Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 320, 22 November 1920 — Page 3

THF. RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGtAM. RICHMOND. 1ND MONDAY, NOV. 22, 1920.

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CHINESE SUFFERERS SELL THEIR CLOTHES TO BUY SCANTY FOOD

(By Associated Press) PEKING, Nov. 22. The correspondent of The Associated Press, who has Just visited the famine district, met long processions of men carrying l'ttle bagsful of clothes slung over their shoulders, leaving their homes to seek new ones where food can be obtained. They were trudging from 100 to 300 Inlles to Tien-Tsin or Peking in the hone of finding either work of charity. Their women and children have been left, at home, obviously for the reason that the regions which they have to traverse is so impoverished that fiere is little hope of successful begginp. Asked why they had not brought their families, one man produced what looked like slabs or baked mud. They were made of millet chaff, clover and weeds with minimum of grain. "Can little children and old women walk all day with such food to eat?" they asked in reply. In half a dozen villages along the Grand Canal nin out of ten farmers have sold their lands at one-tenth to one-fifth the normal price. Wealthy business men from the market towns wpre said to have bought most of the parcels of land, driving; hard bargains with the owners who have no recourse but. to sell or rent. If the owner chooses the latter expedient he is lfkelv 1o get $3 a vear for his few "mu" of land (a "ran" is approximately one-sixth of an acre) and the renter takes the whole crop for the period of the. lease. Eat Leaves on Trees. In Chia Hwang village was a row of young elms and locusts, from which the leaves had been stripped for food. Four or five persons were sick in the village, two of hunger. Here the children have been dying from lack of proper nourishment. Eight had succumbed in the previous 10 days. The sale of clothes has been the chief means of support. Every few days

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some man walks 30 miles to Techow as selling agent for four or five families and with the meager returns brings back a few more days' rations. For the most part, there have been few of the outward, physical signs of

advanced starvation; but in the village of Shia Chung I saw babies with the faces of old men, children whose ribs were pitifully visible under the bluish skin. Here there had been a 100 per cent crop failure. All who could had gone and those left were held by extreme poverty. Sell Clothes For Food. At a village near Wu Ch'eng I met 8n old roan over sixty. He had been to the market town and sold two long coats and some boots. The proceeds he carried in a basket on his arm, about six pounds of red millet. His sons, he said, had gone somewhere north, where he .didn't know. At home were his wife and his sons' wives and their seven children. Mixed with leaves and clover he figured that his purchase of millet would last several cays. "After that if we die, we die," he said. The Chinese peasant takes his hunger smilingly as he -does everything. Despondency is remarkably rare. The only practicable way to save a majority of the sufferers seems to be to open food kitchens all over the stricken district on a gigantic scale. Road and canal projects intended to afford work for the population, even were it not attended by too much delay, will only partially meet the requirements.

Jefferson's Home May Be Converted Into Memorial Montlcella. the home of Thomas JefferBon, at Charlottesville, Virginia,

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tional memorial Dy pudiic spiniea citizens organized to purchase the historic property from its owner, Jefferson M. Levy, may be bought soon by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, of which James W. Gerard, form'er ambassador to Germany, is president. The estate, comprising nearly seven hundred acres, has been offered by Mr. Levy tor one million dollars, on condition that it be converted into a national memorial.

SHOULD START A BANK. Cleveland The cost of living must be coming down. Gris Why do you think so? Cleveland I've got 2 cents left from ray last week's pay. Lone Scout.

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