The Sedalia Democrat from Sedalia, Missouri • Page 11

Democrat and Capital, Sunday 3Ioriiing, December 22, 1940 Two Heads Are Belter Than One! ikm Dual pFovad in by U. 8, Twrt- ing Co. in 90 and cloaa biada piata Begia tal Aaaa tba em DimI mty. AC-DC Fackpad la taa coarhida NO MONEY DOWN 50e A WEEK ELLIOTTS The old Chinese city of Ycnan still stands thongrh badly battered headqaariera of the Eirhth Route Army, has been leveled. People live in caves (arrows).

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Almost all the steel used by the famous Eight Route Army and that of Marshal Yen Shi-san, the of Shansi, is I obtained from the Japanese in just I this way. I have seen three differ- i ent types of revolvers made from I such stolen steel rails, some crude and awkward, some beautiful! I pieces of mechanism. All were; made to use Japanese for they count on the enemy to them the bullets, too. When I was in the Northwest' of China, they offered to stage a raid for me, to show me how this was done. Unfortunately I could not the week they said was necessary to Journey to the rail- road and back.

Today the steel rails are still being forged into weapons, but the guerrillas now complain that, Japanese shoes and uniforms are so worn and. ragged and their food poor that it hardly pays to nsk life and limb to obtain i them. That is a striking contrast with what I saw in Nanking two i and a half years ago. Then the Japanese army was well clothed and shod, and fed with rice and fish, and other foodstuffs, imported from Japan. Never a Complaint A great part of armed forces is still pitifully equipped and fed and clothed.

Hospitals are like those of the Crimean War. Millions of civilians wander homeless over their Good Earth. Yet I have never heard a complaint. From the wife of the official in Chungking whose American piano and all her household possessions were shattered by a bomb through her complaint. From the grain merchant whose stores for the year disappeared in a single complaint.

A group of Youth Corps girl graduates ready to for the front, pictured with Madame Chiang Kai-shek, George A. Fitch ith a broadsword made by the Chinese from rail stolen at night on a Japanese railroad into China, Corps, and the Resist Japan Uni-' versity of Hie Eighth Route Army. The first has an office in every county seat and provincial capital: the second is a non-political organization of some 8000 young men and women trained to educate the people in wartime duties and precautions. Both borrow tactics from the Resist Japan From the river boatman whose is training entire family was wiped out in an thousands of men and women in Yenan and other centers to be leaders in the military and political situation. In Yenan, site of the and in other centers, artists, writers, journalists, dramatists and musicians are devoting their talents to the win- the-war Posters and car- air complaint.

From the whole Chinese people in the fourth year of murmur of discouragement, no whisper of anything but complete faith in the justice of their cause and the integrity of their leaders. The surge of national morale is like a tidal wave. It is the strong- a country where so many est single factor in chance illiterate, are especially ef- of victory. There is some con-, scions organization behind it, of Songs, Plays Boost Morale course. IMorale is built by stream- Singmg lias taken the country lined agencies, chiefly the Kuo- by storm.

Soldiers sing lustily as mingtang (Nationalist party 1. the they march to the front. Youth never forget a concert About the Writer Seventy years ago a man and his wife left Ohio to be missionaries in China. Two decades later a son was born in Soochow. The boy grew up in China, returned to America for his college education, then hurried back to China.

His name was George A. Fitch. Since 1910 IMr. Fitch has been often honored by the Chinese for his seiwice with the Y. M.

C. A. When war hit China he helped organize the War Area Service Corps. He remained in Nanking during the siege, serving as unofficial of the Safely Zone and caring for 250,000 refugees. Mr.

Fitch is now on his way back to Chungking, to direct army welfare work. I heard in Northwest China last summer. There was a make-shift Schooldoys for Uncle Snowmen -c- attorh- u.e many leso -s in nulita.yv m'-or i Ei i n-w tni- Aiwx.ovw: of Iniantrv. are pictured practicing at Take wars. of 110 picked oi'cbestra of a dozen pieces, the cello made from an American five gallon gasolire can.

They plaved enough, but it was the chorus of a hundred mixed whicn held me spellbound. They sang the a recently composed cantata in ten parts. It was like nothing 1 had ever heard before, neither classical Chinese, nor western, but something new which they had created selves. It was born of infinite suffering, the voices of the river, the workers, famine, exiles, the grief of women. Some of those tive and stirring strains still ring in my ears.

i The radio is widely used. Ev- Iery town and hamlet has its pub-, lie loudspeaker where the people gather to hear the news from Chungking and Kunming and Kweiyang. and the pep-talks from headquarters. But the theater is most interesting and powerful propagandist. The audiences go wild, soldiers draw deep inspiration from plays of patriotic sacrifice, I recall especially one given in Chungking by a group of Japanesp captives.

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