. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. TWO KINDS OF WORKERS IN BURMAOne of the pleasures of being on the road to Mandalay was to see the —Elephints a-pilin teakIn the sludgy, squdgy creek The elephants of Bangoon are as fascinating as the camels of Peking. Butone never gets hardened to the every-day Oriental spectacle of human beingsharnessed like oxen to weary burdens, many of which make those in the lowerpicture look light by comparison ASIAS GREATEST LESSON FOR AMERICA 183
. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. TWO KINDS OF WORKERS IN BURMAOne of the pleasures of being on the road to Mandalay was to see the —Elephints a-pilin teakIn the sludgy, squdgy creek The elephants of Bangoon are as fascinating as the camels of Peking. Butone never gets hardened to the every-day Oriental spectacle of human beingsharnessed like oxen to weary burdens, many of which make those in the lowerpicture look light by comparison ASIAS GREATEST LESSON FOR AMERICA 183 it costs you only five cents for your ride, and five minutestime. In Peking, on the other hand, it takes forty men pullingrickshaws to transport the forty passengers; and though thepullers are cheap laborers, it costs you more money and anhours time to get to your destination — even if you are solucky as not to be taken to the wrong place. Forty men to do the work that two would do at home!Men and women weavers doing work that machines would doat home. Grain reaped with sickles instead of with horsesand reapers as in America. Sixteen men at Hankow
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