Your correspondent's sense of, economy and thrift is sadly hurt at the thought of the cable fees for the item headed "900 years on same farm" under date of December 27 and appearing in the issue of December 29 as a Reuter cablegram, when he could have furnished twice as big a tale for the cost of postage.
Not long ago while dining with a company of prominent gentry at a festive occasion in the west. country your correspondent asked a venerable guest across the table how long the latter had lived im his present location and he replied "Sixty generations!" With true Chinese conservatism he still does not regard this as his home, saying that his "lao gla" (family home) is in Shantung, whence his ancestors came something over 2,000 years ago. He declares that he is living on the same spot and cultivating the same iand as did these ancestors who settled here before the Christian era. When asked if any of his neighbours had such a record of long attachment to the soil he re-pled that it might be possible, but that his own statement could be proved by the family records that. have been preserved. Your correspondent did not enter into these records but defies any reader to prove them false!
Tf any one can steer the writer to where awards are being given for attachment to the soil please speak out.
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