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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1913)
DAZLT CAPITAL J0TO2TAL, SALEM, OBEOOH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1913. AC13 China, the Amazing Cno Young Men's iafs "Here's the sauce; you must find the dish yourself". We can pic ture this New Knox Young Man's Hat but we cannot show you here the quality, the colorings and the excellence of every detail things that make Knox Hats different The difference that others cannot master. An Ideal Christmas Gift for Yourself Knox Extra Quality Soft and Stiff Hats, $5.00 Salem Woolen Mills Store "The Christmas Quality Store" STATE DESERT BOARD IS DIVIDED ON CENTRAL PLAN nitlTBD PHI 88 lUltD WlBl Possibilities of a division on the Stato Desert Land board with relation to the state taking over and reclaiming with the asistance of the government a unit of the Central Oregon Irrigation Project have been disclosed. There are 34,000 acres in the Unit, and the company offers to relinquish it for $300,000. An additional $150,000 will be required to complete it. Stato Treasurer Kay de clared that with the present high taxes he did not regard the scheme as feasible and Secrotary of State Olcott, and At torney General Crawford seemed to Bhare hia view. Governor West and State Engineer Lewis regarded it as feasible. The question of taking over the unit will be decided at the next meeting. All the board could do at the present would be to recommend that the interior department and legislature appropriate money to reclaim the lands in the unit. ft V;': v:::;;fe:y::',;; 111 --VllTTHirT i lUTl-'l j f'l i t i "Hi IMPORTANT The Portland Mausoleum Company have under construction in City View Cemetery, Salem, one of the most beautiful and substantial Community Mausoleums, of medium size, erected in the United States, An opportunity is afforded a limited number of families to purchase compartments in this perma nent burial monument. The cost is less than the "old way," and provision is made for perpetual care through the endowment fund WHY NOT PROVIDE "THE BETTER WAY?" Price of regular compartments will be advanced 10 per cent on December 1, 1913. Salem representative room 301 Hubbard building. Phone 239. By The Rev. 0. T. Aked, D. D., LL. D China continues to surprise us. Newi hag just been received that the govern ment of a great province in the inter ior of China has asked an American mis sionary society to take entire charge of the public school system of a laro section of the country. Shansi is the name of the province. It was here that so many American missionaries were murdered during the Boxer rising iu 1900. Within the last few weeks the provincial government has made thi. amazing request of the representatives of the American Board of Foreign Mis slons. The government offers to fur nish the schoolhouses and to equip them. The government guarantees a certa.n yearly cash subsidy. It guarantees, as well, full religious liberty. The Bible and the Christian religion may be taught in the schools. Such a story seems Incredible. It goes far out beyond our dreams. But it is perfectly true. The information comes direct from the authorities of the mis sionary board concerned. The "Memoirs of Li Hung Chang ' have recontly been published. They have the interest of an absorbing drama. The glamor of romance is over them. Two men in history would have de lighted in them, Shakespeare and Rob ert Browning. The play of characto, the development of a great mind, its emergency into imperial conditions, and its influence in world-business woull hftve delighted the soul of either if these two supreme students of human nature. The editor of these "Memoirs" U an American newspaper man who was privileged to interview the Chinese statesman and convey to the world his sence of obligation to the American people. He prints as introduction to the "Memoirs" a sketch of Li Hung Chang contributed by anothor pen. With pardonable hero-worship this writer speaks of Li Hung Chang as not only the greatest man the Chinese race has produced in modorn times, but, in a combination of qualities, the most uniquo personality of the past contury amongall the nations of the world. And he proceeds to explain this ex traordinary oulogy. Li Hung Chang was a soldier, scholar, statesman and diplomat and in each capacity 'one of the world's mastors. "He was distinguished as a man of lot tors: as a soldier , in important cam paigns he rendered valuable services to his country: as a statesman for thirty years he maintained a recognized pre eminence over his countrymen in the oldest and most populous nation of the earth; and as a diplomat his achieve ments entitle him to a front rank in the international relations of all history. The editor of the "Memoirs'" does well to bring into prominence the friend ship displayed by tho United States for China in the day of her trouble, and the abiding gratitude of Li Hung Chang. "All the foreign nations are against us," tho statesman writes at one time. "Ko, there is an exception, and tho ex ception may prove our salvation." Tho exception of courso, is the United Slate?. The powers had docrecd the partition of China, what Li Hung Chang describ ed as "slicing up China like a water melon," America held out agaiiiBt any such cynical policy. The European nations might think first of plunder. The United States thought first of jus tico. "I have received assurance from tho American commander," ho writes, "and from tho Washington Govern ment that the United States will oppose morally, and physically if necessary, tho pnrtition of China." And Inter, in joy over the delivoraneo of his country from the threatened disruption, and In gratitude; "Tho position taken by the American nation means tho integrity of China. Tho United States has woi over the othor powers to her way of thi. king." The volume is a gold mine of inform ation and of interest. There are hun dreds of paragraphs one woul"d love to quote. The editor says truly that amongst them all nothing is moro enter tuinii.g than tho great man's views con cerning Christians and Christianity, First of all, while still a young man of twenty-six, having taken his li. A. degree and at the moment studying for his LL. D., he conceives that it would be " noble and glorious career, high ly pleasing to the sacred gods and his ancestors," to expose the teaching of the "foreign devils," and refute thoir "sacriligious utterances." He is sat isfied that the foreign devils come to the country for no good purpose. H) bo'itves that every one of the black vobed individuals is "the paid agent of some foreign power," only present in the country to spy upon its govern ment! Of the teaching of the "foreign dev ils" he cannot speak in terms of con tempt sufficiently contemptuous. Ho understands that it is a part of thoir teaching that "the Heavenly Father allowed His Son to come to earth to die for wicked people," to him this Is pal pably absurd. He could understand it if it were said that He 'died for good people. But "if the gods are good and want men to be good, will they al low members of their families to bo killed like criminals for the sake cf criminals!" And he is satisfied that "the crazy fad" will die out! We road on. Twenty-one years later he has become a great general and a great statesman. His mind has been growing all the time. His eyos have opened to a thousand facts. In 1370 ae writes: "It cannot be said, even by my worst foos, that 1 have been a bosom friend to the foreigner, either the man that comes to force his trade upon us, or the fellow who would cram his religion down our throats . . . yet in spite of all our dislikes, if we truly have the best interests of China at hoart, we will no longer oppose the coming of the foreigner, whether he be trader, mis sionary, or tourist." He is ready for toleration: "When last I saw Tseng-kofan we spent several hours in full discusion of this great problem . . . Tson-kofan, like my self has changed his views exceedingly in the past five or six years, and is no longer a tater of the Christians. H? told mo that it was his intention some of these days to memorialize tho throuo to issu.i an edict of complete tolerance for ull foreigners of whatever profoB' sion r occupation, and I told him that I would gladly join in Buch a memorial if he would so desire." His latest recorded views were written in 1883. Whether he ever went boyon.l tho position reached at that time there is no evidence to show. But the ground then taken is simply marvelous, lie contluik-s that there is no reason for hating ClnistiniiB. Devoted as ho is, mind and spirit, but sentiment, and by reason, to the teachings of Confucius, he is now ready to place Jesus Christ on tho same exhnlted level as thnt of China's hero-sago. He affirms that in America cr Kuropo he would be a fol lower of Johub, as iu Chinji he follows Coufusius, Ho say that even iu China there are thousands, perhaps millions, of his coin trymen who would bo the bo tor ."or Christianity. He declares that ho must never again bo thought of as unfri wi lly to the people of tho west, whether 1 hey coino to China as merch ants or misionnries, or whether they do not come at all. And, finally, that it is time ( hina China from the south to the north recognizes that some Christians nro better than some Taoista and some followers of Buddha. The missionaries who poured the blood out for China and for Christ did not dii in vain. TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. ' Notice is hereby given that the coun ty school superintendent of Marion county, Oregon, will hold tha regular examination of applicants for state cer tificates at tho East school, corner of Twelfth and Center streets, Salem, Ore gon, as follows: Commencing Wednesday, Decombor 17, 1013, at 9 o'clock a. m., and contin uing until Saturday, December 20, 11)13, at 4 o'clock p, m. Wodnosday forenoon Writing, U. 8. history, physiology. Wednesday afternoon Physical ge ography, reading, composition, methods in reading, methods In arithmetic. 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