Drew Pearson

              DREW PEARSON THE ORIENT OF TO-DAY

THE COUNTRIES OF THE PACIFIC—OUR OST POWERFUL FRIENDS OR ENEMIES—WILL BE DESCRIBED BY MR. PEARSON N A SERIES OF TWENTY-SIX ARTICLES
AVAILABLE FOR BI-WEEKLY JBLICATION IN 1922 AND 1923



Confidential—Not for Publication.




GRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHS



Taken by W. Laurie Seaman, expert photographer, engineer, and aviator.  Pearson and Seaman will go equipped with special credentials from the United States Government and from foreign diplomats, which will open many doors which are closed to most travelers.  Each letter will be illustrated.





HOW JAPAN IS CARRYING OUT THE SPIRIT OF THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE



Shantung—Are the Japanese preparing to get out?




Manchuria—What the South Manchurian Railroad and Japanese control means to American soap manufacturers.




Siberia—Japanese citizens living in Vladivostok have petitioned their government to withdraw.  But Japanese forces remain in Siberia despite promises made at the Washington Conference.




Japan controls the entire seacoast of north Asia.




WILL SHE GET OUT?  IF NOT, WHAT SHALL WE DO ABOUT IT?





THE MOST USEFUL LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD



English—once scarcely spoken outside North America and the British Isles, has become THE language of the world.




The Chinese, from lowly coolie to wealthy merchant, speak pigeon English.




In India a man from Bombay cannot understand the native from Burma—so they both speak English.





FARMERS OF FORTY CENTURIES



The Chinese farmer supports a family of five on a twelve acre patch.  He has been doing it for 4000 years.  And his land doesn't wear out.




Our American farmer has difficulty making both ends meet on a 100 acre farm.  He has been working it only 100 years.  Frequently it is eroded, worn out, and worthless.




How does the Chinese farmer keep his land fertile?  How does he raise three to five crops in a season?




WILL OUR FARMERS EVER ADOPT CHINESE METHODS?





NO AMERICAN HAS EVER BEEN THRU TIBET



And the British are very careful to see that no American shall ever penetrate into that great plateau country.  Many Americans have been killed or captured while trying to cross Tibet.




Why?  What is hidden there?  There are rumors of turquoise and gold.




Do the British desire to keep Tibet as India's bulwark of defense against a Mongolian invasion?




Or does Britain seek religious domination over Southern China by controlling Lhasa, the religious capital?




Drew Pearson will visit the Tibetan border, and, if possible, go further.





BIRTH CONTROL AND THE YELLOW RACE


 devoted 38 pages to birth control.




The Japanese must do one of five things:  emigrate to foreign countries, acquire more territory, manufacture and export, lower their standard of living, or RESTRICT their BIRTH RATE.




Orientals believe that famines and plagues are a blessing, because they cut down surplus population.




WILL THEY EVER BELIEVE IN CUTTING DOWN POPULATION AT ITS SOURCE?





PEARSON WRITES WITH AUTHORITY



Pearson comes fresh from teaching commercial and industrial geography at the University of Pennsylvania.




The Wharton School of Commerce and Finance asked Mr. Pearson to make a survey of Oriental factory and labor conditions, and to prepare a special report for the University.





AROUND THE WORLD



By steamship, airplane, ox-cart, automobile, on camel, on horse and on foot.  Mr. Pearson's route is pastic.  He can go where he pleases when he pleases.  To date the first lap of his journey runs from Seattle to Japan; then to Vladovostok and thru Manchuria; across the Far Eastern Republic on the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Chita; by caravan to Urga; across Morgolia and the Gobi Desert to Peking; by rail via Shantung to Shanghai; by river steamer up the Yangtze to Chengtu; by horse and on  to the Tibertan border.





INDIA



The Cradle of Civilization—Bigger than Europe without Russia—It contains one-fifth of the Human Race.




India has become Britain's Ireland—Only in India Britain deals with three religions instead of two, with 2,300 castes instead of one, and with 350,000,000 people instead of 4,000,000.




Ghandi is in Jail—How is he being treated?—How many more Ghandis are there?—40,000 Leaders are with him—Will Britain arrest all of India?




Persecution of the Nationalists—Men tied together by their hair—Prisoners dragged by their legs with their head and shoulders trailing in the street.




The Boycott against British Goods—A possible Market for American Cotton—The buying power of 350,000,000 people.




The Caste System—Penalties for touching a member of another caste—For approaching nearer than 24 feet—Killing of Female Babies.




The Non-Cooperative Program—Removal of Untouchability or Caste Distinctions—Prohibition.




British Development—Network of railroads—Three times as much Irrigation as in the United States—The Opium Crop—The World's Supply of Gunny Sacks—Rice fields growing half the world's crop—Fourth greatest cotton spinning country.




British censorship has stifled news from India.  Drew Pearson as a former worker for the British Red Cross, has the Government's confidence.  He also carries letters to Ghandi, and to other leaders from influential Indians in this country.





JAPAN



Her attitude toward the United States—Immediately after the war, Japan imported large quantities of benzol and coal tar products used for high explosives—She was ready for war—Has she Changed since the Washington Conference?




Why does the Japanese Diet not ratify the Washington treaties?  Is Japan really scrapping her battleships?  What has become of her great army?




Cheap Labor—the Foundation Stone of Japanese Industry.—But is it cheap?  It required four Japanese laborers, each paid $1.50, one day to make six castings, of which two were rejected, whereas one American could make a dozen.




Japan has taken away Germany's Oriental trade.—Can she hold it?—Japanese papers now protest against the low wage paid to Germans, and ask for a protective tariff.




Silk—Japan's Greatest Industry—Her Immense Export to this Country—Graded Cocoons—Fear of Chinese competition.




The Fishing Snarl in the Behring Sea—Assistant Secretary of Commerce Houston has left for Japan to unravel it.  We allow Japan to participate in the seal catch of the Aleutian Islands—Will she reciprocate off her Kuril Islands?





THE FAR EASTERN REPUBLIC



This New country kicked up as much rumpus as France at the Washington Conference.




What, Where, and Why is it?—Is it Bolshevik?—Why do the Japanese hold its Coast?




Its reputed Wealth—The Source of Soviet gold—The Timber Resources for which Vanderlip bargained—Its Fisheries which Japan has Seized.





THE MALAY FEDERATED STATES



A Neck of Land which Dominates the South Seas—British Rule—American Tin Can Factories, and Half the World gets its Tin Here.




Singapore—the Crossroads of the Pacific and Indian Oceans—The great British Naval Base.





AUSTRALIA



A Desert Continent surrounded by a Fertile Rim—One white for every sixteen square miles of interior—Sixteen whites for every square mile of coast—Rain, the key to Australian Agriculture—Possibilities of Irrigation.




The White Boycott against the Yellow Races—Cheap Labor on the Sugar Plantations.



 The lowest type of man on earth—Nearest living race to 
The Missing Link
, having not yet reached the Stone Age—The Boomerang.




The Export of Rabbit Meat—The Kangaroo—Life of a Cattle-Herder—Australian hides and New England shoes.




Loyalty to Great Britain—Attitude toward the Japanese—Toward the United States—A one-time Convict Colony.




Life in the Gold Camps on the West Coast—Talks with business men—What goods Australia wants from America.





ASIA, AFRICA AND EUROPE



Are familiar fields to Drew Pearson.




He has visited all three continents.  He has an international point of view.




During two years he directed the reconstruction work of the American Friends Service Committee in the Balkans.




In appreciation of his services, the Serbian people named a town 
Pearsonavatz
, which means 
Pearsonville
.





CHINA



The Awakening of the Slumbering Giant—With the greatest supply of Power, Minerals, Labor and Agricultural Products in the World, how long will China tolerate Foreign Control?




The Land of Civil Wars—The Mason-Dixon Line of China—Why the U. S. Secret Service men slept in the Chinese Legation during the Washington Conference.




Hoarded Mineral Wealth—More Anthracite Coal than in all Pennsylvania—Enough Soft Coal to last the world 1000 years—Iron deposits excelling Superior's.




The World's Greatest Market—If the Chinese would add an inch to their jackets it would mean Twenty Million yards of Cotton Cloth per year—Chinese Advertising—
Want che cotton cloth chop man on horse
.




The Western Student in China—What has he taken back from America—Graft—Or Clean Politics?




A Trip up the Yangtze—The Mississippi of China—A Channel for Ocean Steamers 600 miles Inland—A Canal System which would extend 40 times the width of This Country and 60 times its length.





MANCHURIA



A Country as Big as both Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa—Equally Fertile—Two Great Rivers—Japanese Railroads.




Japanese Domination—Open Pit Iron and Coal mines—Chan Tso-lin, the bandit Governor—His Retainer Fee from the Japanese.




The Country of Beans—Wheelbarrow transport over the frozen roads—Soy Bean Oil—Seattle, Portland and San Francisco buy most of it—The New Tariff on bean oil.





MONGOLIA



The Inland Empire of Asia—The great Cattle Range of the North—A Montana Wheat Country—Source of our tooth brush bristles.




A Country without a Railroad—Caravan Travel—Desert Robbers.




Urga—The Capital city—Why it has become Soviet—Japanese encouragement to independent fragments of China.





THE PHILIPPINES



3,100 Islands of which only 1,668 are Large enough to Name.




General Wood's Work—Are the Filipinos Ready for Independence?  The Head-Hunting Moros—Once the World's Plague Spot, the Islands now have a Death Rate of 8.8, which is half that of the City of Chicago!




Other Eyes on the Philippines—British Investments are three times ours—Chinese population predominates among the foreigners—Our Promise to Japan not to Fortify the Islands.




A Rich Export Trade—one-half the world's supply of Cocoanuts—Manilla Hemp—400,000,000 Cigars.





SIAM



The Only Independent Kingdom in Asia—A Buffer State between British and French Possessions.




Behind the Scenes with the Royal Rajah—His Wives and Palaces—The Cost of a Harem—Tiger Hunting, the chief outdoor sport.




Bangkok—The Capital City—A great Rice Port—Elephant Power instead of Donkey Engines.





THE EAST INDIES



These include a cluster of Dutch Islands which look like pinheads on the map of the South Pacific, but whose Area is One Quarter that of the United States.




Java is as large as Illinois, and supports One-Third as many People as Live in Our Entire Country—She sends her Coffee to almost every Breakfast Table.




Borneo, Sumatra, and a thousand other islands form an Undeveloped Empire of Wealth—Rubber and Sugar Plantations have made Millionaires—The Borneo Gorilla, or Wild Man.




The Discovery of Oil has caused a Rush for these Islands—Japan has Seized the Muri Archipelago, apparently to watch the British and French—Ports are being developed—Suspicious Activities like Oil Storage and Machine Shops point to Naval Bases—Does this mean International Conflict?





NEW ZEALAND



The White Man's Utopia—A Labor Parliament—A Labor Cabinet—Compulsory Arbitration—Government Owned Railroads—No Servants—Is New Zealand all that's cracked up to be?




The Native Maroi—Polynesian Beauties—Intermarriage with Whites—a Wedding Ceremony.




The Land of Wool—In the Mountains with the Flocks—A Sheep Auction.





HUMAN INTEREST STORIES



Gathered from all walks of life from all the countries of the East.  Drew Pearson has the happy faculty of being able to lose himself.  He gets down among folks, and writes from their angle.  He carries you with him.  His letters will average about 2000 words in length.





WHEN THE YELLOW MAN GETS A UNION CARD



The Orient can only undersell American goods because of cheap labor.  Will labor unions in the Orient soon give an advantage to American trade?




Japanese business men have created an 
Association of Harmonious Cooperation
 which attempts to head off union organization.




Strikes on the British Island of Hongkong.




Five Japanese workmen—one American; are they equal?





RAILROADS FOR THE GREAT COUNTRIES OF ASIA



Asia—the greatest continent, with 1/3 of the world's land mass, and 1/2 of the world's people, has only 6/100 of the world's railroads.




After our Civil War came a great railroad building boom in the United States.




After the World War there is starting a similar railroad development in Asia.




We have the greatest factories for manufacturing steel rails, locomotives, rolling stock.




HOW MUCH WILL WE SELL TO ASIA?





WHEN EAST MEETS WEST



The Orient is the world of contrasts.  A model city, cool concrete cotton mills, paved streets, electric cars.—A native city, crooked thatched huts, garbage-strewn streets, the stench of the dead and decaying.




A Christian College, gymnasium, hospital.—A Temple, dark, mouldy, a cluster of bed-bugs hanging like a hornet's nest from the rafters.




At Fushan, the Pittsburgh of Manchuria, coal tipples



The Management Takes Pleasure in Presenting 
THE COMING INTERPRETER OF OUR FAR EASTERN RELATIONS
NO-YONG PARK



Dr. No-Yong Park



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Harvard Scholar, Author, Lecturer on Oriental Questions, and a Prize-Winning Student in International Relations.




REDPATH BUREAU 1316 Kimball Bldg., - Chicago








DR. NO-YONG PARK AND HIS THEME



Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Seward and other American statesmen predicted nearly half a century ago that the center of the future world lies in the Pacific.  Certainly, their prophecies have already come true.  The Pacific and the Far East have become the storm-center of world affairs.  At the moment when the attention of the world is centered on the Far East, we take pleasure in presenting Dr. No-Yong Park.




Dr. No-Yong Park (Pao) was born and raised in Manchuria, and has lived through many of the storms that have shaken the Orient.  He has traveled and studied much in China, Japan, Europe, and America, and is most eminently qualified to interpret our Far Eastern relations without bias.




Dr. Park is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and holds degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University.




While in college he captured a number of prizes.  He was one of the winners of the International Essay Contest open to all foreign students in American colleges, the Harris Political Science Prize given to the students of the leading universities in the Middle West, and the Pillsbury Oratorical Contest at the University of Minnesota, competing with the American students in their own language.




At Harvard University he studied history and political science, majoring in international relations.  He wrote his doctorate dissertation on China and the League of Nations.




He has written among other works 
Making a New China
 and 
An Oriental View of American Civilization,
 and these have created a wide interest.  His latest book, to be published shortly, is ent