Iron County Record | 1936-07-16 | Page 3 | China's Farmers Lazy, Says Gen. Ho Chenchun

Chinas China's Formers Lazy Says Gen Ho Laziness and carelessness careless ness have taken the place of Industriousness industriousness Indus Indus- among our farmers Gen Ho pacification commissioner of charges The general paints a gloomy picture picture pic pie ture tune of ot what wha t he saw on cn an inspection inspection inspection tion trip into province In former days he said these farmers were the most industrious people in China and even in to the leisure season of the year the men learned to cut wood while the women wom worn en used to spin cotton into thread and weave the thread into cloth Now all this has changed they not only have relaxed their attention in n producing products by-products but also have taken a lazy attitude toward their agricultural tasks Hence uncultivated land may be seen everywhere with no one willing to till it it General Ho attributed conditions to the lure of the Communist bandits bandits ban ban- floods and ignorance