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Show FE! CEMETERIES! AND Ml H0A05 Development in China Held Up by Reverence for Sacred Sa-cred Burial Grounds Adequate transportation facilities are potent factors in the Industrial life of a commonwealth and failure to improve and maintain those commercial com-mercial functions moans decadence, industrial life-blood stagnation and an impoverished people in this connection connec-tion it is said that China is greatly handicapped for lack of railroad transportation trans-portation accommodations, due, In a measure, to the fact that tho cemeteries cemeter-ies of the country are so numerus and over which railroads cannot be built that there is no surface ground for railroad construction. That being true, it might be well for China to bury Its dead In the sea. However, the establishment es-tablishment and use of post roads for auto traffic is suggested as a solution of the problem. If China had fewer cemeteries it would have more railroads. Because every ten feet has a dead man under it. China will probably have many motor mo-tor trucks. t Oriental reverence of an-graves an-graves as 'desecration prevents the oxtension of present railroad lines. However, thousands of miles of post roads, if Improved, will allow the use of trucks for freight and passenger transportation. |