Show THE AWAKENING OF CHINA by the rev carl L anderson of the mot most tasks ta that can ba put before tile thinking mind Is to correctly judge events when a great world movement or a great life chiw ha blen bobai ate J front from us its by distance or by time it may inny bo be seen in its truo trite relation and bo understood hit flut lie he who is ia to judge of bao ut tit hand boon be on hi a guard against r overestimation on ono side anil and depro nation J on tile other side bido this conser balivo state of mind ia i s tin in ini parate necessity in judging of events of our day wo we live in nn an agoff ngoof change groat er than any in the his history lory of tho tha raco avonts crowd each other odier so rapidly that groat happenings uru tire tile thu order of tho the lily day torny to my mind clio greatest event of alio century is ia now basl passing i ng before tile the eyes of the student alas event is tile awakening of china front from hor her sloop sleep long when I 1 uso alio word greatest I 1 do so fco advisedly advia odly the time will como come when tile the world will look back tit at this thid timo as ail 06 time ocono of oil of the hie greatest periods in tho the hilory or the human race nothing has fins evor ever transpired in history bistor surpassing it in tu tudo 0 nor importance import anco and lit in till all probabilities as aa they now appear it will remain tho the greatest of all time in n order to get a corret view of thi athly s i subject wo we need to rear refresh esh our ulina at to some of the iho facts relating to ahm thi great country of which wo we speak ond and as aa it beio w ro ret get in mind ake betting of the tha drama china is located on tile west coast ot of tho the pacific ocean arc enting tin aa tn interrupted coast lino equal to a descent crescent shape lino line drawn from phila dolphin delp liia to tile the pointon point of tho the yeaton peninsula 30 miles 36 lq of harbors uquam 1 to any on oil and bor deriaL on oil it groat plain many allany in size of that of the it contains kiture miles or equal in aron irca to lo U H 8 mid and alaska england ireland wales garmany france spam spain portugal belgium Hol giuin anti anil porto rico tile the pop illation or of this vast mist area la is albut according to tho the lutent leato of year hook book these figures ars arri indeed in dottl lo HI great na its to bo be dietl cult of ilo 1110 country ia ono of wonderful fertility lit tile tho empire two crops are raised every year tit tim cause or of thiais the fact of eo great an area arci being occupied by tile plains of tile tho grunt rivers bishop camets W bashford of peking china a very chodd alosa affairs says tile tho location of china makes the climate more i bem fem omi tropical than the climate clitu ate of cither tile tho united stales Sta or europe and enables abree fourths of tile provinces to produce two carolls crolls a year tho file second cau caus causo o of its fertility la is its immense plains imagine a niomi moun lain region rising upon an all average to nearly twice the height of tile tho rocky mountains and you have the western dependencies of 0 tibet and turkestan Turk estan tan these ranges descend des ond batt waid fonn ng plains similar to thou tho u of tile the mississippi valley exceptions to this description are found lit in the 0 of the 1 and Fult ivil provinces Provin cea in the const and in tile ibe chenau plain in tho the west ost but in general genor nl china consists of finin onse plains and deltas in abe east rising to culling and hilly mountainous mountain country its one jouin oya eye westward thu the third causo cause of tho the great fertility of china Is ia the almost universal irrigation of tile in soil irrigation til makes likes poo tile tho rice areno area of china anil all ofton often ono or two other crops follow the rice crop tho the fourth cause causa of tile fertility of 0 the umpire empire i in tile enrico went of tile soil by b uso use of every avory of forti fertilizer lizer produced in fit tile tho empire and ana tile natural enrichment of tile tho wil limit by tile tho looss loosa do de posits this loess consists rons iata ot of title brown dust blown from tho the steppes of central abitt ald and covering corenn two inin hun tired and fifty tifty thousand thou hand square miles idilea of tile tho nor thoin thein part of china proper to a depth of frontu tell to it thousand tout feet tile tho final of tile the fertility ot of kil phinn dila its ita cultivation the land i ia s divided knonk alio people cuore fully than the land of it any othar nation on oil earth lit in tile tho southern and middio portion of china tile holds fields apparently do not average more than two or three fteres aroa each and in northern china they pro probably bubly do not average boore than three or four acres cheso small farms farma are cultivated with tile the greatest possible ios sible thorough noso in 11 word tho the chinese tire aro gardeners rather than tanners farmers and I 1 have seen field after field in succession in which I 1 could not detect a single weed As AH the result of these livo five causes tropical cli climate mute immense plain arri irrigation tile the enrichment of tho the soil boil by fertilizers tind tile the looss loess formation and intensive inton hivo grout great portions por tiona of the twenty two provinces yield twice as much lunch pur per acre as aa tile fertile clods of iowa and illinois anil nd proper yields th the largest elargest harvests of any country upon HIA toco face of tho the earth v continued on third page mw i AWAKENING AWA ENING continued from first page bes besides ides those vast agricultural resources 8 china is rich in in minerals in orals R alart says that cainas chinas coal beds beda could furnish coal for the entire world it at its present of cons U ifor 2000 yeas vast beds beda of irons iron gold aillar and other rals abound thoro there and aro are as aa yet untouched another physical asset to china is her location for ages tho the seq sen was tho scenia of the worlds activities during the tha past years the I 1 atlantic was the nations highway butt but there seems to bo be great truth in the statement of T olta when he says tile the pacific is to be the scene 0 ot the great events of tho future in deed decoit it is fast becoming so Itis it is enough hero here to say that chins china could anore more easily control tile the pacific than any other ather nation tile the pacific is her front yard continued next week aweeky |