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...Atlanta penitentiary for using the U. S. mails to defraud, the prosecutor of the case being Governor McCray's own appointee, young Mr. Remy. The latter was pointed out on the streets of Indianapolis as "that rising young prosecutor." Before long he succeeded in sending David Curtis Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan and producer of votes for a consideration, to jail for the murder of a girl. In 1927 he obtained the indictments of Mayor John L. Duvall of Indianapolis and six councilmen for corrupt office-getting...
Unfortunately, Imperial Heaven not seldom seems to reply to Chinese prayers by sending a wet dragon after a dry. Thus 2,000,000 Chinese perished through drowning and starvation after the crops in Honan province had been destroyed by the great, classic flood of 1887-1889. So recently as 1925, Shantung (parched last summer) was inundated by a relatively slight overflow of the great Hwang Ho ("Yellow River") which none the less washed away crops sufficient to feed millions for a year...
...point some 300 miles below its present main issuance into the Gulf of Chihli. But throughout the last millennium extensive systems of dikes have been gradually thrown up to restrain such rivers as the yellow Hwang Ho, and huge drainage canals have been dug. Even so the titanic Wet Dragon has escaped taming by Chinese methods...
Still more appalling is the task of taking effective steps against the Dry Dragon, a passive enemy feared even in the Occident. It is of record that under the Chou Dynasty, more than two millenniums ago, some 660.000 acres in Shensi were benefiting by a prudent irrigation system. But toilsome Chinese efforts, both before and since, have availed less in relieving droughts than have their partially successful flood control methods (success being measured by the proud statement of Chinese scholars that the great Yellow River has completely altered its course only three times in the last millennium...
...Dragon. Clearly the sole expectation that the Wet and Dry Dragons can ever be scotched lies in the progress of Chinese toward multiplying their might against the elements by adopting Occidental mechanisms and methods. Such progress is now held virtually at a standstill by the War Dragon. With each successive year since the fall of the Empire, China has weltered ever deeper in the morass of civil war. To-day three principal "War Lords" (see below) and their countless satellite "Generals" claim to rule China, but are merely raping her resources for themselves...