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Manual laborers have experienced a drop in their standard of living, but a rise in relation to educated workers. Ricksha coolies live as well as clerks and teachers. War has shaken the family system by scattering families, calling youths into war work, liberating women. People banding together to fight economic misery crowd together in houses and form eating cooperatives. People eat more in restaurants because of the high cost of fuel and servants...
...Doctor. The man whose job it has been to try to stem China's inflation, and whose Ministry has often been accused of aggravating it, is Minister of Finance Dr. H. H. ("Daddy") Rung. Seldom has even a horse-&-buggy doctor operated under such harassments as the coolie-&-ricksha society of bomb-torn Chungking has imposed on aristocratic Dr. Kung, 75th descendant of Confucius. An active ingredient of the inflation has been lack of confidence in the finances of the Chiang Kai-shek Government. Some of his henchmen have been accused of worse things than incompetency...
...code of conduct, Japanese soldiers assumed in Indo-China the role of liberators, fraternized with the natives and invited them to inspect and play with the guns of the hitherto forbidden French coast defense. Thousands of agents preached the New Order and distributed pamphlets explaining it. Lavishing tips on ricksha coolies and beggars, Japanese officers protested loudly their affection for the people...
...Nelson Johnson is a regular Old King Cole. He is plump as a pillow. He has thinning pale-gold hair, with lashes and brows to match, a face all shades of pink, from salmon to sunset, big enough nose, strong chin, mouth with a chronic smile. In ricksha, cutaway or gas mask he looks more like a tire salesman than an Ambassador...
Please discontinue the roster of women hauled in rickshas by college coolies [TIME, Aug. 5 ]. This short haul idea will spread and does not need endorsement. The rider gets a superior feeling. The puller gets needed cash. Industry has a new article to manufacture and in time we forget we've sunk to an Oriental level. Promoters will circus ricksha marathons and soon the fine points of the white human horse will be contrasted with those of the black one. Personally I'd back my old Chinese puller against the finest any college could turn...