In a country of economic paradox: ike "China where there is great natural wealth but the extremes of individual poverty find a counterpart in few other places in the world, the comfortably-fed and housed person may regard with wonder the real standard of subsistence. Living close! {o the sell, the Chinese peasant and. hig family' have few wants beyond: what the soil can provide and the margin above this is very small Mlustration comes from the flood and' famine areas in North Kiangsu where tens of thousands of people are suffer. ing with little hope of succour except} from relief organizations. In this area human happiness and existence, In spite of the flood damage, can be secured for a very small amount of money, A man in close contact with relief work writes: "At the present] moment, a five dollar note would enable a destitute family to return home, build a small hut, buy oF borrow some bushels of grain to seed their little homestead; and this, to hundreds of families, means a crop by the end of June." The price of a couple of tickets to a cinema, with 2 car thrown in for transportation home afterwards, seems litle enough but it represents recovery for one family in. North Kiangsu and the feeding of -hundreds when the Jun: sun brings forth the crops in China's ood earth,
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