K AV. C. A. Worker Writes
of Conditions in China
W ith newa dispatches being re
ceived daily, telling of the strug
gle xolng on in China for su
premacy, a letter received recently
by W. P. W alter, local Y. M. C.
A. Secretary, from J. C. Clark. Y.
M. C. A. worker at Shanghai, tell
ing of some ot the conditions that,
exist there la of unusual Inter
est. Mr. Clark is well known to
many Ashland people and his let
ter is as follows: •
Mtadeata Radical
.
The students are the moot rad
ical la their demands. J | Is not
uncommon to have them demand
that they have the right to dis
miss teachers, have representa
tives at all faculty meetings, have
the right to decide whether a>
student shall he dismlsaed or not,
that ao teachers be permitted to
attend student
meetings,
etc.
The Idas la Just to reverse the
former practice and give students
the poorer the faculty ance had.
In some Interior
cities
the
South Is taking a very antagon
istic attitude toward the ymca
hot many o f tha right wing are
very friendly so It is hard to say
what their attitude w ill be when
things are more settled and peace
tMbe policies are fixed: The " Y ”
’ has some advantages over most
I Christian Institutions in that it
9 Is a Chinese organisation and la
• known to be such. Chinese who
t disagree with the party are more
severely dealt with than for
eigners. I t is commonly reported [
■ that here at Shanghai they w ill 1
1 build a competing city ten miles (
► down the river and try to draw j
the people away from the set- j
tlement. of course, that Is per- ,
b fectly legitimate, and Wifi win if I
• the people can be persuaded to I
move out from under the foreign
January It, ltS 7 .
M rv Win. P. W alter,
Boys Dept- y . M. C. A., ,
Ashland,. Ofegon,
U. 8. A.
Dear W eller:
Did yon gsk If there is any
news Yea, sure there is lots of
news!
It Is issued in quantity
by each m ilitarist sad by the ag
ents of soma governments repre
sented in China.
I t is usually
flavored by the person or govern
ment that pays the salary of the
writer.
I receive many letters
Indicating that friends in Ameri
ca are getting plenty o f news
but do not trust it. I can only
give you what I consider the beet
of what I hear.
The
Southern
Government
which is the same as the Kwom-
ingtang party is trying to carry
out the ideas of Snn Yat Sen,
George Washington of China. The
Southern army under the com
mand of Chiang K ai 8hek has
made a moat wonderful advapee
north from Canton and now con
trols most of the territory ex
cepting Shanghai and vicinity
south of the Yangtxe River. They
will probably be in control of
Shanghai by the time yon receive
thia.
protection and I suspect mapy
will it the plap Is carried opt-
They plan to make the new city
the terminal of the railroad, (tp
build large docks fo rth e .o p e a n
going vessels, In short they ex
pect to build a rival city. They
have just taken the British cqn-
cession at Hankow and may go
the same in other pUces.
No one seems to know what
Propoganda Department
They have in addition to the
regular arpiy organisation
a
propaganda department that goes
with or ahead of (he soldiers
teaching the people the philoso
phy of Sun Y at 8en and explain
ing how the Southern Govern
ment w ill improve things fo r the
people when they get into pow
er. I suppose this propaganda or
educational department of
the
party has been aa effectives as
the soldiers In this really remark
able advance of the last three
months. The Southern soldiers
th in k of themselves as crusaders
and nay that they are complet-
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organise
mqny
unions
wherever (hey go. Is
Cggton
they* ere about 1 *0 labor ualpns
and la Hankow they b y e
a l
ready organised 25». M a S f
«roups bars to strike to get rec
ognised and have their demands
granted while others see It com
ing gnd g r a n tp ie customary re
quest without the strike.
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they w ill do about ttia so-called
unequal treaties.
The? slogans
Southern group say "fik b t
the
going the rounds among the
. British,, co-operate w ith Russia
and America, let Japan alone,**
British Consulate officials
afe
trying to gat all their nationals
out of tha interior. Some peo
ple of other nationalities are al-
So coming tp the coast and it is
quite likely that such mission
1 work wWl be.closed for a time
1 or even pkrl^anently. The Chi
nese pastors' and
teachers
in
• Mission Schools say it Is easy
for you foreigners to pick and
go ff you do not ilka the gov
ernment but we cannot run away
from the government whether wp
like it or not ao we must obey
their regulations
and If
they
w ill not permit the teaching pf
the Bible in the schools we must
give it up for the time being and
try to get it hack when things
are more settled than now.
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People Revolution
This movement is now talked
of as the "Peoples Reyolntjon”
and they want all the people to
be In It and support |t. that la
the reason for their vary strong
propagand* or educational pro-
gram add it is working.
They
want the Christians to come in
also and it is very difficult for
them to stay oyt or to go in for
a part of the party is persecut-
ing the Christians as a group be-
cause they are considered to be
very favorable to the foreigners,
It is also very hard for a Chi-
uoae whether he is a Christian
or not to stay out of a revolu-
tlon that the vast m ajority of
the people erg* la favor of and
that gives promise of great bene-
fit to the ceantry, Of course the
patriotic thing and the logical
thing is for all right thinking
Chinese to get Into the revolu-
tionary party and help make It-
• success then In the years to
come he w ill have a record that
be la proud to tell his children
about.
This all assumes
that
this K w oaingtang party Is some-
thing quite different from the
m ilitary factions that have been
ervorlslng the country for the
aat ten or a dosen years and
from all I hear aatf can see it Is
la fact very different and bids
fa ir to be permanent.
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has ge
ibont 170,000 well trcalned men |t
hat w ill In all probability be „
n the scrap on the Southern side
vary early in the spring if not
before and they are nearly all
vety earnest Christians and will
Hot tolerate the » anti-Christian
activities of the left wing of the b
Kwomintang party.
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the Southern cause the North
hue several entire Rneeian bat
talions. I understand that 18,000
Russian soldiers are now travel
ling south toward Nanking to
fight tbe South. Of course the
"W hite Russian»”
are helping
the North and the so-called "Red-
Rnssians’’ are with the South. I
think It is not to he expected
that the South w ill quickly turn
"Red” because ot the help Rus
sia is giving anymore than they
« H I,q u ic k ly tqrn Christian bo-
eause of the work of misslonar-
ien.
The Anti-Christian tin
group considers the " T ” as the sd
bast established Christian instltn- rk
tion in the country and they Rt
dlyiduals should not engross the rights, property and life Itself. beyond the strange naihes of gen
attention of a nation so that they
T ry to get acquainted with
cqnapt
see the issues being
some Chinese students and get
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fought out here. For there is a
real issue between the North and
the South now. The South
is
Are You In Prime?
trylpg to establish a democratic
NO! NOT FEELING JUST RIGHT
government for all of China while
the North is trying to continue
the old feudal form with all of its
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WRITS US
LEE RICHARDSON, Manager
In China today one fourth of
the human race Is engaged in a
colossal struggle to free
ltBelf
frofc the shackles of traditions,
customs and foreign relations
that have been forming for forty
centuries.
I t is a struggle the
Issue ot which wll) vitally affect
the entire population of o ur globe
It must not be laughed at or Ig
nored
studied
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understood
and the people sympathised with
and helped In every possible way
in this their hour of need. The
fate of a few firm« or a few lu-
O. A, C. “ROOKS”
Mr. Hansen of The Hotel
Ashland is Appointed
Agent for The
Pickwick
Stage System
' How that will affect
thing» Of
when they connect, np no one of
caa/say yet.
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