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mm v• * •- y>*v •,. v •> :w. • /*1 1•: 1 PLAIITDKALZS. •> ><ff.£*»$;» d' V^jj^ &». frr / * ^14.»v' Thursday Jane 30,1940 POVERTY IN 0HINAIS2T TOJJ) BY SPRING WOVE ENGINEER :- The following is a cpntlntfaiftra of the ^interesting story which Am? oW N. May of Spring Qrove brought home - after spending the past three years in - China as an j engineer working oh land reclamation, irrigation and construction .projects. 1 "No one in the United States ! can realize the poverty of the Chinese tiler of the soil. He usually lives in an earth-floor hut built of rice straw and bamboo. Each OUTDOOR DAN CIN G LAKESIDE INN LILY LAKE -ASr%-' Saturday Night, beginniftf JULY -- 9 to 2 a. in. .*-:n Music by DON AADA'S AROHESTRA Admission $1.00 per couple if SHALIMAR SUMMERNITE ' • OB .V •• SATURDAY, JULY 9th ' » 8 p. nt On the beautiful ground of Mr. 0. Meyer, in the heart of Shalimar. (Just follow the ro&4 through the pines and you can't miss it.) Good Food and Refreshments ~ Serving starts at 7 p. m. Dancing in Meyer's paviHan An evening of fun and entertainment in pleasant surroundings. Sponsored 1>y -Shalimar Improvement Association | family cultivates on the average approxlmatetly one acre of land. jThtfre are no modern implements I to assist the farmer. He is too ipoor to buy anything but the most J common of tools, namely a hoelike fork which he uses to till the soil. Those farmerK with more/ land may have a water buffalo to pull a crude plow. In the central and southern parts of China, rice is the main crop, and it is all planted and weeded by hand. There are very few farm animals, and hence there is a great lack of fertilizers, making the use of human fertiliser a common practice. All harvesting is done in the ancient manner, that is, cut by hand and the grain dislodged from the stalk l by beating it into a large basket." • "Since the war years, inflation | has been so great that termers •take into market only sufficient to realize enough money for their im- { mediate necessities. In August, I 1948, a new currency gold yuan: was Initiated at the rate of tour' yuan to one U. S. dollar. By April 2, 1949, the date that Mr. and Mrs. May departed" from Shanghai, inflation had been so great that the rate had risen to eight million five hundred thousand yuan to one U. S. dollar. Actually, the yuan was not worth the paper on which I it was printed and it was difficult to have it accepted by merchants and other business people. I Gold and. silver had become the j medium of exchange as one cared to have the rapidly depreciating j Chinese' currency. This depreciation had its effect mainly on the ] people In the large cities who > were in a salary class. They were .paid on an index basis and before j they had an opportunity to put , their salary into goods, it had I often devaluated to less than half its original value. * Mr. and Mrs. May lived In the western part of the Shanghai Huburbs known as Hungjao. This was right in the center of the defense belt which had been bjuilt up around the entire perimeter of the city itself. Many concrete pill iboxes were constructed and camouflaged to look like grave mounds which are common in that section of the country. The lovely old trees along the main roads were cut for tajik barriers. A requisitioning of houses and vehicles was started by the military, and they were especially unscrupulous to the Chinese themselves, foreigners' property being respected to a certain degree. On one particular afternoon a iquad of soldiers came into Mr. and Mrs. May's compound, surrounded the house and ordered the number one boy to open up the doors as they were moving in. Fortunately. Mr. May was home and promptly informed the soldiers that it was foreign property and after a short discussion they departed. A short time later the entire Hungjao area was declared *1 a military area and Mr. and Mrs. May wereitotced to depart on short j notice for Shanghai proper. They were later informed that most of the houses and properties in the defense area were taken over by the Nationalist soldiers and that looting had started. v-y The major portion of China has now passed over to the control of Communist military organization. However, the work accomplished will continue to benefit the masa of the Chinese people. Only time will tell whether the Chinese Communist party will in the future cooperate with American business men and the American government VERNON J. KNOX. Lawyer, McHenry, Illinois NOTICE OF CLAIM DATS Estate of John V. Freund, Deceased. Notice Is hereby given to all persons that August 1, 1949, is the claim date in the estate of John V. 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