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...simple, hometown ceremony. But next June?! Next June, President Coolidge, the great man of the present hour, will visit Marion and make a speech. He will help Marion and the Nation dedicate the Harding sepulchre, even as President Roosevelt entered Ohio in September, 1907, to make a speech at Canton and dedicate what was then "Ohio's Shrine", the sepulchre of William McKinley...
...snow-flecked Peking, not in tropical Canton, and not in any of the thousands of square miles that lie between did Chinese cry to one another, last week, Rung Hor Sun Hay! ("Happy New Year!"). Reasons: in the second place, very few Chinese had legitimate cause for happiness; and, in the first place, their "new year" does not come until February?when it is observed with fireworks. Thus the thoughts of the docile, unoffensive people of China were not lightened by holiday fripperies, last week, but they were darkened and depressed by a grim certainty: it is at this season...
While Dr. Sun lived, Chiang Kai-shek was but an humble disciple. After his death, the disciple eventually became generalissimo of all the Nationalist Armies and led them up from Canton to conquer the southern half of China (TIME...
...spat upon as the group tramped their sorrowful way to execution. . . . Five rifles spat their leaden charge. Five bodies ln turn wilted to rise no more. . . ." Thus the South China Morning Post of Hongkong described, last week, the typically Chinese epilogue to an ugly two-day uprising at Canton, fomented by Soviet Russian Communists. The sole eye-witness account of this revolt to be cabled to the U. S. came from U. S. Consul at Canton Jay C. Huston. Cabled he: "Control of Canton was seized by so-called workers and soldiers, numbering about 5,000. The police were disarmed...
...wholesale." Critical readers of this despatch wondered why the forces of law and order were described by Consul Huston in such vague terms as "troops" and "soldiers." Whose troops? What soldiers? Very probably the harassed Consul did not know-perhaps no one knew. All that remains in Canton by way of "government" is a fluid group of military men whose leaders constantly bottle up one another. Their "troops," however, still retain the discipline and weapons needed to mop up a "rabble" led by "Russians...