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The Seaforth News, 1928-07-26, Page 2Writer Scans List of Notables' Who May Inspire China's Future Sas-ke Alfred Sze, Noted Diplomat, C. C, Wu, Scholar and Statesman, T. V. Soong and His Three Famous Sisters, All Have Long Devoted Lives to Country 6y JEREMIAH W. JENKS President, Alexander Hamilton •Ineti- ed for and eai;pended. This in itself tute; Research Professor of Gov- ernment, New York University, for Christian Solemn, Monitor. SAO -KE ALFRED SZE One of the now China's younger statesmen who' is serving his country with distinction IS Sao-ke. Alfred Sze, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary with ambassadorial rank, to the, United States. Although appointed by the Government of Po- • ling, Mr, Sze apparently represents equally well the Nationalist party, thus showing unusual coolness of judg- ment and reinarkable tact. My personal acquaintance with Mr. Sze has covered many years, When I went to China about 25'years 'ago as adviser to the Chinese Government on monetary matters, Mr; Sze accom- panied me as secretary and interpre- ter, doing an unusually good piece of work, I3e was one of the most re- markable interpreters that I ever saw, being able: to follow a talk of half an hour in length and then repeat It sub- stantially verbatim in another lan- guage, taking point after point without missing a single argument and with- out making a note. He was also a very conscientious and tactful inter- preter. If I stated something in a rather blunt way that would be likely to offend the susceptibilities of the Chinese, he would ask my permission to express my remarks • in a slightly different and perhaps more courteous manner; but he would not take that liberty without my permission. Alfred Sze was a native of Hang - chow, and studied in St. John's Unf- �versity, Shanghai; but he spent a good deal of time as a boy in the Legation at Washington and was graduated from the Washington High School with the distinction of being head of the Military Corps of Ameri- can students in the school He then wen to Cornell University, where he took the degree of Master of Arts in tour years Instead of Ave. He was at home for a time in Chinese politics; and then he was sent to London as Minister in 1914, remaining until 1920, serving during that time as a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference. Later he came to the United States, where he is now serving as an unusually suc- cessful Minister, on cordial terms with all and thoroughly well liked on ac- count of his honorable, conscientious and fair representation of his country's cause. has marked him as a financier ot un- usual ability. Hhe is a graduate of Harvard Uni- versity, and has employed, to work with him various other Chinese who are graduates of ,Harvard and Other American 'universities. He has hadah :excellent training in financial methods, which he has applied with Judgment and good sense. At 0110 time he wartnae e in New York asau assistant in the Far Eastern bureau, reading Chinese papers and furnishing me extracts for publication. When I went in to see him the other day in China, he greeted, me most, warmly and assisted me in every way Possible during my brief stay. ink Shanghai. He has served as Minister of Finance of both the Canton 'Gov- ernment at Nanking, and will undoubt- edly continue to take a prominent part in the financial affairs of the new China. Mrs. Sun YatSsn Equally noted with "T. V," are three remarkable girls in this Soonli family. Until a short time ago the best known of the three was the wife - of Sun Yat-sen, the famous creator and leader of the Nationalist Party. Dr. Sun not only has been well known 1n China for 20 years or so, but he has become an international figure. Honored as the first President of the Chinese Republic, he resigned this position in favor of Yuan Shih-tai, on patriotic grounds, feeling that Yuan could do more for his country at that period than he (Sun) could do. Yuan did succeed in securing the ab- dication of the Emperor by peaceful means. After various changes of Rer- oute, Sun Yat-sen passed away in Peking, whither he had gone in, the hope of arranging some solution of China's difficulties. To -day he is con- sidered the great hero of modern China. In the city ot Nanking, the capital of the Nationalists, a million - dollar monument is being built to him, which will be the• most striking fea- ture of the city. C. C. Wu (Wu Chao -Chu) Still another prominent Chinese statesman, who is at present in this country as a special representative of the Nationalists, is C. C. Wu, son of the former Minister to the United States, Wu Ting -fang. Those who knew Wu Ting -fang will recall that brilliant, witty, philosophical scholar who made himself very popular in many circles in the United States. C. C. Wu is proving himself the worthy son of his famous father, both as a scholar and as a statesman, The father was educated in Hong Kong, and then afterward was graduated from the Inns of ourt in London, as was the son also, although the latter had his early training in the United States. From Loudon Mr. Wu returned to China, where he served in various political positions, including that of counselor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cabinet In Peking. , In 1917 he resigned this position and joined the Canton Government, which be represented two years later at the Paris Conference. He served the Can- ton Government as Minister of Foreign Affairs, which position he later held with the Nanking Nationalist Govern- ment, formed by the liberal elements in the Kuomintang who drove out the Russian Communists. • Recently, because of a combination of local conditions and the desire of the Nationalist leaders to have their case properly presented abroad, Mr. Wu, with two companions, left China for the United States and Europe, to study the programs of the different countries and to learn what he could that would he useful to hina in her present emergency. He is now in the United States, keeping track of the changes in China and at the same time ready to make any representa- tions to this country in behalf of China that may be needed. It is probable that he will be here until the Nation- alist cause becomes more settled, T. V. Soong A Now Type o Speedeir FOX TERRIERS THINK' THIS i4, GREAT FUN They are now vieing with the greyhounds in England providing thrilling racing over hurdles—an less rat er the track - specimens of modern Chine se woman j hood and theft -equally famous brother t must be a woman of great ability and culture. I did not have the pleasure' of meeting her. She is certainly to be , congratulated- on having children off such unusual gifts and character, who are all playing a noteworthy part in China's national struggle of the. Gracchi, in the height of Roman power and glory, when asked where were her jewels, this mother can give the same answer while pointing to her sou and daughters: "Here are my jewels." Mrs. Sun Yat-sen shared most of her husband's views, which were form- ulated and promulgated widely, and many of which sounded ommunistic. When the Communists were driven out of China during the past year, she went with the Russians to Moscow, showing her sympathy with the Com- munists, although not necessarily be- lieving them entirely. From Moscow she has gone to other places of inter- est in Europe, and within a short time expects to return to Bina by wa3' of America. It is to be desired, and perhaps expected, that when she comes to the United States she will be properly received as a very distin- guished Chinese citizen, who has been prominent in her country's history. Mrs. H. H. Kung A second Soong sister, equally well known in China, is the wife of H. H. Kung, a very noted descendant of the great statesman and philosopher, Confucius, who is counted among the three or tour greatest religious teach- ers of all, time, and who lived some 500 years before hrist. Mr. Kong is a member of the abinet of the Nationalists as Minister of Public Works, He has long been one of China's leading men, particularly along the lines of good government and of conciliation, and is now spoken of (since Peking has fallen) as likely to become Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mrs. Chiang Kai-Shek The third of this group of sisters of a famous family is the wife of the great general and leader of the Nation- alists, Chiang Kai-shek, I had the pleasure of taking luncheon with the general and his wife, and her brother- in-law, Mr. Kung, when I was in Nan- king. General Chiang Kai-shek said that he was going to be in Poking within three or tour months, and I congratulate him on fulfilling his own prophecy. After the luncheon I saw Mrs. Chiang again at a tea given especially for her by the faculty of Ginling Col- lege in Nanking. She herself is a graduate of Wellesley oliege, as are her sisters also graduates of American colleges, She ie not only a most charming woman and delightful hostese, but is very much liked and extremely popular with both men and women in Nanking, and also 111 Shang- hai, where her mother lives, The mother of these three splendid Leaving these two prominent Chi- nese representatives In this country, we return to China, where we find that the family of Soong is at the present time not only one of the best known but also most nationally use- ful of all China. "T, V„” as he is called in China, has been for some years the loading financier of the Nationalist Party.. He first undertook and succeeded in financing the City of Canton, that with with the financing of the ex- pedition led by Gen, Chiang Kai -shelf, which worked .its way more than a thousand smiles from eaten north- ward, Mr. Soong is said to have in- creased the revenues of Canton eight times' aver without increasing the tax rates, chiefly by seeing, to 1.1 that the taxes were properly collected, accen nt- One Opinion Famous Book Offers True' Idea of Life in India, Visitor Declares Although aware that his opinion dif- fered from those of several travellers who had expressed themselves regard- ing the book "Mother India," Lt. -Col. C. Robertson, C.M.G.,, retired, of the Imperial Army, recalling 30 years' ex- perience in India, unconditionally supported Katherine Mayo's book and declared that it was a faithful repre- sentation of the conditions in India. He had not been in that country for eight years, he said, but pointed out that social • conditions are bound to be basically. the same—Political con- ditions alone being altered. Col. Robertson will spend - several weeks In Canada attending to personal business, having arrived in Montreal on July 1, aboard the Cunarder An- dania from Liverpool. It is a fortunate feature that "Mother India" was written by a citizen of the United States and not by a British woman, the Colonel thought. He said that if the latter qualifications were added to the book it would have raised a tremendous storm of protests and been the germ for endless trouble. "Miss Mayo is not only a fine wri- ter, but she has a wonderfully logical mind and has backed her book up with an amazing array of documentary evi- dence showing clearly that she is by no means 'talking through her hat,'" declared Col. Robertson. He added that one must confess the author had something of a journalistic . fondness for sensationalism, but that it did not in any' way interfere with her presen- tation of an accurate and faithful pic- ture •of India, with millions almost literally writhing in poverty, super- stition and ignorance. r� The Rose's Cup Down in a garden olden, Just where, I do not know, A buttercup all golden Chanced near a rose to grow; And every morning early Before the birds were up, A tiny dewdrop pearly Fell in this little cup. This was the drink of water 1 The rose had every day; But no one yet has caught her While drinking 1 uthis way. Surely, it is no reason To say she drinks so yet, For that may be the reason Her lips with dew are wet. -Frank Dempster Sherman. A bargain sale is an arrangement whereby a woman can ruin one dress and buy another-.—G,reenvilio I1ied, mont. The barefoot Troy with face of tan now has a sister who is tanned almost everywhere except her face. Interesting Data- Capital ataCapital and Income in Can- adian Mining The •Investment in Canada's oper- ating mineral enterprises is now over • 700 millions of dollars, and the net income annually from sales of prod- ucts of the mines exceeds one-third of the total investment. Analysis of re-, cently issued official figures shows ( that sales value is increasing, at an even more rapld rate the investment of capital, says the Department of the Interior, through its Natural Resources Intelligence Service. Dui ingthe past five years $120,000; 000 has gone into the mining indus- tries of Canada, the total capital em- ployed in 1927 being over $706,000,000, according to preliminary figures issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. This compares with 3578,000,000 in 1923. In this period thenet income from sales has risen from 3194,000,000 to $248,000,000, equivalent last year to over 95 per cent. of the total invest- went. Considering that lower values prevailed for a number of Canada's principal mineral products, particular- ly copper, lead, zinc, silver, coal, natural gas and cement, an increase of nearly $11,000,000 in the net income sales Last year cannot but be looked on as extremely satisfactory. Lower prices for metals were partly offset on the income side of the ledger of Canadian mining operations by in- ' creased production, but more aspect- ' ally by increased smelting and refill- ing efining of the metals in Canada. Metals in crude or semi-refluod state are be- ing exported to a less extent -with each passing year. Instead there is going forth from Canada a steadily increasing volume of refined nickel land copper and lead and zinc. The operations: of smelting and refining of metals are employing a steadily in- creasing number of Canadian workers and the net income from these oper- ations increased by 312,000,000 last year. As compared with five years ago, net income is more than doubled, standing at $45,000,000 in 1927, com- pared with 320,400,006 in 1923. Capi- tal interest in these non-ferrous metal smelting and refining operations in the same period has increased by 39 per cent. and amounted in 1927 to over $89,000,000. come by 47 per cent, In. this -import- ant group the invested capital now totals over $39,000,000 and sales in 1927 wore over 35,200,000. In the metal mining industries as a whole, including the smelting and re- lining operations, capital invested has ,increased trona 3241,000,000 in 1923 to $338,000,000 in 1927, while net in- come from sales in the same period has grown frpm $69,000,000 to 3121,- 000,000 121;000,000 in round figures, In the non-metal mining Industries, coal mining repreeents an invested capital of over 3145,000,000 and sales 1;1927 amounted to 368,000,000, capi- tal being up by two million dollars and net income from sales down by ten million dollars, as compared with flve•years ago. While in coal mining. there is little change, in the other fuels front progress, is being made; in the natural gas industry nearly 360,- 000,000 60;000,000 is now invested and sales last year amounted to $7,400,000, represent- ing increases over 1923 in these pare ticulars of 55 per cent. and 81 per cent. respectively. The petroleum '1n- dustry shows the greatest compara- tive growth in five years in the entire gamut of Canadian n.ieing enterprise, capital having increased from $2,900,- 000 in 1923 to 317,800,000 in 1927 and sales from $520,000 to 31,520,000. 1 Asbestos mining is a rare exception in that capital employed by 441 per cent., the figures for 192`l being 335,- 000,000 for capital and 310,600,000 for net income from sales. Gypsum is another very important non-metallie. in the mining of which 105 per cent. more capital is now employed than in 1923, while net income from sales has increased by 43 per cent.; capital in 1927 in gypsum mining amounted to 38,700,000 and sales to $3,200,000. Most important in the structural materials group is cement manufac- tru•e, in which the invested capital in 1927 was 1-40,500,000 and sales, 314.- ,400,000 representing a slight increase ;in capital and a slight decrease in ,sales value from 1923. I Canada's operating mining enter- prises in 1927 totalled: 10,256. During five years the number of such plants Inas increased by 2,106; for last year alone an increase of 911 is shown. In thewinning of mineral- wealth from the rocks and quarries, the coal mines and the oil, and gas wells, etc., over 82,500 persolr a worse employed in 1927 and over $103,000,000 was distributed 'in salaries and wages. Canada's min- ing enterprises are spread from coast to coast, every province taking part except the smallest, Prince Edward Island, Ontario British Columbia, Quebec, Alhertaraud Nova Scotia are the leading provinces in mining activi- ties and the statistics show a big in- crease n capital invested in mining enterprises in Manitoba and Sas- katchewan, where the minearl wealth of the pre -Cambrian shield is coming hi for increased attention. In Now Brunswick also mineral production is rapidly increasing. It's the happy smile that sets another smiling, The happy song that makes another sing, It's the happy seede we sow, that 1•n Joy's, garden grow And thrill us with their magic blossoming, It's the happy word that's never wish- ed unspoken, The happy laugh that cheers the dullest day;, So when everything goes wrong, just strike up a happy song, A happy heart ran charm all woes away. Little 'Chick Care (l+3xperimemtal Vends Note-) Experimental work oondaatedby the Poultry Division of the Central Ex- perinaental Farm at Ottawa #haws. that chicks when fed even as •early as from twenty-four to thirty-six hours atter hatching, were subject to no greater.. mortality, and !bade equal weight ,gains with birds of the same hatch that were allowed to go torty- eight, sixty, or seventy-two hours after hatching, before being Red.' In one experiment, mortality was considerably lower in the early fed Pens. In another, mortality was slight- ly less and weight gains were equal, It would, therefore, seem to be pee- sible that the chick's ability to go for a long period without food,-iwhieh makes possible shipmente over great distances, is merely a fortunate Dir-' cumstance, rather than the, proper method of chick management. Ger- tainly, the matter of length of starva- tion period for chicks lends itself readily' to abuse with the result that chicks sometimes suffer from too lengthy a fast, and mortality is ex- perienced from impaction caused by straw, shavings or other litter ma- terial picked up in an effort to find food. Work has also been carried on in contrasting two methods of feeding. chicks as commonly 'practised, name- ly, that of leaving dry mash continu- ally before the chicks from the start, and that of restricting the amount of mash consumed at any one by closing the hoppers for different peri- ods ermods during the day. In one experi- ment considerably greater gain per. chick and •slightly greater mortality was experienced when mash was left before the chicks continuously. In another experiment of one week's dur- ation, the chicks having the mash always before them made double the weight gains, with less mortality to three weeks of age than those birds receiving mash six times a day for of brooder chicks for the purpose of half-hour periods. In other words, the practice of limiting the feeding period controlling overeating was detrimental to health and growth, rather than ad- vantageous. When the enormous amount of extra time and labor re- quired are taken into consideration, it is without doubt poor economy to use the intermittent method of feed- ing. In the • mining itself remarkable progress is shown, especially when considered' over a five-year period. In the metals group, the mining of gold in auriferous quartz leads with an in- vested capital last year exceeding 3112,000,000 and a net income of $37,- 1500,00. The growth in this branch is (indicated by an increase in invested capital since 1923 of 46 per Dont., and in output of -60 per cont. The most astonishing growth in metal mining is however in silver -lead -zine enter- prise in which capital invested has trebled from $9,2000,000 in 1923 to nearly 328,000,000 in 1927. Reflecting the decrease in prices, net income from sales decreased from $20,200,000 in 1926 to 317,300,000 in 1927; never- theless revenue from this source was more than two and a half times as large as in 1923. Other metallic groups show quite remarkable progress; capital in cop- per -gold -silver mining increased by 445 per cent, in five years, while income from sales increased by 123 per cent. Invested capital in 1927 was nearly $28,000,000 and income from sales 39, 700,000. In nickel -copper mining capi tal increased by 70 per cent. and in ,gnostic1Mr In the Colleges Gilds' colleges are more is'roligious khan men 'a, anci in both there is an all ming spread of anti-Christian teaching ,and beliefs, both among faculties and students, asserts Dr. C. Leslie Glenn, Secretary for College Work ot the Department of Education of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States. Dr, Glenn was speaking•, to the Na- tional Council of the Episcopal Church when he presented this picture,', as he goes It, pt college liter It Is one of the "notes of alarm" usually heard during' the commencement season, and, of course, Dr. Glenn presents only one side of the story. According to Dr. Glenn, the tone In women's colleges is ""more agnostic and more critical' of religious institu- tions than it is in the men's colleges," and, as he is quoted in The Reformed Church Messenger, he goes on; "Whatever may have boon the re-' ligious impulses that led to the toiind' Ing of the great Eastern' colleges, they have long ceased to play any part in - the policy of these institutions,' Fuld - ties, for the most part, aro apt to be anti-Christian in the, fields of psych. ology, sociology, and philosophy, There is even at times a mild perse: mitten, as, for example, the teacher of psychology who threatened with failure in his course any girl who 'cut' his class to go to a Good Friday three. hour service. Religious conditions in the American colleges are more alarm• ing than -meet people suspect, - Vier tors to our colleges see them at corn. mencement times, when an inspiring religious service, or at least an rove cation and blessing, are part of tho proper order of events. Bishops and prominent clergymen can always get: a hearing and awaken student inter- est. Parents whose sons and daugh- ters returnfor the brief holidays do not find any particular difficulty in flaking them to church on Sunday mornings. College. religion is some- times judged by these occasions, and its more normal aspect is never studied. Rumors do . occasionally reach the outside world of a conn. pieta absence of church attendance, except where it is compulsory, of a general lack of interest in the mis- sionary enterprise, except in the loss sophisticated colleges, and of an amazing idealism that scorns almost all forms of organized religion. In general, however, people are not alive to the seriousness of the problem. There is in many cases a conventional Christianity which never touches stu- dents' morals at such points as,aheat- ing in examinations, fraternity poli- tics, and dirty athletics, as contrasted with intense moral earnestness that rather looks down on religion as being sentimental." Some of the fault lies with the Church, thinks Rabbi' Stephen S, Wise, of New York, who asserted to the graduating class of Bryn Mawr Col- lege that the -Church is -often "unchal- lenging, unexacting and ' undemand- ing," so that modern youth, irrespec- tive of creed, have found much in the Church of to -day to repel them. In spite of this; Rabbi Wise warned that "In rejecting the Church, you reject religion. If, because unholy hands have been laid upon the .most high altar, you reject that altar, then even more• unholy hands will profane it fur- ther. Byrejecting it, you withdraw the life -blood frons -it, leaving it life less. In doing that you have sinned, and sinned deeply." Dr. Wise empha- sized the alleged revolt of .modern youth againer the moral law and point- ed out the danger of a Freudian pseudo -science, as applied to the popu- lar cult of self-expression. For Al- mighty God's "Thou shalt," he said, it substitutes "Thou mayest if thou wilt." "Who are the great among us?" he asked, as Tho Messenger' quotes him further: "Are they not the mystics, those God-intoxicate('people who know the companionship. of the Spirit to the uttermost degree; the saints, who make their lives holy; and the serv- ants, those who, combining the quali- ties of mystic and saint, minister to mankind? I am afraid that you will rationalize your own interpration of life so much as to build up shrines of your own prejudices, opinions, me pressions, and reactions; but moral chaos will come if you revolt against the shrine of God. Are you prepared - to toll, endure, and sacrifice for your shrines as the mystics, the saints, and the servants of the race have done for theirs?. I am fearful of what will hap- pen if you put altars that are infinitely precious out of your life. To be ehrineless is to be purposeless. There is no easy way through Egypt .to Canaan. The.Mount of Law ever must stand between the land of endeavor and the land of accomplishment, 5 implor"o you that you do not forsake the altars of the living God!" Doubtless Were is much justifica- tion for the concern of these prophetic leaders, comments The Messenger, ob- serving further; •1 • "All ,is not well, and it is fatuous to close our eyes to the menace of 1contemporary attitudes that aro badly mechanistic and cynical. We hope that it is not generally true that col- -loges for women are even more Ian; gereusly antagonistic ter religion than colleges for men, Women have, been 00 distinguished for hollrful spiritual activities that the outlook would seem' desolate Indeed it they shotrld forsake the altars. A generation of godless 15othcrs ,ran doom any land on earth, •/1.o ntett.1r (raw rich and powerful." Tobacco Tastes The Secretary of State for the Colonies has recently been appealing to the public to smoke more Empire - grown tobacco. He emphaized its cheapness, but there are many people who actually prefer itto other kinde. Still more would do so if it was. not for its tendency to dryness. But this can be rectified, either by mix- ing it with scene moister_ tobacco or by placing a slice of apple or raw potato in the jar or pouch where you keep your supplies, There are now an infinite variety of 'tobaccos obtainable, and there should be something to suit every smoking taste. -- Even a synthetic tobacco was produced in Germany about eighteen months age. It con- sisted of specially prepared paper im- pregnated with nicotine, and chemi- cally etalned and perfumed •to give color and odor,—Answers. Can You --Beat It? Policewomen, about whom there has been some discussion lately, are thought by most people to be a com- paratively modern devglopment, be- longing to tae last ten years. But there were 'policewomen long before the modern feminists demand- ed them. Women were appointed constables as a matter of course 100 years ago. In those days the vari- ous jobs in a village were filled in rotation .by the people who occupied certain „lands, and 1•f the occupiers were women, the law courts had de- cided that they must take their turn. Exactly a century ago this led to a realstate of "petticoat government" in one Cheshire village, Minshull. Vernon. There the supervisor, or surveyor of highways, the overseer of the poor, and the .constable worn all woman. He—"How 1s your hearing now?" She—<'Wbo is fearing a row?" Ile (raising his voice)—"I say—how ie your hearing now?"' She—"What Jer- sey cow?" He (shouting) -"No, not I asked how your hearing was?" She —"Oh, much better!" —r,:-- — Toronto has decided to purchase a fleet of armored cars, but whether or not they will be equipped wi111 upper and lower berths for the tired police force is not known. A Skyline snapshot of Plumbago leading his field while winning the Beacon Selling Handicap al