000. Representative Kahn and Republican Loader MondeU pleaded in vain for acceptance of the recommendations of Secretary Weeks and the army officers. The small-army men admitted that the world was in a most chaotic condition, but argued that the addition of a few thousand men to the American army would not settle that chaotic condition. They said, also, that congress should pay more attention to the people and less to the general staff. of the Fine Arts" TOTHE" I mcrv especially in the city of New Yqrk. To establish an interchange of city exhibitions. To promote general and active interest in the creation of a large public exhibition building in the city of New Ycrk. To seek the co-operations of the art ruuseums, patrons, art lovers, art dealers, architects, interior decorators and artists. To act for the Improvement cf j.e materiaJs of the artists craft and U establish a closer co-operation between the producer of same and the artist. To improve exhibition conditions and tn courage sales.

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