Show caws holy lane an example of shantung justice prepared by society D C service leaders in shantung P announce that they will again acknowledge the central chinese government at in matters of taxation despite reports to the contrary shantung has recently shown independence of shantung Is the holy land of china because it was the birthplace and bur lal place of confucius thousands of chinese pilgrims visit the provinces numerous temples every beir it also Is a beehive of business the grand canal the muddy moody hwang ho or yellow river twentieth century built railroads wheelbarrows and strong coolie backs handle large volumes of commerce destined to all parts of the world thirty million people live in shan tung which Is about the size of iowa most of them inhabit villages thickly sprinkled over the landscape but the province also boasts large cities that have figured prominently in internal politics and business the capital Is a city of about inhabitants situated on the plains of shantung although nearly miles from the sea Is an important commercial center small native boats navigate canals that connect the city with the yellow and eslao chang rivers neaily per haps more important however are railroad transportation facell atles or it Is here that the railroad which penetrates the shantung sula connects with the trunk line join ang and shanghai flour and peanut oil products from the western grain fields reach grain Is stored in warehouses and milled in mills while large quantities of peanuts and tobacco from nearby shantung plantations are also shipped there for disposal flour mills and peanut oil factories are among the cites larger industries some of the peanuts are cousins to american tu bers that were introduced into shan tung by american missionaries and the tobacco some of which as intro deuced by american tobacco companies might claim relationship to the leases that had a part in bringing fame to sir walter kaleigh Kal elgh in homes and factories fine chinese rugs are woven when long hair was the crowning glory of the american girl and speedy roadsters un did the patient strokes 0 the boudoir comb ksinan prospered making hair nets but each american girl who in recent years has emerged from a barber shop with shorn locks unwittingly did her bit to cripple this industry Is more than a thousand years older than the christian era guides will tell the traveler that the city was once situation 25 miles from its present cite and was moved piece by piece by a continuous line of men stretching from the old to the new site from remote times the natives have believed that an imaginary chain from the nearby pagoda bill keeps from blowing away in the wind blasts off the shantung plain or being washed away by the frequent floods of the murky yellow river eliat sin later stream Is about six miles north of the city two walls surround three sides of the city the inner wall Is an arreg ular square with many gates the outer wall flares outward on a zigzag gang course from the northeast and northwest corners of the square wall until was a strange city to foreign traders then it vol opened its doors most of the foreign trading ig done nt shang pu a small commercial town west of the walls there the traveler finds wide streets and modern government and business buildings there are natives there too but one Is more likely to rub elbows with one of the americans in shang pu than inside the walls seeing afoot in the quarter of a century that has elapsed since the gates were opened automobiles have traversed the few streets that are wide enough for their passage a few modern stores have been wedged between native chops and electric light bulbs dangle from corner posts but off these wider streets is a chinese puzzle ot mere allta between rows of low mud and stone houses only rickshaws rowa and donkey carts traverse these passageways eways and alien they appear pedestrians are pressed against flanking walls and into door waya travelers seeing afoot ble upon beggars dodge rickshaws in the hands of careless noisy boys and overwhelmed by the accumulation of odors from shops restaurants and houses the cries of benders venders ven ders the yelling and loud conversation of playing children and gossiping adults all amid a cloud of dust Is uninviting dust Is unnecessary in for wa ter Is no luxury springs perpetually bubble at several places within the walls and a lale four miles in circum ference occupies about one third of the inner walled area Is one of the most important christian educational centers in china the shantung christian university and numerous other mission schools are situated there native schools also dot the city and there Is a museum and a library the museum displays a model of the capitol of the united states chefko china Is a city made famous by tickle fashion the germans started the chefko hairnet industry on a large scale but the world war in europe and cheap hair and cheap labor in asia caused the industry to migrate to shantung with chefko as headquarters although american money paid the wages of thousands of women and girls in and near chefko when the hairnet industry was nourishing perhaps few of those american women could locate chefko on a map without considerable searching the city lies on the north shore of the cape cod of china which extends into the yel low sea from the main portion of shantung province toward the middle section of korea if a line were drawn due west from ohio through denver and continued across the pacific chefko would be one of the first chinese cities the line would touch chefko Is large and busy chefko now ranks third among shan tung cities with about tants A large foreign settlement alth modem hotels consular office buildings and residences bordering wide electrically lighted streets mccu pies a knob of land on the north the adjoining quarter Is congested nar row streets winding through this por alon of the town are lined with squat ty buildings mostly of flimsy construe alon but it Is here that chetko bristles with business activity throughout the day stooped shouldered coolies from neighborhood farms and villages trudge to the market place under loads nearly as large as those atop mules and donkeys don Leys other coolies tug at the handles of loaded shantung elbar rows whose wheels are sometimes three feet high there Is little room in the lanellye lanel lLe thoroughfares for any thing else nevertheless the rickshaw boy draws his fares at high speed oft en forcing pedestrians to sidestep into children filled doorways for safety through the streets all the products for export from the chefko neighborhood are carried to waiting cargo boats in the harbor apples sweet potatoes peanuts wheat cotton corn tobacco pongee silk and hairnets hair nets are transported by vessels flying the flags of many nations cargoes for chinese consumption are loaded on coastwise boats that mike chefko a port of call junks that lazily float about in the harbor pick up short haul shipping pongee ellk and peanuts are among the more important chefko exports chefko was classed as one of the cd therefore unimportant corn of china before when the port was opened to foreign shipping later a large portion of shan tung shipping passed through chefko and the city enjoyed a period of prosperity until 1804 when the shantung railroad was completed and the port was forced to share commerce with ports the railroad touched cainas chinas atlantic city another shoal came when the tien railroad was completed in 1912 a port on the south era coast of capo cod succeeded in getting railway connections while che foo got only a promise of a connection As a result gradually out grew its northern competitor the nearest railway station to chefko now Is miles to the southwest between which busses frequently run over a government owned highway Is the atlantic city of the china coast its climate Is excellent its golf courses are well constructed and it boasts modern hotels miles of the finest motor roads and clean streets |