Sojffg- InteFgrtiagr b n * WdMh-
w b tlr glls^peu into China’s pres
e t » e d i t t o * , and beg - chances
far t M future a re contained ih an
agtsuffbt letbbr received this week
b f W -F* W » w . ito * Y . M. C. A.
seerotgry f t » .Ashland, from X
Ó i d a f t , basoctote general secre
t a r nt «be t . M- C. A. at'fihang-
Y.M.C.A.
17. 8. A.
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The Chinees weather prophets
prophesied a tool summer and
> we are spending' I f in Shafighla.
but tbe last tow days have about
melted ue not because of the high
temperature for it to only Just
above 100 degrees but. tha humi
d ity In very high. Aneelectric fan
1 and. plenty of ice water helps to
relieve the situaUosf here as else
where however. The death rate
• from cholera to high.
Our bniidlng to very busy thto
summer. W e have 280 boys in
summer school in the Building
and l i d in throe D aily Vacation
Bible Schools outside. There are
180 in the dormitory, fo r the sum
mer and nearly 1,000 per day
use the 8wimmlng
pool. The
game room to well filled from
7:10 a.m. until 8:00 sum., with
h p y . members. W e are treating
the sixty sntdents to onr hoys’
dormitory as campers. The hikes
and trips are to. places o f In
terest in o r near the city, tbe
swimming to in the “Y ” pool,
the meetings fifed discussions are
la* the. building and so are the
meals. However, Shanghai to as
new and strange to them as. the
mountain« or seaside would ' he
to our winter crowd. These boyp
etome from several dllect sec
tions and In many,case« they have
to nse English in order to talk
to each other.
In the Western world politic-
transfer
sapremo
and w ill probably not emerge
fy«m M fee years or even decades
U c o n *.
Thia intereeU of all the fam ily
of nations are bound up with
those of adolescent China, and It
eoeWs to me that the family must
see that thi» great adolescent is
thrn
and loyalty first from the hbad given a chance to work
of a fam ily to the tribal chief, thia stage without being bullied
then to the ruler of a city, then or forced to arm In sel-defense.
to the rnner of a state ot many
” '’ nutvleee pass thru
cities and finally to the presi the period far mo^e quickly than
dent or ruler- of p union of many the West did but It to a critical
s ta tu .
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peortd and outside help to prob
A Chines scholar pointed out ably impossible. I t requires time,
the other day that China’s trouble experience and tbe. growth of new
a t p re a e n tls caused by her at altitudes of ways of thinking.
tempting to P a u In a generation The process cannot be hurried or
from the fam ily type of authority helped from without any move
and loyalty to the union of many than we can harry the hatching of
states. The people cannot so chick ny the paaalng of adoles
quickly change their loyalty from cence.
L et us be sympathetic, patient
a person to a system of govern
m e n t-it took the West many cen- a id frie n d ly . while China works
turies to make the transfer, and out her problems. Business and
China Witt be able to do it is a every other foreign as well as
probably
ancient customs are deeply root Chines Interest w ill
ed“ and have the sanction of, to suffer. But It to a good tim e for
the nations that profess to be
them, satisfactory experience.
Christian to practice the Golden
In China, loyalty
to stSl
to
Rule.
persons, according to M r. Hsla,
The newspapers make things
meat. Therefore when General
in China look pretty dark* these
W u meets- General Chang in a
days and the picture is dark in
fight* for tha^. control of a* pro
many places, yet the U. S. govern
vince and. to defeated hie friends
ment trade
representative
tn
a ll rash to his aid, not because
China, Mr. Julean Arnold, gave
he represents a Just cause bat
us a glimpse of the brighter aide
because o f his personal friendship
a few' days ago in a speech he
and then Jointly defeat General
delivered In Peking. The follow
Chang. Now General Chang also
ing are quotations from hia ad
has friends who offer personal
dress:
help when he to defeated and so
“ Chines civil
wars receive
help him retake the province he
large headlines, but quietly and
lost, thus the game goes merrily
without much" newspaper atten
on. The people, are pawns, their
tion- the business of China to go
interests are hardly ever consid
in g on pretty much as usual.
ered and their voice to seldom
“Commercial returns -fo r the
heard by tbe well-armed genernl
current half year ahow * that al-
and his friends.
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ready a balance of some two m il
But there are coming to he a lion dollars has been rolled up
good number who because of hew over the figure for thto tim e laRt
Ideas gathered by contact with year, and in general business to
t^e outside world are ready to showing a slow hut normal ad
discard the ancient* system. Of vance.
these some would move a little
“ To mo the interesting thing
way, others would jum p to the to that a t present, contrary to the
most advanced positions of other general belief, China to really
nations while a little group call- prospering rather than eliding
lag themselves ^communists want down h ill."
to move ahead o f t ie rest of the
Today after "Rotary” meeting
world and Introduce utopia at I walked out of the hotel w ith au
a hound.
old missionary and asked, “W hat
Christlanlty to rooted
aaff
mpre exhaantlfe spring training
than for «owe «eesoag and U»v*
V«ea ordered to start condition'
to
growing feeler than the oath
movement.” T h e * bo «ttd.
week I held a revival meeting for
inc tbefcnsefreé September ff,' I
four days w ith sixty-nlne deci
■days earlief than the star of
sions, by students, for the Christ
gi iQi^on prBOCW0.
ian Mfo. 1 have Bad atom de
>U LLW A N , WaSh. (V . P .) — - T h ere w ill bo «& entirely'ffew
cision# this year than ever be Washington ejate college w ilt en loachlng1
. staff this Jtoaf. .’**Bbbe*
fore.”
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olllnhe/ry,
formerly eoècfc « f t
ter the 188« Paclflc Coast con
The people of Chian' are vot ference games this year with the Olympic club. Ban Francisco, lad
divided.
T h e n to no iM M t or same squad veterans Who upset taken over t i e coaching fe ta l at
them to fig h t ever. This week all the dope toward the dose of W . B. 0.
•Buck*’“ Bailey M i l
about ^ x hundred members of
last season by defeating the famed | 1?« assistant coach.
the T . M. 0. A. from a ll tbe >«>
A. A. ¿xendlne, Fnilw att edac&
University of Southern California.
vtnees, North, South, Suet and
W ith a fu ll aggregation ef old Inst fall, has gone with OcofdoMaf
West, w ill hold a Convention in
timers, the college should be a collées, dalliornia.
Tsinan, the capital ot Shantung
“Butch*
Meeker,
diminutive
serious contender for champion
province near the center o f the
quarterback, Is expected to tb odd
ship honors, observers say.
country, There w ill he ho divi
The team looks better than for ef the luminaries thto year. I t
sion there. I t to only a small
several
years. Tow ard.the c lo u i was Meeker who scored t i e touch*
group of selfish but powerful at-
of
lest
season's pennant * scram , down against Southern CalffCrtrfb
fid alu that prevents the country
ble
considerable
Improvement was i id the last minute of play last
from being united politically
There to a better understanding noted In the Pullman eleven and ( season. This is his second play-
of foreign relations than there rooters are looking w ith confi tag year.
Chnck Sweet, sensational Irb it*
used to be oa the p art of the dence toward the coming confer
en
Held funner; Bxley, alltyUtod
thousands of prominent Chinese ence clashes. '
and I think le u criticism o f the
The players have undergone a mainstay, and Joe Koenig, fuR
attitude and .actions of foreign
blooded Eskimo halffiaék, are'
nations toward China, as to us hare a chance to show what they ’ three w ho figured an excellent
ual In all countries the worst can do before long.
prospects t o win a ll conference
. As ever yours.
element to the most vocal. I hope
tea m b e rth s.
3. o. cl X rk .
to see the Western trained man
Stanley Young, guard, to eXpeet-
I family of trttor A m afotoeè
*A|hia<d ggfi grr toegteff « d
Fairview street. M r. Davis,
to a mining engineer, wde
erty connected w ith the P irn
■ Mi*, and f i t t i è. Wolcott
and daughter JWv, naff Mr.
IH Bgndon . By 4 The bed.
-
ad to doübto la e ffiâ effe ÿ When he
♦» shifted thto seaeew to to e ttu
Bills, a Shifty p « > W fitotfeaed at
«enter, will piova e t mmerigf «dt*
be to the teem, « d h e h ilf offtoidts
Pullman win have a Senvy Hfie
a n * a fairly light im eM eM , I t to
expected that the teaig w tff play
more or Ism e f an open ffkme,
with a good deal of fisntoffff past
ing.
Of the new > M « i« M ra M ffM 9 tB s
,
del,
Seattle, to expected to'shqul
up especially well. Spiedel fiisyed
in beckfieM with the frond team
last season.
two billion
noked a month!
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effects do- yon sde from the anti*
beginning to feel the Inner con Christian movemente?” Me said.
authority flic t of the adolescense period "They have started
too
late.
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