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...millions of dollars are being sought* as a first contribution to appease the Chinese dragon, Famine, now stalking in Shantung and Chihli provinces (TIME, Jan. 23). Up to the fall of the Manchu Empire in 1911, Chinese scholars had kept count of 1,828 rampages by the Famine Dragon since 108 B.C. in one province or another?an average of close to one famine per year. Amid the Chinese chaos since 1911 conditions operating to produce mass starvation have grown steadily worse. Doubtless, well fed U. S. citizens will again contribute toward filling empty Chinese stomachs; but the time draws...
...This year the Famine Dragon is dry. He came last summer in the likeness of a burning drought and accompanied by a pest of locusts. Result: crop yields have fallen to 25% of normal in 65 of the 407 districts of Shantung. A similar dry famine in North China brought Death to 500,000 in 1920-21, and rendered 20,000,000 destitute...
...Emperors of China sought to scotch the Dry Dragon by a moving and much ritualized form of prayer. Typical excerpt...
...field-grey soldiers marched past Mikhail Ivanovitch Kalinin, so-called President of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, who took the salute from the top of the Lenin tomb in Red Square. Behind the troops came 250,000 picked workers, preceded by a monster, two-headed green dragon. One of the heads represented, monocle & all, Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary; the other, Prime Minister Benito Mussolini of Italy, with the Fascist swastika above his forehead...
...front-page head has a very fair apportionment of CRIMSON and lampoon type, four letter being of one characteristic style and four of the other. The C consists of a jester couchant with legs bent up over his head, the I of a huddled dragon with a pointed snout, and the two O's of two smiling faces reminiscent of Messrs. Moran and Mack. On the other hand, the R. M. P. and N are in most appropriate lower-case block letters...