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WHY CHINA? f Itev. 8. J. Harrison Tells Why He aad ftis Family Ar« Goiag to Chiaa But this land of many people and old civilisation, this land of Mi* Ignorance and disease, is today tlM land of opportunity. In central CMna are mines that the very rich. Conservative estimates are to the effect that Manchuria alone there is coal man he was asleep and as he slept a •feurious vision appeared to him. This $ what he saw: A man standing be- Once upon a time there lived a cer- . : lain man whose name was Paul. Paul, j jn A tihru no fault of his own, had been ^ enough to provide for the whole world at Tarsus. And one night when for a thousand years. There are also rich mines of gold, silver, iron and veins of oil and natural gas. All this (and next winter China will go cold. $ore him with hands outstretched, with > Why ? Because they fear to open |l look of anxiety on his face and with , these mines lest they disturb the spiral strange note of earnestness in his of their ancestors and bring curses Voice as he exclaimed to Paul, "Come , Upon themselves. But the one who has eyes to see will see in these natural resources a land of great opportunity and the modern Macedonia calling come over and help us realise our wealth. Again this land of opportunity is seen in the personal traits of the people. The Chinese are the Anglo Saxons of Asia. They are people of great endurance in labor, working often sixteen hours a day. They are a peo- %Mlver into Macedonia and help us." V ;4Acts 16-9.) v Paul went over into Macedonia and * the story that follows is one of thrillfhg adventure and noble service. And 7"who will gainsay the statement that because Paul accepted the challenge . fiie Roman empire was Christianized and all our western civilization was made possible. •;..v New let me suggest that the one I Who has eyes to see may see a vision the modern Macedonian. He stands * • .%ith hands outstretched, with a look <>f anxiety on his face and a note of * pathetic earnestness in his voice as he , ^ Cries out to the western world, "Come ' jfcver into China and help us." In '" /^rder to see this man youll need to be • Reminded: ; K • First, that China is a land of many i.' people. Consider the size of the coun- • . try. Place the map of China on that . . ;f'«f North America at the proper parallels of latitude and China will cover of United States and extend out fctto the Atlantic ocean to Porta Rico. ;/_. ft will include the Gulf of Mexcio, Mel in t Regular flfiw at Village Ball Monday Evening „ Council Room, July 5, 1920. The Village trustees met in regular session with Pres. Olson presiding. Trustees present: Cooley, Doherty, Knox, Krause, Overton and S toff el. The minutes of the laBt regular and special meetings were read and approved. The following bills were read and approved by the finance committee, including officers' salaries: Public Service Co., lighting sts and traffic lights $153.42 Hubert Schoewer, lbr A bolts,. 4.00 John Thennes, gasoline 88.96 F. O. Peterson & Sons, printing 83.96 W. G. Schreiner, telephone, express and postage 3.89 John Walsh, marshal service.. 125.00 Geo. Meyers, labor on streets. 116.20. Everett Hunter, Sr., gravel.. 2.20 Henry Degen, labor on streets 88.00 sNfO , ft".'.; fc; * MK. 'M most of Mexico and a part of Central America. And then consider that this land is more thickly populated than these United States. The latest returns from this year's census gives us 105,000,000 population for U. S. The estimated population for China in 1910 was 331,188,000. In other words ten years ago China had a population^over three times as great as the U. S. today. The appeal of the modern Macedonia has back of it over 300 million voices. And youll remember in the second place that China is a land of old civilization. While our forefathers were roving as barbarians over the rough places of North Europe, eating soup boiled with human flesh from the skull of the man they killed, China had already established a government in the far East. About the time that the prophets of the old testament were heralding the truths about a God who wanted not sacrifices, fasts and ceremonies, but truth, mercy and righteousness, about this time Confucius was teaching China his high moral precepts and political principles. But alas, that civilization that had high moral concepts and gave promise of Abetter things had not the religious enthusiasm to enforce those concepts and degenerated into superstition and demon worship. The modern Maeedona is a man who has waited 'these two thousand years to be told about the Christ. But further you must remember that China is a land of need. With a population over three times as large as ours to feed, China has practically no farm machinery, no horses or beasts of burden, no modern manufacturing, no developed commerce. On the other hand she has to light the rivers that often flood the country and cause famine and take the |1risks of light rainfalls in large acres aof the country. Superstition has for- ; bid them to tap the great resources •of their mines of coal, iron, gold and silver lest they disturb the spirits of ancestors, so that in the winter millions actually go cold. Tonight millions of people will lie down on the ground without a roof to cover their heads and without food to sustain their bodies. The modern Macedonian is a man in need. But he is in need of more than feed and raiment. He needs a teacher as well. If I walk down the streets of McHenry at least nine out of every ' ten people I meet over ten years of age can at least sign their own names and read the morning paper. But if I walk down the streets of a Chinese village about one out of the ten can do this. Ninety per cent of the people are illiterate. We sometimes think it difficult to promote our government and bring about reform with ninety per cent of our people educated. But consider the difficulties of reform when only ten per cent can read. China has fashioned her government and school system after the U. S. model, but she needs one million school teachers today to make that system effective. The modern Macedonia has back of him over three hundred million people crying out to the United States for school teachers. And again he asks for doctors. China is sick today because of ignorance. The sick person of China is believed to possess a demon. Hence he is sent away from home into a desert place. In America if one should be afflicted with typhoid fever he is given a comfortable bed, a nurse and * the best of medical care. But in £ China this is the treatment he re- ; ceives: Taken to a hill, the medicine man is called. He takes sharp '}• scewers or needles and punches into . the patient to let the demons out. He knows about four hundred places in pie of intelligence and native ability J John Olson, telephone and genius. They are a people of optimism and cheerfulness and thru centuries of living in crowded conditions they have been trained to work together in organizations. With these traits of. personal life and the immense natural resources China is the land of opportunity. Now having in mind all that has been said about the challenge of China recall the world wideness of Christianity. Recall how Jesus ministered not only to people of his native land, but to a woman at a well tho a despised Samaritan, to a leper in the way tho a foreigner, to a syraphoenician tho outside the borders of Israel, to Greeks who came in the last hours of his life saying, "Sirs we would see Jesus." Recall that last great incident of his life on earth. He. went to the Mount of Olives and there before him stood the disciples and followers. He lifted up his hands and gave them this last great command: "Go ye therefore and make disciples of all nations." And if I mistake not this includes China, who stands with hands outstretched beseeching "Come over and help us." Recall if you will that whenever this command has been carried out great results have followed. Wherever the Christian gospel has gone in the world the poor have been fed, the ignorant have been taught, the sick have been healed, the world has been benefitted, and my faith is that when the cross of Calvary is preached in China these results will follow. Why China? Because it is a land of many people; because it is a land of old civilization needing the quick ening power of Christian morality; because it is a land of need asking food; a land of ignorance asking teachers; a land of sickness asking doctors; a land of great opportunities awaiting Christian leadership. And in the light of these things the Christian gospel says: "Go! make disciples of all nations" (Mt. 28-19) and it is the Christians' responsibility and privilege to go as an ambassador of the King Eternal. "Proclaim to every people, tongue and nation That God, in whom they live and move, is love; Tell how He stooped to save Ids lost creation, And died on earth that man might live above." "Give of thy sons to bear the message glorious; Give of thy wealth to speed than on their way; Pour out thy sold for them in prayer victorious And all thou spendest Jesus, will repay. Publish glad tidings! * Tidings of peace-- Tidings of Jesus-- Redemption and release." • im.' :#v. Round and Square By H. F. C. Business men of today pride themselves on giving their patrons a square deal. There is a real principle at stake. All sides are equal and each angle is equal to the other and the four angles make a perfect circle. The Bell telephone system encircles the United States and the hundreds of thousands of people working in the system believe in giving the public a square deal. The telephone business has four sides to it. Subscribers, rates, service and help. Inside the square there are four angles. Stockholders, bondholders, dividends and loan interst, so that the telephone system is both round and square. Skilled help depends upon satisfying wages. Service comes from efficient help. Subscribers make both possible. But without adequate rates the square becomes lopsided and all fall together. Stockholders and bondholders look at the revenue from their angle. Dividends may or may not be--uncertain ty--loans are refused and so the angles get out of plumb. The telephone system today requires levelling up. It requires an adjust ment in rates to make the workers and the service round and efficient and be able to look the stockholders and the public, who loon it money, the human iKrfy that en be p„ n c - " " f " e " tured without mortal injury. If this Kittle Resigns as Secretary is not successful live coals are laid I Kittle of Crystal Lake, who on the head or applied to the back. ®ince the organization of that body And during this time all kinds of 1 ^>een one °* the most active worknoise is made to drive away the de- ers 'n Milk Producers' Co-opera mons. But strange to say the demon , *|ve Marketing company, has redoes not leave until the man dies. 8^ne<^ his position as secretary of the Do you have eyes to see the modern i comP®ny. E. C. Rockwell of Lake Macedonian standing today with j Zurich has been named as his suchands outstretched beseeching "Come cesaor. wwrta China and help asT" i "tt W* asfiiaapy ... 3.20 John O. Olson, Pres. service.. 12.00 F. A. Cooley, trustee service.. 12.00 Peter Doherty, trustee service 12.00 John R. Knox, trustee service. 12.00 Albert Krause, trustee service 12.00 R. I. Overton, trustee service.. 9.00 Simon Stoffel, trustee service. 6.00 W. G. Schreiner, clerk service 80.00 Motion by Doherty, seconded by Krause, that the minutes be accepted as read. Motion carried. Motion by Stoffel, seconded by Overton, that tlie collector's and clerk's reports be accepted as read. Motion carried. Motion by Stoffel, seconded by Knox, that the bills be accepted as O. K.'d by the finance committee. Motion carried. Motion by Stoffel, seconded by Doherty, that the road from Peter Thelen's place south to John Schaffer's garage be graveled. Motion carried. Motion by Cooley, seconded by Doherty, that a committee be appointed to locate a piece of ground for oil tanks fur ten years. Motionr carried. Pres. Olson appointed on this committee Cooley, Overton and Doherty. Motion by Krause, seconded by Knox, that this same committee be appointed to look up a suitable tank in which to store the oil. Motion carried. Motion by Doherty, seconded by Knox, that M. L. Worts be allowed to put a gasoline tank in front of the old brewery property and also to lower the side walk. Motion carried. Motion by Stoffel, seconded by Krause, to adjourn. Motion carried. John O. Olson, Pres. W. G. Schreiner, Clerk. . * POWER FARMING Years ago a small body of people landed on the shores of America, these people may well be called our fore fathers, for so they were. They came here for twro purposes, one to gain liberty, the other to make a living. Inasmuch as there is but one great and main source of livelihood, one foundation upon which all other industries rest, these people turned to that one source, mother earth, for from the earth alone could they obtain their physical needs. It was indeed a meagre and scarce living they secured, yet it was enough for themselves and it was well that the world did not depend upon them for their food. There were many reasons why their crops, such as they were, should be small. First, much of the land had to be cleared before a blade of grass could be turned; second and most important, the tools and implements with which they had to work were of the very crudest type. The good old spade and hoe were much in evidence, the yoke and oxen, the wooden plow, the old log roller and sowing seed by hand was the only method known. The cutting of the grain was a laborious job, the cycle and a strong arm being the only implements required. The grain was threshed by means of a flail and such a thing as a silo was unknown. But as the old saying goes, "Necessity is the mother of invention." More people came to this great land of ours Not all of them wanted to "till" the soil, some of them wanted to be the blacksmith, others wished to keep the village store. Regardless of the vocation which they chose and regard less of the number of people who continued to come to this country, they had to be fed. Thus the same proposition of increasing production faced the farmer of old as it faces the farmer of today. The farmer of olden days had just two ways in which he could increase his production. One was to work harder, put in more hours, and the other was to change his type of implements. The last mentioned plan was the one adopted. It is a well known fact that in former years the farmer's day did not consist of union hours and in many instances this is still true. Yet the demand on the farmer for more foodstuffs had to be met and it was met, by improving the tools and implements of the times to meet the requirements. For many years the fanner was his own inventor, making much of his own machinery and improving whenever an idea entered his head. As time moved on, however, the business of farming and manufacturing of machinery grew to be a burden. It is a true saying that man cannot do two things and do them well. When this point was reached, some individuals, who called themselves implement manufacturers, began to build farm machinery, taking their ideas from the farmer, returning the farmers' ideas as i)ear as possible in the form of a farm machine and collecting their Inrtagr of farm mas*Jn«T-JpPed oa tlie market originates from the sug gestion of a farmer. And so as year after year has rolled by, as the demands upon the producer of foodstuffs have grown, the machinery used by these producers has been improved until today we have our gang plows, our double discs, gang harrows and drags, drills for every grain, nowers, binders, threshing machines, ensilage cutters, manure spreaders and culti-packers, and still with all these the wheels of progress continue to turn, and the time has. come when the horse on the farm to a large extent must be replaced. Next week's article will contain the first tractor to the present day type. ,X.: By H. F. C " . ' . j It is the little things that count in these days. The little things that perhaps slip by the average observer during trying times. But they exist just the same. / For instance, scattered around over the suburban territory of the Chicago Telephone company are dozens of small telephone exchanges. Some very small, in fact, tiny would better describe them. The amount of business done in these dozens of small and tiny exchanges would r.ot fill a fair sized pill box and the profit requires a microscope to find it. But this continuous chain of dozens of tiny, small and large exchanges make the big system and provides the same facilities for local aryl long distance as can be obtained in the biggest city. v In maintaining a telephone system rates are adjusted to equitably fit conditions. If a representative of one of the largest telephone users in the biggest city required service in one of the smallest exchanges in the merest hamlet, the telephone system has anticipated the need. It is there in a tiny exchange. In order to maintain this chain system of exchanges and provide facilities and pay help, an adjustment of rates is necessary. It is the little things that count. A little willingness by every subscriber to agree to an adjustment in riates and the big, broad telephone system can be upheld for public service. Not Charles Danwruthe After almost a year's work running down clues in an effort to identify the body of a man taken from Crystal lake iMcHenry county authorities have practically decided that it Was not Charles Danwruthe, as alleged. Their <derision is based on the receipt by Crystal Lake authorities of a photograph of Danwruthe, which in no way resembles the one taken shortly after the body had been removed from the water. A reward of $500 has been offered for the arrest of Danwruthe, who has been charged with murder at South Bend, Ind. Plair dealer want ads for results. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT FOR SALE--Flower bulbs^ dahlia and gladiolus. Emil Lasch, McHenry, 111. Phone 9. 50-tf FOR SALE--A number of houses in the village of McHenry, J. C. Holly, McHenry, HL l-4t WANTED--Two unfurnished rooms. Inquire of or write The Plaindealer, McHenry, 111. . 4-lt* FOR SALE--A five h. p. gasoline en gine. Inquire at the Central meat market, McHenry, 111. 8-tf FOR SALE--Lots in Edgewater subdivision to McHenry. J. C. Holly, Hoy bank, McHenry, 111. 40-tf WANTED--Help at the Rosedale greenhouses. $25 per week. Inquire of or write J. F. Miller, McHenry, III. FOR SALE--Ford touring car in first class condition. Inquire at the office of the Wilbur Lumber Co., West McHenry, M. 8-tf FOR SALE--Ford coupe, first class condition, just overhauled. Must be sold this week. Dr. D. G. Wells, McHenry, 111. 4-lt* LOST--Brown two compartment traveling bag on road near Richmond. Finder liberally rewarded. L. Smith, 1330 E. 47th St., Chicago. 4-11* FOR SALE--1V4 h. p. Emerson pumping engine on trucks. Excellent mechanical condition. Sam Rogers, West McHenry, 111. Phone 606-W-l. 4-lt* USED CARS FOR SALE--Roadster, touring and trucks of various makes and models. All in good running order. The McHenry Garage, Mo- Henry, 111. - l-tf FOR SALE--Cherries, red and black raspberries, sprayed. Orders taken, Pickers wanted. Also one almost new row boat. E. J. Thomas, West Me? Henry, Phone 611-R-l. 4-lt* FOR SALE--Three tents, all 12x24; 10-oz. canvas. ' Also 4 h. p. gasoline engine, good as new, used but one season. Call or phone H. F. Kamholz, Cary Station, III. Phone 29-W. 4 FOR SALE--My large home in McHenry, including about an acre at ground and garage. Home has all conveniences. Also offer for sale 24*4 acres of land on Maple avenue in McHenry. Wm. Bonslett, West McHenry, 111. 2-tf PRIVATE SALE--Of household articles, including Schaff piano, gas and cook stove, leather couch, dining room table, chairs and other articles too numerous to mention. May be seen in Masquelet building. Chas McHenry, HL ideal summer home. Apply at Lakeside farm, McHenry, or of Fred T. Colby, Burlingame, Calif. 8-tto* IF you are intending to pot up a building of any kind, I can sell at reasonable price used lumber, con .listing of roofing, boards, siding, planks, timber and shingles. Kindling wood for sale. Also large, two story frame boarding house, size 90x24, with 24-ft. posts, consisting of 24 rooms, all plastered. Can be moved or wrecked. If too large for you, it can be disposed of in two parts. Apply to B. F. Martin, Lilac Farm, Taylor Lake, HI. Phone Grayslake 10-J-2. * 4-2t FO|t SALE--On fair and reasonable $5000; 2 fair agtMl dwellings, good farm bu#bsgs; well, wintafB; on good Vpad. Also 145 acres on Lake Defiance at $60.00 per acre, 8 miles from McHenry. Fair buildings, well, etc. Also for sale the 120 acre Pfannenstill farm on road to Wauconda at $125 per acre. Good home, very large barn. Easy terms. Simon Stoffel, West McHenry, HI. 2-6t THE PASSAVANT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES offers to young women a thoro training in the art of nursing. It is accredited by the state department of education and registration and is affiliated with the Illinois face car lines, tance of Laktf*l|»eajtiKaii and Lincoln park. The school is so situated that , pupils may avail themselves of aomtof the opportunities for education offered in a city like Chicago, in art, music and historical interests. A sp<£ cial effort is made to encourage these diversions and to impress upon the pupils the desirability of cultivating such intellectual interests, so that their three years in Chicago will make not only good nurses, but broader andmore cultured women. For catalogue and application blanks write to the Superintendent of Nurses, 149 W. Superior St., Chicago, HI. 2-8t V , , r •> W * f - % " -*V? '"-J 1 • ,i V?| COUNTS IN DOLLARS & CENTS The cost of tractor repairs includes the price paid for the pah, the tinie iInquired to put it in, and the damage done to crop by loss of time. If it takes but a few minutes to make the repair, the labor cost is a trifle, but if parts are inaccessible and it requires hours or sometimes days, the cost of the past Adjustments ^Repafts Easily and Quickly Made on Hart-Parr 30 The Hart-Parr 30, being: extremely simple and accessible, is easily kept in ship-shape and delays reduced to the minimum. When it is necessary to make an adjustment or repair, it is easily and quickly done. In less than five minutes you can get at any working part and adjust it standing on your feet, not lying on your back. You can do it yourself--not wait for an expert to come. Having built the first successful oil tractor, accumulated experience of 19 years has taught Hart-Parr Company to build a tractor that the farmer can expert '•* ' Call and see us or write for literature 'NONE HCMOND 045 •pimii! J 11 'imi.i IJU.HI UNGW00D. ILLINOIS LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE The Wonderful Story lUnult Vran Triplex Spring* THROUGH DESERT HEAT, mountain cold, and tha rough broken waste of the western dry plains, aa Overland Sedan piloted the trans-continental annj truck train--all the way with c p*rf*ct kwi. It established an extraordinary reputation for comfort on an roads in all weattar. The Overland idsal economical all year ear to buy nam. »9ltf| Oeupai 9ttMi •C fcb OVERTON & COWEN r.i*a • " j1- . ' - V 3 1 .i^r, 1 '""'A. i .J? J