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Show ' WHERE LIVING IS AN INTENSE STRUGGLE Americans have only a faint Idea of the struggle for life which goes on In other partB of the world, even In times of pence. In tho last report of tho Rockefeller Foundation recolvod by The Standard, there Is a section devoted, to the la hors of the American experts' sent to China to study the hookworm problem prob-lem in the1 Yangtse-klang valloy, and, Incidental tb a statement on conditions found, Is this paragraph: The hookworm problem In China presents unique features because of the economic importance impor-tance of human excrement as a fertilizer and a sourco of rovo-nue rovo-nue to' the state. It Ih the only fertilizer available In sufficient IllUn I ..nl,r om-lnnltltT-nl needs. China has no. sewerage system. Eaoh night In urban centers the excrement is collected by male and female coolies who carry it in wooden buckets to temporary storage depots outside the city walls. To these depots farmers and gardeners go In tank boats to purchase supplies, which they convey up tho rivers to their plantations of rice and mulberry. Thoro they dig tho excrement into the fields or moisten It with water and sprinkle it over growing vegetation. vege-tation. A. relatively light infection infec-tion in Chinese cities may thus become a serious factor in spreading spread-ing the diseaso to agricultural districts. dis-tricts. More than one hundred thousand thou-sand miners, largely recruited from farmers who have worked barefoot in tho moist, larva-ln- juicu sun, are employed in me mines of Hunan province alone. Tho government authorities and mine owners have waked to the seriousness of this situation and have made inquiry of tho board regarding the nature of hookworm disease and possible measures for its control," When tho American fanner is driven driv-en to the necessity of providing fertilizer ferti-lizer in that manner, our peoplo will begin to understand the moaning of economy and poverty. Millions of Chinese depend on this method of soil enrichment to eke out a most miserablo existence. oo |