The Oregon daily journal., July 21, 1912, Page 55, Image 55

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America, tie constant, drain on hum an Ufa
- Almost as bad as war or famine it is. ' - -
This year riot 'less" than "6W,000Tme "
women and children will die of preventable diseased.
""' 2ot less than 40,OdO to 50,000 lives will be lost ia
industrial accidents, most of them, the result of care
lessness. Ten times that number wiE be injured."T
bers that are today facing starvation.' Take the caaa -of
China. . .. v.
Early this year the revolution swept away thV..7
oldest monarchy the world has ever known. Under
one dynasty or another, the Chinese government goes
so far back that 'it is lost in antiquity. It alone of
modern governments waa in existence when the chil ;
dren of Israel fled from Egypt. - . -
As far as history is concerned, 1912 would hav ' .
been a memorable year if nothing else had happened j.j
than the formation of the Chinese republic It was , ,
an upheaval on a truly titantic scale. Considered in '
connection with, the importance of the event, the loss
of life was not great. Only a few battles of conse
quence were fought those around Hankow and on the
road to Nanking. Yet there were massacres without
number, murders for pillage and revenge executions .;:
for mutinies loss of life in so many ways and places
that it is probable that the number killed will never
be known. An estimate of 50,000 slain would probably ..
be conservative. -y. --.
Yet this pales before the famine. During 1911.. .1.
and the spring of this year the sufferings in all parts
of the great republic have been acute. Five years ago
a million people died of hunger. This year the number. : ,
is not likely to be much less, for, in addition to all -other
causes for the shortage of food,, there is th ,
chaos- that came with a change in the form of govern ' 7
ment and tie consequent inability of the new, rulers "'y
to get the money needed to run the national machinery
and, at least partially, provide food for the people.
Famine likewise is devastating eastern Bussit ,,-;
and Siberia as a consequence of the failure of last ,
year's crops. Not only were the cereals and vegetables
exhausted in the long winter, but the domestio animals
were virtually all killed off to make up for the short i
''age in grain. When they were gone starvation foK
lowed them. As early as February it was estimated
that 26,000,000 people were in need of relief. . Peopla
in this country cannot comprehend what that meant. -
It is as if the whole Atlantic oasfc states had to PS .
fed until the new erops began to come In. -
The Eussian government has been spending tens
of millions, but many have perished . because ' jtbs ,
bureaucratic methods are slow, and even embezzlement
has to be f Ought against. " ? v' .. ' '
Disease is i : natural attendant 'of-famine. Ia
eight Russian proyinces at one time were reported 80
000 cases of scurvy, hunger typhus anu typhoid. Im
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