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S UDDENLY, at the door there was a murmur
of voices and the clatter of swords against
leather boots. Then there rose, loud and
hearty above the murmur, a single voice, coarse as
a peasant's voice. Everj' head in the assembly hall
liis own plainness and simph'city that later I was
not surprised by a rumor that in spite of cotton
outer garments, he wore silk ne.xt his skin. He
could not, in fact, keep from boasting a little about
his simplicity, so that I began to know he was
of the University of Nanking turned as though a not simple.
wind had blown over them at the sound of ihut I looked closely at that great, round fac«. True,
dominating voice. The crowd at the door parted at first glance it appeared a smiling peasant face,
suddenly, and Feng Yu Hsiang, the war lord, stood full of good huQior and naïvelé. But there was
upon the threshold, and pausing dramatically, he cruelty too. About the smiling lips was cruelty; in
surveyed us. the little, glittering black eyes, cruelty; if the face
There he stood, a huge, thick figiire of a man, fell into repose for an instant, there was the sullen-
garbed in the blue cotton cosLume he affects, half ness of cruelty.
soldier, half peasant. His head was bare—a round I began to remember stories I had heard of this
bllllsthead upon which the black hair was spiky, man ; how he would aeize food from peoplein famine-
close-cropped, coarse. The face was red and pug- stricken lands, and even relief stores ; how, when he
nacious, lit with a wide and cheerful grin. The lips came into the room each morning where his subor-
were coarse and full, the neck thick, set into dinateswaitedforhim, they held their breath. What
hunched, thick shoulders. A leather belt was about is the mood today ? Will the war lord's brows draw
his great waist, and a sword luing over one huge down and his mouth remain surly? Then one must
haunch. His legs, too, were strong and great in the watch for the outburst. But if that broad face
calves, and his large feet were incased ir the leather crinkles into the great, beaming smile, then one can
shoes that common soldiers wear. Only his hands breathe again for the hour.
had a hint of sensual delicacy. They were hig
hands, but well-shaped, as all Chinese hands are;
one rested lightly upon the hilt of his sword and Kings for a Day
the other held his cheap straw hat—a hat such as
all his soldiers wore. He looked right and left,
beaming upon us, and then he strode mightily up
AYERYany caprice—aooe and vindictivecheer and
moody man,
. jokes; another, sullen
pable of
day all good
and ca-
capricious faee. I could
the aisle, and with majesty mounted the platform give credence to the tale of his sudden Christian
beneath the picture of Sun Yat Sen, under tbe conversion, and how, afterwards, he bad baptized
crossed flags of the Chinese thousands of his men with
Republic. ai-ubberhose,onthetheor>'
Feng Yu Hsiang, enemy of that if Christianity were
the Nationalist Government, Feng Y, a good thing, they must
enemy a.t one time or another all be Christian.
of almost every government, For a dozen years and
independent war lord, some- more T lived under war-
time Christian general, some- lord rule. I could not
time Bolshevist sympathizer, now, if I would, give the
sometime almost any thing, was rames of each war lord;
come to Nanking t« announce there were so many. Yet
publicly his loyalty to the new they differ considerably,
régime. too, one from the other.
Smiling, self-eonfident,bru- After a war was over and
tal in his hugeness, with more we were at peace under
than a hint of savagery' in his the ™torious war lord,
erudeness, he radiated a humor, things might be better or
a power, a personality. woi-ae with us. A benefi-
cent war lord may be a
Cotton Camouflage blessing to the territory
he has won, especially if he
T pSTQUESTIONABLY sin- has ousted a very bad one.
KJ core as he was—and I Chiang Kal Shok.
Goneratitilmo of Sun Chuan Fang, for in-
think he is always sincere at the Moat Maliern stance, was such a one.
the moment—yet there were Under his míe in Nan-
evidences enough in his dra- Mauntetl on Hia
king, although it was said
matic bearing, as well as in FaoorltB Charlar,
what he said, that he was the Black Drasan he was an opium smoker,
unflonsoious -poseur, the self- we had peace and com-
dramatized lord of war. He parative prosperity. He
referred oft«n to his pea«a,nt waa benevolent by nature,
garb, and he made so much of and if one could gain his
ear, he was just. He knew

2. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST
Bomething of Westerners and respected Western cul- away from him, unable to bear his t-apriciousness. commerce in cities, and they and their men quarter-
tire and made it easy for white people to live under They iire won, in the first place, by the man's indubi- ing themselves relentlessly in, first, the homes of the
liim. He was aeeeasible and a man of some ability. table chann, by his obvious sincerity iu his passion rieh and weli-to-do, and then even in the homes of
Wu Pei Fu, too, is one of the honored among war of the moment. For Feng Yu Hsiang is, I believe, the poor.
lords. He has a record of being mediator between sincere in his every temporary phase of reform, and How often have I gone to visit a friend at such a
rival factions, has been a bitter foe of Communism, his ehangefulness is largely the changefulness of the time, and instead of children running to meet me at
has been loyal to a marked dc- untutored and powerful mind, the gate, instead of a servant maid's cheerful greeting
greo—certainly to a degree un- grasping at any good, but un- and my friend's warm courtesy, I have found idle
usual for a war lord—to thoso to able to find or to make coher- louts of soldiers filling the pretty courtyards or lying
whom he has pledged loyalty. ence in thought or action. For snoring on the thresholds, and gambling and quarrel-
He was once offered the plaoc of instance, thi-ough several months ing in stately old halls ! I pass through in silence, not
president of tho Chinese Re- he studied chemistry at the Uni- seeming to notice the stares, not hearing the gibes
public as a bribe, if he would versity of Nanking, rising von.' flung at a white woman, and I go, my head bent and
dosert his then-ally Chang Tso early oach morning to make my eyes downcast, into the innermost courts. There,
Lin, and he refused the bribo. timo for it, convinced at that in a few rooms, huddled together, I find my friends,
preferring to keeji faith. Sonic moment that science would save wean,', saddened, hopeless; for this thing has hap-
years ago he retired into the tho nation. Undoubtedly ho fools pened to them many times. The children are silent
study of Buddhist philosoithy. a sense of personal inadeituacj', and afraid, the women careful not to show them-
keeping his army, however, hut a hunger for knowledge, but he selves, the men anxious and dejected. "How long?"
never again taking the ai.'ti-e is so constituted that he cannot I ask. "Who knows?" comes the answer.
part that ho bad in tho game of carry anything through to a con-
war lords. He has played, on clusion. Pawns in the War Came
the whole, an honorable part, The American may take T'ith
and those who know him wpll, HAVE grown accustomed now to visiting a friend
speak of liini always with respect.
He himself says that he would
equanimity an inconspicuous
nolire in the inside pages of his
newspaper which tells of civil
I and seeing the whole aspect of her ménage changed.
so Ihat what was yesterday a comfortable, middle-
rather have been :i scholar than war again being waged in China class home, today looks poverty-stricken and bare,
a warlord, could he have had his cnang CM under the Cîenerals 8o-aiid-So. all the little family treasures of vases and scrolls put
way. and he would rather be But civil war means that, some- away and not a silk coat to be seen ; even the children
rememViered for his poems than tor his liattles. Un- whore in the continent we call China, millions of wearing patched garments and soiled aprons. To my
fortunately, his poems aro not too good. Nevorlhe- people are paiiic-itrickon. Farmers planting their lifted eyebrows, the answer is, " I t may be that
less, to the Chinese it is a sign of distinction and oven seeds wonder and douVit whether they will see the Chang's army comes this way today."
of aristocracy that a war lord profors to be a scholar, han'est. In cities and lowns, business halts; mer- When I go out again into the streets, there is fear
chants plan frantically where to on every face. Soldiers are everywhere, demanding
.All Things to AH Men put their money—safest in some what they will—bread loavos from the traveling
foreign bank, perhaps—shop- vender, a hat from a hat shop, shoes, a watch—
N O OTHER war lord in ro-
cont years has had so well
trained and discipliiiod an army
keei)ers put their best wares out
of sight, whore tho greedy eyes
of passing soldiers will not fall
whatever strikes the fancy. And there is little money
to bo seen. Occasionally a soldier will shout good-
naturedly enough, "I'll pay you tomorrow!" The
as had Feng Yu Hsiang. upon them. shopkeeper answers without enthusiasm, "Tomor-
By the magic of that power- Each city takes on a curious, row!" and they both know tomorrow will never
ful, passionate, proud, iciio- shut look, w;iiting, tense, Tho come, Yot what can one do who has no gun where-
rant, dri-ing, capricious person- ri'hi-r families send their women with to answer a customer with a gun?
ality, a personality di^^ded so and I'hildrcn away, and day 80, as I pass along tho street homeward, there is
strangely into good and evil, after day the streets are full suUenness and fear upon the faces of the people. The
and yet bound together, too, by of this procession of the rich, customary' good humor and readiness to smile which
a Eort of wild charm, he has for fleeing. The poorest, tho rÜTrafí characterize the average Chinese crowd are gone.
long been able to hold to him who have nolhing to loso, tako There is only that one group in the city who laugh—
not only ignorant peasants and on an expectant look, their that crowd of beggars, of wandering ne'er-do-wells,
vagabonds and the what-you- dreams filled with looting. dosperiitely poor, who live in little matting huts that
will which make up Chinese Moan while tho war lords are cling to some high brick wail like barnacles to a ship.
armies, but even students have marshaling their armies. Soon These hope for confusion, for they can gain by it.
joined his ranks, and Western thesi* armies, partly made up of They rush in between the looting soldiers like silent
trained men, who have been his ragged and unlulored peasants, grny rats, seizing what they can and making off
officers and so-called adnscrs: Chang tho surplus on home farms al- with it,
although it is not known that he ready overcrowded, partly half- I have lived for many years as ono of the common
has ever taken any adicc—and all this at iiicrodiUly traiiieil soldiers, will go marching across miles of people, and I know that they have learned to accept
small pay, because he knows how tó appeal to tlie country, In'iiig DIT the |ii'(.i[ile as they go, eating the :ia inevitable these recurrent periods in Chinese life
human need for idealism. It is true, however, that food i f villatrcrs and farmers, their leaders demand-
» when central control is weakened or lacking and dis-
sooner or later those moro highly trained men break ing money from merchants in towns and chambers of order prevailing. They have learned through long
China*« Soldier* of th» Typ» of Flghtins M»n Who Poltouj the Leaderthip of rfie War Lord*
kgrn

3. THE SATURDJIY EVENING POST
experience how to look even poorer than they are, Rbek, and well we know why. It has taken on the singing vietoiy, and by way of consolation, and per-
how to hide any good garment or bif, of furniture, form of man, and he is that man!" haps also in order to provide themselves with supper,
how to crowd with relatives or neighbors a. house "Why do j'ou think so?" I inquired further. they robbed a prosperous village on the way, hanging
that seems a little larger than necessarj-. The vender leaned to hiss into my ear, "When the chief villager on a tree because he protested,
In the old days before the revolution, when for- it rains as be goes forth to battle, he wins; if Battlcinthesedaysis afar more serious thing. Prac-
eigners in Cliina were immune from attack, the sure the sun shines, he loses. Next time see for yourself." tically all war lords employ foreign advisers—most
sign of a, coming ai-my was that my neigiibors arrived And the war lords make the usually Russians or Germans—
one by one secretly, after dark, bearing boxes and most of the.se stories in order to who tell their employers of mod-
bulging bundles of valuables which they wished to em weapons and equipment. The
deposit in the treatj'-protected safety of my attic. It increase their infiuonce over the
people. They are actors all, and war lord, naturally, is anxious
is significant, however, that in these times no such to procure what he can, and the
deposits are made. they model themselves upon the
heroes of old. They like to walk result has been the introduction
There is, in spite of great actual suffering and cer- with great strides, nnd they into China of an amazing amount
tainly much discomfort, at such times a curious ex- draw down their brows and pull of modern war equipment.
citement among the people. While we wait for the their whiskers and roar forth
soldiers to appear, straggling at first and then pour- their commands. I have slood Divided We Fall
ing through the city gates, WQ stop our work, and by the side of the street as their
men and women gather about in little dusters in armies went niiirching by, and I 0Y much is actually avail-
courtyards—those of us who have not beer able to have seen the lords of war able it is impossible to say,
take refuge with the rich in some other city—ard mounted in the old days on for war lords have bought inde-
stories are e.chaneed and enlarged upon—stories of great northern horses, and in pendently of one another, and
the war lord now approaching. One hears how the these latter days in big njotor no one knows what their re-
war lord cut off the ears of an entire enemy army, cars, armed guards upon tbe sources are. Last year, during
numbering tliree thousand and more men, aod one running boards. I have noted the Japanese attack on Shang-
hears how, after the last battle four weeks ago, the theirfiercelooks and heard their hai, a general in the Chinese
canals were filled with dead bodies of soldiers and roars and shouts, and dared not Government army said:
civilians, so that crabs, which had always been dear laugh i[ I would, because they "If we could persuade the
in that town, and food only for the rich, became sud- were too proud to endure ' '''^ war lords to unite and pool their
denly cheap, because the rich were fastidious and laugh ter. equipment and their best-
would not eat them, and so the poor could feast. But. In the old days, the war lord'.s army equipment trained men, we should have a national army of no
always the talk centers about the war lord—his was fairly simple. Each man had a sword or a spear mean size or sort to oppose to Japan."
tempers, his extravagances, his reckless courage. or some simple weapon ; the scheme of battle included The war lord is always the complete individualist.
These stories, though they reveal incredible suffering fierce make-up and a liberal use of war cries and yells, Loyalty to any cause e.xcept his own is not in him.
on the part of the people who e.vperience them, and a fairly fixed system of at- The alliances and betrayals
reveal, too, a, sort of fascination which such vivid tacks, retreats, feints and am- among war lords resemble noth-
personalities have for the common people. The peas- bush. War in the old days was a ing so much as a checkerboard.
ant, the villager, the man on the street accepts war leisurely affair, a business to be Time and again at the crucial
as his fate and looks upon the war lord as a creature called off for a holiday, or if it hour of a great CÍT1 war between
supernatural, nlmost, in quality. There is always raiaed or was otherwise un- war lords. Chinese and while
some storj' to explain his origin; he is the person- comfortable, men alike have waited breath-
ification of some god, some star, some magic- creature. I remember a battle between lessly to see which side Feng Yu
attacking bandits and govern- Hsiang- would take, before bet-
The Jlge of Fable ment soldiers which took place ting on the 'ictor>-. Time and
about ten years ago in a little again he has been the unknown
TjVEN Chiang Kai S!hek, generalissimo of the most interior city in North China factor in a critical situation, for
JL/ modern of China's armies, is so explained. I where we happened to be living his personal loyalty can never be
stood once in a crowd and watched him pass, tall, at the time. The bullets fiew counted upon. He has long lived
impassive, erect, his face shaped into the most cor- back and forth all day over our and ruled in the fastnesses of
rect martial aspect, when suddenly, at my shoulder, little Chioese house, which hap- Northwest China, emerging
I heard someone say. pened to b© between the two from time to time to make one
"Ah, I know what he is!" armies, since it stood just inside of his famous coups d'Stat,
I turned in curiosity to see n vender of calces, his the city wall. But night fell and
it became time to go home to He is in one sense a reformer,
basket on his arm and his cakes covered with the for when the times seem to him
usual black cloth, "What?" I asked in curiosity. supper and bed, and so the gov-
emment soldiers stopped to sing too much out of joint, he sweeps
"He is a water monster," replied the man, lower- " *"""«• down out of his mountains even
ing his voicB to a whisper. "He was born in Fengbua tbe sorg of victorj', and picking
into the old capital itself, and un-
as I was also, and there are great waters there, and up their few wounded—for the bandits had not been seats a weak ruler and governs, himself, for a while.
in those waters there lived once a huge beast, which notably successful in their marksmanship—they Feng Yij Hsiang'shist oryirf filled u-ith alliances broken
came up onto tbe land and devoured men. But it has went home. Outside the city wall, whose gates they at a moment's whim. One of the most famous of these
not been once seen since the birth of Chiang Kai had not been able to force, tbe bandits retired, also (Continued on Pana 7SJ
/ tha Unloormlty of Nanking Camput Prom the South

4. 76 THE SJITURD/IY EVENING POST •sprii sa, loas
(Contlnumd from Pag» 74J " Let's see if we can get up an order
is no wfty to cstabliali at this lato hour the that will suit everybody!"
identiliea of buth ehlldrcQ coocerned." The order was got up then and there;
Tby siirroßüte put by the report and and, heingconsented to by the attorney-
looked gravely at his guests. "But general, appeared in the Law Journal a
that leaves iis just where we were!" week later.
"No," said Callan. " I t establishes Here is the Wherefore that disposed
thiit one of tlip six other children is of the Braden fortune, after all advis-
Ric'liiird Bradcn. As to wliich one it is, able and necessary Whereaaes had been
you must sol tie that among yourselves. set down with due attention to form
You L'un spend another twenty years and precedent:
squîibbliug: over it, until the estate is
divided amonp six lawyers." Wherefore, the public administrator is
" What is your advice, judge? " asked heroby limpowerod, directed and ordered
Abel, cupping his eliiii in his hand. to pay over to the following person», nat-
ural and corporatQ, the aums sot oppoalttj
" Gentlemen," said the surrogate. " I thL'Lr respective names, out of the fund of
give it to you as my private opinion two hundred and seventy thousaad dol-
tha,t (he young m!tn who was killed in lars in his hands, and bcinp; the estate of
the airplane accident was Richard Richard Braden, late of the County oí
Bradon, That is the referee's opinion, Nca- York, deceased; to
too; in privnte. However, a court of R-iymont Canopel SJD,f»O.nO
law is bound by ibe evidence that is Walter Tupwot 45,000.00
presented to it and may not disregard Abd RoEço 45,000.00
it when it iy uncontradicted and at all Chilton Ducray 45,000.00
credible. It was supplemented by the The State or New York 90,000.00
testimony taken in the West, and Ihe Taking from each person his or its duly
referee could not find except as he did. executed r c c i p t for the aame. So Ordered,
One of you four ymiiig trenilemen, or SEIKKIUAN D . CALLAN, (y¡(¡;ned).
the State of New York, is entitled to Surrogate. New York C o u n t y .
the money. Hadn't you belter settle Editor'n Note—Thij is the Imt of Tour jtoriw by
amotig you? M I , McMorrow,
(Conllnaed frc Page 5)
desertions was of Wu Pei Fu in 1024, one who would be kind if ho could.
when Wu Pei Fu's army met the army But necessity presses him hard. He
of (_'hang Tso Lin, then united to Sun shrugs his shoulders and says:
Yiit .Sen. Wu Pei Fu de|iorded upon " I know that rtiy soldiers stay with
Feng Yu ITsiang. but Feng Failed Wu me only because I feed them and clothe
at a t-ritii'id moment and caused his Ihem and give them five dollars a
defeat. Feng Yu Msiang then moved month. So long as I do that, they will
willi triumiih iiilo IVkiiig ¡uid seized it,
be loyal and even fight for me. If I do
imprisoning the president. Ts'ao Kun. not give thero this, then they will turn
who, in his turn, liatl previously been a on me, and moreover, they will be-
war lord alsn. nnd Imd himself had a come robbers and rob the people any-
spectjic-ular rise to tbe presidency from way. Therefore " And again he
a peasant lad peddling notions on tbe slirugs and sips his tea.
streets of Tii'iilsin. For this same reason he must be
In 1926 Feng Vu Hsiatig fought oblivious to a degree of certain excesses
bitterly against the revolutionary bis soldiers commit, and after they
forces. In 1027 he met Chiang Ivai bave fought to victory, be must let
Shek iiiid i-;uTie to ati agreement witli them havi? at least the three days of
Ihe ieoltitio[iiiiy government, accept- looting which Ihey expect as their re-
ing as his sliai'e in the program Ihe ward. If (he war lord has control over
driving out of the Commuiiists from a province, or more or less, he remits n
T T E ALTH is so precious. You can't be loo Hankow. Tlii> be, frimkly. never did. certjiin portion of the revenues to the
•'- -•• careful — particularly a bou I how foods arc 5Íni'e be had at that time Kiissian sj'ni- central civil government, if be must
packed. T h e coocaintr?, in whicti you huy ¡ct patliifs and even Russian advisers in maintain relations with them, or he
cream—and oihcr siort-packcd foods like col- his army. In 102',) he changed again, may remit nothing, if he knows he need
lage chc-ese, salads, seafoods, and relishes —
this time denouni-ing tlic National not be afraid if he does not. Often it
Government, und with ihe help of lii.s suits him to declare himself out of
should hii a.s cleao, pure, and free from germs one-time eneinj, the war lord Yen llsi sympathy with the government, and
Shaii, he set up ;i r]':il go'ernment in so he is relieved of the necessity of
Peiping. Ill his turn, Yen failed Feng, giving it support. Much of China is
and Feng was coni[K'llt/d lo gi^•e up liis ruled today by war lords in this fashion.
plans in the autumn of thai same year. although a number give nominal, or
real, allegiance to the central govern-
Once ealablished, the war lord se- ment.
cures revenue by demanding sums
from chambers of commerce in cities, There are various sources of revenue
from merchant organizations, from for a war lord. Of course, one of the
wealthy ritinilies and large shops. Be- complaints of yoting China has been
yond this, lie leA'ies taxes on land and that foreign groups have extended un-
on imports and exjiorts, and on any- duly the life of the war lord in modern
thing which he can .-¡eo to tax. In one China, where, properly speaking, he is
such region, I know that tlie war loi'd, an anachronism. The modern Chinese
who, althoujrli a military official of the feels extremely indignant that certain
government, maintains bis private powera have subsidized certain war
army, ha.'i already levied in advance lords. It is said that for years Japan
tt'ii years' la.xes on the land. Last year so subsidized Chang Tso Lin in North
that region was completely swept by China. England has been so accused
famine, but even so lie combed clean also; althotigii certainly with lesa
the country for his ¡ii mies. His soldiers reason. Business organisations in for-
wen I into farmers' houses and searched eign countries have been aceused of
for little, hidden wtores of grain, and fostering war by selling ann,s to war-
they seized beasts of labor, and when ring militarista, and bankers of lending
relief stores were sent in, little of it money to war lords. Certainly, large
reached the people. stims of money have been lent by
countries to war lords on security of
Nor can I wholly blame the old war special privileges, and one cannot now
lord. I know him, and he is a genial blame yonng China for repudiating
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5. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 77
those debts as ohligationB for which she and thus ho as great as be likes. But some inherent greatness. The war lord
cannot be responsible.
The war lord has been the stuff, in
they must remain dreams. The old days
can. never return. I believe that this
is a creature of emotion; cruel or mer-
ciful, as tbe whim is; dangerous and
BOSTON SAYS:
the past, of which emperors have been generation. wiD see the end of these unstable as friend or enemy; licentious
made. In the history of China, war heroic war-lord figures. and usually fond of luxury. Of one of
lords have had a definite part. Be- For they are heroic in size, far the most notorious of China's recent
tween the decline of each dynasty and gi-eater than the average man. When I war lords, Chang Chung Ch'ang, one-
the beginning of the next there has tbink of them I think of the huge, time bandit chieftain, but now dead, it
always been a period of cixnl war, and brutal, powerful figures which stand to was said that there were three tbings
the victorious war lord inevitably guard at the entrances of Bnddhist he did not know: How mnch monej' he
seized the throne and started the new temples—towerinç; ligures with great had; how many soldiers he had; and
reigning house. A few j'ears ago I hands and feet and glaring eyes. And how many wives he had.
heard a bewildered war lord say in even thongh some of the war lords I Yet tbe war lord is usually a lonely
disgruntlement: have known are actually small and creature. He dares trust no one, nor is
"In the old days, war was a good- slight in stature, this impre.ssion of he sure of any loyalty, and he must rule
enough business, because there was
some purpose to be seen in fighting.
size clings lo the memory of tbem. In
the old war novels the heroes were al-
by fear. And his loneliness is not merely
the actual loneliness which so danger-
THUMBSSJDOWN
One could sit upon a thi-oiie and see ways made greater than life size. "He ous a. life as the war lord's forcea upon ON ORDINARY BEANS
one's sons princes. But aowad;iys what was ten feet tall," tbe tale reads. I him. It is not merely tbe loneliness of a
is there to sit upon? What, is the use oT know he was not, but I know he man surrounded by hirelings, whom he
trying to be a president when one's son seemed lo be through some inner power must keep appeased lest they turn on
cannot inherit? Oh, these new times be had. him. It is an inner, spiri tual loneliness.
have upset au the good old ways!" But his greatness will not help him Whoever wins in China today—the
He took a great sip of tea from the now. He has outlived the iniEigination young intellectuals who make up the
cup on the table at his elbow, pulled of the new daj^ The hero of young government and who, if they succeed
his beard, cleared bis throat and spat China i,*; a smartly trained Western sol- in n^aintaining thenaselves in the face
with great indignation. dier, equipped with every weapon sci- of their two great enemies, the Com-
He is typical of the war lord of to- ence can give him, and disciplined to a munists and the Japanese, must con-
day. The old pattern is broken, the old
rewards are gone. But the war lord of
the present time has not entirely given
up hope. As one of them said in my
hearing last spring, "I drink tea witb
goose step.
The mind of the war lord is aot a
modern mind. It is aot capable of
thinking in terms of national unity.
tinue to grow in power; or the Com-
munists, now organizing in formidable
numbers in the interior provinces; or
even if Japan should, for the time be-
ing, be successful — the days of the war
FORKS UP
[he government officials ;ind I swear
Tbe war lord still jealoLisly preser'es
his individualism. His is a mind living lord are passing, as much else is passing WHEN THEY'RE
my allegiance to my country. Thus I ir the traditions of the pa^it, preserving of the old Cbinpse life.
sfitisfy tbe demands of patriotism. At
the same time 1 maintain intact my
the pattern of an old day. Tills is
partly, of course, because, geuerally
OVEN
army. , . . Who knows how long I Patriots or Gangsters Nobody knows baked beans like
speuking, the war lord rises from very
shall need to drink this tea?" humble origin. Many of them cannot I know he must pa.ss. There is an the folks of Boston. So no wooder
read and write. Their sole education increasing hatred of him throughout B & M Beans are the most popular
^ Leaf From Western Books has been in story-tellers' booths or at China. The acquaintance witb modern beans in the original bean-town!
theatrical performances and L armies
a methods of government, the growth of Aod how you will relish their old-
So he, like the half dozen or so of of i.gnorant men. It is not to be won- education among tbe common people,
dered at tbat tbey cannot comprehend fashioned baked'in* goodness!
China's otber war lords, recrnits his the conviction that civil war need not
men from among the ranks of half- the vast change tjiking place in be accepted as an inevitable part: of a B & M Beans are selected California
starved peasants or the surplus popu- China—a change wbicli eliminates tbe nation's life, a new national sonse that pea beans . . . made flavorful by
lation of cities, and, in order to main- need for them from tbe stage. Tbey will not tolerate the feudal traditions spicy sauce . . . made mealy and
tain them and himself, be settles upon hope secretly, bu [ in vain, tbat even yet of the past which onable a single man
the tide will turn and the bour change i.Y//-i/-flavorfuI by long hours of real
a province at a prudent distance in tbe to maintain an army and defy the gov- brick-oven baking , , , and topped
interior, or he offers his seirices to the iit'ain backward to the old times. ernment—aH these are signs of the
government for suppressing bandits passing of the war lord. off witb cbunks of juicy pork. Just
Yet, even if no waj-lord ever sees anj'- taste them — with B & M Brown
somewhere, and there, upon a terri- thing quitinas it is—himself least of all— More important, perhaps, is the
tory for wbich he is presumably respon- and though be may be illiterate, this is practical expresiiion of public opinion Bread — and discover wby this is
sible, he settles himself and his men. not to say tbat war lords are unintelli- W'hieh shaped itself in a declaration Boston's best-loved dish!
He is at once a part of the government gent or incompetent men. Qnit© the made by Chinese bankers in Shanghai
scbeme and not a part. It has obvi- coiitrarj'. Without exception, the war Mail coupon for free index packet
last spring tihat under ro circumstances of famous Down East recipes.
ously been impossible for the weak and lords I have known bave been men of would they lend further moneys for
struggling new government in China to unusual native ability, gifted with pe- ibe carrying on of civil war. Here in- *Reac/ fhe Label
defeat army after army of the various culiar personal cbiirm, with imiiginii- deed is a stopping of war at its aouree. We gttaraiitee these beans
war lords. Time and again, Chiaog Kai tion and strength, and often with a There are two possible occupations lo be genuinely oveti-bakecl,
Shek has secnred by compromise and rude poetic quality. Above all, they left for the C'hinese war lord. He may U'ith pork aud sauce, in
by tbe pajinent of sums of monej^ a carry about witb tbem, in them, a sense throw bis armies to be a liWng wall open pols in brick nvens,
somiloyalty from a war lord—a loy- of high drama. Tbe war lord sees him- against tbe approach of Japan. Ke has until thoroughly baked
alty sufficient at least for the govern- self great—iind great in the traditional no equipment to match Japan's, bjt he and ready tu eat, before
ment to claim jurisdiction over the terri- iealiag in tins. Tieiiiiiiid
manner of heroes of ancient tiction and has the enormous mass of raen whom this gnar.int£e and heu'urc
tory he rules. If this situation seems history who are so ine.xtricably mingled he can bank against Japan's gucs- The the commercial misuse of
incredible to the American obsen'er, il] tbe old (^'hinese novels. He is, in slangbter will be feari'ul, hut there are the term "oveii-huked."
he needs only to remember tbe gangster, etTcct, an actor by nature, as Napoleon enougb men to last a long time. A year
tbe racketeer and iho bootlegger. was, as Mussolini is, and, like tbem, of ago I heard a war lord say, "At least
we bave a man to slop
Almost every war lord every .lapaneso bullet; we
I have known feels him- can spare a man for every
self inwardly a defeated bullet they have, and still
man, and defeat is the have enough to feed."
one thing he cannot ac- Thiamayyetbetbe cruel
cept. Oftenhe wishes he solution to China's over-
had chosen another ca- population. a.s well as
reer. One war lord I
know wishes that he had
been a scientist; anotber
wishes he had been a
to the burden of the
hordes of halC-trainod,
hungry men wlio make
up the war lords'
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