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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY HINE 51935.
NATIONAL ECONOMIC The Earth Was
COUNCIL
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Nanking
(Continued from Page 9) -
Guiseppi had wife and family. What
can a man want more fasked the village.
•
*
Good
born, and he grew hitter.
to
"It is the chastening hand of the loving Father," preached the priest. "It is no good resenting Him."
Other young fathers and has I want better times for
My bands, who had lost dear ones in Mr. Chin Feng. Secretarydren, live and not centesimi this plague from the fetid swamp General of the National Econo-the food of the earth, not only the behind their dwellings, came mic Council, stated last week that food of the sea he told them.
Guiseppi for aid. He drew up the the budget of expenditure of the
petition. He made them sign. The old fishermen tapped their
"It is possible," he told them. National Economic Council for.
beads significantly. A pity the lad I feel that it is possible. Some- the current fiscal year had been hade ever gone to Napoli. Great thug can be done.” fixed at $12,000,000, of which cities were not for their kind. Per Then came the waiting. $6,000,000 will be devoted to Bacco, but he was changed! Maybe It was a long, long while. It water conservancy work, and the he had a fever. Even Carmeza was a time when all hope for the remaining half to financing other grew angry with him. He fidgeted sweet, hot smell of crumbling earth her, she said; he was not so gay as seemed to have died down within The projects of the Council. budget had been submitted to the he had been: he spent hours star- him; when be almost forgot the ing at the marshes, and what good precious beauty of orange blossom Central Political Council for con-would ther do? He had his little and oleander fused together. sideration and approval
casa, he had a good wife, he had
“I wish to had never asked to go: Mr. Chin added that the total his soon, God willing, there would to Napoli,air Carmena in- expenditure for the activities of be another sent or perhaps a fine dignantly. “And” “anyway, who the Council last year was daughter. What could a man want wants Yesus here? Yesur is a |$15,000,000.—Chekiai Agency. more?
monster; he has killed more than all the marshes.”
OPIUM ADDICTS IN KWEICHOW
Must Cure Themselves Of Their Habit
Kweiyang-
marshes were
drained it
would
When the second son was born a fine lusty boy, the priest reproved "He is mad, he is possessed of a Guiseppi He was wasting his life looking for a dream and the devil, insisted the village, "If the priest. He had been born a fisher-mean we should be turned aways man, and he must stay one. It was we should have to pay taxes. He is grand calling. Had not the just has not thought
blessed disciples been fishermen too? Although another malaria plague; Guiseppi grew sullen. He had still smote the little village, and smote the smell of the warm earth in his hard, they still beld to their ob- still the longing stinate opinions nostrils; he had
and blossom Guiseppi had so for dark cypresses,
much. What The new regulations govern- oleanders, for grain in its yellow does a man want more? ing the suppression of poppy green, springing up out of the There came the day when cultivation and opium-smoking darkness, instead of these wastes of chinery appeared. The fishermen in Kweichow were passed by the fever-ridden swarop.
lered it without enhusiasm. Only Kweichow Provincial Govern- Then suddenly Guiseppi found Guiseppi and the few eager young Iment at its meeting recently his strength. Suddenly he realised men who had joined him pressed The regulations stipulate that that there was a new generation forward to learn about it. The all opinn smoking dens in the here, a generation, that he could
powers that be had had their at province must be closed within fuse with some of his own fretention drawn to the waste land three years and that all opium He called a meeting.
The little petition, shifted ・ and addicts must care themselves of The old Ssherfolk grumbled to shunted into this channel and that, their habit within the
same gether. That Guiseppi, he is pos-had at last found its way into the [stated period.
sessed of a devil. He will bring hands of some discerning person. harm to the little village. He does The subject had been thrashed out, FINANCIAL POSITION In corinection with the re-not bode us well. What has come and now the great work was begin adjustment of finances in the over Guiseppi these days?"
ning. province, Mr. Li Chung-kung. The priest preached of discon-
They worked day and night. Provincial Commissioner of tent. The good God had given them You have brought ruin to us," Finance, stated that the budget so much, why did they ask more? the fisherfolk told Guiseppi, and for the fiscal year of 1935-36 Few in this world had everything they threatened his little cast. 24th June had been prepared and that the they wanted,
Palusti and the
"What have you done?” shrieked estimated revenue income for Pontine had been there as long as Carmens in a fury. He had always! the year was $70,000,000-
Why grumble about it?
been so
stupid, this husband of regards expenditure, Mr. Li said
hers! He was not content with the that the budget provided for an At first Guiseppi had difficulty-things that contented every other increase of $500.000 in educa- They young fishermen listended to man. He wanted more. All this tional expenses and that of him with no quickening of spirit talk about grapes and grain, and $1,500,000 in reconstruction ex-He spoke of the new Italy, the great food coming out of the earth! penses Chekiai Agency.
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