When the Emperor Vu stopped the floods he engraved his name upon the grateful memory of 30 centuries. He brought to suffering peoples, comfort and prosperity. But China's floods continue. The Yellow River, scourge of a nation, moves its erratic way, leaving in its wake hunger and death. The Huai inundates a countryside and some say keeps a quarter of the entire ni yn in poverty. What better work can any man do than to devote the grey years of prosperity to the control of this reckless stream, to bringing millions of piculs of rice out of the soil, to lessening poverty for a nation, A native of the Huai country, scion of the merchant princes of Yangchow, where once Marco Polo governed and art and literature flourished, Sun Chung-ying does not accept the ease his age and wealth allow him. He gives to China what strength remains. Of him it will some day be said: "His heart was like unto that of Vu. "He loved his people and he laboured for them."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.