THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON
SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY G, 1927
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Praise ye, the Lord. O give thanks unto the Lord; 'for he in good:
for hi mercy endureth forever. . Blessed are they that keep judgment,
and be that, doeth righteousness at all times. Psalms 106:1, 3.
THE AMERICAN. MISSIONARIES AND Y. M. C. A.
IN CHINA
.. "Poor! China is in a turmoil now, but the situation as a
whole is not discouraging. - China is teaching Europe that
Asia at -least China -must be treated with respect, and I
think has already won her battle with other, powers. The
harder battle at home may take some time. yet. I see that
France says the American missionary and Y M. C. A. secre
ary has been responsible for the trouble in China. I suppose
we will have to assumeVesponsibility, for, wherever we go we
do distribute the dynamite that makes possible the perman
ence of a colonial rule such as France gives wherever she has
power. There is something about the gospel of Christ which
makes the individual realize his importance as an individual,
and a group of people who take George Washington as their
patron saint is liable to cause trouble to the medieval con
ception of government." 1
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. The, above, is quoted from a letter of a few days ago to
Rev. John M. Cause, president Qf Kimball College, from W. W.
Lockwooid, assistant general secretary of the Y. M. C A.. of
Shanghai, China one of the four American secretaries out
?f the 27 secretaries of. that association, Mr. Lockwood has
for 20 years had charge of the educational work of that
association, which is one of the largest in the world in total
membership ; and is the largest in the world in number of boy
members. Mr; Loekwood knows
was a classmate of Dr. Canse
dependable man. Mr. Lockwood
New York, taking treatment in
to be well enough to return to
1 There is printed in the second section of The Statesman of
this morning another letter telling at greater length of the
I situation in China, from J. C. Clark, well known to Y. M. C. A.
workers in Salem;: an Oregon man and ja graduate of the
k Oregon ; Agricnltmteger- x r J. -
; Thai letter is wall worth
In world movements--
Especially because the colossal struggle of a fourth of the
i jkuman race in China for the ideals of George Washington and
Abraham. Lincoln is bound to affect the destines of the whole
r human race. History has recorded many much smaller things
i that affected the trend of world
As to a wind at Salamis or
fact that Cleopatra did not have
example.
The struggle in.China is partly one affecting the attitude
oi' uie rising ,uae oi coior,
white race v-
i Also it is one affecting the
in au lands.
: With the flying machine
methods of swift travel and communication, this is a small
world.. What one Chinese leader thinks, or how he is treated
by an; American drummer, may affect the price of goose
berries in Salem. It "may influence our . most intimate . home
liferl; A snee by a Russian peasant in Siberia may cause the
death pf your wife or child in
; ivThe time is here, when- we
internationally. We are, world
our city ward.;;
BUSIEST-PLACE IN SALEM
; '- Where is the busiest place, in Salem ? It is not in .the
assembling lobbies of the rail birds or the halls of legislation
orf the Icommittee rooms with! their lady clerks under the
bronze dome of the capitol. It
-During the month of January 5312 persons took paH in
the; athletic activities alone of that association. 'That is a
larger number than could be shown in any other Y. M. C. A.
building in the Pacific northwest outside of Portland. And
the Portland central Y building athletic activities in several
departments will have to perk up to keep ahead of Salem.
WmBrown Jthis is printed against his wish), a sympathetic
Salem citizen,-some time ago
sters- coming to the Salem Y building. J Had he seen the racks
yesterday, he would have observed that they were all full.
And running over. And then
,The 'other activities of the;
room, and comer and facility
mitory rooms ofthe Salem Y
There is not an, empty, space, left in any part of the Salem. Y
building on most evenings, and at nearly all hoursrof the day
and night the facilities are used
And ihi3 is all f ihei Jit is
fcrwhat the people of Salem
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' v. -Though they did not generally foresee that the building
v.-ould be found too small at so
Salem must find a way to increase the facilities of herY.
There is no way to bulge out the waIb;;tThere will have to be
edditiens ; or another building. Salem is only just getting a
fair start in growth. Her increase in population is going to
1 2 faster in the future, and'it
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Ralph H. KUftiinf AdvartiaiaC Manager
Fraak Jaakoaki - Maaagar Ja Uept.
E. A. Khotaa - l,ieeteek Editor
W. C. Cooaar - - .- Poultry fcditor
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Oregon, aa eeeoad-claae natter.
China, if anybody does. He
at DePauw university, and is a
is just now at Clifton Springs,
the sanitarium here; hoping
China soon.
reading, by? any one interested
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events
a shower at Waterloo, or the
an extra inch on her nose, for
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or me oiner races towards the
status of Christian missionaries
and the radio and all the other
the capital city.
must think and talk and act
citizens, as well as voters in
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is in the Salem Y. M. C. A.
provided racks for the young
some. : . : ! . v .
Salem Y crowd every., single
of the building. Rents of dor
brought in $6225 for January.
to the full ; . " -
what the new. building was built
who provided the-funds hoped
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early a time. " '
is going to keep up for a long,
, it V
:: RATS! "... ; .
"It will take real con rage for the legislature to do Its duty in so
far as the fish wheel bill Is concerned. We refer to the tneaBtire Toted
by the people at the November election, practically octroying the upper
river salmon industry so far as the Oregon shore of the Columbia Is
concerned. .This measure would not have passed were it not for the
Ill-advised support given by well-meaning organizations who so fre
quently are used by political schemers to carry out selfish purposes.
The measure should be repealed.
tqan intelligent state, and a reproach to popular government, it will
take moral eourage to override the recently expressed will of the people
but the legislature has a splendid
courage by repealing the ill-advised
The above is from the Oregon Voter. '
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The people. parsed that bill, and it, will of course stand.
The. only fault with it is that
promoters did not have nerve
people would have gone all the
opportunity.
The legislator who would
repealed ought to have to swallow it, even at the risk of
choking to death ' ;
And it will be a burning disgrace if the legislature does
not amend and pass the bill now before it, to finish up the job.
Then the fishing industry of Oregon will have a chance to
develop to five to ten times its present size. . That is one of
the most important matters before the people of Oregon. v
The British isles are increasing their beet sugar output.
They expect to bring it up to 50 factories,-with 400,000 acres
in beets, and 46,000 additional men .on the land, and 30,000 in
the factories from October to January of each year. That is
the prediction of Lord Invernairn of Strathnairn, one "of the
directing heads; of the industry. A sugar company at Logan,
Utah, has orders for 67,000 tons of pulp, with an available
supply of only 24,000 tons.'
college show beet pulp to equal
cattle. The Willamette valley
dollars annually; by not developing the sugar beet industry
losing from the sales of the sugar beets, and more than the
same value that would be had from the indirect returns and
benefits of the industry. - '
KIMBALU SUPPORT
IN SALEM NEEDED
,(Contined firm page 1.)
Dr. E. S. .Hammond, Dean Mc
Cormick, and Professor Keefer
are demonstrating to First church
what wise and wide awake trained
leaders can do. In several import
ant departments. This church
receives much of their time in
willing service" and their propor
tionate part in the church budget
support. .
Professor Hertrbg and his fam
ily are faithful to, Leslie Church
and Professor Andrews and fam
ily have gotten a strong liking for
Jason Lee Memorial.
It would .be easy for laymen to
underestimate, , offhand, the full
value of this wilUng service. A
leading layman of another church
says there is no more valuable a
group of citizens in Salem than
the faculty of Kimball. : , ;
, There are two faithful trustees
sponsoring First church interests;
J O. Goltra and Ronald Glover,
while ten others represent other
parts of the Oregon, conference,
and two from each of the other
conferences, making 26 in all.
The budget expenses of Kimball
school net about $18,00Q.; This
is the bare necessity, not includ
ing any imprevemeui'er extension
itents. Very urgent needs Jare;
gifts -for building improvements,
library fund, scholarships; and al
ways a growing endowment. Prac
tically no material Improvements
were made during the past five
years, so that some are now great
ly needed. , :r '
The financial share of Salem Is
naturaUy larger than fo rany other
section. , We. , have the earning
and spending values of the faculty
and student body. The Salem
hamber of Commerce considers
the school a real asset to the city:
The amount of the budget set to
Salem is S2500. This is a mod
erate cost for the great good de
rived, and the realization that
students are going out into many
places to preach the; gospel and
serve the church,
r The president has raised a slo
gan: One hundred friends giving
100 a year each for a better financial-backing.
Many of these
friends must be found, in Salem.
; 4The favorable comments follow
ing the inaugural are appreciated.
There has come" a new day of
growth if Kimball School's friends
get nnder the budget now. The
high motive is, "All for a better
future ministry." - 3i
MAN KNOWN HEREON m
CHINA'S STRUGGLES
.(Continued from page 1.)
They are eertalnly a finer group
of , men and have better trained
troops I than we have seen except
for the Christian : general's ; Feng
Tu-hsiang's army, , which has now
joined with them. They have well
defined , policies for everything
they plan to do and are sticking
pretty close to them In actual prac
tice. That has won them the con
fidence of a vast majority of the
people, who now . welcome, them.
i ney i tax ' but : do not seem to
squeeze: they pay the "shopkeepers
and farmers for what they take
and do not as a rule loot or mis
treat the common people, which is
exactly the opposite of the policy
pursued by the other soldiers. Of
course there are excesses and mis
takes, but that has always been a
part ' of revolutions and probably
cannot be avoided. The south, is
definitely against militarism and
most of the evils that now beset
this country.' s .. - 'ft
One Party, Two Wings ; .
The. south Ls on political cartv!
; bnt ihey havenwo iafis, tC radical
It is lniquitously unfair, a disgrace
opportunity to exhibit Us moral
measured" r
it did not go far enough ; its
enough to go all the way. The
way, had they been given the
introduce a bill to have the law
Jests of the Uiah Agricultural!
corn silage as a feed for dairy
is losing literally millions of
and a conservative, and the radi
cal has a small but powerfulgroup
that are ultra radical-communists
in fact. This group is led by a
Russian named Borodin. I be
lieve that most of the excesses and
the opposition to Christianity and
to foreigners is coming from that
group. Both wings are very bit
ter toward Britain, feeling that
she is trying to get a strangle
hold on south and central China."
I suppose they feel about like pur
forefathers did in 1775 but for dif
ferent causes. The British pay
they only want a chance to trade
but the Chinese say they do not
believe them and that their actions
show a hunger for control. v
In public meetings the southern
spokesmen are very frank in say
ing that they want to improve -tire
condition of the farmers and the
laborers, and certainly all fair
minded .people must agree with
them in that. We may disagree
with them as to method, but time
alone will tell whether their meth
ods are good or not. They, can
not be worse than those of the
past, I suppose. They organise
nany unions wherever they go. In
Canton there are about 300 labor
anions and in Hankow they have
ilready organized 259., Many
groups have to strike to get rec
ognized and have their demands
zranted, while others see it com'
Ing and grant the customary re
luests without the strike.
The students are the most radi
cal in their , demands. It is. not
uncommon to have them demand
that they have the right to dismiss
eacherH, have representatives at
all faculty meetings, have the
right to decide whether astudent
shall be dismissed or not, that no
teachers be permitted to attend
student meetings, etc. The idea
Is just to reverse the former prac
tice and give students th6 power
the faculty once had. . '
Makes Hard Sanation
In some interior- cities the
south is taking a very antagonis
tic attitude toward the YMCA,
but many of the right wing are
very friendly, so It is hard to say
what their' attitude will be when
things are more settled and peace
time policies are .fixed. The 'T
has some advantages - over most
Christian Institutions in "that it is
a Chinese organization - and is
known to be such. - Chinese who
disagree with the party Are. more
severely dealt with than foreign
ers. It is commonly reported that
here at Shanghai they will build
a' competing city ten miles down
the river and try to draw the peo
pie away from the settlement. Of
course "that Is a perfectly legiti
mate thing to do and will win If
the people 'can be persuaded to
move out from dnder the foreign
protection,; and I suspect. : many
wjluf the plan is carried but. They
plan to make the new city the ter
minal of the . railroad - to . build
large vdocks for the ocean going
vessels, in . short . they expect to
bnild a rival city. . They have just
taken the British concession at
Hankow "and may do the same in
other places. . ' vv'
T' f Hard For Missionaries -f
o one seems to ; know what
they will do about the so-called
unequal treaties. - The slogans go
ing the rounds among the south
ern group say "fight the British,
cooperate; with Russia and Amer
ica, let Japan alone." The Brit
ish consulate officials are trying
to get all their nationals but of the
interior. '( Some people ; of ' other
nationalities are also ' coming' to
the coast and it is quite likely that
much mission work will be closed
for a time or. even permanently,
Tha Chinese pastors and. teachers
in mission schools say it Is easy
BUDDIE AND HIS FRIENDS
AIN'T THAT SUY A wondei
TELLERS ? NOW, HOW MAN'
rSiwS DKItlS
for-you foreigners to pick up and
go If you do not like the goverrf
ment, but we cannot run away
from the government whether we
like it or not, so we must obey
their, regulations and If they will
not permit the teaching of the Bi
ble in the schools. we must give it
up for the time being and try to
get it back when things are more
settled than now. - -
" . Success Is Likely
This movement is now talked of
as? the" "people's "revolution" and
theywant all the people to be in
It and support it; that is the rea
son for their very strong propa
ganda or educational program, and
it ids "working. They want the
Christians to come in also, and it
is .very difficult for them to stay
out or to go in, for a part of the
party is persecuting the Christians
hs a group because they are con-
eideredjrer.y-favorable to the for
eigners. ' It is also very hard for &
Chinese whether he is a Christian
or not to stay out of . a revolution
that the vast majority of the peo
ple are in favor of and that gives
promise ' of great benefit .tq the
country. Of- course the patriotic
thing and the logical thing is for
all -fight thinking Chinese to get
into the revolutionary party and
help make it a success, then in the
years to come he will have a rec
ord that : he Is proud to tell his
children' about. This all assumes
that this Kwomingtang party is
something quite different from the
military factions that have been
terrorizing the country for the last
ten or a dozen years, and from all
I hear and can see is in fact
very different and bids fair to be
permanent. , '
The Christian Army
The Christian general has about
170,000 well trained men that will
in all probability be in the scrap
on the southern side very early in
the spring if not before, and they
are nearly all very earnest Chris
tians and will not tolerate the anti-Christian
activities of the left
wing of the Kwomlntang party.
; How that will arfect things
when they connect up no one can
say yet.- The anti-Christian group
considers the "V" as the best es
tablished Christian institution- in
the country and they have decided
to attack it hard this year. They
recently decided to attack from
within ' by having their f workers
join the "Y" and try to destroy ItJ
In Nanchang, where Ben Schmidt
and Art Allen are the foreign sec
retaries, and In Changsha. where
Ray Roberts and H. J. Rounds
have been, the ; associations are
just now undergoing the! severest
persecution. Wuchang and Han
kow are not far behind. The
buildings are plastered with pos
ters condemning the Y" and the
papers print columns of false re
ports about the "Y", its program
and its workers. ,When secretar
ies go through, the streets people
call out to them In the most vul
gar language and say "kill the foiv
eign dog' etc. v Such things are
not easy, to stand, but the Canton
"Y? stood it for about three years
and now is in a very prosperous
condition under too southern gov
ernment. ; It Is not yet time to
give, up or run away, i It Is time
to back up the men in these cities
as best we can till these difficult
days are over.
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V Ttr. David Yni saU recently that
127 will probably be the? most
difficult r ; year the: association
movement iw Chin has ever fac
ed,' He also said 1927 may see
the uniflcaUon of China or it may
see fighting worse than anytnlng
we have yet had. f
- The Hand or Hassle -
"Russia is giving great assistance
to the southern government, just
as France helped the TJT. S A.' dur
ing the. revolution;! war. Tbb-
XMA I CAUL IT MAI5T THOU3HTfU '1 Ji U
,jMmWk' FRIEND , KELL 0 ; Sf
give monejr and munitions, but
VO YOU
they also furnish through Borodin,
the political advisor and Gallen
the. military advisor many of the
ideas that are enabling the south
to capture and hold such large sec
tions of thje country so rapidly.
While these and other Russians
are giving so much to the southern
cause the north has several entire
Russian battalions. I understand
that 10.000 Russian soldiers are
now traveling south toward Nan
king to fight the south. Of course
the "White Russians", are helping
the north and the so-called "red
Russians" are with the south. - I
think it is not to be expected that
the south will quickly turn "red"
because of the help Russian is giv
ing any more than they will quick
ly turn Christian because of the
work of missionaries. ,
A Colossal struggle
In China today one-fourth of
the human race is engaged in a
colossal struggle to free itself
from the shackles of traditions,
customs and foreign relations
that have been forming for forty
centuries. It is a struggle, the
issues of which will ' vitally ef
fect the entire population of our
globe. It must not be laughed at
or ignored but studied, understood
and the people sympathized with
and helped in every possible way.
in this their hour of need. The
fate of a few firms or a few indi
viduals should not engross the at
tention of a nation so that they
cannot see the Issues being fought
out here. For there is a real issue
between .the north and the south
now. The south is trying to estab
lish a democratic -government for
all of China, while the-north is
trying to continue the old feudal
form with all of its corruption,
dwarfing of personality and ignor
ing of human rights, property and
tife itself. Try to get acquainted
with some Chinese students 'and
get beyond the strange names of
generals and places to Issues. Yon
will find that , most Chinese stu
dents are on fire with nationalis
tic feeling. They will probably be
glad to speak to small groups on
the present conditions in China.
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BY ROBERT L. DICKEY
Ask them questions, and get their
point of view.
Americans4 need to understand
and sympathize with China's pres
ent struggle.
Most -sincerely, yours, .
-rJ. Q. CLARK.
Shanghai, China, Jan. 13, 1927.
Putting the above with the ca
blegrams from Shanghai, in the
Associated' Press . news of The
Statesman of yesterday morning,
one can visualize a little better the
tense -situation in Shanghai, with
wounded soldiers from the north
ern armies pouring into that city
to-be. cared; for by the- American
mission' hospitals, the . forces of
which are doing their duty, though
they are anathema to some of the
wounded -men. If the forces of
Feng, the Chinese Christian gen
eral, are joining up or to be joined
up with the Cantonese, troops com
ing up from.; the south, there can
be little doubt concerning the vic
tory of th revolutionary, forces.
The Kwomingtang ( or Kuomin
tang) , the southern - party, calls
its forces the "people's - army."
The Kuominchun, ..the ; party of
Feng; is .the people's party, and
their army the people's.' army,' re
cruited from: the best elements of
China's northwest or -undeveloped
territories, which they are devel
oping, and with nationalistic aims
similar to those of the Cantonese;
with -the difference that the Kuo
minchun . party, under . Marshal
Feng, 1st definitely. Christian, and
in full sympathy with the work of
the American missionaries and
the Y. M. C. A. Ed.) r
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THE JACK RABBIT'S
R0DE0 LIVE AFFAIR
(Continued from pa (a 1.)
ways further and quicker than sny
one. Mr. and Mrs. Jack sat watch
Ing from jone side of the clar
space. Sometimes Mr. Jack would
hop into the center of the group
as if giving some, directions and
Ro back to the side of Mrs. Jack.
One of the favourite tricks was
a sort of wrestling match. Two
rabbits would stand on their hind
ess ana in a playrul mannek
strike at leach other with theirY
fr Va nam. . . . u . 1
w a9, auu lueu mcjr wiruK;
clinch and seek .to throw eaehj
other. It I was for all the world
like two boys at play. There were
several shdrt races,' down the hol
low and bdek. Sometimes nearly
the -whole group would set out as
if by a word of command, go to
the other end and back again. The
big grey fellow usually winning
11 ! ... .
easiuy. ub one oi me longer races
which led jurp over the side of the
hollow and back down the side in
to" the clear space, the big grey
rabbit was leadings Iiut coming
down - the I side, 'running at top
speedhe lost his footing In some
manner and went rolling over and
over, head first, in a- series of
summersaults. Of course he lost
the race, for the others easily beat
him to the; home base. He came in
limping and seemingly very much
crestrf alien.
Have yoji ever seen some people
like that? j They are very confi
dent and sure of themselves, but
like the bi$ grey rabbit, they final
ly over-Jump themselves and come
In limping land lose the game. Tip
Ryder waa like that. I'll tell you.
about Tip.' j
His ; name was Tipon, but we -always
called him Tip. Tip always
wanted to lead, JNo matter what
it was, he wanted to be at the
front. . If he could not be first he
did not want to play. He was a
bit boastful, too. But he was a
good sport In most ways.
One day Tip and some other
boys were back in the woods play
ing. They would climb up In the
tall, straight young trees, and
swing. .Ttte game was to see who
could climb the highest and swing
the farthest. "They had been hav
ing a pretty good time. Finally
Tip found a tree,: It was taller and
very slender, and made an ideal
awing. He climbed to the limb
near the top and began to swing
back and forth. Wider and wider
he swung. - He climbed a litter
higher and over he went, far to
one side. .Then on the next swing
of the tree he allowed himself to
swing loose from the tree with
his feet,! holding- on with his
hands. Down, down, lower and
lower, bending toward the ground.
How the! boys shouted. It was
great, fun. But when he was yet
a long way from the ground the
tree seemed to refuse to bend any
more. There Tip hung. ,He could
not. swing .back tq the tree again.
His arms;. were getting tired, and
it was top for to Jump. He was
about to give up and let go when
there was a crack, and the tree be
gan to break about one-fourth the
way up from the ground. ' Tip
settled lower and lower as the tree
continued, to break slowly with a
cracking, snapping sound.
.When; he was near enough to
the ground Tip let go and jumped.
He did not try any more treps
that day. Tip was like some people
who "bite off more than they can
chew' If people do that because
they are1 selfish, greedy, or over
ambitious they usually get into
trouble. Like the big grey rabbit
in the rodeo, they over-jump
themselves and have to come home
crest-fallen and probably a little
lame and sore for their bumps.
Play the game, play it fair, and:
do not always want to beat every
body else. It is fun to see other
people win sometimes in a fair
game.
We are state distributor for
the Viking tires and tubes. Mal
com's Tire Shop, corner Court and
Commercial streets. Drive in for
your tires. ; -
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