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dred square miles—she has under way a vast health program, which erein & Qo to ^aigon
leaves hardly any department of physical welfare untouched. In addi-
tion a social service department has recently been added to the work of i
the Frontier Nursing Service and subsidized through the generosity of
Alpha Omicron Pi. The whole field is used as a training center to de- i fi
velop a technique for other similar areas, and exhaustive research is —
carried on into underlying economic conditions. It will be seen that the -
Frontier Service is a philanthropy on a major scale." r
In Mrs. Breckinridge's introduction she answers the question some n i-
of you are asking, "What the use of it? Why liberate from their im-
memorial shackles, these mountaineers? Our answer comes in terms of i
citizenship. 'There is no wealth but life,' said a great Englishman; 'Three
times in every century the only wealth of nations is levelled in the quest The causcua\ leading to the great Cambodian Temple, Angkor Vat
to rise again from helpless infancy.' Where do we find the creative value
of this rebirth so evident as on the land? In struggling to achieve parity ^4nd Qet the Jaundice
in our industrialized civilization and to vindicate the values of rural life,
the country districts stagger under social and economic handicaps. Yet By L I L L I A N S C H O E D L E R , Alpha
it is from them we may expect much of tomorrow's leadership."
WE F I R S T went north to Porte du Chine, beginning our southward
To chapters whose members are unsympathetic to our philan- trip from the very border of China itself. And for four weeks that
thropy, I suggest the purchase of the book as a path to understanding. follow-d, we took almost every road that one could take between
It would make an appropriate prize for "quota" bridge parties or tour- there and Saigon. Down the whole length of the coast we drove, by way
naments. For you who wish to have as much material as is available of the famous old Route Mandarine, which hugs the lovely shore so
on the subject, this book will be invaluable. closely, riding sometimes in the midst of flat rich ricefields, sometimes
among the wonderful mountains that come sheer down to the arm of the
Your orders may be placed with Mrs. E . C. Franco-Ferreira, 901 blue China Sea. We detoured inland through vast virgin jungles to
Argyle Street, Chicago, Illinois. Thakkek and Savannaket on the banks of the Mekong River, with Siam
just across the way, and again further south through more almost un-
14 touched jungle land to Kontum and Ban Me Thuot—through country
famous for its tigers and other wild beasts. In one of the most tiger-
• mfested regions our car had its one accident of the whole trip, a broken
A typical mountain family sit in front of This shack in the foothills, like hundreds of
the door of their crude home. Our service others, consists of one room and a lean-to, » 1
can change the future for this little lad. dilapidated porch and outside stoni
chimney.
