Nanchang, Sept. 16.
It is endeavoured in rural. service to organize the people for sel-hele, self development and self-realization Over and again have welfare workers found much arable Jand inthe village uncultivated and fallow for the simple reason that pigs and bovis were allowed to roam. By helping the villagers to organize into mutual protection societies which impose fines upon those whase animals des troy people's green crops, much arable land is Immediately made once more productive, One village reported that since the organization of the society, ft ad made n great net gain of $200 through winter crops which otherwise would have ber Impossible to produce.
'The same. thing is' true with reforestation activities. There are bar-hills and waste lands everywhere Kiangsi. Even without any effort on the part of men, shrubs and trees will grow, but fuel' gatherers do not permit plants to live' long. The welfare worker has, however, found that people appreciate the value of forests and are ready to plant and protect young trees, if fuel gathering controlled. To-day people are being organized for reforestation and ce-operative protection.
One thing with which we have been deeply impressed in rural Kiongal is the large number of lay: sults, a greater number of them being in the more prosperous dis-{riet. Often the amount is little but the subsequent. i will is intense, The problem of "face" is a majae cause of many. Perhaps. the single item of the largest amount of passive ood—sood from saving waste which the welfare centres have contributed in the last two years—has been the arbitration of local disputes, Tt Is too long to describe any single ease but the workers Have also. helped the people to organize many villa arbitration boards, which are doing much In saving the poor people from bankruptey.
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