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Show THE HELPER TTMES. HELPER. UTAH Good Health Is M ANCHURIA Your Natural Stale FORGOTTEN HEROES' BY Elmo Scott Watson The Perils of Peace end of war does not always the coming of peace. That tact was all too strongly impressed upon the mind of CoL Robert E. Withers of the Confederate army In April. 1S05. He was commander of the military prison at Danville, Va, where were held more than 6,000 Union prisoners guarded only by disabled Confederates and men too old and boys too young to serve in the field. All through the last winter of the Civil war the specter of famine bad famIn Danville been ine for the captives, the guards and the townspeople. Then came the news that Richmond had surrendered and with it Confederate cavalrymen who informed the colonel that they had orders to burn the bridges across the river and all tobacco warehouses in Danville. Withers protested. It would mean a conflagration which would destroy the town, and since the Confederacy had collapsed In Virginia there was no military advantage to such ruin. Finding his protests unavailing, Colonel Withers declared that he would resist such destruction with armed force and his stand saved the bridges and the warehouses. The next crisis came after the A large surrender of Appomattox. body of paroled soldiers from Lee's army arrived In Danville. Hungry and in rags, they became excited at THE -- j e- - Af.r V - Station on the South Manchurian Railway. ber 8, 1896, that concession was (Prepared by the National Geographlo Society. Washington. D. C.) From It dates the rise of IS an unusual year In wblch granted. modern. Manchuria. an not Manchuria does produce That line and that branch upset in Far Eastern affairs. In of it, now called the original South Manchu1929 there was friction between ria railway, with the economic Chinese and Russians over the manrights they carried, were to do for agement of the Chinese Eastern Manchuria "vhat the Union Pacific Manchuria of northern railway did for the American West. friction that brought a threat of AH over the civilized world, war. Now Manchuria Is the scene of grave difficulties between Japan- - newspaper readers know this famous ese and Chinese,' and again a rail- line now as the Chinese Eastern way la at the bottom of the trouble. railway. By the terms of the origsigned , between This time it is the South Manchu- inal agreement, Russo-ChineChina the bank and owned and operated by ria railwav, bank). It a Japanese corporation. In a strug- (later the was to be a joint enterprise. The gle centering around the railroad czar's engineers built It and the Rusof near Mukden, capital property Manchuria, both Chinese and Jap- sians had charge of its shops, maintenance and technical operations; anese lives have been lost. The world has grown to expect but Chinese were supposed to share excitement from Manchuria; for in equally with Russian directors In that country, as In Egypt and Mex- Its general management When comico, It seems that drama never dies. pleted In June, 1903, It had cost In From hereabouts, before Columbus excess of $200,000,000. Of this cost, about $5,000,000 was born, rode a Mongol horde to China supplied and shared, proportionately, In its conquer Asia and harass Europe. From here, scaling the Great Wall profits. which timid Chinese had raised Towns Became Busy Cities. against them, came giant Manchus When finished, the main line of to oust the clings and found a new Chinese the Eastern ran from its dynasty at Peiplng (Peking). terminus at Manchuli, on the northCrossing the sea in clumsy junks west border of Manchuria, to 1,200 years ago, the same old Manon the eastern boundchus took tiger and leopard skins, now a busy, ImFrom Harbin, ary. ermine, and wild ginseng to trade with Japan for silks and brocades. portant city and then a mere fishing on the Sungari river, a d Later, when the empire village was dropped south to branch line of Kublai Khan rolled from the Talu to the Danube a Mongol fleet Dalny, now Dalren, on the Bay of Most of this section, or of a thousand ships sailed against Korea. from Changchun south to that part the shoguns, only to be smashed by "God's Wind" on the coast of Ky- - Dalren, Is now known as the South Manchurian railway. Dalny was literally a magic city. flere, through turbulent years, threti .ancient empires met the Built quickly by imperial command, It was the talk of the Far East On Bear, the Dragon, and the Rising rSun. Their struggles shook the this barren, then empty, point of architects and earth. Korea succumbed, absorbed rocks, engineers, workers of the czar spent millions by the Rising Sun ; the Dragon of rubles to build wharves, streets, ,Qmothered Manchuria. War man- business blocks, and bouses for a gled the Bear, and to the north rose an evanescent Far Eastern republic. population yet to come. A magnificent vision, that the vision of a Two Great Events. great seaport terminus of a 5,495-milYet In all Its repertoire of high railway tying Europe to the adventure political, martial and Orient How observers laughed, at this economic two events loom largest amazing .spectacle vast trainloads In the stirring story of Manchuria. They sway not only the destiny of of tools, food, tents, work animals, ancient Manchuria itself, but they scrapers and building material beaffect the fortunes and the future ing dumped on a rocky shore of farof Japan, China and Russia. ' These away Asia to build a city where Yet today there were no people events are the coming of the Is the second or Dalren, Dalny, Immand the railways, third Important seaport on all the igration of millions of Chinese farmers. In the last three decades these China coast I In Manchuria someforces, railways and Immigrants, thing is always happening! It happened again In 1904, when have jumped Manchuria ahead by 1,000 years moved her from a re- Japan fought Russia. One saw the gion of feudal lords, bandits, and holes in the armored sides of escapnomad herdsmen to a land of huge ing Russian battleships holes big trade and agriculture. In many as- enough to lead cows through, holes pects strangely like part of the made by Togo's guns In Tsushima strait Port Arthur, the impregAmerican West. So swiftly 'these changes have nable, fell; ancient Mukden echoed cbnje that very often old and new and shook nnder the heaviest guntlll clash In oddly visual violence. fire Asia had ever known. Kuropatkin lost and President Thus now, across South Manchuria, Roosevelt mediated. In the peace yon may ride a crack train, smooth at Portsmouth, N, H., conference as and fast shiny, any Broadway limited or Frisco flyer a solid Russia ceded to Japan her lease on Llaotung peninsula and possesttraln It Is, of American pullmans, the sion on the South Manchuria raila Baldwin locomotive jrawn by big e In Philadelphia yet from its way as far north as Changchun. ation car you man see peas- - China confirmed this and later extended Japan's lease for a period of pushing wheelbarrows with fis on them a type of vehicle old 99 years. But In Manchuria drama never in China when Confucius was a dies. Tragedy, stark and terrible, baby. Steam shovels made in Milwau- stalked across the East when ImRefugees kee are moving mountains; Yankee perial Russia collapsed. tractors, jerking a fleet of plows, by the thousands, fleeing the horrors of postwar political chaos In Siscurry across the virgin plains, past east to beg, borrow, or walfhamlets where yellow men beria, came In neutral Manchurian towns. scratch garden patches with wooden starve After Russia's Collapse. hoes, as In Bible times. In this chaos the Allies took over Developed by the Railway As early as 10.19 Russia, of course, the operations of the Chinese Easthad found her way to the Amur. By ern railway. From their base at 18Ct she had acquired the vast MariVladivostok they needed It to move time province, a veritable empire, men and supplies. An American enstretching from the Ussurl river to gineer, famed for his work on the the Sea of Japan and comprising an Panama canal, was In charge. Later, area as big as Mexico. Across this the newly formed Soviet government domain, In the 1890s, she was push- took Imperial Russia's old place as railIn 1924, ing her great partner with the Chinese. way to strlkt. the sea at Vladivoby a new treaty, China enjoyed an stok. But as the map shows, the equal share with the Soviets In the otiginal Siberian road to reach profits of the railway. It was agreed, Vladivostok over Russian territory, too, that China should govern the had to run a roundabout course railway zone. Inhabited now by along the Amur valley and via many thousand whites, and that Khabarovsk. each nation In the compact should , Six hundred miles would be saved refrain from propaganda against the s could build directly other's social and political systems. ' '""rora Chita, on the Siberian road, That, stripped of details, Is the southeast across Man brief story of the now famous Chistraight nese Eastern railway tip to June 11, churia to rejoin the 1929, when It was seized by the Chisystem near Pogrnniehnnya. On the hwls, then, of her friendly nese, Its Russian personnel arrestgesture In 1S!).", when Russia aided ed, causing clouds of war ouce more China to regain the area lost to to loom over this since of so many (aian at Shlinonosekl the Bear historic strtiSKlos. This threat of asked the Dragon for the right to war was later removed when Chibuild a railway across Manchuria; nese Mid Russians agnin agreed to a Joint mat Bgement of the railway. Mid, by agreement signed Septem- IT Russo-Asiati- c near-worl- e 1 trans-Siberia- n tfJJie-Russian- Trans-Siberia- - I ever-prese- But yon can't expect to enjoy good health if you are allowing disease germs to accumulate and multiply somewhere in your system. 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Rumors of disloyalty and of sympathy with the Southern cause among certain officers of the Union army had been frequent before the battle, and after It was all over the public wanted a scapegoat Gen. John Pope, commander of the Union forces, who had been "outsmarted" by Stonewall Jackson and who had fought a battle of blunders, was ready to furnish such a scapegoat He had given Maj. Gen. Porter Fitz-Joh- n certain orders which, as the Rattle developed, were So in Impossible tc obey minutely. his report Pope shouldered the blame for the defeat off on to Por- Placing the Blame President Patterson of the National Cash Register company criticized Russia on his return from Europe. "Stalin," he said, "blames foreign capitalism for the want and misery Russia is nndergoing now. Stalin is like Mrs. Johnson, "'Who broke your mantel mirror, Mrs. Johnson?' said a neighbor. ' 'My hubby, dear,' said Mrs. Johnson, 'lie ducked.'" Manassas. 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A military bqard under President Hayes acquitted Porter of all fault except unwise criticism of his superior. In May, 1S82, President Arthur remitted the sentence hut vetoed a bill providing for the payment of back salary. Finally In 1886 a bill was passed by congress and signed by .'resident Cleveland making Porter a colonel of Infantry In t lie regular army, to rank from May 14, 1SC1, and placing him ou the reAfter holding various tired list. civil ofiicesln New Vork, Porter died In May, 1!HU. and fi.r a brief moment America recalled the hero of fight for Justice. Ft The automobile has recently made two more conquests in parts of the world. Our State department has just recognized the government of Ilm Saud, king of Hejaz and sultan of Nejd and divers other tracts of the Arabian desert Ibn controls the sacred place of Mecca, and It seems that Moslem pilgrims who journey thither by caravan now prefer to travel by auto bus, much to the scandal of the holy men and the discomfiture of the camel drivers. In diplomatic circles It is calculated that our recognition of the picturesque Arab potentate will stimulate the sale of American automobiles In the land of the prophet Meanwhile the dalai lama, head of the monastic hierarchy that rules Tibet, has ordered a "devil wagon" from India for his private and royal use, all of which Is in defiance of the 15,000-odmonks who constitute the governing caste of the country. The story goes that the grand lama previously owned another car, but the other priests objected so vigorously to It that he soon locked it up In a mule stall In the monastery, where It succumbed to the ravages of rust. The magnitude of such an innovation may be understood when one realizes that the machine age in Tibet has largely been limited to the prayer wheels in which the 15,000-odmonks grind out their incantations. L ter. Up to this time Porter's record had been a brilliant one. But it could not save him from being made the victim of the second defeat at FT d (Adv.) In Good Condition At the opening of school there was a great deal of buying and selling of used textbooks. Many advertisements appeared on blackboards setting forth the attractive features of respective books. The usual Inducement to purchasers was a low price, the rumor that the warehouses con- but one pupil advertised as follows: tained the very things they needed "For sale: English Book L Good and they were urged on by people Shape. .Never Used." Exchange. from the surrounding country who That's All hoped to share In the loot No sooner had he broken up this mob than "Joe, does your baby ever say cute some Federal "bummers" appeared. things?" Should they enter. It was likely "We don't want her to say cute they would release the Federal pris- things. We want her to shut up." oners who were clamoring for their freedom and whose temper was an uncertain quantity after the privations they had endured. If they got out of band, Danville would be In the power of a mob whose excesses would know no limits. So when the train bearing the "bummers" rolled Into town It was met by a group of armed men whose determined attitude soon sent them on their way. The next day the advance guard of the Federal troops appeared and Colonel Withers was happy to turn over to the Union commander the responsibility for keeping order after the prisoners were released. So Danville remembers the name of Robert E. 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