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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1927)
nut, )kli BliQuaHliliOJil TEtiPLE OF, Fill II "American Westminster Ab , bey' - Under Construction lt . In Washington WASHINGTON AP The cen-tnry-old dream of national Tem ple of PaUh in the capital is com injc trna."' v : - Crowning Mount St. Albans," one of the lilrh8t points in, tfee District of Colombia and a magnificent site for the purpose; .the apse of the Cathedral 11 ot -Saints Peter and Paul, better known a the Nation al Catlredral, already la" plainly viHibla ast, far away as the CapttoL When ' i cmj)leted, abont ffe years from now, the cathedral will command a . panorama of the en tire capKol and la expected to be the tadst distinguished example of .... Cloth ic architecture in the world.. Planned by the celebrated English architect, the late George Ff Bod- : ley. and j hi r American , associate. the late Henry Baaraaa, Its main 'lower 'will rise'262 feet from the crest of .Mpirnf St. Albans, a- 400 toot eteration, and, t "will, -be sup ported 'by "the otir largest pillars of solid masonry in the world,' be ing. 24 : feet, two Inches In diame ter at the base " " Tim National Cathedral Founda tion, of which the- IU. Rev. James rW' Freeman. Episcopal Bishop "of .Washington, Is president and Can on Edward Slater Dnnlap ia field . secretary,, aspires to make the ea thodral the Westminster Abbey of America. Although only the apse the gift of the late Mrs. Archibald D; Rtmsell in mmory of her moth er.. Mrs. "PercyfR; Pyne," has been completed; more than 200,000, pil grims and visitors last year enter ed. Bethlehem chapel,. situated .la it crypt,' which already- contains, the tombs of Woodrow Wilson and Admiral George Dewy. ! H s ... The. first suggestion' that such a iphthedrahbe built Tn the national capitol was made during the early flays" of the Republic .by Major Pierrel Charles j lEnf ant ' while he wasVbrking on his far-seeing plan of the city. George Washington gate the Idea enthusiastic aupport but i It remained- dormant ;ior a century.. Then, !n IS -Charles . C'. Glorer. chairman of the Board of Rises National Bank, assem bled, a small-group of other lay men at his home "and revived the project, obtained a charter . from Congress and set out to build the SlO.OOO.QOfr structure now under '. The charter empowered the Pro testant Episcopal Cathedral Foun dation of the District of Columbia ? tn pRtablfea and maintain a "ca thedral and ' institutions of learn ing for the promotion of religion. , education and charity,", and pro vided" that the crypts might be used as a place of sepulchre for the nation's honored dead. The cathedral' Is being built in i the form "of a cross, the. arms, of - which will be the north and south transcebts.4 It " will be 500 feet more than: 25.ooaindividnal who have'mde Kttta ot hfaneatft 'to it have been entered to a Book of Remembrance;" John A. Kas son, former minister to Austrian-is credlted'withr't be lar ges t i sl e gift; $500,000. The -Brtobf of Re membrance" eventnally will be preserved in 'a special niche" MAKING A FOOL OF linCtESAMinCHlMA tt'-antinMnd txma p 1.1 jT Chang's' and Wu'a-looted, raped. and " terrorized.' ' . Feng paid for : what he got. " Chang and : Wu commandeered 'Z: and Impressed; Fens; aad'his'troops were Idolized by. the populace; . -bis opponents ar hated. "Had Feng received a tenth ' part of the encouragement from' the- Japanese EaglisV-and otner trading:. . peoples whicn wa& Iavisbed upon Chang and Wu, north China 'would have headed Immediately" intoan era -of pros perity, but 'Upon' Feaga retreat from cniuil. north Cum was re duced ' to- enae. Every ; factor necessary to; insecurity ; is rami. pantr Bribery r banditry, graft. robbery, pillage, terrorism i in security of life, limb, parse, goods. transport..;; -.. - v v All the time that the allied pres sure1 was' "being exerted against Feng and - the Chinese 'ot the- na nonai cause, 'Amerlea uttered no protest. ' There 1s nothipg to show that - America, knew ; that a . cabal was at "work.? i America' expressed no interest In the ": Nationalist struggle;. America did not know. even, with Feng temporarily driven beyond the Great Wall; that the Nationalists' of the . south, were about to -invade central China and that their four thousand intensive ly trained cadet of ficers had or ganized new army;; of; flaming patriots, and- would lead them through a spectacular 'campaign straight into the heart of China. Even now publications In the Uni ted States characterize the Sun Yat-en republicans' as "southern Bolsheviks. Our attitude of dis approvar and noaconfidence has played- directly Into tha hands of the Russian agitators.; and they have i developed a strong "left wing'. In the republican ranks. We did nothing to ejicouraga the "right wing." In fact, we laughed with ' approval when . the right wing-, leader, - General Feng, was eclipsed and superseded by the Manclprian terrorist. - ; : Meanwhile, what were our rep resentatives In China doing? They were vainly longing; for peace- so that they could negotiate -for a change in the customs tariff. Our attitude was so simple that tt seems almost Impossible to believe. We were much ; put out that we should run into a hornet's nest, having come- bo far to negotiate reluctantly certain concessions re garding, international interference with the sovereignty of CTttfea.; We tenced ourselves aboufe and hoped the hornets ! would i subside. It waa. a pathetic"pletnre -and "shows how little we : know the Orient, how- "badly we- are - advantaged -by our information ; service; how im possible It - is for u" te put our selves isto the other man's place If he be: an Oriental i- We alienated public opinion in ! Japan simply because our imagin ation was not capable of putting - - M a 111 long-ana" 13& -xeet ; wiae, ana wu w, w.irTOwu.y-; V, oDnelm in the place of the Jap dianaf limestone, no stee being ?wj nQw nearly lost nsed because of its tendency to be come brfttlfrltlf age; . SeaU will be provided" in the main chamber for ' 7.5 00 '."worshippers, -while on occasions ' of -national rejoicing, 20000 can be accommodated. Three chapels will be situated in dfhe ' cryptsj ? In- addition to Bethlehem Chapel." now in use for services daily throughout the year, t here "will he "Chapel of Itessur eotio' and a f Chapel' of Joseph f Orrniathea."' The latter will be a funeral chapel availableto fam ilies ! Identified with the army, na vy, diplomatic ! and other govern ment services who- have rto, perma nent? residence V or" church affilia tions f$ Washington. C ; " i The mighty i cross of the com pleted cathedral will dominate a partly wooded site of $7 acres, the acquisition of-which was the life work "of the late Dr. Henry Yates'? Satterlee, the -first bishop of Washington. A scheme- of fandscapins,-reealliag the English gardens; of the 14th century, is be- in e developed is the mi wooded 5paces. - Cedars of Lebanon, Box wood -and rare shrubbery are un der, careful cultivation. , Within the cathedral close are the-bishop's home, given by Mrs; Susan Evelyn Murray, and In lino with thHeducatlonal provision of the 'lshMrterf twd schools. iifaddi : tion to a great stone peace cross dedteated" by President" McKlnley at the end of the Spanish Amerl- aniwar jTbe school for girls was the f gift of the" late Mrs." Phoebe Hearst, and' one for boys was made nnssfble br Mfs. Harriet lane Johnston; nelve 6f President Bu chakan.-in memory of ' her two For the Interior of the cathe- JtmV an'Mmnressive program of . sculpture and mural paintings, de pictfngf'the story of Christianity,' is planned. -The symbolic motif ;will be carried out on the walls and ceilings of the4 nave and transepts and the three chapels. Already an exquisitely ' carred stone . pulpit Trsjsted br the "archbishop, dean and Chapter xt Canterbury Cathed ral In England, Is awaiting com- r.ttton 'of the structure to be placed permanently in -.the nave. ' At resent: it' la being nsed in JletLIehesi Chapel. ; yh?r . t Since the charter was obtained in 2S93, about f 6.000,000 has een received by tha Cathedral brutal man or that he la a traitor, or to say that he la a-hypocrite." l"r. ilrenfell gav him thld char acter: "An able nian who ia honestly trying to da his best for his country." . " - "i Robert R. CaUey, famous in Princeton's - f ootliall annals, who knows more 'pa blie officials -'in China . thin, any- other, American, who speak Kuan Hua (thw f- fjclal laaffaage) Hke a native, who has known Feng ever since he was a minor mncer; who nas visuea hl camps - In. various provinces. who knows J)is humanltariaaiam; his piety, hla personal poverty, his simplicity, his honesty, his indomi table .pluck, repndiates entirely the picture of him given America by hia enemies7 and those who do not know how to- "get beneath the surface of affairs In the Orient. Feng as a generat was excep tional, also in that he did not grow rich. The opportunities of ;- the Oriental conqueror are unlimited. Unbridled power i has always led to - cupidity. Fensf has not ex ploited, others for hia owa preflt. In his cantonments he lives upon the same: terras as his men; not even a lavish omcers- mess: lie dresses, like Tolstoy,' In the rough clothes of the men about him. At the height of his sway he did not live in a Yamen, bat in a cabin built of tho same sun-dr led brick as are the barracks . of common soldiers. In these deforested areas of China. He is the first up In the morning. His officer and men meet him everywhere.'; He knows all a,bout-his troops; His officers, schools, and soldiers classes are of a new order In'the Orient. The- recruits- complained at spending so much time at prayers. One of his best generals bears the sobri quet, "the 1 flaming evangelist' and, has won notable -victories, throwing himself and his ien In to battles with the abandon of the crusadprs; We do not carp at the religions passion of the cru saders, though we deprecate the futility; of ' the crusades. t -Is . re ligion such an exceptional element nowadays-in politics and military affairs ' that "Americans' can only account for a . Christian Chinese general by ' representing him to be a faktrr If istrne that Feng takes hka religion seriously. It is true that as an honest man. well vouched for, he expected' to 'be treated as such.'r'He received devilish treatment in return." ; It would be a miracle it he has no rancor In his heart and if he has any confidence left in-the values of? Christianity , as applied- to in ternational affairs. -, Russia is the only nation' that baa -helped -him. If he were quite like an American military man .he -would probably say: "To ,-ftelI f with religion Vt' But this is what' I 'think- he does say: - 'I believer la Jesus and prac tice hia teachings-as literally as I can because they are right; but the ; Christian "powers do;' not' ask what i is ; right ; in dealing with China. International dealings are not based on right but upon force. They have, sold out religion ; in the West, .What a pity It la that 5 we have i to 1 accept Jesus ' with- hia Western connections' The Chinese Nationalists; do not search tn vain for instances. They point to Wanbsien, the Amritsar of the upper Yangtze, where this fall the British, 7 bombarded crowded city with terrible loss of life. When the Hon Chu Chao- hsin. the Chinese representative brought- the matter k up . in the League of Nations, the .- highly Christian; spokesman if or Rritian felt not regret' and horror but-re tire strong" enaugh"lo run" coMnter tn ont race preindiee and our 1m-; perlaUtie-tendencies'. " ' What will bethe effect on Gen- efal Feng and: npon Dr. W. W. Yen; Dr. C. T. Wang, T. V. Soog. Dr.- VL li;: K'ung arid 'the other unlversity-bTed -Christian Chinese statesmen and the heads of ' go v-ernmeti'C- departments - If we keep on betraying our own ? idealsJ itf dealing- with China? ' Shall ?we back the most rapacious elements In the country , ; and impose" re stralnts and limitations on China's sovereignty, and still bone to bold the confidence. of new China?; The future .lies . with ; new", China; 'the old China is crumbling. J Here and there old China is being propped up from without or maintains It self from' within by intrigue and mercenaries, bnt not so very long hence' all this rubbish 'will be swept away. - y tHowVare we tb stand with the leaders of new "China? "Are we to be ;iu confidential relations with them, or are they to go elsewhere for impartial and sympathetic un derstanding? No Chinese-National longer "expects China to be-the dddrmat; for every dirty foreign boot, ' If the : case" was reversed and Americans struggling for self- government were the wronged and 'oppressed party, would lwe not turn atheist as have the Soviets? What makes -the Soviet republic agnostic? The- hard and fast al liance of the Russian Church with all the instruments of oppression. Wliat does China discover? That the principles of Jesus, as taught by our missionary doctors and edu cators are' not effective in deter mining the policy of "Christian" lands toward her, but that oppres sion, militarism. Industrial exploit ation land-grabbing, are coupled with the credo. : It may be said that we do not yet know that the. Nationalists will be strong enough to consolidate China nor able to bring about a united modern national govern ment until education and western ization have had many more yearB to prepare the public-mind. Our reply to. that need no longer be personal. The Washington gov ernment has acted. It is speaking in' diplomatic but ' unmistakable terms. It is turning toward the Nationalists. It has dissociated it self from the European - bloc. . It is "offering to repudiate that which the Chinese patriots consider to be "Western imperialism." Secretary Kellogg'a declaration of public policy on January' 27 will, if fol lowed up, be aa historic as that of John Hay.;, , No. longer are the lib erals of China to be stampeded by tbe 'Russian Soviets without a real friend '. in. the world. No longer are we . to jeopardize the. work of Christianity In China by a govern ment alliance which ' appears to deny all that we really stand for. That Japan is Prepared to place. herself alongside . our '.change of policy shows that the Japanese lib erals, are in . the saddle, not' the militarists. It. seems like a dawn of' a.inewday even though the forces let loose in" China, and play- edfupon by Soviet propaganda still cause us deep concern. " The wrongs of ..the .past cannot " be righted in a: day. but America is pn the right Toad, no matter what the outcome. For that let's thank God. ' IBIiSillSEO: lltlTBSCil Pictures , and Souvenirs of Famous General Conspicu ' ' ous at Academy " ' the chance of the'eentury to throw the weight1 of American sympathy behind China. .The national -cause has caught the Imagination of the- sentment n turned coldly awayj vu.ucao ms bv omer cause in lueir mt,.Ho. ntti1ir mouarn- history, 'it is the one worth-while political objective be fore the Chinese.. We stood -fret fully about when an unscrupulous hegemony- swept Feng- aside 'only tn have bis fellow Nationalists fall upon hi -conquerors from the rear and i nullify i their victory." And the Nationalists are now In pos session of the great steel works of Hanyang, furnaces, coat, arsenals m snort, m son rce of monitions supply, new to their causei. i; America has been flooded with calumnies against t Feng, , cabled and quotecLtrom China. Even the most obvious thing about him. bis Christianity,! was scouted, ; Few of the American news gatherers got to him Almost none of them speak Chi nese. ' He has not ; been interviewed ( for six months. It was perfectly natural -for them to transmit 'the impressions of him prevailing at the clubs at Peking, Tien-tsln, nd Shanghai, thp stor ies of hint in the open-port' press. largely In. tne hands -of - the "op position. They" sipped6 tea over him at the Wagon tits hotel, and the Astor-house, and supplement ea tneir mrormauan toy tnat exna ed by the embassies. They -listened to alien report about him in the open ports. It is a perfectly jnnder? standable ! but desperate situation front' the viewpoint t the Chinese Nationalists; It is paraltei to the reports from British; sources of Oom Paul in the Boer war days, and the Nationalists -hopes in Sou th Africa. ':l -'y ' Thus gigantic canard regard ing Feng has been spread amongst Americans. Our journals and the antiotators of our - news, ;f called Feng the "Christian" General and the i "so-called Christian." Be eanse he, could nol'get his neces sary supplies from the coast, but had to . get ' then . from ' Russia through Siberia, he was "gratui tously dubbed "the Christian Bol shevik. V- w' - - " The famous Dr. Grenfell of Labrador, visiting , China, took pains to, meet Feng, to interview hhn and to visit his cantonment. He eioresffcd "amazemjent" ..tht the Atlantic Monthly should pub' Jlsn an "unjust, abusive, anony mous attack" upon General Feng. '"It'ls-talso-to 8ajr-ihat he 13 a those Chinese who si ill hope that there is reality In our profession of lofty : Idealism. ':.'" The Shanghai riots are another case In point. . Though . Chinese workmen and students wejr shot and killed, protesting Against in dustrial .- wrongsv " -the Shanghai government, under, the chairman ship of an American, In 1925,re- fused to make red ress and arm ing Itself to the' teeth, led the world to 'believe it was the as grleved Prty, until the diplomatic and 'judicial processes 6' the powers forced th"proUd, rich, Ira mense and modern municipality of Shanghai to 'offer an apology to the Chinese ' and compensation for the murder of Chines citizens. This is referred to everywhere in China as prpof that-we Western era - have no ready sense ? of 1 Jtts- Londbn Society Circles Interested in Visitation MJNPON.-! (AP LoadoD so ciety circles have been greatly in? terested in reports that Mrs. Nich olas JLong worth win arrive here early in the spring. Her last visit was-jas Alice Roosevelt. 1 1 v i - . . t - - '- .... i..-,:' ; Should .-Mrs., Longworth . make her proposed trip.' it is likely , she wilt be a guest, during a part of her stay here,'- at Crewe House, formerly the home ot Ambassador Houghton, ; which- has beeri' taken over by . another' American, -Mrs. Sakham j Drury, who, until , her marriage, last' year; was Miss Ma bel Gerry, known & one of the most, hospitable hostesses'of May fair. Crewe - Hbuse, though , in the center of tbwn, Is known as a "country residence," owing to its laWjt and trees'whieh make up one of 'the most charming gardens within the city's limits. . WEST POINT. -Tf; Y. ( Spec- ini-Y- Washington. '"whose birth day we celebrate next Tuesday, mar fittingly be: called' the grand father of the United tSates) Mili tary "Academy. The ; establish ment of some such military school appealed to him, and to Knox and Hamilton, as early ) as 1776. Throughdut the ' Revolution, Washington never lost . sight ' of his Ideal. From his headquarters In Newburgh,.New York, in 1783, preparatory to issuing orders ; for the disbandment -of ' the army, Washington ' called, for comments fromi his officers regarding the future military polic yof the coun try. P'aticaliy all of the re marks tended to conform to his own on the one particular of a military school. These were that Military - Academy should be founded, ' and that it should be located at West Point. Throughout the balance of, his life, - Washington labored unceas ingly for the establishment of the Academy. Although he helped in introducing the word "cadet" fnta our army in 1794, a word so familiar today, yet he did not live to see fulfilled his cherished wish of a Mtlll aaryAmycde T-HW of a Military Academy. Two days before his death in December 1799, in a letter to Alexander Hamilton, Washington wrote: have duly received your letter oj the subject of a Military aeamedy. The establishment of - an institu tion of this kind,' upon a respect able and extensive, basis, has ever been considered by me 'as an ob ject of primary importance to this country; and while I was in the chair of government. I omitted no proper opportunity of recommend ing it, in my public speeches and. other ways, to the attention of the legislature." ' " '' The name of - Washington will always be ! a' revered .'one at : West Point, ills portrait, the original by Gilbert; Stuart, 'adorns the Ca det library; a copy of one, by Peale, is at the head ot the broad stairs In-Cullum Memorial ' hall: and a third, a copy of one by Trumbull, ; showing him stadnlng by a massive white horse, occupies the center of the balcony at the rear of the Cullum hall dance floor. The Stuart portrait in the library is 'flanked On either side by portraits ot Knox and Hamil ton, both of whom' helped so much towards", the final establishment of the aeamedy. A magnificent equestrian, statue of Washington. presented anonymously by a grad uate of he i Academy, is at' the head of the main avenue near the old hotels ' In addition to these portraits, Washington is bound to the Mili tary academy In a far finery man ner. If It can be so said; for there are here in the Museum, two did Revolutionary war flags, both of which were presented to Washing ton by an Act of Congress in 1781 and which1' remained - in his per sonal nossesslon until his death. Tbesef rare emblems of that great straggle,; which gave to us our independence and subsequently, our lar-tiung country of today, are intimate., - unbreakable bonds of that early time and with that great' character. If they could only! speak!. But eloquent of their past,, they , hang in' their glass-inclosed cases, in a i room filled with other memorable; flags, and ; they tell us nothing of the thoughts 'of the man who must cock hired out to King George, for .!... AI! AA 40.f0 Tponnrts Bremus lleswian- soldiers. ...The King's colors, 'raptuied' at ofrt" Chapi i.iMJ October .18. 1775, was ;tbe . - . ... ... i firnr M5ar cantured in tne ueyuiu- tion. 'The German Mercenaries' flag was surrendered Zat York- towto. Presented, tor awsnmgton by the Act of Congress referred to, they were Inherited by his step son George Washington Parke CurtU, who presented them to the war department some time be tween 1850 and ,1858. Finally. 1850. by' order . of Secretary of i War to West received Floyd, they were sent Point.' where they were on September 11,-1858, and. where they -may be seen today. - Take no chances with -old meats or stale food of any kind. .Buy your meats here and hare the best and freshest obtainable and at -amlnt-mum cost. Hunt & Shaller, 263 .-Cm'JU-C;- :--.. () New Philippine Toy; Very ? : - Popular Now" in Orient MANILA. AP) - The Yoyo has taken the .-. Philippines; ? by storm, overflown. - into China and invaded Honolulu. For the information 'of Amert can youth, the Yoyo is carred of wood. Somewhat larger than a dollar, it looks. like two cookie, fastened together, although the" ouiMiue - surrares are Around the center tied convex. runs a lt-f groove in which is fastened a string, one end of which is to a youngsters fineer. , - When the toy Is thrown down it goes to the end of the strins and then flies lack into the hand The cost is a nickel in Anmrhari money. -Fire departments in the nri' ,o 1 i . . vi.ia duu towns JU t hi largely voluntary. le H of ten have thrilled to , the touch off their silken folds. " - i j For fdv Washington, more ' so than; to us. ?ieyt? represented they 'were all tor which he had fonght. ;.One is a British- flag, the Kings colors, or ' regimental Uriion Jack, of the 7th Royal Fusileers. The other is the col or of the German Mercenaries of the Margrave Ansbach-Bayreuth, X . ;-:' V- : i ) - -i J - f c v ? :S J A P . 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