After the people have been trans ported to places of safety, the men will find work in helping the local farmers to build roads and to do construction work. The women will find occupation in weaving cloth and, sewing garments, Temporary schoole will be started for the education of the children, No one knows how long it will be necessary to support thes refugees. Perhaps a year. Certainly. many weeks will pass before the breaks in the dykes can be closed. and time is required for the water to disappear either by evaporation or by drainage, While famine relief work is going on, much can be done to wipe out the causes of famine. In a press report, General Chiang Kat-shek blames neglect as the cause of floods. Nature, he says, is not entirely uncontrolt able. If river conservancy, afforestation, and dyke building "works had been pushed forward to the extent they should, there would not have occurred such a disastrous flood this year, or this modern world, General Chiang concludes, the right to existence and prosperity depends upon one's ability to conquer the forces of nature and not upon one's willingness to yield to the obstacles of his environment.
With this idea in mind, the China International Famine Relief Commission, among other honorable organizations, has been preparing itself to meet such emergencies. It believes thoroughly that "a coat spent in preventive efforts will save a dollar of relief," "though in such elrcumstances as are being faced this year, the commission is undertaking Straight relief work as. well.
In the city of Yenshih, Honan prov. {nce a wall of water twenty feet high came with such tremendous force that the buildings collapsed from the suction even before the water reached them. In the same city a group of people rushed under the shelter of a theatre and were killed as the Foot erased in upon them, Similar scenes Fave been witnessed In other cities, At present, flood refugees are being sent by trainloads out of the danger-fous territory into places of safety. Each individual is known by his identification tag, which carries his name, village, hsien, and other infor-motion; and each one receives a daily Fation of four mo mo (small Leaves).
is estimated that one dollar would Keep @ person fed a month, and one dollar in Shanghai is hardly enough to buy one meall
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